Here's my 5th edition of my Philippine Box Office Roundup and you can read my previous recap here. And as always here are some notes with regards to my box office roundup:
- The following box office stats are from the ever awesome Box Office Mojo's Philippine Box Office Index. Thus, my box office comparisons and analysis are only limited to what Box Office Mojo has in its records
- Studios and local distributors sometimes issues press releases about the box office performance of their movies and there are instances that they do not exactly match the data Box Office Mojo have in hand. I'm not sure how wide Box Office Mojo's scope is with our local theaters but for the purposes of a consistent discussion and analysis I will only focus on the numbers posted at Box Office Mojo.
- I added some stuff like the Mission Impossible : Ghost Protocol box office for 2012 since Box Office Mojo does not include that 2011 holdover on their Top Movies 2012 list. Meanwhile the box office numbers for the holdovers from the MMFF last year are not on BOM's list so they're not on here as well.
- Box Office Mojo does not have the numbers for Ayala Cinemas Exclusive My Week with Marilyn so it's not on the charts below.
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Four new movies were shown last week to middling results. Leading the pack is Star Cinema's Corazon: Ang Unang Aswang earning $478K/ 20 million PHP, good enough to land on the #15 spot and will likely surpass fellow Star Cinema movies A Mother's Story (24 million) and My Cactus Heart (23 million) to be the 2nd highest grossing local film this year (by a wide gap since the #1 movie so fat this year, UnOfficially Yours is far ahead with 157 million PHP). Another local flick made its debut, GMA Films' My Kontrabida Girl earned $156K / 6.7 million PHP good enough to beat Viva Films's Hitman which earned 5.7 million PHP during its entire theatrical run. The last GMA films movie The Road from November last year earned 36 million PHP.
Meanwhile, two family movies opened last week and looks like they cannibalize each other with so-so results. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax opened with $300k / $12.8 million PHP, a little low for an animated flick in 3D while a retelling of the Snow White fairy Mirror, Mirror only earned $150K / 6.4 million PHP, the lowest-grossing movie among the new releases.
Elsewhere on the chart, John Carter (which earlier this week made headlines when its studio, Disney, admitted that the they will lose $200 million due to the movie's high production budget and disappointing worldwide box office) jumped to 4th place this week earning $1.6 million / 69 million PHP and will surpass Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance next week but will likely stay in 4th place because The Hunger Games will open next week and I expect it to open huge. Let's see ;)
Meanwhile, two family movies opened last week and looks like they cannibalize each other with so-so results. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax opened with $300k / $12.8 million PHP, a little low for an animated flick in 3D while a retelling of the Snow White fairy Mirror, Mirror only earned $150K / 6.4 million PHP, the lowest-grossing movie among the new releases.
Elsewhere on the chart, John Carter (which earlier this week made headlines when its studio, Disney, admitted that the they will lose $200 million due to the movie's high production budget and disappointing worldwide box office) jumped to 4th place this week earning $1.6 million / 69 million PHP and will surpass Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance next week but will likely stay in 4th place because The Hunger Games will open next week and I expect it to open huge. Let's see ;)
Here are the Philippine Box Office charts (both in dollars and pesos) as I originally posted at the BoxOffice.com forums:
Top Movies for 2012 To Date (as of March 18, 2012)
Pesos
- (local) UnOfficially Yours - 157,254,200 PHP
- Underworld Awakening - 102,119,364 PHP
- Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance -72,217,457 PHP
- John Carter - 69,634,360 PHP
- Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - 67,511,470 PHP
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - 61,951,573 PHP
- The Vow - 59,222,331 PHP
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - 56,157,209 PHP
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol* - 50,696,658 PHP*
- Chronicle -35,486,025 PHP
- The Darkest Hour - 34,477,168 PHP
- This Means War - 32,094,746 PHP
- (local) A Mother's Story - 24,815,781 PHP
- (local) My Cactus Heart - 23,008,393 PHP
- (local) Corazon: Ang Unang Aswang - 20,517,124 PHP
- The Devil Inside -16,489,333 PHP
- Safe House - 14,284,788 PHP
- Jack and Jill - 13,516,318 PHP
- The Lorax -12,871,272 PHP
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 9,475,901 PHP
- Contraband - 9,151,255 PHP
- (local) My Kontrabida Girl - 6,715,616 PHP
- (local) Mirror, Mirror - 6,475,413 PHP
- (local) Hitman - 5,757,748 PHP
- We Bought a Zoo - 5,568,319 PHP
- Star Wars Episode 1 3D - 4,595,572 PHP
- Hugo - 4,407,536 PHP
- The Grey - 4,000,508 PHP
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - 3,750,878 PHP
- The Descendants - 3,226,513 PHP
- Moneyball - 2,628,771 PHP
- The Woman in Black - 2,624,792 PHP
- Haywire - 2,365,429 PHP
- J.Edgar -2,092,195 PHP
- War Horse - 2,032,464 PHP
- One For the Money - 1,783,197 PHP
- Beauty and the Beast (3D) - 1,666,199 PHP
- Man on a Ledge - 1,588,510 PHP
- Breaking Wind -1,359,086 PHP
- Coriolanus - 1,180,075 PHP
- 11-11-11 1,125,821 PHP
** Moneyball is slightly ahead of The Woman in Black since the Peso-Dollar exchange rate it is $1-42.8858 PHP compared to $1 - 42.425 PHP when The Woman in Black was show but in the dollars chart below The Woman in Black is ahead of Moneyball
Dollars
- (local) ÜnOfficially Yours - $3,704,457
- Underworld Awakening - $2,391, 207
- Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance - $1,683,948
- John Carter - $1,623,716
- Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - $1,574,215
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - $1,460,261
- The Vow - $1,380,931
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - $1,323,682
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol* - $1,187,103*
- Chronicle - $832,097
- The Darkest Hour - $812,183
- This Means War - $748,377 -
- (local) A Mother's Story - $574,764
- (local) My Cactus Heart - $542,331
- (local) Corazon: Ang Unang Aswang - $478,413
- The Devil Inside - $384,494
- Safe House - $333,089
- Jack and Jill - $315,170
- The Lorax - $300,129
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - $223,225
- Contraband - $214,284
- My Kontrabida Girl - $156,593
- Mirror, Mirror - $150,992
- (local) Hitman - $135,636
- We Bought a Zoo - $131,497
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (in 3D) - $107,913
- Hugo - $103,206
- The Grey - $94,296
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - $87,462
- The Descendants - $75,235
- The Woman in Black - $61,869
- Moneyball - $61,297
- Haywire - $55,483
- J.Edgar - $49,059
- War Horse - $47,879
- One For the Money - $42,007
- Beauty and the Beast 3D - $39,070
- Man on a Ledge - $37,513
- Breaking Wind - $31,914
- Coriolanus - $27,332
- 11-11-11 - $26,362
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