How Far Has Justin Bieber Fallen?



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Esperanza Spalding proved Justin Bieber vulnerable. Rolling Stone made the squeaky-clean idol controversial. The New York Times practically wrote his career obit.
After a rough week (MVP hoops honor, notwithstanding), the Presidents Day box office seemed poised to finish off Bieber's run. 
But it didn't.
With Monday still to come, Bieber's tween-powered concert movie is holding up well for a tween-powered concert movie.
Per estimates, ticket sales for the 3-D Never Say Never were down a standard 55 percent from last weekend. By comparison, the Miley Cyrus-Hannah Montana concert movie dropped nearly 67 percent in its second weekend; the Jonas Brothers' entry plunged a scary 77 percent.
Overall, it was a less bad weekend for Hollywood than it's been in a long while, with six films grossing more than $10 million each.  Liam Neeson's $30 million Unknown is leading the way, with a Taken-sized take of $21.8 million.
I Am Number Four, a sci-fi action flick (unless you watch Glee, in which case, per the commercials, it's a Dianna Agron vehicle), is in second with $19.5 million, a pretty-good gross considering its poor reviews, a less-encouraging gross considering its reputed $50-60 million budget.
Martin Lawrence's Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son wasn't as big as the comedy franchise's first two flicks, but it did OK, with $17 million.
Among the other holdovers, the animated Gnomeo & Juliet is showing more staying power than Adam Sandler's and Jennifer Aniston's Just Go With It.
Among the Oscar contenders, The King's Speech broke $100 million. Worldwide, the $15 million talkie is well past $200 million. The King's Speech is the last awards-show film in the Top 10, as True Grit dropped out after eight blockbuster weekends and $164 million. Further down in the standings, Black Swan formally flew past $100 million, while The Fighter got a bit closer to $90 million.   
Stay tuned tomorrow for updated holiday weekend grosses. For now, here's the rundown of the top-grossing films, per Friday-Sunday numbers as compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
  1. Unknown, $21.8 million
  2. I Am Number Four, $19.5 million
  3. Gnomeo & Juliet, $19.4 million
  4. Just Go With It, $18.2 million
  5. Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, $17 million
  6. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, $13.6 million
  7. The King's Speech, $6.6 million
  8. The Roommate, $4.1 million
  9. The Eagle, $3.6 million
  10. No Strings Attached, $3.1 million


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