People love their hairy feet and dragons as The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug topped the box office this weekend with a solid $73.6m take. Following up is last week’s top film, Frozen, with $22m. In the third spot is this weekend’s other new release, A Madea Christmas, with an even $16m. You can read the rest of this weekend’s box office numbers below.
1. The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug – $73,675,000
2. Frozen – $22,184,000
3. Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas – $16,000,000
4. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – $13,150,000
5. Thor: The Dark World – $2,700,000
6. Out Of The Furnace – $2,320,000
7. Delivery Man – $1,872,000
8. Philomena – $1,756,000
9. The Book Thief – $1,675,000
10. Homefront – $1,637,000
[via Rentrak]