Feb 01 2011

An intelligent blockbuster in Inception

Category: Box Office Records,Worldwide Box Office — admin @ 11:54 am


Inception’s amazing performance in the box office is a great indicator that a “thinking” movie can still rake in lots of money in the box office if it is well made.

The Christopher Nolan-directed movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio raked in $531,000,000 worldwide, which makes it a certified blockbuster. A lot of people watched it more than once, mainly due to the very interesting premise of the movie. Of course, the action sequences, which are quite well executed, were also a big draw to audiences. Inception’s crazy plot actually enticed audiences to check it out instead of the anticipated reaction, which is to shun it because it will prevent audiences from leaving their brains at the door. Kudos to Nolan for making a relatively intelligent movie that did not alienate the audience.

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Jul 05 2010

Box Office Revenues Up Thanks to Eclipse, the Last Airbender and Toy Story

Category: Box Office Revenue,Weekend Box Office — admin @ 11:34 am

It’s still very early in July but the box office is getting fatter by the moment thanks to vampires, an avatar, and old toys.

“The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” not surprisingly dominated the box office during its debut weekend for a 3-day run of $68.5 million. Though it did not beat “New Moon’s” record run, it is still more than respectable, especially since it is expected to stay on top for at least a few more weeks.

The number two spot was claimed by “The Last Airbender”, which despite a lot of criticism before it came out, still got a respectable showing of $40.7 million for the weekend. True to the cartoon series or not the special effects was still awesome!

The number three spot in the weekend box office was claimed by “Toy Story 3″, showing just how much people loves Woody and Buzz, earning $30.2 million on its 3rd weekend. The film sure has great drawing power having earned $109 million worth of tickets during their opening weekend, for a total 3-week run of $289 million.

Apr 26 2010

Another 3-D Film “How to Train Your Dragon” Boosts Box Office Revenues

Category: Box Office Revenue — admin @ 11:30 am

3-D films sure are dominating the box office this year with thirteen of the first 17 box-office weekends claimed by films like “Avatar”, “Alice in Wonderland”, and now, “How to Train Your Dragon”.

“How to Train Your Dragon” is proving pretty hard to slay after claiming the top spot in the box office even if it is already on its fifth week in movie theaters. The drop in earnings is also not really rapid considering that on the 5th week it just dropped by 23% compared to last week, for a total of $15 million on the last weekend, almost $3 million more than the second placer “”The Back-up Plan”. During its 5-week run the animated adventure film has already amassed an estimated $173 million in the North American Box Office alone.

The 3-D film’s successes are being attributed by many to higher ticket prices but still, they wouldn’t be raking in as much dough had it not been for repeat customers and continued interest.

Jan 26 2010

“Avatar” New King of the Worldwide Box Office

Category: Box Office Records — admin @ 11:28 am

While “Avatar’s” opening day earnings did not break any records at $27 million, it seems that the 3-D epic slowly but surely showed everyone that it is now the king of the world, having broken “Titanic‘s” $1.8 billion in ticket sales worldwide.

“Avatar” has been in the cinemas for six weeks but until now it is still going pretty strong, making everyone wonder just how much dough it will rake in for 20th Century Fox, whose execs must be very happy.

Another happy person must be “Avatar’s” proud daddy, James Cameron, whose tow movies “Titanic” and “Avatar” now holds the top 2 spots in box office records.

Comparisons are being made between the two movies, what with the Avatar’s ticket prices obviously being much higher (56% more) than Titanic’s. Whatever the case, the bottom line still says that in terms of revenue Avatar wins.

Nov 30 2009

New Moon Rises to Hit Box Office Records

Category: Box Office Records — admin @ 11:25 am

“The Twilight Saga: New Moon”, the sequel to the vampire-movie mega-hit “Twilight” sure is raking in the dough after making $26.3 million at North American box offices in midnight showings, beating the $22.2 million in midnight screenings made by “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” last July.

Not only that by Friday it beat another record, this time that of the “The Dark Knight” in 2008, when it grossed more than $70 million in single-day domestic ticket sales. “The Dark Knight’s” previous record was $67.2 million.

Now, on its second week, the film continues to break records crossing the $200 million mark after an additional $42.5 million in ticket sales this weekend. This is despite the 70% drop in sales compared to its opening weekend. The drop indicates that it will soon be edged out of the box office top spot. This doesn’t face the movie execs though since they are still raking in sales worldwide and pretty happy that they’ve already exceeded the total gross of 2008’s “Twilight”.

