'True Grit' Ropes In Weekend Box-Office Win

Western breezes past 'Little Fockers' with $15 million.
By Mawuse Ziegbe

Jeff Bridges in "True Grit"
Photo: Paramount Pictures

"True Grit" is cementing its status as a true box-office force.

Packed with tough-as-leather Hollywood heavyweights like Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon, and featuring buzzed-about newcomer Hailee Steinfield, the Western drama spent its third weekend in theaters at the top spot. The Coen brothers' latest project raked in $15 million; a figure which kicks the film's total gross to about $110 million.

Close behind "Grit" is "Little Fockers," which has been battling with the desert drama at the box office for the past few weeks. The film closed out the weekend in third place, scoring $13.8 million. The family friendly comedy, which is the third installment of Focker/Byrne antics dished out by Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner, Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman, has grossed about $123 million.

The supernatural Nicholas Cage vehicle "Season of the Witch" landed in the theaters in third place. The tale of a knight charged with delivering a supposed witch to an abbey to snuff out her powers — Cage told MTV News he sought to create a film that is "unafraid to explore the paranormal" — debuted with $10.7 million.

The video-game fantasy flick — and second movie after "Grit" in the top five featuring Jeff Bridges — "Tron Legacy" spent the weekend in fourth place. The follow-up to the game-changing 1982 flick snapped up $9.8 million. The movie's total estimated tally now stands at around $147 million.

The gory ballet thriller "Black Swan" finished the weekend in fifth place. Natalie Portman's turn as a sheltered ballerina struggling for artistic perfection pulled in $8.6 million. The film, which has scored buzz not only for Portman's breakthrough performance but for the flick's racy sex scene with Mila Kunis, has a total estimated haul of $61 million.

Check out everything we've got on "True Grit," "Little Fockers" and "Season of the Witch."

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