Box Office Numbers

[WIL]

Weekend Studio Estimates For December 18-20, 2009

1 Avatar    $73,000,000
2 The Princess and the Frog    $12,224,000 ($44,756,000)
3 The Blind Side   $10,030,000   ($164,734,000)
4 Did You Hear About the Morgans?    $7,000,000
5 The Twilight Saga: New Moon    $4,370,000    ($274,561,000)
6 Invictus    $4,170,000   -($15,845,000)
7 A Christmas Carol (2009)    $3,419,000   ($130,789,000)
8 Up in the Air   $3,100,000   ($8,106,000)
9 Brothers    $2,630,000   ($22,091,000)
10 Old Dogs    $2,289,000   ($43,574,000)

[WIL]

From Horror-Movies.ca Top Ten Grossing Horror Movies (Domestic and foreign) of 2009:

Domestic

1.    The Twilight Saga: New Moon - $274.5million
2.    Terminator: Salvation - $125million
3.    District 9 - $115million
4.    Paranormal Activity $107million
5.    Zombieland - $75.5million
6.    Coraline - $75.2million
7.    Obsessed - $68.2million
8.    The Final Destination - $66.4million
9.    Friday the 13th - $65million
10.  My Bloody Valentine 3D- 51.5million



Worldwide

1.    The Twilight Saga: New Moon – $634.6million
2.    Terminator: Salvation - $372million
3.    District 9 – $204.5million
4.    The Final Destination - $152.6million
5.    Coraline - $121.9million
6.     Paranormal Activity - $107million
7.    My Bloody Valentine 3D – $99.9million
8.    Zombieland - $93.2million
9.    Friday the 13th – 91.3million
10.  Underworld: Rise of the Lycans - $91million

[WIL]

Wow Kick-Ass bombed

#1. How to Train Your Dragon      $20,000,000   ($158,618,000)
#2. Kick-Ass   $19,750,000   

[WIL]

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) $32,205,000
2. How to Train Your Dragon $10,825,000   ($192,385,000)
3. Date Night $7,600,000    ($73,627,000)
4. The Back-Up Plan $7,240,000 ($22,950,000)
5. Furry Vengeance $6,500,000
6. The Losers    $6,000,000 ($18,125,000)
7. Clash of the Titans (2010) $5,980,000 ($154,036,000)   
8. Kick-Ass  $4,450,000   ($42,160,000)
9. Death at a Funeral (2010)   $4,000,000 ($34,777,000)
10. Oceans    $2,600,000 ($13,500,000)

[Johnny Truant]

10. Oceans    $2,600,000 ($13,500,000)

Is that a prequel to parts 11 - 13?

[WIL]

I'm trying to get 2snaps back on track so the box office numbers are back. Pretty weak summer so far.

1. Inception - $27,520,000 ($193,348,000)
2. Dinner for Schmucks - $23,300,000
3. Salt - $19,250,000   ($70,800,000)
4. Despicable Me    - $15,543,000 ($190,349,000)
5. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - $12,525,000
6. Charlie St. Cloud - $12,136,000
7. Toy Story 3 - $5,035,000 ($389,674,000)
8. Grown Ups - $4,500,000 ($150,713,000)
9. The Sorcerer's Apprentice - $4,320,000 ($51,881,000)
10. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse   $3,965,000 ($288,200,000)

[WIL]

August 6-8, 2010

1. The Other Guys    - $35,600,000
2. Inception - $18,600,000   ($227,732,000)
3. Step Up 3-D - $15,500,000
4. Salt - $11,100,000   ($91,980,000)
5. Dinner for Schmucks - $10,500,000 ($46,746,000)
6. Despicable Me    - $9,400,000 ($209,400,000)
7. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - $6,910,000 ($26,436,000)
8. Charlie St. Cloud - $4,700,000 ($23,500,000)
9. Toy Story 3 - $3,048,000 ($396,317,000)
10. The Kids Are All Right - $2,606,000 ($14,011,000)

[WIL]

Weekend Studio Estimates for August 13-15, 2010

1. The Expendables - $35,030,000
2. Eat Pray Love - $23,700,000
3. The Other Guys - $18,000,000 ($70,543,000)
4. Inception - $11,370,000 ($248,554,000)
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - $10,525,000
6. Despicable Me    - $6,767,000 ($221,993,000)
7. Step Up 3-D - $6,626,000 ($29,565,000)
8. Salt - $6,350,000 ($103,569,000)
9. Dinner for Schmucks - $6,316,000 ($58,816,000)
10. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - $4,075,000 ($35,104,000)

[WIL]

Weekend Studio Estimates for August 20-22, 2010

1. The Expendables - $16,500,000 ($64,890,000)
2. Vampires Suck    - $12,200,000 ($18,564,000)
3. Eat Pray Love - $12,000,000 ($47,100,000)
4. Lottery Ticket - $11,125,000
5. The Other Guys - $10,100,000 ($88,190,000)
6. Piranha 3D - $10,035,000
7. Nanny McPhee Returns - $8,310,000
8. The Switch - $8,100,000
9. Inception $7,655,000 ($261,848,000)
10. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - $5,034,000 ($20,730,000)


Piranha 3D took an estimated $10 million bite out of around 2,600 screens at 2,470 locations. Around 2,200 of those locations presented the picture in 3D, which accounted for 95 percent of the picture's business. That puts the intentionally cheesy gorefest's opening attendance on par with Splice from earlier this summer and at less than half of Snakes on a Plane and Lake Placid (and even less than Eight Legged Freaks), among comparable titles. Comedic horror generally doesn't grab much of an audience theatrically, and Piranha 3D's marketing used the same playbook as Snakes on a Plane and its ilk. Distributor The Weinstein Company's research suggested that 57 percent of the audience was male and 58 percent was 25 years and older.

[WIL]

1. The Last Exorcism – $21,300,000
2. Takers – 21,000,000
3. The Expendables – $9,500,000 ($82,010,000)
4. Eat Pray Love $7,000,000 ($60,716,000)
5. The Other Guys – $6,600,000 ($99,300,000)
6. Vampires Suck    – $5,300,000 ($27,912,000)
7. Inception – $5,105,000 ($270,749,000)
8. Nanny McPhee Returns    – $4,743,000 ($17,020,000)
9. The Switch – $4,658,000 ($16,484,000)
10. Piranha 3D – $4,308,000 ($18,272,000)

[Sqwash]

I'm glad The Last Exorcism took number 1.

[WIL]

With a photo finish on Sunday and only $300,000 separating the two films on the box office estimates, 'Takers' moves into the top spot for the weekend with an actual figure of $20,512,304 million, only $145,691 ahead of 'The Last Exorcism' and its $20,366,613 million weekend tally.

Looks like Sony's 'Takers' stole the number one spot from the devilish 'The Last Exorcism' after a tight race for first on Sunday's estimated box office chart.  The weekend roller-coaster ride had 'Exorcism' clearly ahead on Friday with $9.4 million to 'Takers' $7.47 million.  However, 'Takers' dropped a mere 4% on Saturday while the devil child took a 25% drop and actually gave 'Takers' the lead for Saturday with nearly an $700k advantage and around $7.74 million for the day.  Sunday got even more complicated with a 45% drop for 'Exorcism' and a 32% drop for 'Takers.'

[Sqwash]

Lame. oh well. I never plan on seeing Takers

[JBirdman13]

Have the overseas numbers come for Pirahna yet?

[WIL]

no