Oct 31 2009

“This Is It” at the Top of Friday Box Office

Category: Box Office Revenue — admin @ 11:22 am

Dead or alive Michael Jackson sure can rake in real cash. The Friday North American box office top spot was bagged by “This Is It”, Sony’s documentary of the legend. “This Is It” earned a respectable $7.9 million on Friday alone.

Despite the good returns, the film might not hit the expected sales of $40 million within the first five and a half day of its domestic release. Currently it has only earned a total of $19.1 million, which makes it likely to just earn a little over $30 million by Sunday.

Other top box office top films for Friday included “Paranormal Activity”, which earned $6.1 million, and “Law Abiding Citizen” and “Couples Retreat” which tied with earnings at $2.4 million.

“Where the Wild Things Are” placed a respectable fifth with $1.9 million, significantly down from 2 weeks ago at $32.5 million for its opening weekend. Still it has made a pretty good run.

Jul 19 2009

Harry Potter Film Debut did not disappoint the box office

Category: Weekend Box Office — admin @ 11:17 am

Surprise surprise! Or rather, there were no surprises last weekend with “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” reigning supreme at the box office.

With a five-day debut, the film saw a huge turn out from the very first day on Wednesday, earning $22.2 million by midnight of the same day and already hitting the critical $100 million mark by its third day on Friday. By the end of the five-day debut screening, the film already grossed $159.7 million. The worldwide figures are even more staggering with already $396.7 million under its belt during its short run.

There’s no magic involved, people’s anticipation each for each Potter film has been building, which probably accounts for the fact that this film has seen the fastest start out of any in the series so far. Despite the initial rush it looks like interest in the film is already starting to taper off.

May 26 2009

Blockbuster May Has Good Debut Weekends

Category: Weekend Box Office — admin @ 11:13 am

May sure has been a pretty good month for the box office with big blockbusters debuting every weekend.

Early in the month, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” fired up the spring-summer blockbuster season with $87 million in ticket sales during its opening weekend. A pretty impressive feat considering that the film wasn’t shown in Imax screens, which surely would have further boosted its earnings.

The next weekend it was followed by the sci-fi blockbuster “Star Trek”, which paved new records for Trekkie films at a whopping $72.5 million in ticket sales. This film made more than twice the Start Trek film series record holder did!

“Angels and Demons” then edged “Star Trek” from the top spot earning $48 million on its opening weekend, which was pretty weak compared to the first two films’ debut showings. The real downer though was “Terminator Salvation”, which was expected to smash the weekend box office but was instead beat by the comedy “Night at the Museum”, which earned $53.5 million. Terminator did earn an respectable $43.0 million.

Mar 23 2009

Cage’s “Knowing” Takes Top Spot in Weekend Box Office

Category: Weekend Box Office — admin @ 11:11 am

This weekend’s top spot went to Nicolas Cage’s sci-fi film, “Knowing”. The film made about $24.8m in ticket sales during its debut weekend. The movie, directed by “I Robot’s” Alex Proyas is about an astrophysicist (played by Cage) in a race against time to save the world, going by a code from a 1959 capsule that predicted what would happen.

The number 2 spot was claimed by the comedy film “I Love You, Man”, starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, whose bromance sure cracked up the moviegoers. The film made an estimated $18 million.

Third place went to “Duplicity” a spy-thriller starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen. Duplicity’s take home for the weekend was $14.4m. The last time Robert and Owen teamed-up was in the romantic drama “Closer”, where they starred alongside Natalie Portman and Jude Law.

Jan 25 2009

Worldwide Box Office Happy with 2008 Sales

Category: Box Office Revenue,Worldwide Box Office — admin @ 11:08 am

Box offices worldwide saw growth in 2008.

In the UK, moviegoers spent £949.5 million last year, making for an increase of about 5% from 2007 figures. The UK box office revenues is a record high since 1989. The UK box office largely attributes the increase to three big hits: Mamma Mia!, Quantum of Solace, and The Dark Knight.

The North American box office can also breathe a sigh of relief especially after the initial sluggish box office sales, which lasted till the 3rd quarter of the year. Thanks to avid holiday moviegoers, instead of seeing a downturn in profits the box office actually saw an annual gain of 2% with estimated grosses of $9.78 billion.

The biggest gainer this year though is China’s box office which recorded a whopping 27% annual increase in ticket sales for 2008, with a total of 4.2 billion yuan ($622 million), up $130 million over 2007.

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