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I forgot about GI Joe. I hope Oz can do it but when I watched it yesterday the cinema was not full. I haven't seen long lines since Les Mis opened. Anyway, Iron Man 3 will be be big. I guess $10 million is the minimum gross after that insane Avengers performance last year and Iron Man has always been the most popular Avengers here plus it will definitely have 95% minimum share of the screens when it opens

Except Amour, every BP nominee this year is represented

Who would have thought Hansel and Gretel will be our #1 movie so far What movie could unseat it? Jack? Oz? or the John Lloyd-Sarah Romcom later this month? Iron Man 3 opens here on April 24 so they have only a few weeks left to get #1 of the year as Iron Man 3 will most likely be the #1 until the end of the year

Top 2013 Movies Box Office Mojo Rank Movie Title Distributor Gross Release 1 Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters UIP $2,737,454 1/23 2 Chinese Zodiac Star Cin. $2,363,467 1/30 3 Life of Pi Fox $2,076,267 1/9 4 A Good Day to Die Hard Fox $2,026,730 2/13 5 Les Miserables (2012) UIP $1,948,614 1/16 6 A Moment In Time Star Cin. $1,561,156 2/13 7 Jack the Giant Slayer WB $1,276,982 2/28 8 Warm Bodies Pioneer $975,046 1/31 9 Jack Reacher UIP $683,860 1/9 10 Beautiful Creatures (2013) Pioneer $640,197 2/20 11 Zero Dark Thirty Pioneer $317,035 1/11 12 The Last Stand Pioneer $303,134 1/17 13 Mama UIP $273,126 2/6 14 Parker Viva Int. $254,408 1/24 15 Safe Haven Pioneer $203,811 2/13 16 Gangster Squad WB $195,482 1/30 17 Red Dawn (2012) Viva Int. $187,782 1/9 18 Bullet to the Head Disney $179,852 2/6 19 Flight UIP $174,382 2/13 20 Lincoln Fox $170,141 2/20 21 A Haunted House Viva Int. $163,395 1/16 22 The Impossible Pioneer $146,811 1/23 23 Silver Linings Playbook Pioneer $112,698 2/27 24 Parental Guidance Fox $100,202 1/16 25 Upside Down (2012) Pioneer $98,537 2/6 26 The Man with the Iron Fists UIP $79,841 1/30 27 Stoker Fox $64,858 3/1 28 Broken City Viva Int. $36,583 2/6 29 Savages (2012) UIP $21,666 2/20 30 Hitchcock Fox $13,327 2/6 31 Anna Karenina UIP $11,686 2/20

Philippines Box Office Feb 27 - March 3, 2013 TW LW Movie Studio Weekend Gross Change Screens Change / Avg. Gross-to-Date Week 1 N Jack the Giant Slayer WB $1,276,982 - 176 - $7,256 $1,276,982 1 2 3 Beautiful Creatures (2013) Pioneer $169,883 -41.4% 50 -20 $3,398 $640,197 2 3 1 A Good Day to Die Hard Fox $155,909 -67.2% 126 -12 $1,237 $2,026,730 3 4 N Silver Linings Playbook Pioneer $112,698 - 60 - $1,878 $112,698 1 5 2 A Moment In Time Star Cin. $88,015 -72.0% 30 -50 $2,934 $1,561,156 3 6 N Stoker Fox $64,858 - 88 - $737 $64,858 1 7 5 Warm Bodies Pioneer $18,709 -64.4% 10 -10 $1,871 $975,046 5 8 4 Lincoln Fox $15,926 -87.0% 37 -48 $430 $170,141 2 9 11 Mama UIP $5,529 -57.1% 6 -2 $922 $273,126 4 10 7 Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters UIP $4,705 -84.3% 9 -4 $523 $2,737,454 6 11 10 Savages (2012) UIP $4,331 -67.4% 2 -3 $2,166 $21,666 2 12 12 Anna Karenina UIP $1,823 -77.7% 3 - $608 $11,686 2 13 9 Flight UIP $1,626 -92.9% 1 -13 $1,626 $174,382 3

I hope Life of Pi can still cross $120 million. Looks like Zero Dark Thirty will end around $95 million. Not bad considering with the Awards buzz, I bet if would have gross only half of it. Impressive for Argo considering it's already available on home video 180 million for Lincoln is just amazing for the 3-hour very talky movie. Good grosses for Les Mis and Django as well. Overall, very good year for Oscar nominated films.

Me too. Or if she doesn't I hope she will grow up with a good life and not have a messed up one. So much success and attention under the age of 10 is something but looks like her mother is keeping her grounded.

Hoping for good Oscar bumps for the winners

Yay Life of Pi!

