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We Filipinos love superheroes

^ Yup, sales are declining of course but new movies are still being released in VCD.

Top 100 Movies of 2013 via Box Office Mojo Rank Movie Title Distributor Gross Release 1 Iron Man 3 Disney $14,949,472 4/24 2 It Takes A Man And A Woman Star Cin. $9,141,744 3/30 3 Man of Steel WB $8,927,595 6/12 4 Thor: The Dark World Disney $7,927,348 10/30 5 Fast & Furious 6 UIP $5,916,627 5/24 6 Despicable Me 2 UIP $5,327,332 7/3 7 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Pioneer $5,264,498 11/21 8 World War Z UIP $4,779,601 6/19 9 G.I. Joe: Retaliation UIP $4,560,225 3/30 10 The Wolverine Fox $3,960,367 7/25 11 Pacific Rim WB $3,792,326 7/11 12 Four Sisters and a Wedding Star Cin. $3,351,356 6/26 13 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters Fox $3,224,079 8/7 14 She's the One (2013) Star Cin. $3,189,636 10/16 15 Jack the Giant Slayer WB $3,154,259 2/28 16 Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters UIP $2,744,810 1/23 17 Insidious Chapter 2 Sony $2,617,436 9/18 18 Chinese Zodiac Star Cin. $2,363,467 1/30 19 Bakit hindi ka crush ng crush mo? Star Cin. $2,352,001 7/31 20 Oz The Great and Powerful Disney $2,145,885 3/7 21 A Good Day to Die Hard Fox $2,131,141 2/13 22 Life of Pi Fox $2,076,267 1/9 23 Gravity WB $1,977,500 10/3 24 Les Miserables (2012) UIP $1,948,614 1/16 25 After Earth Sony $1,917,924 6/5 26 The Croods UIP $1,859,841 3/22 27 Monsters University Disney $1,831,386 6/26 28 Oblivion UIP $1,808,621 4/10 29 Bromance: My Brother's Romance Star Cin. $1,764,028 5/15 30 A Moment In Time Star Cin. $1,588,999 2/13 31 Epic Fox $1,509,835 5/24 32 Must Be... Love Star Cin. $1,489,456 3/13 33 Star Trek Into Darkness UIP $1,440,877 5/16 34 White House Down Sony $1,349,975 7/3 35 The Conjuring WB $1,348,452 8/21 36 Elysium Sony $1,299,669 9/4 37 Momzillas Star Cin. $1,284,220 9/18 38 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Pioneer $1,198,540 8/21 39 The Hangover Part III WB $1,164,747 5/29 40 Carrie (2013) Sony $1,038,126 10/16 41 Warm Bodies Pioneer $975,046 1/31 42 Frozen (2013) Disney $923,176 11/27 43 Turbo Fox $922,553 7/19 44 The Smurfs 2 Sony $850,131 8/7 45 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Sony $847,956 10/9 46 Captain Phillips Sony $798,953 10/23 47 Call Center Girl Star Cin. $776,965 11/27 48 Kung Fu Divas Star Cin. $764,074 10/2 49 Planes Disney $696,394 8/21 50 Riddick Pioneer $692,909 9/18 51 Jack Reacher UIP $683,860 1/9 52 Beautiful Creatures (2013) Pioneer $683,282 2/20 53 The Lone Ranger Disney $627,578 7/17 54 Status: It's Complicated n/a $578,612 11/6 55 Tuhog Star Cin. $578,482 7/17 56 The Host (2013) Viva Int. $490,818 3/30 57 Escape Plan Pioneer $488,161 10/9 58 R.I.P.D. UIP $478,801 8/21 59 My Lady Boss n/a $449,509 7/3 60 Now You See Me Pioneer $442,840 5/29 61 Olympus Has Fallen Viva Int. $439,075 4/10 62 When the Love Is Gone n/a $431,901 11/27 63 The Great Gatsby (2013) WB $395,058 5/17 64 The Internship Fox $390,075 8/14 65 Red 2 Pioneer $367,154 7/31 66 One Direction: This is Us Sony $332,419 8/30 67 Runner Runner Fox $325,855 9/26 68 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone WB $321,047 3/20 69 Bekikang: Ang nanay kong beki n/a $318,095 10/23 70 Zero Dark Thirty Pioneer $317,035 1/11 71 On the Job Star Cin. $308,270 8/28 72 Grown Ups 2 Sony $307,572 7/24 73 The Last Stand Pioneer $303,134 1/17 74 The Last Exorcism Part II Pioneer $285,110 3/8 75 Mama UIP $278,075 2/6 76 Kick-Ass 2 UIP $265,146 8/14 77 Parker Viva Int. $254,408 1/24 78 The Bride and the Lover n/a $253,439 5/1 79 Scary Movie 5 n/a $246,685 5/8 80 2 Guns Sony $211,615 9/25 81 Safe Haven Pioneer $203,811 2/13 82 The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia Pioneer $198,916 5/8 83 The Counselor Fox $197,298 11/13 84 Gangster Squad WB $195,482 1/30 85 Silver Linings Playbook Pioneer $195,030 2/27 86 Apartment 1303 Viva Int. $188,468 3/20 87 Red Dawn (2012) Viva Int. $187,782 1/9 88 The Heat Fox $183,466 6/27 89 The Purge UIP $180,075 7/31 90 Bullet to the Head Disney $179,852 2/6 91 About Time UIP $177,382 9/18 92 Flight UIP $175,622 2/13 93 Lincoln Fox $174,714 2/20 94 A Haunted House Viva Int. $163,395 1/16 95 Evil Dead (2013) Sony $149,745 5/8 96 Stoker Fox $147,420 3/1 97 The Impossible Pioneer $146,811 1/23 98 One Piece Film Z Pioneer $141,886 5/1 99 Trance Fox $140,759 5/1 100 Django Unchained Sony $137,177 3/13

