'Steel' edges 'Footloose' at domestic B.O.

'Real Steel''Footloose'In a hostile dance-off for your domestic B.O.'s top place, "Real Steel" and "Footloose" came within hailing distance of one another, though Disney is calculating the first sort pic at No. 1 with $16.3 million. Paramount's dance redux first demonstrated by getting an thought $16.millions of.Effective simpler overseas, "Real Steel" nabbed $23.3 million from 28 areas (41% in the worldwide market). Pic has cumed worldwide $108.3 million after 2 days.The Stateside showdown between "Real Steel" and "Footloose" came lower to Sunday's predictions, with Disney calculating that DreamWorks' "Real Steel" can do better tomorrow, due to the film's stronghold among family auds. "Footloose," which came a considerable over-35 femme crowd, could still go to a Sunday bump, as moms and youngsters visit the multiplexes.Also bowing a couple of days ago, last century Fox's adult-skewing comedy "The Big Year" not successful to think about flight, getting a paltry $3.3 million through Sunday.Universal's "The Main One Factor" -- a prequel to John Carpenter's original 1982 film -- first demonstrated inside the U.S., producing a forecasted $8.7 million. That's substantially under expected pre-weekend monitoring had the film known as to earn inside the low-double amounts. Worldwide, the film acquired $1.5 million from 5 areas. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com