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'The Grey' Captures #1 At Weekend Box Office

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Plus, Katherine Heigl's One for the Money surpasses expectations with a $11.8 million debut.

Plus, Katherine Heigl's One for the Money surpasses expectations with a $11.8 million debut.

Survival story "The Grey" starring Liam Neeson in a battle against weather and wolves led the box office pack with a better-than-expected $20 million in ticket sales over the weekend. "The Grey" knocked last weekend's winner

Liam Neeson, fighter of wolves, may be the closest thing the box office has to an alpha male. The 59-year-old actor's latest thriller, The Grey, debuted in first place with a better-than-expected $20 million, according to studio

'The Grey' brings in the green. Liam Neeson's "The Grey" became the actor's third action hit in a row, taking in $20 million and easily finishing first at the box office. Doing better than expected was Katherine Heigl's "One for the Money" while "Man

'The Grey' Captures #1 At Weekend Box Office

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Liam Neeson, fighter of wolves, may be the closest thing the box office has to an alpha male. The 59-year-old actor's latest thriller, The Grey, debuted in first place with a better-than-expected $20 million, according to studio

Liam Neeson, fighter of wolves, may be the closest thing the box office has to an alpha male. The 59-year-old actor's latest thriller, The Grey, debuted in first place with a better-than-expected $20 million, according to studio

Liam Neeson, fighter of wolves, may be the closest thing the box office has to an alpha male. The 59-year-old actor's latest thriller, The Grey, debuted in first place with a better-than-expected $20 million, according to studio

Following the January 2010 release of "Taken" and the February 2011 success of "Unknown," Liam Neeson returned to theaters in another action-heavy role with "The Grey" over the weekend and beat back all other contenders. "The Grey," about a group of

But The Grey is so much more than that. It's really the story of men who need a life-or-death struggle such as this to remember that life is worth living, even if death is a certainty, either by the fangs of a wolf or the extreme and ruthless cold.

'The Grey' Wins Weekend Box Office With Surprising $20M

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The Grey topped the box office by beating out One for the Money, Underworld: Awakening, Red Tails and Man on a Ledge over the weekend of January 27-29, 2012.

For a complete listing of the weekend box office results, click on the link below. Films opening next weekend include the whale story “Big Miracle,” “Chronicle” and the much-anticipated film starring Daniel Radcliffe, “The Woman in Black.” grey poster.

Wolf attack scenes in 'The Grey' nevertheless have drawn criticisms from animal rights groups. By Patrik Jonsson, Staff writer / January 28, 2012 In this film image released by Open Road Films, actor Liam Neeson is shown in a scene from "The Grey.

"The Grey" finished on top of the box office, cementing Liam Neeson's status as an action star.

The Grey” nabbed the top spot at the box office on Friday (Jan. 27). Check out how your favorite film did.

Review: The Grey

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The Grey” nabbed the top spot at the box office on Friday (Jan. 27). Check out how your favorite film did.

Joe Carnahan, director of Liam Neeson movie "The Grey," will write and direct a reboot of Charles Bronson's "Death Wish."

Liam Neeson took on a pack of wolves and bloodied himself in leading The Grey to an opening day victory at the North American box office on Friday. Katherine Heigl's latest flick One for the Money, got a little push from Groupon that helped it land in

While The Grey brings hyper-realism to a new level in movie-making, Man on a Ledge is "so bad it's good." It's the time of year when major action thrillers dominate at the box office and this weekend will be no different. Two new action movies,

Liam Neeson leads a survival expedition in Alaska in "The Grey." / Kimberley French/Open Road Films Glenn Close is Oscar-nominated for tackling the title role in this sorrowful but not maudlin drama. She plays a woman secretly living as a man and

'The Grey': Is film's portrayal of wolves as man-killers too dramatic?

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28 "The Grey" is looking like box office gold. The film, starring Liam Neeson, took in $6.5 million at the domestic box office Friday, and is on track to take $18.6 million for the weekend. While that's nowhere near the $25.3 million that last week's

Director Joe Carnahan discusses why he shot 'The Grey' on location, his connection to the characters, how the film differs from the source material – and gives his two cents on the pro-wolf protests surrounding the film.

