Weekend Wrap-Up
Oscar Doesn’t Bring Out the Best at Box Office
By John Hamann
February 24, 2013
Eighth goes to Warm Bodies, as the zom-rom-com continues to wax the other YA movie in the top ten, Beautiful Creatures. Now in its fourth weekend, Warm Bodies earned another $4.8 million and fell 47% compared to last weekend. Warm Bodies has turned into a decent success for Summit Entertainment, as the $30 million dollar film has a domestic gross so far of $58.2 million and is approaching $20 million overseas.
Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects finishes ninth this weekend with a gross of $3.5 million. It declined 44% and has a gross so far of $25.3 million. Maybe Soderbergh should have retired after Magic Mike earned $114 million.
Ninth is Beautiful Creatures, the large miss from Warner Bros., as repetitive marketing does not always lead to a big opening weekend. After a $7.6 million start last weekend, Beautiful Creatures could only drum up $3.4 million this weekend, giving the $60 million flick a drop of 54%. This one will be lucky to earn $25 million for its studio, as it has a gross so far of $16.4 million.
Finishing outside of the top ten are Zero Dark Thirty and Argo, both of which will be featured at the big show tonight. Zero Dark Thirty earned another $2.3 million to bring its total up to $xx.xx million; Argo, which came out on Blu-Ray this week, still managed to pull in $x.xx million, giving the Ben Affleck flick a running total of $91.6 million. The big earner of tonight’s show is Lincoln, which has surpassed the $175 million mark on the domestic front. The big, big winner, though, is Life of Pi, which took in $111 million domestically and almost $500 million from overseas theaters.
Overall this weekend, the top 12 films at the box office are a slouching group. The top 12 earned only $89.5 million, whereas last year, the top 12 brought in $114 million. Next weekend will be interesting as we have a high profile film (Jack the Giant Slayer), a horror sequel (The Last Exorcism Part II, or, The Last Last Exorcism), and two oddballs in 21 and Over and Phantom.
| 1 |
Identity Thief |
UNIVERSAL |
$14,064,030 |
- 41% |
$93,666,560 |
| 2 |
Snitch |
New Line Cinema |
$13,000,000 |
New |
$13,000,000 |
| 3 |
Escape From Planet Earth |
Weinstein Co. |
$11,013,000 |
- 31% |
$35,143,662 |
| 4 |
Safe Haven |
Relativity |
$10,600,000 |
- 50% |
$48,061,643 |
| 5 |
A Good Day To Die Hard |
Fox |
$10,000,000 |
- 60% |
$51,802,300 |
| 6 |
Dark Skies |
Weinstein Co. |
$8,850,000 |
New |
$8,850,000 |
| 7 |
Silver Linings Playbook |
The Weinstein Company |
$6,051,000 |
- 3% |
$107,476,146 |
| 8 |
Warm Bodies |
Lionsgate |
$4,750,000 |
- 46% |
$58,168,053 |
| 9 |
Side Effects |
Open Road |
$3,511,000 |
- 44% |
$25,253,516 |
| 10 |
Beautiful Creatures |
WARNER BROS. |
$3,410,000 |
- 55% |
$16,372,000 |
| 11 |
Zero Dark Thirty |
Sony/Columbia |
$2,250,000 |
- 25% |
$91,559,000 |
| 12 |
Argo |
Warner Bros. |
$1,965,000 |
- 10% |
$129,791,000 |
| |
Also Opening/Notables |
| |
No |
Sony Classics |
$82,354 |
+ 15% |
$194,636 |
| |
The Gatekeepers |
Sony Classics |
$153,596 |
+ 240% |
$400,436 |
| |
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters |
Paramount |
$1,640,000 |
- 53% |
$52,901,000 |
| |
Quartet |
Weinstein Co. |
$1,192,000 |
- 9% |
$8,911,064 |
| |
Mama |
UNIVERSAL |
$1,163,000 |
- 57% |
$70,219,670 |
| |
Django Unchained |
The Weinstein Company |
$1,036,000 |
- 32% |
$158,847,775 |
| |
Les Miserables |
UNIVERSAL |
$598,290 |
- 31% |
$146,660,155 |
| |
Amour |
Sony Classics |
$816,468 |
+ 16% |
$5,247,524 |
| |
Life of Pi |
Twentieth Century Fox |
$1,550,000 |
+ 1% |
$113,469,800 |
| |
Lincoln |
DreamWorks |
$1,495,000 |
- 9% |
$158,847,775 |
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Box office data supplied by Exhibitor Relations
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