The Hobbit 2 opens tomorrow (Dec. 11)

Too bad Frozen missed a million, still good run though

Philippines Box Office November 27–December 1, 2013 TW LW Movie Studio Weekend Gross Change Screens Change / Avg. Gross-to-Date Week 1 1 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Pioneer $1,528,793 -53.0% 260 -60 $5,880 $5,264,498 2 2 N Frozen (2013) Disney $923,176 - 109 - $8,470 $923,176 1 3 N Call Center Girl Star Cin. $776,965 - 110 - $7,063 $776,965 1 4 N When the Love Is Gone n/a $431,901 - 106 - $4,075 $431,901 1 5 2 Thor: The Dark World Disney $36,635 -78.8% 21 -119 $1,745 $7,927,348 5 6 N Moo-seo-woon I-ya-gi 2 (Horror Stories 2) n/a $23,309 - 55 - $424 $23,309 1 7 7 Gravity WB $879 +108.3% 2 - $440 $1,977,500 9 8 4 The Counselor Fox $248 -99.3% 3 -59 $83 $197,298 3

^ it's Metro Manila Film Festival held every year where only Filipino movies for 2 weeks beginning Dec. 25 are shown [except IMAX screens]. The film fest is not really for art films but commercial movies so slapstick comedies, horrors, fantasy-comedies and melodrama dominate.

Blu-rays are still not popular here in the Philippines. It's still DVD and even VCD dominating the video stores

