Forg Files: Philippine Box Office Roundup 14

Sorry this took so long! My 13th Roundup was posted two weeks ago and this week's roundup is a combination of the box office results of the last two weeks. As always here are some notes and disclaimers:

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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What else is there left to say with The Avengers box office run? It's simply mind blowing. The movie as of May 27, 2012 already amassed a monumental 640 million pesos, more than box office of the #2-#5 movies combined! The show now on its 5th week is still showing on a substantial amount of theaters so that movie could still earn a few more bucks before it bows out. I doubt there's any movie that will come out this year that could challenge it for the top spot.

A bunch of movies opened during the last two weeks with mix results. Men in Black 3 did the best earning 71.2 million pesos for its first five days while two local flicks did solid numbers: Star Cinema's romcom Every Breath U Take (which I personally liked) earned 42 million pesos in 2 weeks while Regal's comedy flick The Mommy Returns earned 30.6 million pesos. Low profile movies did weak to so-so numbers: Safe (9 million pesos), What To Expect When You're Expecting (3.6 million pesos), StreetDance 2 (2.3 million pesos) and SM exclusive Pirates! The Band of Misfits (2.07 million pesos). Data for the Ayala cinemas exclusive The Raven is not available.

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 May 27, 2012)

The Avengers - 640,267,322 PHP
(local) UnOfficially Yours - 157,254,200 PHP
Wrath of The Titans - 145,947,263 PHP
The Hunger Games - 139,996,453 PHP
Battleship -122,592,175 PHP
Underworld Awakening - 102,119,364 PHP
John Carter -87,165,284 PHP
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance - 72,209,152 PHP
MIB 3 - 71,220,110 PHP
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - 67,511,470 PHP
Dark Shadows - 67,540,038 PHP
(local) Moron 5 and the Crying Lady - 64,642,363 PHP
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - 61,951,573 PHP
The Vow - 59,626,147 PHP
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - 56,157,209 PHP
(local) Corazon: Ang Unang Aswang - 51,389,780 PHP
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol* - 50,696,658 PHP*
Every Breath U Take- 42,826,098 PHP
Chronicle -35,486,025 PHP
The Darkest Hour - 34,477,168 PHP
This Means War - 32,491,717 PHP
(local) The Mommy Returns - 30,613,315 PHP
Mirror, Mirror -28,718,269 PHP
(local) A Mother's Story - 24,815,781 PHP
Titanic 3D - 23,119,015 PHP
(local) My Cactus Heart - 23,008,393 PHP
The Lucky One - 22,972,803 PHP
The Lorax-21,324,022 PHP
The Devil Inside -17,961,575 PHP
American Reunion - 17,544,620 PHP
Safe House - 14,284,788 PHP
Jack and Jill - 13,462,940 PHP
(local) My Kontrabida Girl - 13,092,496 PHP
21 Jump Street - 11,334,699 PHP
Safe (2012) - 9,048,485 PHP
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 9,475,901 PHP
Contraband - 9,151,255 PHP
(co-prod with Indonesia) The Witness - 8,617,970 PHP
The Cabin in the Woods - 7,755,247 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 - 3,870,089 PHP
The Cold Light of Day - 3,681,644 PHP
What to Expect When You're Expecting -3,626,430 PHP
The Descendants - 3,217,457 PHP
Moneyball - 2,628,771 PHP***
The Woman in Black - 2,624,792 PHP
StreetDance 2 - 2,383,066 PHP
Haywire - 2,365,429 PHP
J.Edgar -2,092,195 PHP
The Pirates! Band of Misfits - 2,073,521 PHP
War Horse - 2,032,464 PHP
The Muppets - 1,916,008 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
Machine Gun Preacher - 1,166,230 PHP
Coriolanus - 1,180,075 PHP
11-11-11 1,125,821 PHP
Anonymous -549,309 PHP

* for 2012 only. Total box office: 168,442,905 PHP
*** Moneyball is ranked higher in this chart compared to the Dollars gross chart due to changes in the US Dollar-Peso exchange rate.

Dollars