Weekend Numbers (starts pg19) Taken2 22.5, Argo 20.2 mill

[baumer]

About a 55% drop for Taken 2. And so many here were saying it would fall 65-70%.

[ecstasy]

Has Resident Evil been removed from theaters? Why is there no estimate for it? I was hoping it would have passed the $42 million mark this week. Plus, there are a lot of big decreases this week, anyone know why?

Studio probably not reporting estimates. May have to wait until actuals.Lots of movies had a big time loss of theaters. That's why the large decrease.

[#ED]

About a 55% drop for Taken 2. And so many here were saying it would fall 65-70%.

It's not a bad movie. It may not have had the best acting but what people loved about the 1st one, most of it is in the 2nd one.

[rockNrollaDIM]

Taken 2 is definitely a disappointment quality-wise. But boxoffice is great. Nice hold.

[forg]

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	1	Taken 2	Fox	$22,500,000	-54.6%	3,706	+45	$6,071	$86,759,000	$45	2
2	N	Argo	WB	$20,120,000	-	3,232	-	$6,225	$20,120,000	$44.5	1
3	N	Sinister	Sum.	$18,250,000	-	2,527	-	$7,222	$18,250,000	$3	1
4	2	Hotel Transylvania	Sony	$17,300,000	-36.1%	3,375	+23	$5,126	$102,193,000	$85	3
5	N	Here Comes the Boom	Sony	$12,000,000	-	3,014	-	$3,981	$12,000,000	-	1
6	3	Pitch Perfect	Uni.	$9,336,000	-37.1%	2,787	+17	$3,350	$36,085,000	$17	3
7	5	Frankenweenie	BV	$7,014,000	-38.5%	3,005	-	$2,334	$22,035,000	$39	2
8	4	Looper	TriS	$6,300,000	-48.0%	2,605	-388	$2,418	$51,442,000	$30	3
9	N	Seven Psychopaths	CBS	$4,275,000	-	1,480	-	$2,889	$4,275,000	$15	1
10	11	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Sum.	$2,166,000	+38.3%	726	+505	$2,983	$6,151,000	-	4
11	N	Atlas Shrugged: Part II	ADC	$1,708,000	-	1,012	-	$1,688	$1,708,000	-	1
12	6	End of Watch	ORF	$1,703,000	-57.5%	1,551	-819	$1,098	$36,375,000	$7	4
13	7	Trouble with the Curve	WB	$1,525,000	-60.2%	1,812	-1,191	$842	$32,743,000	-	4
14	8	House at the End of The Street	Rela.	$1,329,000	-64.6%	1,866	-854	$712	$30,015,000	$10	4
-	9	The Master	Wein.	$823,000	-55.8%	682	-182	$1,207	$13,920,000	-	5
-	31	Brave	BV	$459,000	+186.7%	276	+154	$1,663	$234,387,000	$185	17
-	10	Finding Nemo (3D)	BV	$380,000	-76.6%	480	-1,266	$792	$40,107,000	-	5
-	17	Arbitrage	RAtt.	$363,000	-43.6%	195	-49	$1,862	$6,673,000	-	5
-	21	Ice Age: Continental Drift	Fox	$220,000	-26.7%	237	-61	$928	$159,809,000	$95	14
-	40	Searching for Sugar Man	SPC	$203,000	+134.5%	157	+119	$1,293	$1,698,000	-	12
-	18	The Possession	LGF	$167,000	-73.2%	369	-452	$453	$48,738,000	$14	7
-	19	The Bourne Legacy	Uni.	$160,000	-53.6%	245	-237	$653	$112,583,000	$125	10
-	13	Won't Back Down	Fox	$126,000	-87.6%	513	-2,004	$246	$5,086,000	-	3
-	16	Dredd	LGF	$123,000	-80.9%	155	-676	$794	$13,220,000	$50	4
-	33	Samsara	Osci.	$113,000	-10.8%	48	-4	$2,354	$1,801,000	-	8
-	37	The Paperboy	MNE	$104,000	+1.3%	49	+38	$2,122	$245,000	-	2
-	32	Ted	Uni.	$92,100	-37.3%	245	+58	$376	$218,508,200	$50	16
-	38	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted	P/DW	$86,000	-15.2%	122	-33	$705	$216,366,000	$145	19
-	N	Middle of Nowhere (2012)	AFFRM	$78,000	-	6	-	$13,000	$78,000	$0.2	1
-	39	Sleepwalk with Me	IFC	$70,000	-25.7%	58	-42	$1,207	$2,120,000	-	8
-	20	Lawless	Wein.	$64,000	-80.4%	287	-324	$223	$37,160,000	-	7
-	29	The Expendables 2	LGF	$60,000	-64.2%	146	-167	$411	$84,496,000	$100	9

 

[rockNrollaDIM]

Great hold for Pitch Perfect.

[forg]

Glad to see Perks in the top 10. I wonder what's the budget for this one. I hope under 20 million.Looks like Brave took some of the screens of Finding Nemo 3D. 40 million finish for Nemo 3D is fine although below expectations. I guess Monsters, Inc 3D will gross even less.You just can separate HATES, End of Watch and Trouble With a Curve, they always end up right next to each other lolThe Master is pretty much done I guess.Looper's budget is just 30 million so I'm glad it will be profitable.Impressive for Pitch PerfectIce Age 4 chugging along to $160 million

Edited October 14, 2012 by forg

[Vanilla]

It's too bad about Seven Psychopaths. Its a really good film. Deserves more. Hopefully the Home Video market treats it better.

[SchumacherFTW]

Love that Taken 2 did under a 55% drop, guys at my college are going crazy for it (16 year olds for you). Some of the even declared it better than the first! While it's not a great movie, and there are far more deserving films to get that kind of gross, it's always good to have a big hit hold reasonably on it's second weekend.

[Gopher]

Psychopaths is the rare wide release that probably could have benefitted from a platform start, instead of the other way around. Bittersweet weekend. Argo broke out but Looper and Master got hit big time.

[wileECoyote]

Great hold for Taken2. Nice surprise that it held on to first considering the reviews and all. I haven't had time to watch it but looking forward to finally seeing it tonight. Argo looks good as well but I will hold off until after the ALCS and NLCS of course

[ecstasy]

And Hotel Transylvania crosses 100m. Nice.What a turnaround for the box office the last few weeks.

[JackO]

Could have been worse for Argo. Hope it stays above 20M with actuals.

[MovieGuyKyle17]

ya when I saw Argo on friday everyone was very old, there were only 3 of us in the entire audience under 40

[CoolioD1]

ya when I saw Argo on friday everyone was very old, there were only 3 of us in the entire audience under 40

Eww, I hate seeing movies like that! I remember going to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy last year and the room actually stunk of that gross old people smell.

[baumer]

Eww, I hate seeing movies like that! I remember going to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy last year and the room actually stunk of that gross old people smell.

What a narrow minded view of things.

[CoolioD1]

What a narrow minded view of things.

lol.

[ecstasy]

Eww, I hate seeing movies like that! I remember going to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy last year and the room actually stunk of that gross old people smell.

Wow. You're going to get old one day.

[CoolioD1]

Wow. You're going to get old one day.

Yeah, but you gotta admit they smell bad... Edited October 14, 2012 by CoolioD1

[baumer]

lol.

Maybe they think you smell like Kraft Dinner and Vodka.