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1. NEW MOON (Summit Entertainment) Week 2 [4,042 Theaters)
Wed $14.3M, Thurs $9.2M, Fri $17.7M, Sat $16.5M
3-Day Total: $42.5M (includes Sunday estimate) (-70% over last weekend)
5-Day Total: $66M (includes Sunday estimate)
Domestic Cume: $230.7M (includes Sunday estimate)
International Cume: $243M
Worldwide Cume: $473.7M
2. THE BLIND SIDE (Alcon/Warner Bros) Week 2 [3,140 Theaters]
Wed $7.9M, Thurs $9.4M, Fri $16.2M, Sat $15.9M (+18% over last weekend)
3-Day Total: $40.1M
5-Day Total: $57.5M
Domestic Cume: $100.2M
3. 2012 (Sony Pictures) Week 3 [3,444 Theaters]
Wed $3.6M, Thurs $4.0M, Fri: $7.0M, Sat
3-Day Total: $18M
5-Day Total: $25.6M
Domestic Cume: $138.7M
International Cume: $455.8M
Worldwide Cume: $594.5M
4. OLD DOGS (Disney) NEW [3,425 Theaters]
Wed $3.1M, Thurs $4.1M, Fri: $6.9M, Sat
3-Day Total: $16.8M
5-Day Total: $24.0
5. A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Disney) Week 4 [3,013 Theaters]
Wed $2.7M, Thurs $3.7M, Fri $6.6M, Sat
3-Day Total: $16.0M
5-Day Total: $22.5M
Domestic Cume: $105.3M
6. NINJA ASSASSIN (Warner Bros) NEW [2,503 Theaters]
Wed $3.3M, Thurs $4.5M, Fri $5.6M, Sat $4.9M
3-Day Total: $13.1M
5-Day Total: $21.0M
7. PLANET 51 (Ilion Animation/Sony) Week 2 [3,035 Theaters]
Wed $2.1M, Thurs $1.5M, Fri $4.0M, Sat
3-Day Total: $10.2M
5-Day Total: $13.9M
Domestic Cume: $28.4M
8. FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Fox) Week 3 [2,033 Theaters]
Wed $1.1M, Thurs $1.3M, Fri $2.9M, Sat $2.5M
3-Day Total: $7.0M
5-Day Total: $9.5M
Domestic Cume: $10.1M
9. PRECIOUS (Lionsgate) Week 4 [663 Theaters]
Wed $1.0M, Thurs $1.3M, Fri $2.7M, Sat $2.8M
3-Day Total: $7.0M
5-Day Total: $9.4M
Domestic Cume: $32.4M
10. THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS (Overture) Week 4 [1,119 Theaters]
Wed $285K, Thurs $370K, Fri $630K, Sat
3-Day Total: $1.7M
5-Day Total: $2.3M
Domestic Cume: $30.7M
11. THE ROAD (The Weinstein Co) NEW [111 Theaters]
Wed $242K, Thurs $235K, Fri $558K, Sat $584K
3-Day Total: $1.5M
5-Day Total: $2.0M
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‘Blind Side’ – proof that Lifetime movies can indeed be brought to the multiplex to rake in the cash.
Yeesh, any way you cut it that’s a big drop for New Moon. But is anyone surprised?
A $594M worldwide cume would put “2012″ ahead of “Men in Black” and “Iron Man” — I’m aware that people at Col were using “Men in Black” as sort of a benchmark for its success, so there’s probably a couple people feeling vindicated over greenlighting this very, very silly movie.
Noting however, that inflation-adjusted gross for “MIB” is closer to $776 million, which might be a stretch for 2012 to pull off. I’m a little more skpetical if it’ll match “MIB”‘s DVD sales and franchise opportunities– MIB had toys and a cartoon series and consolidated Fresh Prince’s bankability.
Wow!!!!!
OLD DOGS is a Turkey!!!!!!
New Moon is incredibly front-loaded though. It opened in pretty much every international market within in a week of the US release. Even Japan that is usually behind schedule by a month or more. So unlike the first movie this one won’t make a dime anywhere on the planet by Christmas, let alone February.
But half a billion dollar in less two weeks looks certainly impressive. I guess Summit is looking for investors. Pushing their international distributors into this release schedule allows them to look like a studio that has a billion dollar movie in theatres right now. Instead of a studio with exactly three hit movies, whose biggest hit will have trouble cracking the domestic 300 million dollar ceiling.
Sounds like sour grapes to me, the movie has done very well, and they have another one on the way since they shot two at the same time. Cheap movie making 300 million,
Jules, I agree with you on some points. But not sure what you mean that the film won’t make a dime anywhere on the planet by Christmas.
