2012 rides world’s end to top of box office!

Overall box office for the Top 12 films rose 22 percent to over $130 million this weekend as end-of-the-world disaster flick 2012 hit theaters like, well… the end of the world. Claiming nearly half of all Top 12 box office receipts, the ridiculously over-the-top flick hauled in an estimated $65 million in its first three days of release.

That left the nearest contender, the animated Disney’s A Christmas Carol, with a distant but respectable second place with $22.3 million, although after being in release for 10 days, Disney’s A Christmas Carol still hasn’t made quite as much as 2012 did in three days.

Nothing else was close; let’s just leave it at that. The real question is how word-of-mouth about 2012′s numerous “BS” moments of inexplicable survival by the main cast will slow the film’s momentum down enough to stand tall next week against what is expected to be extremely respectable competition from The Twilight Saga: New Moon, a follow-up to last Thanksgiving’s vampire romance. The debris from that battle could leave a lot of people ready for their Myrtle Beach vacation rentals!