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Monday Morning Box Office Report: 2012 Destroys Everything Everywhere

Sean — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:26:59 +0000

Roland Emmerich's 2012 had a sufficiently massive opening weekend, bringing in $65 million in North America, and $225 million worldwide proving that the disaster movie is far from dead. This makes it the 7th highest opening weekend in November ever. A Christmas Carol dropped to #2 with another $22 million, while The Men Who Stare At Goats held down the #3 position. Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire jumped to #4 continuing to build buzz as it expanded to more theatres, and Michael Jackson's This Is It slipped to #5. Pirate Radio, on the other hand, had a rough opening all the way down at #11, earning just $2.8 million on almost 900 screens. Yikes. 1. 2012 -- $65M 2. A Christmas Carol -- $22.3M 3. The Men Who Stare at Goats -- $6.2M 4. Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire -- $6.09M 5. This Is It -- $5.1M 6. The Fourth Kind -- $4.74M 7. Couples Retreat -- $4.25M 8. Paranormal Activity -- $4.2M 9. Law Abiding Citizen -- $3.93M 10. The Box -- $3.19M

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Monday Morning Box Office Report: A Christmas Carol Conquers, The Box Bombs

Sean — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:11:13 +0000

Robert Zemeckis and Jim Carrey managed to climb their way to the top of the box office this past weekend with their retelling of A Christmas Carol. Audiences responded despite the seemingly early holiday release, and although the opening weekend didn't quite live up to expectations, it will probably continue to steadily make money over the next two months. Michael Jackson's This Is It dropped to #2 but still made $14 million, while The Men Who Stare At Goats and The Fourth Kind weren't far behind. Paranormal Activity fell to #5. Disappointing news for Richard Kelly as his latest film The Box had a pretty lacklustre weekend, earning just $7.8 million, perhaps due to the fact that it was a difficult movie to market. The biggest story, however, appears to be the indie film Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, which opened at #12 but it made $1.8 million on just 18 screens -- the 12th highest per-screen average ever. This is definitely looking like it will continue to build major awards buzz leading up to the Oscars next year. 1. A Christmas Carol -- $31M 2. This Is It -- $14M 3. The Men Who Stare at Goats -- $13.3M 4. The Fourth Kind -- $12.5M 5. Paranormal Activity -- $8.6M 6. The Box -- $7.86M 7. Couples Retreat -- $6.43M 8. Law Abiding Citizen -- $6.17M 9. Where the Wild Things Are -- $4.22M 10. Astro Boy -- $2.59M

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Monday Morning Box Office Report: Jacko is Boffo?

Sean — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:13:47 +0000

There will be some debate over whether or not Michael Jackson's This Is It really ended up being as successful as the hype machine predicted, but it did lead the weekend box office and if you look at the worldwide box office numbers for the first week, $101 million is a pretty decent haul for a concert film. It's interesting to note that the movie was significantly more successful outside of the U.S. ($68 million foreign versus $32 million domestic). Either way, it is no longer a limited two-week engagement as Sony has extended the run after suckering people into seeing it in the first few days. Paranormal Activity had another solid haul, although it made less this weekend while playing on more screens than it did the previous one. Law Abiding Citizen and Couples Retreat were at #3 and #4 respectively, while Saw VI dropped all the way to #5. The other horror movie currently playing in theatres, The Stepfather, fared even worse, earning just $3.4 million. The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day debuted all the way down at #16, but it played on less than 100 screens. 1. This Is It -- $21.3M 2. Paranormal Activity -- $16.5M 3. Law Abiding Citizen -- $7.3M 4. Couples Retreat -- $6.1M 5. Saw VI -- $5.56M 6. Where the Wild Things Are -- $5.08M 7. The Stepfather -- $3.4M 8. Astro Boy -- $3.04M 9. Amelia -- $3M 10. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant -- $2.81M

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Monday Morning Box Office Report: Saw Gets Cut Down

Sean — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:05:04 +0000

The weekend box office results are in, and if these numbers are to be believed, it looks like there may be a changing of the guard going on. For the past few years, the Saw franchise has consistently notched $30 million, but this year its gross was cut in half by Paranormal Activity, which rode a wave of buzz to the top of the charts. Is Jigsaw's reign finally over? Paranormal Activity's total gross has now apparently passed the $60 million mark, most of which is pure profit. Someone's gotta be happy about that! Where the Wild Things Are, Law Abiding Citizen and Couples Retreat rounded out the top 5, while the weekend's other big new releases, Astro Boy and Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, both floundered with disappointing $7 million and $6.3 million debuts respectively. Meanwhile, Fox Searchlight's Amelia just barely missed a spot the top 10. 1. Paranormal Activity -- $22M 2. Saw VI -- $14.8M 3. Where the Wild Things Are -- $14.4M 4. Law Abiding Citizen -- $12.7M 5. Couples Retreat -- $11.1M 6. Astro Boy -- $7.02M 7. The Stepfather -- $6.5M 8. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant -- $6.35M 9. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs -- $5.6M 10. Zombieland -- $4.3M

