Weekend Box Office: 12/25-12/27/09

Title/Gross/%Change/Total

1. Avatar: 75 mil / -3% / 212 mil
2. Sherlock Holmes: 65.4 mil / (-)
3. Alvin & Chipmunks 2: 50.2 mil / (-)
4. It's Complicated: 22.1 mil / (-)
5. Up in the Air: 11.8 mil / (+) / 25 mil
6. Blind Side: 11.8 mil / +17% / 184 mil
7. Princess & Frog: 8.6 mil / -29% / 63 mil
8. Nine: 5.5 mil / (+) / 5.9 mil
9. The Morgans?: 5 mil / -24% / 16 mil
10. Invictus: 4.4 mil / +4% / 23 mil
11. New Moon: 3 mil / -32% / 281 mil
12. Christmas Carol: 1.4 mil/-61%/136 mil

Huge weekend all around. It's Complicated was hurt by its R-rating (a pot-smoking scene was left in and MPAA would not budge after appeal). Nine belly-flops as expected, the Morgans die an ignominious death, and The Blind Side is the surprise hit of the year.