The film, a modernised version of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, knocked Jessica Chastain’s horror Mama into second place with $12.8 million (£8 million), while Silver Linings Playbook received a big boost ahead of next month’s (Feb13) Academy Awards as cinema-goers flocked to see the Oscar favourite, sending it back up the box office chart to take third place with a $10 million (£6.25 million) gross in its 11th week of release.
In contrast, Jennifer Lopez and Jason Statham’s crime thriller Parker opened with a disappointing $7 million (£4.38 million), behind Zero Dark Thirty at four with $9.8 million (£6.13 million).
Another flop was Peter Farrelly’s outrageous ensemble comedy Movie 43, which scraped into seventh place with a poor $5 million (£3.13 million).