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Box Office Report: Vince Vaughn Takes The Lead

Kasper — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:58:06 +0000

Another week, another weak slate of releases. The only major release this weekend was the latest of the Vince Vaughn "comedies", Couples Retreat, which also stars Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau and Kristen Bell. As the weekend's only big opener, it easily claimed the nr. 1 spot with $34.28M, laughing its way past Zombieland in second place with a steady second week, bringing in $14.8M for a total gross of $47.6M. Besides Vaughn's "comedy", Chris Rock's new documentary Good Hair also debuted on 186 screens, grossing about $1M. The succes story of the week however, is the surprise hit horror film Paranormal Activity which expanded further this week and grossed $7.9M on just 160 screens. An insanely high amount for so few screens, securing it the fourth spot on the box office list. The gross-per-screen is actually so high that the movie places itself as the highest grossing film on 200 screens or less. Pretty rad. 1. Couples Retreat - $34.28M 2. Zombieland - $14.8M 3. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - $11.52M 4. Paranormal Activity - $7.9M 5. Toy Story - $7.76M 6. Surrogates - $4.26M 7. The Invention of Lying - $3.33M 8. Whip It - $2.82M 9. Capitalism: A Love Story - $2.63M 10. Fame - $2.54M

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Monday Morning Box Office Report: Zombieland Devours the Competition

Sean — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:22:08 +0000

Ruben Fleischer's Zombieland did indeed break the horror-comedy slump over the weekend by notching a $25 million opening -- the second-highest debut ever for a zombie flick, just behind Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs held strong at #2 with another $16 million, no doubt taking a chunk of business away from the Toy Story/Toy Story 2 3-D re-release, which earned just $12.5 mil. Ricky Gervais' The Invention of Lying had a rather lukewarm response with $7.35 million, while Surrogates rounded out the top 5. Both Whip It and Capitalism: A Love Story had somewhat disappointing (although not entirely unexpected) turnouts, landing them at #6 and #7 respectively. With all this competition, someone had to lose out, right? 1. Zombieland -- $25M 2. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs -- $16.7M 3. Toy Story -- $12.5M 4. The Invention of Lying -- $7.35M 5. Surrogates -- $7.34M 6. Whip It -- $4.85M 7. Capitalism: A Love Story -- $4.85M 8. Fame -- $4.75M 9. The Informant! -- $3.8M 10. Love Happens -- $2.78M

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Monday Morning Box Office Report: A Second Helping of Meatballs

Sean — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:18:15 +0000

With all the new movies opening this past weekend, I don't think anyone was counting on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs topping the box office for the second week in a row. Never underestimate free food... or Mr. T! The animated film built on critical praise and solid buzz to (ahem) weather a minor 19 percent drop and earn another $24 million. Surrogates and Fame, meanwhile, had rather weak numbers, debuting to just $15 million and $10 million respectively. Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! and Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself rounded out the top 5, while Pandorum made just $4.4 million. I'm most surprised that Fame did so poorly... I guess '80s remakes of dance movies just won't cut it nowadays. 1. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs -- $24.6M 2. Surrogates -- $15M 3. Fame -- $10M 4. The Informant! -- $6.92M 5. I Can Do Bad All by Myself -- $4.75M 6. Pandorum -- $4.41M 7. Love Happens -- $4.33M 8. Jennifer's Body -- $3.5M 9. 9 -- $2.83M 10. Inglourious Basterds -- $2.72M

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Monday Morning Box Office Report: Megan Fox Eats a Meatball Sandwich

Sean — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:21:34 +0000

It's no surprise that the animated family comedy Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs topped the box office this past weekend, but what is a bit of a surprise is the fact that the movie is actually getting rave reviews as well. It had a $30 million opening, which is pretty impressive by September standards, and in fact, the third-highest September opening ever. Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! was at #2 with a meager $10 million, followed closely by Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself, which dropped to #3. Amazingly, Love Happens managed to open in the #4 spot, despite playing in less theatres than most of the other new releases, while Jennifer's Body ultimately failed to find an audience, collecting just $6.8 million. Is this is the beginning of the Megan Fox backlash, or is this just more evidence that mainstream audiences can't stand having their horror films mixed with comedy? 1. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs -- $30.1M 2. The Informant! -- $10.5M 3. I Can Do Bad All by Myself -- $10.1M 4. Love Happens -- $8.46M 5. Jennifer's Body -- $6.8M 6. 9 -- $5.46M 7. Inglourious Basterds -- $3.6M 8. All About Steve -- $3.4M 9. Sorority Row -- $2.49M 10. The Final Destination -- $2.38M

