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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Dec 26, 2010 5:00 AM UTC  Robert De Niro and Daisy Tahan in a scene from Little Fockers Robert De Niro and Daisy Tahan in a scene from Little Fockers Glen Wilson by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Dec 26, 2010 5:00 AM UTC You may know the old joke about two brothers on Christmas Day. The pampered elder one got every glittering toy in the store, yet he moped and complained because it was just more of the expensive same. The younger brother, habitually ignored and mistreated, woke on Christmas Day to find his bedroom filled with manure. When his parents opened the boy’s door, they found him digging ecstatically through the muck. He turned to them, grinned and said, “Where there’s s\_\_\_, there must be a pony.” This weekend, two studios, Sony with _Little Fockers_ and Paramount with _True Grit_, experienced those feelings of elation and disappointment. According to early and very tentative studio estimates, _Little Fockers_ — the third film in the dueling-families comedy series whose first two installments took in $847 million at the worldwide wickets — won the weekend at the North American box office with $34 million. That’s fine; cigars all around — except that Hollywood’s sultans of stats had thought this $100 million–budgeted addition to the all-star franchise would do much better. A decade after _Meet the Parents_‘ opening weekend of $28.6 million ($42.2 million at current ticket prices), and six years past _Meet the Fockers_‘ debut at $46.1 million ($56 million today), the premiere of the latest Focker film had a feckless feel. The movie’s five-day take since hitting theaters Wednesday, Dec. 22, is $48.3 million, or less than the first three days of _Meet the Fs_. A mediocre B-minus grade from the CinemaScore poll of exiting moviegoers suggests that word of mouth will be “Eh.” [(See TIME’s review of _Little Fockers_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2039272,00.html) The gift pony went to that straight-talking, sharpshooting gal of the Old West, Mattie Ross (acclaimed newcomer Hailee Steinfeld) and her _True Grit_ remake, which is thought to have cadged $25.6 million over the weekend and $36.8 in its first five days. Mark that as a stalwart number for an entry in the long-dormant western genre and the sturdiest opening by far for Joel and Ethan Coen, the film’s screenwriter-director-producer-editors. With critics pouring their balm on the movie, with Steinfeld picking up some year-end awards in the Supporting Actress category and with a B-plus CinemaScore (A-minus from the 25-and-younger set), this revisiting of the Charles Portis novel that inspired John Wayne’s 1969 hit could prove to have long legs. It may also mean that Jeff Bridges — top-billed in _True Grit_ and featured in the weekend’s No. 3 finisher, _TRON: Legacy_ — is, at 61, finally a mass-market movie star. [(See TIME’s review of _True Grit_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2039471,00.html) Among wide releases, which included Jack Black’s instant flopperoo _Gulliver’s Travels_, a case of the holiday blahs marked the weekend; revenue was down nearly 50% from the 2009 Christmas frame. A few reasons: this year Jesus’ birthday fell on a Saturday, traditionally the heftiest day for film attendance, and last year boasted a trifecta of releases — _Avatar_ ($75.6 million), _Sherlock Holmes_ ($62.3 million) and _Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel_ ($48.9 million) — that lured people away from their mince-pie desserts and into the theaters. This time, no single film screamed, “Must see me quick.” Another factor will become clearer when the final grosses for Christmas 2010 are released Monday, Dec. 27: no one, from weather forecasters to industry analysts, could confidently predict the effect of an East Coast Boxing Day blizzard on the usual Christmas weekend box-office blitz. [(See TIME’s 10 best movies of 2010.)](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319%5F2035308,00.html) \[**UPDATE:** Sure enough, the East Coast snow storm made a hash of post-Christmas travel plans _and_ the studios’ early assessment of weekend grosses. All of the top 10 films finished below the Sunday-morning guesstimates — some by as much as 14%. (Specialty films took a hit too.) Here are the actual figures, as released late Monday, with the percentage drop from the predicted earnings: 1\. _Little Fockers_, $30.8 million, down 10%. 2\. _True Grit_, $24.85 million, down 3%. 3\. _TRON: Legacy_, $19.15 million, down 5%. 4\. _The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader_, $9.5 million, down 14%. 5\. _Yogi Bear_, $7.8 million, down 12%. 6\. _The Fighter_, $7.6 million, down 12%. 7\. _Tangled_, $6.4 million, down 1%. 8\. _Gulliver’s Travels_, $6.3 million, down 14%. 9\. _Black Swan_, $6.2 million, down 6%. 10\. _The Tourist_, $5.4 million, down 6%.\] Kids split their patronage between the latest _Narnia_ episode, which after 2½ weeks has earned a wan $64 million in North America (but twice that abroad), and _Yogi Bear_, with only $36.8 million in its first 10 days — no _Alvin_, it. The Disney animated feature _Tangled_ has climbed to $143.8 million domestic and in its fifth week has taken in more than DreamWorks’ _Megamind_ has amassed in its eighth. Over in Specialty Land, where the month is full of smaller-budget films that hope to attract Oscar’s attention, the ballet psychodrama _Black Swan_ kept dancing like a demon; pulling in $6.6 million, for a cume of $29 million, it has acquired the scent of a critical and popular success. _The Fighter_, another film with eyes on the Academy, has the big mo too: $8.5 million in its third week, for a $27.6 million total to date. _The King’s Speech_, the Brit drama that’s expected to vie with _The Social Network_ for the Best Picture statuette, expanded from 43 venues to 700 and earned a royal $4.6 million. Good news as well for two art-house items making their debuts: Sofia Coppola’s _Somewhere_ ($196,000 in seven houses over five days) and the French animated feature _The Illusionist_ ($50,600 in just three theaters yesterday and today). [(See Richard Corliss’s review of _Somewhere_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2016207,00.html) So it was grimaces or tight grins for the big-ticket Hollywood films. And among the little indies: ponies for everyone! Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _Little Fockers_, $34 million; $48.3 million, first five days 2\. _True Grit_, $25.6 million; $36.8 million, first five days 3\. _TRON: Legacy_, $20.1 million; $88.3 million, second week 4\. _The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader_, $10.8 million; $63.9 million, third week 5\. _Yogi Bear_, $8.8 million; $36.8 million, second week 6\. _The Fighter_, $8.5 million; $27.6 million, third week 7\. _Gulliver’s Travels_, $7.2 million, first two days 8\. _Black Swan_, $6.6 million; $29 million, fourth week 9\. _Tangled_, $6.5 million; $143.8 million, fifth week 10\. _The Tourist_, $5.7 million; $41.2 million, third week [See TIME’s top 10 movie performances of 2010.](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319%5F2035307,00.html) [See TIME’s top 10 movie sequels that were better than the originals.](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2037572%5F2037456,00.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911317/fockers-wins-ugly-true-grit-shoots-straight/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911317/fockers-wins-ugly-true-grit-shoots-straight/"},"headline":"Fockers Wins Ugly, True Grit Shoots Straight","datePublished":"2010-12-26T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:24:41.666Z","description":"You may know the old joke about two brothers on Christmas Day. 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