Culture: Box office has worst weekend in three years — so, what’s to blame?
- $78 million the amount the entire box office made over the weekend, with the strongest movie being the objectively awful “New Year’s Eve”
- $68 million the amount the entire box office made on Labor Day weekend 2008, the last time the box office dipped this low source
- » A bad crop of films, or something else? With a bunch of also-rans in the theater and two weak films — a movie that scored 7 percent on Rotten Tomatoes in the lead and a Jonah Hill vehicle, “The Sitter,” right behind — to hold up the box office, it may not have been the best week for films … but December is a very strange time of year for the box office to struggle like this. One analyst blames a lack of male-oriented films. We blame a lack of exposure for Foozie Bear, who is by far the the best part of “The Muppets.”