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Monday Morning Box Office Report: Tyler Perry Does Good All By Himself

Sean — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:50:45 +0000

In these early fall months there are always some unlikely box office wins due to the lack of competition, but this is certainly not the first time that a Tyler Perry movie has come out of nowhere to make some serious coin. I Can Do Bad All by Myself earned a cool $24 million, making it one of his best openings ever, and twice as much as any other movie made this weekend. Shane Acker's 9 did just okay, making $10 million over the weekend ($15 million in total). Sorority Row and Whiteout both sputtered and failed to find an audience, making just $5 million a piece. On a brighter note, Inglourious Basterds held down the #3 spot and crossed the $100 million threshold this weekend, which is somewhat reassuring to hear. 1. I Can Do Bad All by Myself -- $24M 2. 9 -- $10.9M 3. Inglourious Basterds -- $6.55M 4. All About Steve -- $5.8M 5. The Final Destination -- $5.5M 6. Sorority Row -- $5.27M 7. Whiteout -- $5.1M 8. District 9 -- $3.6M 9. Julie & Julia -- $3.3M 10. Gamer -- $3.15M

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Tuesday Morning Box Office Report: The Final Destination Kills Again

Sean — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:03:36 +0000

For the second weekend in a row, The Final Destination managed to ride 3-D ticket sales to a box office victory, outpacing every single one of the new releases for the Labour Day long weekend. Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds also did the same by taking the #2 spot in its third weekend, while the Sandra Bullock comedy All About Steve opened at #3 and Gamer debuted at #4. Neill Blomkamp's District 9 rounded out the top 5. Mike Judge's Extract, on the other hand, basically tanked... it earned just $4.3 million in its opening weekend, which was just barely good enough for the #9 spot. Granted, Office Space made just $4.2 million in its first weekend, but that was back in 1999, and this movie had a fair amount of big names in it. Was it poor marketing or just a boring concept that killed it? 1. The Final Destination -- $12.3 million 2. Inglourious Basterds -- $11.6 million 3. All About Steve -- $11.2 million 4. Gamer -- $9.1 million 5. District 9 -- $7.1 million 6. Halloween II -- $5.7 million 7. Julie & Julia -- $5.3 million 8. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra -- $5.1 million 9. Extract -- $4.36 million 10. The Time Traveler's Wife -- $4.31 million

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Summer 2009 Sets a New Box Office Record

Sean — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:46:38 +0000

While there still seems to be plenty of disagreement over whether or not this year's summer movie season was a hit or miss in terms of quality, there's no debating the fact that it was a huge hit from a commercial standpoint. According to Variety, the summer of 2009 has already outgrossed 2007, the previous high mark for summer box office revenue. The total is currently sitting at $4.17 billion (compared to 2007's $4.16 billion), and that doesn't even include the forthcoming Labour Day weekend. Clearly this stands as a testament to the fact that the movie industry is not only recession proof, but also piracy proof as well. Next time someone goes off whining about a leaked workprint, I think it may fall on deaf ears. The question remains, what exactly was it about this summer line-up that managed to bring in so much cash? Clearly Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince were the two biggest contributors, but in general, 2009 seemed to have a few less sequels and threequels than 2007. I'd be curious to know how much of the summer gross can be accredited to movies that were shown in digital 3-D. Are you surprised by this summer's triumphant take, or not so much?

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Monday Morning Box Office Report: The Final Destination Makes a Killing

Sean — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:59:35 +0000

Believe it or not, there was a strong turn out at the box office in the final weekend for the summer season, with The Final Destination coming out victorious in the head to head horror battle against Rob Zombie's Halloween II. This was largely due to the extra money generated from 3-D ticket sales, which accounted for 70% of its gross. H2 still did okay, making back its $15 million budget and then some, while Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds had a decent second weekend, pulling in another $20 million. District 9 and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra rounded out the top 5. Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, on the other hand, didn't fare quite so well; it earned just $3.7 million despite playing in over 1300 theatres. 1. The Final Destination -- $28.3M 2. Inglourious Basterds -- $20M 3. Halloween II -- $17.4M 4. District 9 -- $10.7M 5. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra -- $8M 6. Julie & Julia -- $7.4M 7. The Time Traveler's Wife -- $6.75M 8. Shorts -- $4.87M 9. Taking Woodstock -- $3.75M 10. G-Force -- $2.85M

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