- 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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UnOfficially Yours continues to widen the gap as the top box office hit in the Philippines so far this year as the movie already earned $3.3 million / 143 million PHP in its 3rd week of release. This is already in line of previous John Lloyd Cruz box office hits while this is Angel Locsin's biggest box office hit to date.
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance surpasses Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as the #4 movie this year earning $1.5 million / 64 million PHP compared to the Sherlock Holmes' $1.4 million / 61 million PH gross. Ghost Rider's box office performance was aided by a 3D premium boost. If you notice the top 3 foreign movies this year (Underworld Awakening & Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) are all available in 3D and Sherlock Holmes 2 which was not available in 3D format is the highest grossing foreign movie so far this year.
All the top foreign movies are all sequels and so far the highest non-sequel foreign flick is The Vow at #7 with $1.2 million / 54 million PHP which is a very good performance for a non-local romance movie. Last year's highest romantic film Crazy, Stupid, Love only earned $662k /~28 million PHP.
The best performing new release is the found footage horror flick The Devil Inside debuting with $185k / 7.9 million PHP while the two Oscar-nominated films that were also released last week did so-so: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close earned $60K / 2.5 million PHP while War Horse $34K / 1.4 million PHP. War Horse by the way is an SM Cinemas exclusive. Another "Oscar" film My Week with Marilyn was also out last week in 3 screens but Box Office Mojo does not have the movie's numbers. The last new release is the Katherine Heigl romcom One for The Money which did poorly only earning $16K / 700k PHP and so far is the lowest grossing wide-release foreign flick this year.
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance surpasses Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as the #4 movie this year earning $1.5 million / 64 million PHP compared to the Sherlock Holmes' $1.4 million / 61 million PH gross. Ghost Rider's box office performance was aided by a 3D premium boost. If you notice the top 3 foreign movies this year (Underworld Awakening & Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) are all available in 3D and Sherlock Holmes 2 which was not available in 3D format is the highest grossing foreign movie so far this year.
All the top foreign movies are all sequels and so far the highest non-sequel foreign flick is The Vow at #7 with $1.2 million / 54 million PHP which is a very good performance for a non-local romance movie. Last year's highest romantic film Crazy, Stupid, Love only earned $662k /~28 million PHP.
The best performing new release is the found footage horror flick The Devil Inside debuting with $185k / 7.9 million PHP while the two Oscar-nominated films that were also released last week did so-so: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close earned $60K / 2.5 million PHP while War Horse $34K / 1.4 million PHP. War Horse by the way is an SM Cinemas exclusive. Another "Oscar" film My Week with Marilyn was also out last week in 3 screens but Box Office Mojo does not have the movie's numbers. The last new release is the Katherine Heigl romcom One for The Money which did poorly only earning $16K / 700k PHP and so far is the lowest grossing wide-release foreign flick this year.
Check out the Philippine box office charts below for the full list which I originally posted at BoxOffice.com's official forum (previously Box Office Theory):
Top Movies for 2012 To Date (as of March 4, 2012)
In Dollars
- (local) ÜnOfficially Yours - $3,363,383
- Underworld Awakening - $2,391, 207
- Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - $1,556,763
- Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance - $1,519,067
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - $1,460,261
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - $1,323,682
- The Vow - $1,298,471
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol* - $1,187,103*
- Chronicle - $832,097
- The Darkest Hour - $811,775
- This Means War - $580,869 -
- (local) A Mother's Story - $574,764
- (local) My Cactus Heart - $542,331
- Safe House - $322,198
- Jack and Jill - $285,564
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - $221,495
- Contraband - $214,284
- The Devil Inside - $185,737
- We Bought a Zoo - $131,497
- (local) Hitman - $116,429
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (in 3D) - $107,913
- Hugo - $103,206
- The Grey - $94,296
- The Descendants - $70,046
- The Woman in Black - $61,869
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - $60,303
- Haywire - $55,483
- J.Edgar - $49,059
- Beauty and the Beast 3D - $39,070
- Man on a Ledge - $37,513
- War Horse - $34,213
- Breaking Wind - $31,914
- Coriolanus - $27,332
- 11-11-11 - $26,362
- One For the Money - $16,686
In Pesos
- (local) UnOfficially Yours - 143,436,513 PHP
- Underworld Awakening - 102,119,364 PHP
- Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - 66,390,493 PHP
- Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance - 64,782,891 PHP
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - 61,951,573 PHP
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - 56,157,209 PHP
- The Vow - 55,375,244 PHP
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol* - 50,696,658 PHP*
- Chronicle -35,486,025 PHP
- The Darkest Hour - 34,619,363 PHP
- (local) A Mother's Story - 24,815,781 PHP**
- This Means War - 24,772,030 PHP**
- (local) My Cactus Heart - 23,008,393 PHP
- Safe House - 13,740,617 PHP
- Jack and Jill - 12,178,305 PHP
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 9,432,564 PHP
- Contraband - 9,151,255 PHP
- The Devil Inside -7,921,033 PH
- We Bought a Zoo - 5,568,319 PHP
- (local) Hitman - 4,965,289 PHP
- Star Wars Episode 1 3D - 4,595,572 PHP
- Hugo - 4,407,536 PHP
- The Grey - 4,000,508 PHP
- The Descendants - 2,987,217 PHP
- The Woman in Black - 2,624,792 PHP
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - 2,571,712 PHP
- Haywire - 2,365,429 PHP
- J.Edgar -2,092,195 PHP
- Beauty and the Beast (3D) - 1,666,199 PHP
- Man on a Ledge - 1,588,510 PHP
- War Horse - 1,459,065 PHP
- Breaking Wind -1,359,086 PHP
- Coriolanus - 1,180,075 PHP
- 11-11-11 1,125,821 PHP
- One For the Money - 711,599 PHP
** when A Mother's Story was out the Peso-Dollar exchange rate was 43.1756 PHP while it is currently just 42.6465 PHP putting it slightly ahead of This Means War (which earned more in the absolute dollars tally).
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