{"id":21900,"date":"2013-12-21T17:08:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T21:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=21900"},"modified":"2013-12-21T17:08:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T21:08:17","slug":"anchorman-2-edges-hobbit-hustle-weekend-still-looking-modest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/12\/21\/anchorman-2-edges-hobbit-hustle-weekend-still-looking-modest\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Anchorman 2&#8221; Edges &#8220;Hobbit,&#8221; &#8220;Hustle;&#8221; Weekend Still Looking Modest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues&#8221; outperformed holdover &#8220;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8221; and expanded &#8220;American Hustle&#8221; for first place at the box office Friday, but it did not reposition itself for an impressive gross.<\/p>\n<p>By adding $8.7 million to its piggy bank Friday, &#8220;Anchorman&#8221; slipped past the aforementioned two films, which earned $8.6 million and $6.3 million, respectively.  It also brought its gross since Wednesday&#8217;s bow to $21.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, that total did not represent the upside surprise for which supporters were hoping.  An $8.7 million Friday for &#8220;Anchorman&#8221; foretells a three-day weekend total below $30 million and a five-day opening tally of barely $42 million.  Considering all the hype, such minimal growth over the numbers for 2004&#8217;s &#8220;Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy&#8221;&#8211;$28.4 in its first weekend, $36.5 million in its first five days&#8211;makes for an irrefutable letdown.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, if &#8220;Anchorman&#8221; earns less than $30 million in the current three-day weekend, it will likely cede the number one spot to &#8220;The Hobbit.&#8221;  That film should earn $31 million from Friday through Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[36,1050],"tags":[1409,1434,1435,1408,1401,1444],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Anchorman 2&quot; Edges &quot;Hobbit,&quot; &quot;Hustle;&quot; Weekend Still Looking Modest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues&quot; outperformed holdover &quot;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&quot; and expanded &quot;American Hustle&quot; for first place at the box\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/12\/21\/anchorman-2-edges-hobbit-hustle-weekend-still-looking-modest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Anchorman 2&quot; Edges &quot;Hobbit,&quot; &quot;Hustle;&quot; Weekend Still Looking Modest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues&quot; outperformed holdover &quot;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&quot; and expanded &quot;American Hustle&quot; for first place at the box\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/12\/21\/anchorman-2-edges-hobbit-hustle-weekend-still-looking-modest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-12-21T21:08:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/12\/21\/anchorman-2-edges-hobbit-hustle-weekend-still-looking-modest\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/12\/21\/anchorman-2-edges-hobbit-hustle-weekend-still-looking-modest\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"Anchorman 2\\\" Edges \\\"Hobbit,\\\" \\\"Hustle;\\\" Weekend Still Looking Modest\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-21T21:08:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-12-21T21:08:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"\\\"Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues\\\" outperformed holdover \\\"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug\\\" and expanded \\\"American Hustle\\\" for first place at the box\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/12\/21\/anchorman-2-edges-hobbit-hustle-weekend-still-looking-modest\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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