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"True Grit" seized the reins at the weekend box office with $15 million, taking the No. 1 spot and becoming the first Western to top the $100 million mark since the 1990s.

Relativity Media’s Season of the Witch opened to an estimated $3.7 million from 2,816 theaters at the Friday box office to place No. 3 behind Paramount’s True Grit -- which all but jumped the $100 million mark -- and Universal’s Little Fockers.

No. 2 "True Grit" scores the best ever domestic cume for the Coens; "Black Swan" dances into No. 9 with $8.5 million. Paramount's True Grit finished New Year's weekend with a dazzling domestic cume of $86.8 million, the best ever gross for the Coen brothers and upping the Western's profile as Oscar voters mull their choices.

"True Grit" grossed $4.8 million on Friday, but "Little Fockers" held onto the top spot with $5.1 million.

When it was announced that the Coen brothers would be taking on a remake of the classic western True Grit as their next project, many people looked at the story cockeyed. Without a doubt two of the most creative filmmakers working today, it's one thing to adapt a story, but to remake a film that earned John Wayne an Oscar? That's just damn peculiar. Lesson learned: always trust Joel and Ethan Coen.