You’re right, with the exception of Twilight, New Moon and the Knowing, Summit isn’t much of a studio. Their marketing people might reconsider trying to launch all of their movies off the Twilight franchise. Didn’t work with Bandslam or Sorority Row and it won’t work with Remember Me because the audience for this franchise is myopic. Just look at how Adventureland did (not a Summit film, but with Kristen Stewart).
I only wish Twilight was in more theatres. It’s so difficult to find it. Such a good message about pining away for the undead. This is such a great holiday theme.
Thank you, sir, for starting my Monday off with a laugh.
The Hulk movie (Ang Lee version), did about 72% less the next week. So Twilight, despite its tremendous turnout the first weekend, appears not to have much legs. Blind Side actually improved a bit second weekend but has not caught fire. [Understandable, the real life Oher succeeded through grueling training/practice and discipline, not by patronization. There seems very little football, in this movie, a pity since its filled with drama on its own right.]
I think Twilight will make money out of fans wallets in DVDs, Special Edition DVDs, Directors Cut DVDs, etc, but has little appeal beyond the core audience. It is just too repellent to guys (perhaps a mirror image to the Hulk movie failing with women/girls). If I was an investor in the studio I’d be happy, the series will make a tidy profit, but I don’t see it as a savior of the industry or a game-changer.
Why do you say “The Blind Side” has not caught fire? The film reportedly had a $32 million production budget and has crossed the $100 million mark in only two weeks…and this isn’t the kind of film that usually does that. It beat “New Moon” on Thanksgiving and almost beat it for the weekend. Some are saying it could do $200 million. Not only has it caught fire, it will go down as one of the year’s biggest success stories.
give me what your smokin, cause you bees high, Blind Side has not caught fire? you kidding me? It’s already made 100 mil, how much fire do you need? Especially for a movie that had NO PROMOTION WHATSOEVER. Not sure what you expect. and, it almost overtakes Twilight’s first place finish. a movie who’s heavily overhyped.
Thanks for showing the international cume. As well as New Moon is doing domestically, 2012 blows it away in worldwide revenue.
I love Sandra Bullock, but I can’t believe that this many people are falling for The Blind Side. That movie is the worst kind of faux-liberal race claptrap for people too afraid to see something like Precious. Yuck.
Actually it’s successful because it is faux-conservative claptrap complete with southern Christian family “who know no democrats” down on swearing etc and a heartwarming tale of american heartland values handled with directorial restraint. Plus everyone loves Sandra Bullock and Quinton Aaron is very compelling. No real surprise that this would be big.
RLS, Blind side is the amazing true story of NFL player Mike Oher.
RLS, Blind side is not some made up liberal story, it is the true story of NFL player Mike Oher, and what an amazing story it is.
Because Precious is real right?
Bindside is based on real people, you moron. Precious is the fake b.s. story.
BTW: The two movies are competing for this years heartwarming film. Lionsgate and the fake medial planted a story in the Sunday Times about these nightmare black families to make Precious seem real.
“Falling for it”? “Faux-liberal race claptrap”?
You understand this is a true story, right? You are aware that the whole story happened in real life, right?
Rut-Row Shaggy, where’d all the tweens go?
With a 70% plunge it looks like New Moon might have difficulty getting to 300m.
Still, this thing’s going to be a hell of a lot more profitable than that 2012 stunt-fest from Sony.
I had heard mixed reviews about The Blind Side, but had my reasons for seeing it and was very pleasantly surprised. It could have been a sapfest, but it trod the line very well and had a nice mix of comedic and touching moments. The kid who played the young son was a great scene stealer.
It’s not Oscar material, but it’s still a solid film.
Oren Aviv is an idiot. He makes movies using paint-by-numbers.
Good to see New Moon drop off big time. All these saps were comparing it to The dark Knight. Well The Dark Knight didn’t fall all the way down to 42.5 Million dollars in its second weekend and The Dark Knight didn’t get beat by another movie in its 7th day. New Moon is just another movie with a average box office performance.
New Moon can easily be compared to The Dark Knoght in terms of box office. Except where TDK was a 4 quadrant movie, New Moon is considered a 2 quadrant movie. Anything more than half the gross of TDK would therefor be considered a great victory for New Moon. We’ll see how many guys these women can coax to the theater with them.
“New Moon is just another movie with a average box office performance.”
Are you an idiot?
new moon is not just another movie with an average box office performance. that much $$ is not an average bo performance. it never has been and never will be. if those #’s were average studios wouldn’t get so excited by crossing over 200 mil.
and i think new moon will be able to make 300 mil domestic. teen girls will keep going & repeat view it over up until/threw the holiday season. it is like titanic that way. the girls will keep going to see it as long as they can.