Playing the survivor of an airplane crash in Alaska, actor Frank Grillo endured nasty Arctic winds and freezing cold temperatures shooting in the desolate country around Smithers, BC for the film The Grey. But in a phone interview from Toronto,

The heavy use of strings and piano are faint enough to keep from overpowering the already intense scenes and performances that make up The Grey, but are still powerful enough to support those moments and help add to the emotional weight of each actor's

Playing the survivor of an airplane crash in Alaska, actor Frank Grillo endured nasty Arctic winds and freezing cold temperatures shooting in the desolate country around Smithers, BC for the film The Grey. But in a phone interview from Toronto,

'The Grey' slammed for 'bloodthirsty' portrayal of wolves

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"The Grey," the survival thriller starring Liam Neeson as a man who must battle bloodthirsty wolves to survive, is poised to reign at the box office this weekend. But not if animal rights activists have anything to say about it.

Playing the survivor of an airplane crash in Alaska, actor Frank Grillo endured nasty Arctic winds and freezing cold temperatures shooting in the desolate country around Smithers, BC for the film The Grey. But in a phone interview from Toronto,

Writer/director Joe Carnahan ('The A-Team') reteams with Liam Neeson for the survival thriller, 'The Grey.' Find out if the film is a gripping and substantive man vs. nature movie experience.

These are the lofty questions posed by The Grey, the new film by director and co-writer Joe Carnahan, based on a short story called “Ghost Walker” by Ian Mackenzie Jeffers (who also co-wrote the screenplay).

In Theaters This Weekend: The Grey, Man on a Ledge, One for the Money, Declaration of War, Albert Nobbs,The Wicker Tree. The Grey:Mallory A group of oil-rig roughnecks are left stranded on the sub-arctic tundra after their plane experiences a complete

'The Grey': The Reviews Are In!

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FRIDAY 9:30 PM, 2ND UPDATE: Sources are telling me that the No. 1 movie at the North American box office is projected as Open Road Films acquisition of Li.

Writer/director Joe Carnahan ('The A-Team') reteams with Liam Neeson for the survival thriller, 'The Grey.' Find out if the film is a gripping and substantive man vs. nature movie experience.

And if you've seen any of the trailers for The Grey, chances are good that's exactly what you thought the movie was going to be about. The plot is refreshingly without frills: Neeson stars as Ottway, a brooding, poetry-quoting

But The Grey is so much more than that. It's really the story of men who need a life-or-death struggle such as this to remember that life is worth living, even if death is a certainty, either by the fangs of a wolf or the extreme and ruthless cold.

Judging by The Grey, director Joe Carnahan's new deep-freeze thriller, that might do it. The best thing about this movie is its shivery hypothermic vérité, a credit to the skill of cinematographer Masanobu Takanayagi, working under what must have been

Makers of 'The Grey' confront inner beasts

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The action pic opens against Summit thriller "Man on a Ledge" and Lionsgate's Katherine Heigl action-comedy "One for the Money"; award contenders "The Artist" and "The Descendants" make major expansions.

These are the lofty questions posed by The Grey, the new film by director and co-writer Joe Carnahan, based on a short story called “Ghost Walker” by Ian Mackenzie Jeffers (who also co-wrote the screenplay).

Judging by The Grey, director Joe Carnahan's new deep-freeze thriller, that might do it. The best thing about this movie is its shivery hypothermic vérité, a credit to the skill of cinematographer Masanobu Takanayagi, working under what must have been

This movie's biggest problem is that the wolves in it — a mix of real wolves, animatronics, and CGI — never appear real enough to be threatening or to generate legitimate fear.

In The Grey, wolves unleash their fury at mankind in a bloody yet tasteful flurry of stamping paws and gnashing teeth; mankind fights back as best he can, which in this particular case, is not very well. What's not surprising