'Grey' leads pack at weekend B.O.

'The Grey'Once again showing Liam Neeson's draw becoming an action star, Open Road's sophomore film "The Grey" needed a commanding lead within the weekend's domestic B.O., scoring a terif thought $20 million through Sunday.While "The Grey" fell missing repeating Neeson's $25 million-opening for "Taken" this same frame last season, the wolf adventure pic handily exceeded industrywide anticipation, known as at somewhere just north of $tens of millions of for your weekend."Grey," plus a good $11.8 million debut perf for Lionsgate's femme-specific "One for the investment,In . aided 2012 domestic B.O. outstrip the prior year for your fourth straight weekend. A couple of days ago was up roughly 14%.Bowing in line with anticipation, Summit's "Guy around the Ledge" acquired an thought $8.3 million in 72 hrs.Simultaneously, the weekend's Oscar-nominated fare, introduced by Warner Bros.' "Very Noisy and very Close," saw healthy perfs in wide release. "Very Noisy" ranked No. 6 overall getting a forecasted $7.millions of, while Fox Searchlight's "The Descendants" acquired a seventh-place $6.6 000 0000 weekend take."Very Noisy" has cumed $21.millions of in your area "Descendants" showed up at $58.8 million, positioning the film to feed Searchlight's fifth-finest Stateside grosser, "Little Miss Sunshine," with $59.9 million.Legging out nicely for your Weinstein Co., Oscar-nommed "The Artist" extended a couple of days ago to 897 locations for just about any three-day gross of $3.3 million. "Artist" has cumed $16.7 million in your area. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com