The Dark Knight didn’t fall off as much as New Moon because the dumb guy moviegoer is far more prevalent than the dumb girl moviegoer.
I love the people trashing Twilight’s BO results. NO ONE predicted 140 mil the first weekend, now people are bagging on it because it didn’t keep pace in Week 2? Come on, it may not be Dark Knight but when studios movies that cost more to make get considered hits at 100 mil Twilight is more than a home run. It’s a grand slam.
Are industry numbers calculated in real dollars or today’s value. Just curious whether these numbers actually mean anything?
while it may not be Shakespeare, why so much hate for New Moon? all this talk of it being a disappointment or average at the box office seems like so much sour grapes. i’d bet we’d all love to have a “disappointing” movie that makes $230 million in ten days (on a cost of $50 m). and outgrossing its predecessor’s entire run in less than 2 weeks is anything but disappointing.
hey, it may be pablum aimed at kids, but we all have memories of movies that “moved” us as adolescents that, as adults, we cringe at. and besides, isn’t a hit movie that taps into an under served audience a good thing?
(and this next week and weekend will be the best indicator of what sort of legs New Moon has. if daily is less than 3-4 million and there is a >50% dropoff, it may “only” hit $300 million….)
I was totally surprised by how good The Blind Side was….and I live in west LA, work in the Entertainment industry, tend towards liberal etc. etc. In other words, this movie shouldn’t really be meant for me. However, I’m in Arkansas visiting family over the holiday and the theater was OVERFLOWING for every showing, and the buzz palpable. This is the rare type of movie that will find its base in flyover country and then spread to the coasts during its run. The trends are off the chart – an 18% *increase* in its second weekend box office (4th largest ever for a wide release, according to LA Times), and only the second A+ CinemaScore of the year (“Up” was the other one). Nikki’s going to be following this one for a while…
…not to mention the platform of about 20 million people watching the REAL Michael Oher story during the Ravens/Steelers game on NBC last night (or maybe more, since the game was competitive and went into OT)
As a cynical Manhattanite, I was prepared not to like The Blind Side. But I LOVED it- cried a lot. So did everyone else in the theater. The audience was as quiet as a pin throughout- a very good sign. I say that this movie does have legs.
I haven’t read a review of Tim McGraw for this movie, but I thought he was wonderful. Very relaxed, real and warm. You’d think he’d been acting for years.
OLD DOGS might be the worst film of the year. Terrible marketing as well. Yeah, don’t just load a spot up with jokes(not terrifically funny jokes, but jokes nonetheless) and instead explain the “plot” in every single bit of advertising. Could this be the end of that jackass Dave Singh who hasn’t the slightest idea how to market a film? Signs point to “yes”.
Dave, average box office performance ? Look at New moon’s budget then look at it’s box office total, it is a smash hit.
“New Moon is just another movie with a average box office performance”.
Dave, this comment is a joke right ? A movie with a 50 million dollar budget making over 473 million in two weeks is average ? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Unfortunately New moon is a really bad movie whom a lot of the book fans are not happy with. So yes they’ve brought in money so far but they won’t be getting the repeat business they got from twilight. Too many fans were turned of by the lack of Edward and Bella storyline that was shelved in order to give the wolves more time to go shirtless.
is that why CinemaScore reported movie goers opening weekend gave the film an A-? I get it, Twilight isn’t for everyone, but it’s crazy how people are just making stuff up at this point.
Yeah, because the edward/bella storyline was soooooo amazing.Good Grief!
Not happy with? Anyone who READ the book, knows that Bella and Edward were apart-and would be in the movie. In fact, the director and screenwriter had to add in EXTRA Edward time in the script in order to satisfy the demand for his screen time. It’s not a surprise at all. Everyone I have personally spoken to has spoken praises in quality over the first one. There’s no need to create false accusations about the film just because you aren’t a fan. Leave it be. It’s not like it’s doing anything harmful to you. It’s quite pathetic.
For a 50M budget movie…New Moon is doing incredible well. In 2 weeks it has doubled the amount Twilight made in its entire run (Worldwide) (Twilight is going to be released in China these days)…Eclipse is already in post production and that one is going to make big money too…so, you can’t deny that for an independent movie out of the summer frame New Moon is a hit. Nobody expected this…even the fans! So…haters…no matter how hard you try to diminish New Moon success comparing it to other blockbuster Hollywood summer movies, you won’t succeed!
Well I guess THE FANTASTIC MR FOX isn’t so FANTASTIC after all. Bomb.
While I think the movie “New Moon” is a less than stellar film (far, far less), I have to give it kudos for marketing and knowing their audience/fan base.
There should be a book made about this film titled,
“How to Market a Horrible Film and Make a Ton of Money”