Weekend box office

Tallies for the No. 1 movie, “Meet the Fockers,” and No. 3 “Fat Albert” had to be adjusted Monday when more complete numbers became available. “Fockers” took in about $1.4 million more than the studio had predicted on Sunday, and Fox trimmed “Fat Albert’s” figures by $2.7 million. “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” was underestimated by $100,000 and moved up to No. 2 when “Albert” dropped to third. Guesstimating preliminary weekend grosses on Sunday is always a tricky business, complicated this year by the fact that Christmas fell on a Saturday and “Fat Albert” opened on that day, which meant that its projected weekend total had to be calculated from a single day’s gross rather than two. Projections for other films were off as well but less significantly.

Source: Exhibitor Relations Inc.

*--* MOVIE 3-DAY TOTAL VENUES AVG WEEKS (STUDIO) GROSS (Millions) PER

(MILLIONS) VENUE

1 Meet the Fockers $46.1 $70.5 3,518 $13,110 1 (Universal)

2 Lemony Snicket’s $12.6 $59.4 3,623 $3,841 2 A Series of Unfortunate Events (Paramount)

3 Fat Albert $10.0* $10.0 2,674 $3,748 1 (Fox)

4 The Aviator $8.6 $9.9 1,796 $4,806 2 (Miramax)

5 Ocean’s Twelve $8.4 $86.6 3,920 $2,554 3 (Warner Bros.)

6 The Polar $6.5 $140.0 2,618 $2,493 7 Express (Warner Bros.)

7 The Darkness $6.2* $6.2 1,700 $3,625 1 (Miramax/Dimensio n)

8 Spanglish $4.6 $18.2 2,441 $1,901 2 (Sony)

9 The Life Aquatic $4.5 $5.0 1,105 $4,115 3 With Steve Zissou (Buena Vista)

10 The Phantom $4.0 $6.3 2,201 $1,801 1 of the Opera (Warner Bros.)

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Los Angeles Times

*Film opened Saturday, so figure is for two days.