Corona | Coming Attractions

With this year's Superbowl weekend party well underway Sunday will turn out to be a weak day for movie theaters. Still, two movies made enough of an impression with audiences to get them into seats on Friday and Saturday, with one of those pictures managing to squeek by the other and emerge as the new number one movie in the land.

That movie is Chronicle, the $13 million dollar "found footage" superhero tale. Featuring a cast of unknowns, and directed and written by two young men who are also unknowns, Chronicle's marketing connected with people, to the tune of $22 million dollars in ticket sales.

The presence of Daniel Radcliffe in The Woman in Black also had its desired impact with that picture's creators. While Dan's new movie could only capture the second-highest spot on the chart, it's estimated weekend gross was a very respectible $21 million -- just one million shy of Chronicle's gross.

In third place is last weekend's number one movie, The Grey. With $8.5m in new ticket sales, the picture has now grossed $34.7m in ten days.

The weekend's other new release is Big Miracle, another tale about cute animals in trouble and the humans that come to their aid. With $8.5m in tickets sold, Big Miracle landed firmly in #4 overall.

Underworld Awakening is in #5 with $5.6m in new b.o., to bring its three week total to $54.3m. That now makes it the second-highest grossing Underworld movie in the franchise.

Katherine Heigl's One for the Money slips three spots down to #6 with $5.2m new and $19.6m for its total.

Red Tails is #7 with $5.0m (new), $41.3m (total).

George Clooney is still drawing folks to come see The Descendants (#8 overall, $4.6m new, $65.5m total.)

Man on a Ledge is falling fast out of the top ten (#9, $4.5m new, $14.7m total.)

And Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close rounds out this week's charters at #10 with $3.9m added to its new total of $26.7m.