
‘Chronicle’ comes out ahead of the unexpected success of ‘The Woman in Black’ in this weekend’s box office breakdown. ‘The Grey’ and ‘Big Miracle’ rounds off the top four. No one in Hollywood projected ‘Chronicle’ or ‘The Woman In Black’ would get near a $20M opening; both films are a low-cost/high-reward jackpot for the two studios, especially because budgets were kept low as well as the marketing expenditures. Better yet, both films managed to reveal the elusive young audiences who were missing for the past six months of 2011. | Full Story