Movies opening this week: Feb. 27 - Silver Linings Playbook Feb. 28 - Jack the Giant Slayer Mar. 1 - Stoker

Philippines Box Office February 13-17,2013 TW LW Movie Studio Weekend Gross Change Screens Change / Avg. Gross-to-Date Week 1 N A Good Day to Die Hard Fox $1,118,314 - 175 - $6,390 $1,118,314 1 2 N A Moment In Time Star Cin. $860,480 - 140 - $6,146 $860,480 1 3 3 Warm Bodies Pioneer $129,318 -23.8% 30 -20 $4,311 $733,006 3 4 N Safe Haven Pioneer $127,007 - 75 - $1,693 $127,007 1 5 1 Chinese Zodiac Star Cin. $125,876 -60.2% 50 -60 $2,518 $2,211,310 3 6 N Flight UIP $118,670 - 57 - $2,082 $118,670 1 7 2 Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters UIP $105,413 -54.3% 27 -48 $3,904 $2,677,476 4 8 4 Mama UIP $40,969 -74.6% 18 -53 $2,276 $243,366 2 9 12 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey WB $7,458 +21.3% 1 - $7,458 $3,376,520 10 10 5 Bullet to the Head Disney $3,496 -97.5% 10 -103 $350 $178,484 2 11 9 Les Miserables (2012) UIP $1,628 -93.8% 2 -17 $814 $1,948,108 5 12 11 Hitchcock Fox $1,586 -83.2% 2 -8 $793 $13,327 2 13 10 Gangster Squad WB $1,075 -94.7% 6 -16 $179 $195,482 3

I'm sure someone will pop in to surprise.

Agree with the "Oscar winning tone" that Frozen seems like it has it over Monsters U. I think that also factored in with Brave vs Wreck-It Ralph. I guess the video game theme is something that didn't appeal to the voters, especially the old ones because it is not as elegant as Scotland

Seth's animation empire on FOX is really young-skewing especially Family Guy so he could be a factor as well to draw some young folks especially young men (but I doubt those young men watched all 3.5 hours, maybe just the monologue) And yes the appealing movies definitely helped. Last year was up as well because despite The Artist's narrow appeal, it still had some major stars nominated Meryl Streep (even if people haven't seen Iron Lady they are curious if she could win), Brad Pitt and George Clooney plus The Help was a box office and it was a frontrunner in 2 acting categories so that helped (and maybe Bridesmaids too?). If was still mostly an appealing batch compared to the year when No Country won when even the acting nominees (and eventual winners) didn't have the star power. And well this is still event TV

Disney pushed Paperman a lot so it won. I wanted Ralph to win because ever since the Animated Feature was introduced they haven't won with their in-house animation projects and I was hoping Ralph would be the one to do so I guess Disney's Oscar team was torn between their three bets this year. Initially, they were pushing for Frankenweenie more but it lost steam quickly then for a time they gave WIR some attention but Brave got momentum towards the end with BAFTA and the guilds. But I gotta say though Brave's FYC ads online looked better than WIR. Let's see next year with Frozen vs Monsters University. Who knows maybe Planes could pull a surprise and be the one to be critically adored

I slightly like WIR better than Brave but except for Pirates I would've been happy to see any of the 4 winning. And come on, the critical reception isn't that bad. Yes it's mediocre for Pixar standards but I think regular people liked it enough and the production is really polished with the beautiful landscapes and such. So I think people should not be surprised if a lot of the industry people liked it and how it appealed to a lot of the Academy members (the mother-daughter rift is very relatable). And the win was not totally a surprise, it was neck in neck with WIR in the precursors. WIR won the Annies (Animators) and PGA (Producers) but Brave swept a lot of the technical guilds (Visual Effects, Sound etc) plus the BAFTA win was also an indicator. And let's not forget that everybody in the Academy can vote for it and Brave is the highest grossing animated film last year in the US (although WIR box office cume is great as well) so there's a chance that more people in the Academy saw it and loved it first. WIR had better reviews but it didn't have the loud, dominating positive reviews of the previous Animated Feature frontrunners so this was really a race this year. But yeah I won't deny that if Pixar made WIR it could have been the winner. Anyway, I was so happy to see Chapman on stage to receive the award. I watched their press interview online and you could see it in her eyes how happy she was that Brave won. I feel like she worked very hard on this and despite the issues that forced her to step down, this was still a special project coz it's a personal one. It seems like she and Mark Andrews are on good terms. For that alone, I'm very happy Brave won.

100 million for Identity Thief next week! Escape from Planet will be profitable Can ZD30 crawl to 100 million? But I think it will around 96 million. Not bad of course Life of Pi increased!

Favorite moment: Sound Editing tie. Because NO ONE predicted that at all

My favorite speech would have to be Ang Lee, his presence just oozes with warmth and comfort, what a nice and sweet guy!

No surprise maybe except for the tie which is kinda weird but glad Zero Dark Thirty was part of it. The raid was simply awesome! I love JLaw even more when she tripped

This. Glad she was there

Yay Brave! I would also be happy if Ralph won as well

Journey 2 is the other successful February 2012 opener

Yes what a weird scheduling this first two months were, an action movie almost every week! Good thing the Oscar-nominated movies held well plus Identity Thief doing amazing numbers. And solid grosses for Mama and Warm Bodies too

I think ZDT still has a shot to $100 million.I hope it wins something major (Screenplay or Editing) to get some boost Warm Bodies and Mama did very well.I think Hansel and Gretel too