Not that I’m particularly interested in this weekends box office grosses but I have to say I’ve been very surprised at how much movies have been making recently. Last week the top four were up in the 20-30 million range and again, this week the top five are all about 15 million. That’s huge! According to Variety.com, this weekends grosses are up 31% from last years and seeing that it is MLK jr weekend, studious will probably have a nice surprise on Monday too.

Here are the grosses from this weekend from Variety.com:

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE ESTIMATE Jan. 16 – Jan. 18
	Title	Engagements	Estimated Weekend Box Office
1.	Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Sony)	3,144	$33,800,000
2.	Gran Torino (Warner Bros.)	2,972	$22,235,000
3.	My Bloody Valentine 3-D (Lionsgate)	2,534	$21,900,000
4.	Notorious (20th Century Fox)	1,638	$21,500,000
5.	Hotel for Dogs (Paramount)	3,271	$17,707,000
6.	Bride Wars (20th Century Fox)	3,228	$11,750,000
7.	The Unborn (Universal)	2,359	$9,848,825
8.	Defiance (Paramount Vantage)	1,789	$9,206,000
9.	Marley & Me (20th Century Fox)	2,952	$6,325,000
10.	Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight)	582	$5,900,000
in millions of dollars