Weekend Box-Office
WEEKEND BOX-OFFICE
Cheer up, you're #1, you scrooge!
Despite many of our readers admitting to not being particularly impressed with Robert Zemeckis' "mo-cap animation" style (see the results of our recent poll HERE), the film still managed to snag the #1 spot, despite 3 other new movies being released at the same time. The studio is hoping that A CHRISTMAS CAROL continues to pull in the bucks through the Thanksgiving holidays and in anticipation of that whole "Christmas season" thing...kinda like Zemeckis' POLAR EXPRESS did a few years ago.
JoBlo.com actually had a nice weekend of our own, as we were quoted in respect to 2 new films that opened this weekend. Firstly, the Milla Jovovich thriller, THE FOURTH KIND, which managed a decent 4th place launch with about $13M (check out Mike Sampson's quote for the film HERE), as well as THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS, for which we got a nice quote on their TV SPOT, which I didn't even know about, until I saw it running during the hockey game on Saturday night (check out that TV spot HERE). THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS managed about $13M of its own, along with a 3rd place finish.
The only new film that didn't open particularly well was Richard Kelly's THE BOX starring Cameron Diaz (has her time passed?), which managed only $8M and a 6th place finish. Surprisingly, the biggest story of the weekend was for a movie that didn't even finish in the top 10. The film is called PRECIOUS (based on a book) and despite only opening in 18 theaters, it managed to make $1.8M, which is a stupendous average of $100,000 per theater!! In comparison, the #1 movie of the week only managed a $8,000 average and opened in 3,600 theaters. I get the feeling that PRECIOUS will go wider sometime very soon. Seems whatever Oprah touches, goes gold (check out a make-up-less Mariah Carey from the film HERE).
In the meantime, Michael Jackson's concert film held on pretty strong in 2nd place, adding another $14M to its bank account, while closing in on the $60M mark domestically (the film has grossed an additional $130M around the rest of the world). Both COUPLES RETREAT and PARANORMAL ACTIVITY are close to crossing the impressive $100M mark although the former cost $70M to make, while PARANORMAL only cost about $15,000. Nice profit margin. The 4 films to drop out of the top 10 this week included 4 disappointments in AMELIA ($11M), CIRQUE DU FREAK ($13M), THE STEPFATHER ($27M) and SAW VI ($26M), the last of which may finally slow that franchise down a tad.
Next weekend sees the release of the latest Roland Emmerich "destruction of the world movie" entitled 2012 (previous entries include INDEPENDENCE DAY, GODZILLA and THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW), as well as a limited release of PIRATE RADIO, from the writer of FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, LOVE ACTUALLY, NOTTING HILL and BRIDGET JONES' DIARY, amongst others. Are you looking forward to seeing 2012? VOTE HERE.
| 1. A Christmas Carol | $ 31 Million | |
| 2. This Is It | $ 14 Million | $ 57.9 Million |
| 3. The Men Who Stare... | $ 13.3 Million | |
| 4. The Fourth Kind | $ 12.5 Million | |
| 5. Paranormal Activity | $ 8.6 Million | $ 97.4 Million |
| 6. The Box | $ 7.9 Million | |
| 7. Couples Retreat | $ 6.4 Million | $ 95.9 Million |
| 8. Law Abiding Citizen | $ 6.2 Million | $ 60.8 Million |
| 9. Where the Wild... | $ 4.2 Million | $ 69.3 Million |
| 10. Astro Boy | $ 2.6 Million | $ 15.1 Million |
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Source: BoxOfficeMojo.com
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Christmas is #1.
Jackson is #2
The Box failed and Paranormal dropped.
Christmas is #1.
Jackson is #2
The Box failed and Paranormal dropped.
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Come on ... sure 2012 can be entertaining to some extent, but its common sense to think it'll be crap and JohnLocke doesnt deserve those thumbs down. This just proves my point about most of the users of this site.
Come on ... sure 2012 can be entertaining to some extent, but its common sense to think it'll be crap and JohnLocke doesnt deserve those thumbs down. This just proves my point about most of the users of this site.