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Pushing the right buttons for a contemporary action fantasy with 3-D special effects, _TRON Legacy_ earned $43.6 million to win the pre-Christmas weekend at the North American box office, according to early studio estimates. Jeff Bridges, 61, costars with a computer-rendered 40-year-old Bridges, in a film whose most receptive demographic was adult males. If they weren’t in the malls buying video games for their sons — or themselves — they went to see Disney’s 28-years-later sequel to its prototype guy-caught-inside-a-video-game movie. Will the expected fan-kid audience show up en masse over the holidays, and push the ultimate gross from solid to spectacular? We’ll see next weekend, when the competition heats up with _Little Fockers, Gulliver’s Travels_ and a remake of _True Grit_, starring… Jeff Bridges. _TRON, Grit, Saturday Night Live_: the old guy is everywhere. [(See Mary Pols’ review of _TRON: Legacy_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2037678,00.html) Older males might have wanted to escape shopping detail, but kids saw little reason to catch _Yogi Bear_, which cadged just $16.7 million. The big-screen version of Hanna-Barbera’s 1961 TV show, with Dan Ackroyd and Justin Timberlake contributing the voices of Yogi and Boo Boo, took in only about a third of the opening-weekend grosses for the two movie updates of the _Alvin and the Chipmunks_, also based on a half-century-old franchise. Fact is, on a weekend whose biggest day offered virtually no competition from TV sports (and why _doesn’t_ the NFL air some big games on mid-Dec. Saturdays?), the mass audience had few lures to take in a picture. Total theatrical revenue was down about 4% from the same frame last year — when _Avatar_, the original _TRON_‘s distant descendant in the cyber-movie genre, opened with $77 million, or more than the top three films made this time. The current weekend’s No. 3 finisher was _The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader_, which dropped 48% from last weekend’s opener and is lagging far behind its two previous adaptations of the C.S. Lewis books. _Dawn Treader_ is doing better abroad; it earned about $80 million in its first full week of foreign release. [(See Richard Corliss’s review of _Narnia 3_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2036195,00.html) Specialty films with Oscar hopes enjoyed a much warmer reception. _The Fighter_, the true-life boxing epic that earned Golden Globe nominations for its quartet of stars — Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Melissa Leo — expanded in its second week from four theaters to 2,500, and earned a TKO $12.4 million, for fourth place. And _Black Swan_, with Natalie Portman as a ballerina dancing her way to dementia, increased its number of venues tenfold, to 959 screens, and still amassed a spectacular $8.3 million. How spectacular? _Black Swan_, in its third week, beat the weekend’s third debut film in wide release, _How Do You Know_, despite being on only 40% as many screens — and coming in at one-ninth the budget. _How Do You Know_, the latest effort from TV and rom-com movie master James L. Brooks (_Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, As Good as It Gets_), earned a paltry $7.6 million, and garnered a near-libelous C-minus from the CinemaScore poll of exiting moviegoers — worse than _Brüno_! The Brooks bomb had a sibling-in-disaster to another Sony comedy, _Did You Hear About the Morgans?_, which opened exactly a year ago to similar critical drubbing and a Scroogey $6.6 million. The only difference: _How Do You Know_ cost twice as much to make: about $120 million to $58 million. There’s flop, and then there’s floppissimo. [(See TIME’s review of _How Do You Know_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2037712,00.html) What lessons can be taken? That Paul Rudd, reliable second banana to Steve Carell and the Judd Apatow stable of young comics, is not a box-office lure on his own; and that Reese Witherspoon, bless her, is not a movie star. The perky blond’s only openings of more than $20 million were in her early blush of fame in the 2001-03 period — when _Legally Blonde_ and its sequel and _Sweet Home Alabama_ all opened with $20-million-plus weekends and together grossed more than $300 million domestic — and in two movies (_Walk the Line_ and _Four Christmases_) where she took second billing to compelling male leads (Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash and Vince Vaughn as himself). Except in his ego, Brooks isn’t hurting; he still gets plenty of acclaim, and untold quillions in take-home, as the co-creator and executive producer of _The Simpsons_. But movie studios will think twice before spending nine figures on a plain old non-effects romantic comedy — not when relatively inexpensive fare like _The Fighter_ and _Black Swan_ can humiliate it at the box office. [(See TIME’s Top 10 movies of 2010.)](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319%5F2035308,00.html) _And I heard moguls say, as they sipped their merlot,_ _”Say yes to_ Black Swan_, no to_ How Do You Know.” Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _TRON Legacy_, $43.6 million, first weekend 2\. _Yogi Bear_, $16.7 million, first weekend 3\. _The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader_, $12.4 million; $42.8 million, second week 4\. _The Fighter_, $12.4 million, second weekend; $12.6 million, second week 5\. _The Tourist_, $8.7 million; $30.8 million, second week 6\. _Tangled_, $ 8.7 million; $127.8 million, fourth week 7\. _Black Swan_, $8.3 million; $15.7 million, third week 8\. _How Do You Know_, $ 7.6 million, first week 9\. _Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows_, $4.8 million; $265.6 million, fifth week 10\. _Unstoppable_, $1.8 million; $77.3 million, fifth week [See TIME’s Pictures of the Week.](https://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek) [Download TIME’s iPhone, BlackBerry and Android applications.](https://app.time.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911296/weekend-box-office-tron-trounces-yogi-bear/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911296/weekend-box-office-tron-trounces-yogi-bear/"},"headline":"Weekend Box Office: TRON Trounces Yogi Bear","datePublished":"2010-12-19T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:24:16.836Z","description":"'Twas the week before Christmas in the movie salon, And the biggest 3-D creature stirring was TRON, While How Do You Know had a start...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6911296/weekend-box-office-tron-trounces-yogi-bear/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Richard Corliss","url":"https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911296/weekend-box-office-tron-trounces-yogi-bear/","name":"Weekend Box Office: TRON Trounces Yogi Bear"}}]}] ```