Holiday romance New Year’s Eve led North American box office charts over the weekend, although sales were sluggish, industry estimates showed.
The star-studded romantic comedy featuring Michelle Pfeiffer and Zac Efron, with appearances by Robert de Niro and Halle Barry, scored $13.7 million for its opening weekend. That pushed it ahead of adult comedy The Sitter, with Jonah Hill starring as a reluctant babysitter, which raked in $10 million, said Exhibitor Relations.
Blockbuster vampire heart-throb flick The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1, came in third after three weeks at the top of the box office. It rang up $7.9 million, pushing it past the quarter-billion-dollar mark for a total of $259.5 million so far.
That put the teen vampire sequel ahead of The Muppets, the new film based on Jim Henson’s puppet characters, which grossed $7.1 million for its third week in theatres.
In fifth place was animated family comedy Arthur Christmas, about Santa’s son tasked with completing a mission by Christmas morning.