>Box office volume this past week is running even with last year. Updated final weekend box office numbers follow.
The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume
All films in wide release playing between November 7 and November 13 grossed an okay $160 million, even with the same week in 2010 and down 1% from the average comparable week the past four years. Year to date, all films are now down 3.9% from the same period last year (down a tick from -4.0% last week).
All Films November 7-13
(millions) 4yr vs vs
2010 Avg 2011 2010 Avg
Week #45 $160 $161 $160 – 0% – 1%
Year to Date $8782 $8323 $8438
-3.9% +1.4%
Updated Estimates of Final Grosses
The ShowbuzzDaily Domestic Grosses (the estimated North American gross when the film ends its run) are summarized below for films released the last six weeks. Pay attention to the final domestic grosses, which are much more important than individual weekend grosses and especially weekend rankings.
Puss in Boots $177 million (92 percentile)
Paranormal Activity 3 $106 million (80 percentile)
Immortals $91 million (75 percentile)
Real Steel $87 million (73 percentile)
Tower Heist $76 million (70 percentile)
Jack and Jill $75 million (69 percentile)
Footloose $56 million (59 percentile)
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas $39 million (46 percentile)
The Ides of March $41 million (48 percentile)
J. Edgar $33 million (39 percentile)
The Three Musketeers $18 million (18 percentile) The Thing $15 million (13 percentile)
Johnny English Reborn $8 million (4 percentile)
Weekend Actuals vs Sunday’s Studio Projections
The weekend Studio Projection (Friday and Saturday actual numbers with estimates for Sunday’s box office) for Immortals nailed the actual weekend number out today, while major studio Sony over-estimated Jack and Jill by one million dollars.
Weekend of Sunday Monday Showbuzz
November 11-13 Studio Weekend Domestic
(millions) Estimate Actual Total
Immortals (Rel) $32.0 $32.2 $ 91
Jack and Jill (Sony) $26.0 $25.0 $ 75
Puss in Boots (DW/Par) $25.5 $24.7 $177+
Tower Heist (Uni) $13.2 $12.8 $ 76
J. Edgar (WB) $11.5 $11.2 $ 33
A Very Harold & Kumar (WB) $ 5.9 $ 5.9 $ 39
In Time (Fox) $ 4.2 $ 4.1 $ 40
Paranormal Activity 3 (Par) $ 3.6 $ 3.6 $106-
Footloose (Par) $ 2.7 $ 2.7 $ 58
Real Steel (Dis) $ 2.0 $ 1.9 $ 87
The International Box Office Numbers are available here.
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