'Awakening' slays weekend B.O.

'Underworld Awakening'Year-to-date domestic box office is constantly on the outshine 2011 totals, using the latest market leader, The new sony-Screen Gems' "Underworld: Awakening," scoring an believed three-day bow of $25.4 million."Underworld," that also totalled an believed $13.4 million from 36 day-and-date overseas areas, beat the very best Stateside player this time around this past year: Paramount's "NsaInch first showed with $19.7 million locally."We are in great shape - not only locally, but worldwide, too,Inch stated The new sony distribution professional Rory Bruer. "Underworld" was allocated for any reported $70 million.A few days ago, overall domestic box office was up an astonishing 32% over 2011's comparable frame.Helping push the needle, Fox's $19.a million-grossing No. 2 title, "Red-colored Tails," did much better than 2011's second-place pic, "The Eco-friendly Hornet," which totalled $17.7 million in the soph sesh. "Red-colored Tails" far exceeded industry anticipation pic was broadly likely to bow just north of $ten million.Actively playing to anticipation, Warner Bros.' "Very Noisy and extremely Close" obtained $10.5 million from an broadened 2,630 Stateside runs, while Relativity Media's debut title "Haywire" plastic box an believed $9 million through Sunday. "Very Noisy" has cumed $11.two million locally.In the niche B.O., meanwhile, Fox Searchlight's Golden Globes-winning drama "The Descendants" passed the $50 million Stateside mark, increased with a $2.5 million weekend perf. That reps a 17% increase over last week with 100 less locations.The Weinstein Co. extended its Globes-feted pair, "The Iron Lady" and "The Artist," grossing an believed $3.7 million and $2.4 million, correspondingly. "Iron Lady," which tested at 1,076 playdates, arrived at $12.six million locally "The Artist" has cumed $12.a million from nearly half the locations (662). Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com