The E360Naija Box Office Report has been updated with studio estimates for the weekend and the final figures based on actual box office.
Two new movies entered the marketplace in wide release and two more
movies fell far behind the biggest movie of the late summer as
Christopher Nolan's
The Dark Knight Rises
(Warner Bros.) remained on top for the third weekend in a row with
roughly $36 million. Despite a big 60% drop in its second weekend, it
held out better in its third weekend, being down just 41%, and so far
it's grossed $354 million domestically, making it the third-highest
grossing movie of the year. $5.7 million of this weekend was made in
IMAX theaters bringing its domestic IMAX total to $48 million. We're
still waiting for international numbers on The Dark Knight Rises, although we've heard that globally, the movie has done $70 million in IMAX theaters.
The movie expected to give
The Dark Knight Rises some sort of competition was director Len (Underworld) Wiseman's sci-fi action-thriller remake Total Recall
(Sony), starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale and Bryan
Cranston, but after an opening day of $9.1 million, it ended up opening
in second place with an estimated $26 million in 3,601 theaters.
According to Sony, the audience for the movie was 58% male and 53% over
30, although the C+ CinemaScore it received does not bode well for legs
domestically. The movie reportedly cost $150 million to make.
Total Recall
fared slightly better overseas where it opened in 12
Asian markets including India, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan and
Singapore, all where it took the top spot, bringing in $6.2 million in
those countries. (Of interest is that the original name of one of the
impoverished and overcrowded section of earth called "New Asia" was
changed to "The Colony" possibly to not offend Sony's Asian markets.)
The third installment in 20th Century Fox's popular family franchise
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
failed to deliver with its summer opening, amassing just $14.7 million
over the weekend in 3,391 theaters. That's far less than the $20 million
plus opening of the previous two installments, released in 2008 and
2010.
Box Office Report
Weekend Box Office
August 3, 2012 - August 5, 2012| TW | LW | Title | Studio | Weekend | Theaters | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | The Dark Knight Rises | Warner Bros. Pictures |
$36,440,000
|
4,242
|
$354,637,000
|
3
|
| 2 | - | Total Recall | Columbia Pictures (Sony) |
$26,000,000
|
3,601
|
$26,000,000
|
1
|
| 3 | - | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days | 20th Century Fox |
$14,700,000
|
3,392
|
$14,700,000
|
1
|
| 4 | 2 | Ice Age: Continental Drift | 20th Century Fox |
$8,400,000
|
3,543
|
$131,862,859
|
4
|
| 5 | 3 | The Watch | 20th Century Fox |
$6,350,000
|
3,168
|
$25,363,203
|
2
|
| 6 | 5 | Ted | Universal Pictures |
$5,479,000
|
2,761
|
$203,416,000
|
6
|
| 7 | 4 | Step Up Revolution | Summit Entertainment |
$5,300,000
|
2,606
|
$23,100,000
|
2
|
| 8 | 6 | The Amazing Spider-Man | Columbia Pictures (Sony) |
$4,300,000
|
2,425
|
$250,640,000
|
5
|
| 9 | 7 | Brave | Disney•Pixar |
$2,890,000
|
2,110
|
$223,324,000
|
7
|
| 10 | 8 | Magic Mike | Warner Bros. Pictures |
$1,380,000
|
1,202
|
$110,894,300
|
6
|
| 11 | 10 | Moonrise Kingdom | Focus Features |
$1,231,960
|
687
|
$40,771,000
|
11
|
| 12 | 13 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
$1,175,000
|
318
|
$5,903,800
|
6
|
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