Box Office Report: May 18th - 20th, 2012

Avengers smashed new comer at the box office this weekend. Battleship not only came in at number 2 it grossed a dismal $25.3 million. That's well below the anticipated $35 million to $40 million that Universal and director Peter Berg were hoping for. Battleship, designed to put the studio squarely in the tentpole game, cost at least $209 million to produce, excluding a pricey marketing spend.. Think like A Man continues to do well on a smaller budget and has been making profits every week. Here is your numbers for the weekend. MadOne

Rank	Movie	Weekend	Theaters	Average	Total	Budget
1	The Avengers	$55,057,000	4,249	$12,958	$457,078,000	$220
2	Battleship	$25,300,000	3,690	$6,856	$25,300,000	$209
3	The Dictator	$17,415,000	3,008	$5,790	$24,456,000	$65
4	Dark Shadows	$12,770,000	3,755	$3,401	$50,908,000	$150
5	What to Expect When You’re Expecting	$10,500,000	3,021	$3,476	$10,500,000	-
6	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	$3,250,000	354	$9,181	$8,257,000	-
7	The Hunger Games	$3,000,000	2,064	$1,453	$391,631,000	$78
8	Think Like a Man	$2,700,000	1,722	$1,568	$85,888,000	$12
9	The Lucky One	$1,765,000	2,005	$880	$56,921,000	-
10	The Pirates! Band of Misfits	$1,450,000	1,840	$788	$25,362,000	$55

Box Office Report: May 11th - 13th, 2012

Weekend Box Office

This Week	Last Week	Movie		Cumulative Gross	Week #	# of Theaters
1	1		Marvel's The Avengers Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures $103,163,000	$373.2M	2	4349
2	-		Dark Shadows Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $28,805,000	$28.8M	1	3755
3	2		Think Like A Man Screen Gems $6,300,000	$81.9M	4	2052
4	3		The Hunger Games Lionsgate $4,400,000	$386.9M	8	2531
5	5		The Lucky One Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $4,055,000	$53.7M	4	2839
6	4		The Pirates! Band of Misfits $3,200,000	$23.1M	3	3079
7	6		The Five-Year Engagement Universal Pictures $3,095,645	$24.4M	3	2569
8	16		The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Fox Searchlight Pictures $2,650,000	$3.7M	2	178
9	9		Chimpanzee Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures $1,624,000	$25.6M	4	1559
10	-		Girl In Progress Lionsgate $1,350,000	$1.4M	1	322
11	8		The Raven Relativity Media Distribution Group $1,300,000	$14.6M	3	1888
12	7		Safe Lionsgate $1,275,000	$15.5M	3	1690
13	10		The Three Stooges 20th Century Fox Distribution $1,000,000	$41.1M	5	1416
14	11		The Cabin in the Woods Lionsgate $970,000	$39.8M	5	1029
15	13		21 Jump Street $675,000	$135.1M	9	589
16	14		American Reunion Universal Pictures $448,060	$56.1M	6	521
17	18		Dr. Seuss' The Lorax Universal Pictures $409,500	$209.6M	11	455
18	33		Bernie Millennium Entertainment $216,501	$537.1K	3	36
19	63		The Artist The Weinstein Company $161,000	$44.4M	20	751
20	21		Salmon Fishing in the Yemen CBS Films $158,000	$8.5M	10	200

BOX OFFICE REPORT: Dec 2 - 4 weekend 2011

Summit Entertainment somehow found the top spot once again with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I taking in only $16.9 million. Believe it or not, that’s actually the best three-peat performance of any Twilight installment to date despite the fact that the overall domestic numbers ($247.3 mil) is slightly down from what New Moon pulled in over the same amount of days ($255.4 mil) back in 2009. Still, you won’t find any suits over Summit complaining. Not when this first half of the last Twilight tale has a global cume of $588.3 million after 17 days of release. The budget is set at only $110 million. 

Walt Disney’s revitalized Muppets property. The return of the Jim Henson characters hit their $45 million price tag in 2^nd place and padded their profit margins in the same position in its sophomoric frame, pulling in another $11.2 million over the weekend. Despite a 61% drop off at the ticket counter, the latest numbers has increased their domestic gross to $56.1 million. The first two weekends has pretty much guaranteed it to become the highest-grossing film of its franchise by the end of its run, ahead of the 1979 release The Muppet Movie ($65.2 mil).  Mania

 

Rank	Movie	Weekend	Theaters	Average	Total	Budget
1	Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I	$16.9 mil	4,046	$4,177	$247.3 mil	$110
2	The Muppets	$11.2 mil	3,440	$3,256	$56.1 mil	$45
3	Hugo	$7.6 mil	1,840	$4,144	$25.1 mil	$150
4	Arthur Christmas	$7.3 mil	3,376	$2,177	$25.2 mil	$95
5	Happy Feet Two	$6.0 mil	3,536	$1,697	$51.7 mil	----
6	Jack and Jill	$5.5 mil	3,049	$1,804	$64.3 mil	$79
7	The Descendants	$5.2 mil	574	$9,059	$18.0 mil	----
8	Immortals	$4.3 mil	2,627	$1,673	$75.5 mil	$75
9	Tower Heist	$4.1 mil	2,404	$1,705	$70.8 mil	$75
10	Puss in Boots	$3.0 mil	2,750	$1,109	$139.5 mil	$130