UK Box Office Thread

[Jonwo]

47% is a decent drop considering it was against Twilight, the competition next week is only Gambit, Nativity 2 and Silver Linings Playbook which won't much as make an impact so it'll be the same top 2.Argo had a great drop of only 20% from its weekend total and 40% from its 5 day total so its finding its audience,

Edited November 19, 2012 by Jonwo

[Olive]

UK 8.9m -47% 133.4m (gbp82.7m, 2nd biggest alltime )

[JCS]

Yeah, I knew Argo would hold well. Great film!

[Heretic]

By next Sunday Skyfall could be at £89-90m, which is $142-144m.

[Olive]

Can it pass Avatar before Hobbit's arrival.?

[peludo]

By next Sunday Skyfall could be at £89-90m, which is $142-144m.

% of chances to £100 million?

[peludo]

Can it pass Avatar before Hobbit's arrival.?

If it can gross another 6-7 million this week, as Heretic says, I think Skyfall will outgross Avatar in 2 weeks, so yes

[Heretic]

Yeah, I think by next weekend it could pass Avatar. I'd say it has a 60/40 chance for £100m right now.

[Heretic]

Following three weeks of domination, Skyfall has been dethroned at the UK box office by the arrival of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2.The climactic instalment in the vampire romance grossed an impressive $25.1m (£15.8m) debut to record the biggest opening of the series, ahead of Breaking Dawn - Part 1’s previous best of $22.1m (£13.9m).Part 2’s debut is the fourth highest three-day opening of all time, behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and 2, and Skyfall.It also recorded an $11m (£6.9m) Friday tally, ahead of Skyfall’s $9.9m (£6.2m).Breaking Dawn - Part 1 went on to become the highest grosser of the Twilight series with $49.4m (£31.1m) and given Part 2’s strong start, it’s highly likely to be able to challenge that tally. Indeed, the series as a whole has enjoyed a £2m boost per instalment since New Moon’s $43.8m (£27.5m).Alex Hamilton, director of film at Entertainment One commented: “It has just been absolutely amazing to have increased the opening each time on the Twilight movies. All of us at eOne would like to extend our gratitude to the fans of this incredible series of movies.”Even dropping to second hasn’t stopped Skyfall breaking records in the UK though.Having grossed an non-final additional $8.9m (£5.6m), the latest Bond mission has now amassed a mighty $131.6m (£82.7m) through Sony to surpass the combined Titanic haul of $127.4m (£80.1m) as the UK’s second biggest performance of all time.It’s surely now a matter of when, and not if, it overtakes Avatar’s $149.6m (£94m) haul as the UK’s biggest grosser, unless Skyfall suffers a dramatic drop at the box office.Paramount’s threequel Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted continued its strong run in the UK, crossing the £20m mark after adding $1.4m (£880,000) for $32.9m (£20.7m) to date.With two heavyweights slugging it out at the top of the charts, the fact that Argo suffered only a 20% drop week-on-week is extremely commendable.Warner Bros.’ critically acclaimed thriller added $1.3m (£806,000) and stands at $4.5m (£2.8m). It has now overtaken Ben Affleck’s directorial debut Gone Baby Gone and is tracking ahead of The Town, which had taken $4.2m (£2.6m) at the same stage in its run.In its first weekend of wide release, Entertainment’s The Master commanded an estimated $577,000 (£360,000) to cross the £500,000 mark.For Sony, Hotel Transylvania is up to $12.2m (£7.7m), while Here Comes The Boom drops dramatically in its second weekend to add just $190,000 (£120,000) for $1.2m (£776,000).StudioCanal’s two potential awards contenders Rust and Bone and Beasts of the Southern Wild stand at $1.1m (£705,773) and $1.07m (£673,294) respectively.On limited release, Universal’s Mental made $21,000 (£13,000) on its opening weekend.This week sees saturation releases for StudioCanal’s End of Watch, Momentum’s Gambit (opens Nov 21), eOne’s Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger and Entertainment’s Silver Linings Playbook (opens Nov 21).

That would mean 2nd highest opening of the year for Twilight, beating The Avengers, and 4th of all time.Should do $50-55m in total. Edited November 19, 2012 by Heretic

[JCS]

Yeah, I think by next weekend it could pass Avatar. I'd say it has a 60/40 chance for £100m right now.

