Come on, media! No one’s paying attention this week, you might as well amuse yourselves with a couple of outlandish puns built around the title of the holiday weekend’s box-office champ.
Oh, you know it — Universal’s “Little Fockers” proved just as much of a moneymaker as the two previous films in the “Meet the Parents” cycle, grossing $34 million between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day — with a five-day total of $48.3 million — to top the charts.
But as the AP points out, the real story is the fact that “True Grit” was very close behind it, with $25.6 million for the weekend and $36.8 million for the five-day span. It’s the biggest opening the Coens have ever enjoyed — which is either testament to the old-fashioned appeal of the Western, or proof that Jeff Bridges, after four decades in the business, can finally open a movie.
Either way, I’m good with that.