5 6 Delivery Man BV $3,742,544 -45.3% 2,905 -131 $1,288 $24,767,326 $26 3 good drop, all things considered. $24M gross to date with just $26M so it won't be a big money loser. 7 7 The Book Thief Fox $2,625,623 -46.0% 1,316 +82 $1,995 $12,000,678 - 5 So I guess Fox was right not to have a wide release from the get-go. Lackluster performance 11 10 Last Vegas CBS $1,265,334 -53.0% 1,539 -315 $822 $60,586,942 Wow at the legs of this movie! 12 11 Gravity WB $1,211,279 -52.6% 900 -116 $1,346 $251,486,533 Glad it still earned $1 million, with the GG and SAG nods this week, may it get a bump? 14 9 Black Nativity FoxS $1,026,757 -72.0% 1,525 +9 $673 $6,404,760 $17.5 Yikes! 15 15 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa Par. $820,378 -53.6% 1,157 -346 $709 $100,020,913 Almost didn't make it to 100M but good run for this flick 17 17 Captain Phillips Sony $510,201 -55.6% 640 -167 $797 $103,500,578 $55 Good run for this one, if it gets awards attention hopefully it can get a second win 20 14 Free Birds Rela. $342,419 -81.3% 1,202 -1,085 $285 $53,789,345 $55 Will struggle to match its $55M budget. 21 18 Oldboy (2013) FD $301,455 -66.0% 583 - $517 $1,956,671 $30 $30m budget? Oh boy 2 41 Lee Daniels' The Butler Wein. $265,019 +529.3% 1,007 +936 $263 $115,922,175 Not getting any awards love from the critics but Weinstein ain't giving this one up without a fight 26 21 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Sony $163,130 -57.8% 312 -395 $523 $115,269,295 $78 11 Underwhelming run (and movie) but at least the budget is low, still proftibale 34 29 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters Fox $54,795 -48.7% 140 -23 $391 $68,316,158 $90 42 34 Planes BV $30,621 -63.4% 131 -54 $234 $90,256,456 $50 18 51 42 Monsters University BV $16,400 -57.0% 75 -22 $219 $268,472,408 - 25 55 48 Turbo Fox $12,016 -48.7% 35 -4 $343 $83,024,900 $135 21 61 59 The Heat Fox $5,635 -0.5% 18 -7 $313 $159,578,352 $43 They're still here!

Happy Frozen is #1

Sad the franchise is practically dead now.

Yeah, Captain Phillips did well though and depending on how it will fare on the awards season, it could have a second wind at the box office

Ender's Game also had good visual effects, too bad it didn't make it. Surprised Walter Mitty was snubbed as wlel Anyway, my final 5 Gravity Oblivion Iron Man 3 The Hobbit 2 Pacific Rim

As long as Hanks is nominated I'm happy

No updates from BOM yet The Hobbit 2 will still be in IMAX screens during the MMFF and will return in January

What was the last movie from the big 6 to open post-Thanksgiving weekend?

I wish we had a Lincoln this year, the adult-appealing movie that pulls incredible numbers. I was really fascinated with that movie's box office run

If Rise of the Guardians only had better character designs (they really didn't look appealing especially to kids, felt like it was Final Fantasy), I bet it would have earned more, it was the perfect movie for the holidays

YES! Great in crease for Frozen

Physically speaking, no acting or personality involved, just plainly looking at them JLaw and Liam looked better together. Anyway, here in the Philippines based on online observation, they like the casting of both Josh and Liam and Josh really has admirers. Liam, not much but there's no bashing. But it's nothing like what the girls here had for Robert Pattinson and heck even for Taylor Lautner's abs. Say what you want about Twilight but they really casted the right guy for Edward based on fan reaction. The guy they picked for 50 Shades had better reception here well than Sons of Anarchy dude so 50 Shades could be a big here as well

Josh is fine and he has nice rapport with JLaw in their interviews, Liam is very boring on press junkets and interviews. The main problem with Josh is the height but it's not noticeable in the movie anyway

It's from Universal. Yeah Fox tracks their movie until the last cent so it seems. The Heat, Turbo and Percy 2 are still in theaters! And Runner, Runner & The Counselor could still last until the holidays

No, I like her as well. But she's more an early 2000s artist for me. The artists I mentioned where the stuff I was listening when I became a chart geek in the mid 90s

I'm a 90s music fan as well but I'm a pop guy so it's Backstreet Boys, Boyz II Men, N*Sync, The Corrs it is for me

Kick Ass 2 really had a short run (8/16 to 9/26) other flops which earned below it (The Host, Big Wedding, Beautiful Creatures, Admission, Parker) lasted at least 2 to 3 months.