Passing Avatar by end of November yes, not this weekend but maybe after next weekend. £100M it will have to hit during Christmas time maybe, won't make it before Hobbit.

[JCS]

And Madagascar 3 passed £20M+ and is in that exclusive club now!

[Heretic]

Passing Avatar by end of November yes, not this weekend but maybe after next weekend. £100M it will have to hit during Christmas time maybe, won't make it before Hobbit.

Yeah, next weekend is what I meant. Not this one coming up. Edited November 19, 2012 by Heretic

[Heretic]

1 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (eOne) £15,850,825 £15,850,8252 Skyfall (Sony) £5,566,537 £82,836,5593 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (Paramount) £966,116 £20,631,6084 Jab Tak Hai Jaan (Yash Raj) £893,953 £893,9535 Argo (Warner Brothers) £807,457 £2,828,8886 The Master (Entertainment) £372,360 £553,5217 Hotel Transylvania (Sony) £233,959 £7,580,7448 Son Of Sardar (Eros) £214,296 £214,2969 Taken 2 (20th Century Fox) £136,495 £23,335,97410 Thuppakki (Qube) £134,280 £134,280BD2 increased with actuals. That's almost £2m above what BD1 opened to. I think it'll hit £35m ($55m). It should be over £25m by the end of this weekend.Little increase for Skyfall too. Going to be very close to £90m come Sunday.That's an excellent opening for Jab Tak Hai Jaan!

[SchumacherFTW]

It's a fucking shame that Argo will plummet this weekend. It's losing all 6 screen or less cinemas. Huge shame.

[Jonwo]

Argo must have good weekday considering it only opened to £1.3m, The Indian films did very well although they would have been 6 day opening as Diwali fell on the 13th but any Indian film to crack the top five is impressive.

[BenedictL11]

It's a fucking shame that Argo will plummet this weekend. It's losing all 6 screen or less cinemas. Huge shame.

I agree it is a shame if this happens because it's one of my favorite movies this year.Don't fret just yet because Affleck's The Town didn't see a big drop until its 4th weekend and got killed in its 5th weekend. I'm sure it has excellent WOM in the UK that it will prevent any big drop. If it does drop big, it's probably because the new releases opened better than expected. Plus, it's 2nd weekend only slipped from 20% when subtracting Wednesday Previews from November 7. Edited November 19, 2012 by BEEJAYGRAD11

[SchumacherFTW]

Trust me Beejay, it's losing a lot of small cinemas this weekend, my local 6 screen is getting all 3 new releases on friday, plus keeping Breaking Dawn on 2 screens and Skyfall on one too. There's no room left for Argo, and this will likely be a continuing trend in the next few weeks.

[fmpro]

% of chances to £100 million?

Jury is out.I say 50/50

[fmpro]

1 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (eOne) £15,850,825 £15,850,8252 Skyfall (Sony) £5,566,537 £82,836,5593 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (Paramount) £966,116 £20,631,6084 Jab Tak Hai Jaan (Yash Raj) £893,953 £893,9535 Argo (Warner Brothers) £807,457 £2,828,8886 The Master (Entertainment) £372,360 £553,5217 Hotel Transylvania (Sony) £233,959 £7,580,7448 Son Of Sardar (Eros) £214,296 £214,2969 Taken 2 (20th Century Fox) £136,495 £23,335,97410 Thuppakki (Qube) £134,280 £134,280BD2 increased with actuals. That's almost £2m above what BD1 opened to. I think it'll hit £35m ($55m). It should be over £25m by the end of this weekend.Little increase for Skyfall too. Going to be very close to £90m come Sunday.That's an excellent opening for Jab Tak Hai Jaan!

Xmas could bring Bond over 100 mill. Lets cross fingers

[BenedictL11]

Trust me Beejay, it's losing a lot of small cinemas this weekend, my local 6 screen is getting all 3 new releases on friday, plus keeping Breaking Dawn on 2 screens and Skyfall on one too. There's no room left for Argo, and this will likely be a continuing trend in the next few weeks.

Thank you for the analysis.