Weekend Wrap-Up
Box Office Strong Over Post-Easter Weekend
By John Hamann
April 7, 2013
Sixth goes to Tyler Perry’s Temptation, which opened to $21.6 million last weekend. Tyler Perry’s films usually open strongly and then fall in the 50-60% range over the sophomore frame. Temptation did just that, earning $10 million and dropping 54%. It has a gross so far of $38.4 million for Lionsgate. Some things change at the box office; results for Tyler Perry films seemingly do not.
The $215 million Oz The Great and Powerful had another strong frame, despite being in its fifth weekend of release. This weekend, the other Sam Raimi title in play took in another $8.2 million, and fell 30%. After three drops in the 45-47% range, Oz improves this weekend. It crossed the $200 million mark on Monday, its 25th day, and now sits with $212.8 million, and about $240 million from overseas audiences.
The eighth, ninth and tenth films have grosses so small, they are barely worth mentioning. Eighth goes to The Host, the adaptation of the lesser known Stephenie Meyer novel. It earned $5.2 million, a decline of 52%. Its overall total is $19.7 million, which is pretty bad even against its $40 million budget. There won't be much life left in it moving forward. Ninth goes to The Call, with Halle Berry. It earned $3.5 million, fell 27%, and has a gross so far of $45.5 million against a $13 million budget. Tenth is Admission, which earned $2.1 million. It dropped 37% and has a small gross so far of only $15.4 million. Good thing it only cost $13 million to make.
In other box office news this weekend, Danny Boyle’s Trance opened on four screens. The hypno-thriller with the lovely Rosario Dawson opened to $136,100 from that small venue count, giving it an average of $34,025. Trance is currently 70% fresh at RottenTomatoes, so it may expand soon.
Overall this weekend, the box office is quite strong with six films in double digits. The top 12 earned $127.5 million this weekend, 9% better than the top 12 of a year ago when the top 12 had a combined gross of $116.6 million. Next weekend, Scary Movie 5 is served up by the box office gods, as well as the Jackie Robinson baseball biopic, 42.
1 |
Evil Dead |
SONY |
$26,000,000 |
New |
$26,000,000 |
2 |
The Croods |
DreamWorks |
$21,100,000 |
- 21% |
$125,800,200 |
3 |
G.i. Joe: Retaliation |
PARAMOUNT |
$21,100,000 |
- 48% |
$86,663,000 |
4 |
Jurassic Park 3d |
UNIVERSAL |
$18,247,035 |
New |
$18,247,035 |
5 |
Olympus Has Fallen |
Filmdistrict |
$10,042,000 |
- 29% |
$71,115,501 |
6 |
Tyler Perry's Temptation |
Lionsgate |
$10,000,000 |
- 54% |
$38,383,341 |
7 |
Oz: the Great And Powerful |
WALT DISNEY |
$8,171,000 |
- 30% |
$212,767,000 |
8 |
The Host |
Universal |
$5,239,000 |
- 51% |
$19,664,713 |
9 |
The Call |
SONY |
$3,500,000 |
- 29% |
$45,481,000 |
10 |
Admission |
Focus Features |
$2,054,466 |
- 36% |
$15,373,330 |
11 |
Spring Breakers |
A24 |
$1,200,000 |
- 57% |
$12,644,742 |
12 |
Identity Thief |
UNIVERSAL |
$818,335 |
- 25% |
$131,253,965 |
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Also Opening/Notables |
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The Company You Keep |
Sony Classics |
$146,058 |
New |
$146,058 |
|
Trance |
FOX SEARCHLIGHT |
$136,100 |
New |
$136,100 |
|
Free Angela And All Political Prisoners |
Codeblack |
$68,000 |
New |
$68,000 |
|
Upstream Color |
Erbp Film |
$31,500 |
New |
$31,500 |
|
No Place On Earth |
Magnolia |
$15,000 |
New |
$15,000 |
|
The Place Beyond the Pines |
Focus Features |
$695,041 |
+ 149% |
$886,459 |
|
Renoir |
Samuel Goldwyn |
$103,000 |
+ 58% |
$200,048 |
|
Room 237 |
IFC Films |
$50,000 |
+ 68% |
$93,000 |
|
Blancanieves |
Cohen Media Group |
$35,854 |
+ 42% |
$73,603 |
|
The Sapphires |
Weinstein Co. |
$322,000 |
+ 350% |
$473,952 |
|
From Up On Poppy Hill |
Gkids |
$133,669 |
+ 16% |
$475,460 |
|
Ginger & Rosa |
A24 |
$140,000 |
- 14% |
$589,804 |
|
Silver Linings Playbook |
The Weinstein Company |
$607,000 |
- 33% |
$129,728,647 |
Box office data supplied by Exhibitor Relations
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