Disney's "Frozen" was ranked the second this weekend with an estimated of 22.2 million dollars. The 3D animated winter musical fell 30 percent from last weekend and gained a very impressive 164.4 million dollars after 19 days of wide release.
With fewer family options releasing during the rest of the holiday season, "Frozen" should continue to hold up very well going forward.
One other debut this week, "Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas", was third with a soft 16 million dollars at 2,194 locations estimated by Lionsgate Films.
Like "The Desolation of Smaug", this debut received an "A-" rating on CinemaScore. But Rotten Tomatoes only gave it a 20 percent "fresh" score.
The audience go for "A Madea Christmas" skewed towards female moviegoers which took up 67 percent, and towards moviegoers 25 years and older, about 63 percent.
"A Madea Christmas" is prolific filmmaker Tyler Perry's 14th movie in the past eight years. Whether this Christmas film will get good sales with the help of the holiday season still remains to be seen.
Rounding out the 10 most popular films in North America this weekend, as estimated by studios, were "Hunger Games: Catching Fire" (13.2 million dollars), "Thor: The Dark World" (2.7 million), "Out of the Furnace" (2.3 million), "Delivery Man" (1.9 million), "Philomena" (1.8 million), "The Book Thief" (1.7 million) and " Homefront" (1.6 million).
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