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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition World Fockers, True Grit lead soft new year box office Reuters - Monday, January 3 Send IM Story Print LOS ANGELES - The commercially underwhelming comedy "Little Fockers" narrowly held its lead at the North American box office during the holiday weekend, as Hollywood's prolonged slump spilled over into the new year. According to studio estimates issued on Sunday, "Little Fockers" earned $26.3 million in the three days beginning December 31, followed by "True Grit" with $24.5 million and "Tron: Legacy" with $18.3 million. The movies, all either sequels or remakes, were unchanged in rank from last weekend. "Little Fockers," the third entry in the dueling in-laws franchise starring Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro, has earned $103.2 million after 12 days. Its predecessor, "Meet the Fockers," released exactly six years earlier, had pulled in almost $163 million after the same period. The Jeff Bridges Western remake "True Grit," one of the few hits of the holiday season, has earned $86.8 million after 12 days. But with a $38 million budget, the Coen brothers' drama cost about one-third of "Little Fockers" and is expected to hold up well as awards season plays out. Internationally, "Little Fockers" earned $22.5 million, taking its total to $72 million. It ranked No. 3 overseas behind the domestic dud "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tron: Legacy," which each earned about $24 million over the weekend. Overall sales in North America fell for the eighth consecutive weekend compared with the year-ago period, when business was driven by such hits as "Avatar" and "The Blind Side." MOVIEGOERS STAYED HOME IN 2010 The weak performance brought the curtain down on a disappointing year for Hollywood, when higher prices for 3D movies failed to offset a decline in attendance. The number of tickets sold in 2010 slid about 5.4 percent from 2009, according to box office analysts at Hollywood.com. It marked the biggest percentage drop since 2005 when attendance tumbled 8.1 percent. Overall ticket sales were flat at about $10.6 billion, marking the first time since 2008 that sales failed to improve upon the previous year, Hollywood.com said. Studios charged moviegoers an extra few dollars to see films in 3D ranging from the hit "Alice in Wonderland" to the bomb "Piranha." But fans and critics carped that the picture quality for some 3D movies did not justify the premium pricing, while parents faced an even steeper tab for a family outing. All three of the 3D movies in the weekend top 10 -- "Tron: Legacy," "Yogi Bear" and Disney's Rapunzel cartoon "Tangled" -- were aimed at families, although only "Tangled" is a big hit with sales to date of $168 million. "Tron: Legacy," a sci-fi reboot also starring Bridges, has earned $130.9 million after three weekends but it cost about $170 million to make and has failed to break out far beyond its niche of young men. Its foreign total stands at $110 million. "Yogi Bear" rose one place to No. 4 with $13 million in its third weekend. The $80 million animated picture has earned just $66 million to date. Slipping one place to No. 5 was another family oriented underperformer, "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader," with $10.5 million its fourth weekend. The third entry in the "Narnia" fantasy franchise has earned $87 million after four weekends. But the $140 million film is doing much better overseas. "Little Fockers" was released in North America by Universal Pictures, a unit of General Electric Co's NBC Universal, and internationally by Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc. Paramount also released "True Grit." "Tron: Legacy" and "Tangled" were released by Walt Disney Pictures, a unit of Walt Disney Co. "Yogi Bear" was released by Warner Bros Pictures, a unit of Time Warner Inc. "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" and "Gulliver's Travels" were released by 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp. 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