“New Moon” still Hold the Crown but the Real Champion is “The Blind Side”
>> Dec 1, 2009
This Thanksgiving weekend, another drama set in the box office history. Summit Entertainment's vampires-and-werewolves phenomenon "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" still in the top of box-office ranking with $42,8 million over the Friday-to-Sunday portion of the weekend. The sequel film saw a very big decline compared to its explosive $143 million opening. But this is not the most shocking thing to happen and just an ordinary story. The drop is remarkably similar to that of the original “Twilight”, but “New Moon” has crossed the $200 million mark on Friday, and earned a total of $230,9 so far, which already more than “Twilight” earned in its entire run last year ($192.8 million). The score making it the third fastest film to reach the $200 million mark, only behind “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” and “The Dark Knight”, that both did it in five days. Teenage girls who are fans of the movies and books from around the world also made "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" now grossed over $473 million worldwide.
The remarkable story of the weekend is exactly come from Sandra Bullock starring drama “The Blind Side”. After last week's surprising $34 million opening, the football drama continues to prove itself as a legitimate box office smash. A historic follow up-weekend – which is much more of a surprise than the size of New Moon's opening weekend gross, “The Blind Side” rode the Thanksgiving Bump to a three-day gross of $40.1 million, which is an increase of 18% compared to last weekend. The film also actually beat the vampire craze during Thanksgiving holiday, when it grossed $9.5 million versus New Moon's $9.2 million. The per-screen average of "Blind Side" that was $12,779 is also $2,000 more than "New Moon.” It’s now lock to be Bullock's second $100 million hit this year (after not having one since 2000's “Miss Congeniality”). Has an awesome current total of $100.2 million, the true story sport drama, which cost $29 million to make, joins huge films like “Monsters vs. Aliens” (opened to $59 million), “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl” (opened to $70 million over five days), and “The Matrix Revolutions” ($83.8 million over five days) as films that crossed the $100 million mark on their tenth day. With “The Proposal's” $163 million, this should give Bullock the two biggest hits of her career.
In third spot, the Roland Emmerich disaster flick “2012” earned $17.6 million in its third weekend of release. After plunging big last week, the film hold audiences better this week and so far it has earned $138.4 million domestically and also earned $350 million overseas,
Out of the new releases, John Travolta's "Old Dogs" comedy brought in $24 million over the five days ($16.8 million during the weekend), taking fourth place. "Ninja Assassin" stayed in the shadows and opened to $21 million for the five days ($13.3 million during the weekend) to place sixth. “The Road," playing in limited 111 theaters, took in $1,9 million for the five days ($1.5 million during the weekend) for a decent per-screen average of $19,148. In the meantime, Disney's "Princess and the Frog" grossed $1.2 million for the five days ($786,190 for the weekend) by opening in just two theaters. Finally, Zac Efron's "Me and Orson Welles" opened to $86,564 from four theaters during the five day weekend ($64,780 during the weekend).
This Thanksgiving weekend has brought in record revenues and was 15% higher than the same weekend last year, when "Twilight" and "Quantum of Solace" were competing.
Top 10 Movies for weekend of November 27-29, 2009:
Rank – Film Title – Weekend Gross – Running Total
1 – The Twilight Saga: New Moon – $42,870,031 – $230,947,696
2 – The Blind Side – $40,111,364 – $100,238,841
3 – 2012 – $17,651,729 – $138,451,427
4 – Old Dogs – $16,894,511 – $24,228,546
5 – A Christmas Carol – $15,758,273 – $104,927,816
6 – Ninja Assassin – $13,316,158 – $21,193,565
7 – Planet 51 – $10,218,641 – $28,487,409
8 – Precious – $7,081,032 – $32,433,482
9 – Fantastic Mr. Fox – $6,965,267 – $10,024,072
10 – The Road – $1,502,231 – $1,977,453
Sources: Yahoo Movie News, Box Office Prophets
The remarkable story of the weekend is exactly come from Sandra Bullock starring drama “The Blind Side”. After last week's surprising $34 million opening, the football drama continues to prove itself as a legitimate box office smash. A historic follow up-weekend – which is much more of a surprise than the size of New Moon's opening weekend gross, “The Blind Side” rode the Thanksgiving Bump to a three-day gross of $40.1 million, which is an increase of 18% compared to last weekend. The film also actually beat the vampire craze during Thanksgiving holiday, when it grossed $9.5 million versus New Moon's $9.2 million. The per-screen average of "Blind Side" that was $12,779 is also $2,000 more than "New Moon.” It’s now lock to be Bullock's second $100 million hit this year (after not having one since 2000's “Miss Congeniality”). Has an awesome current total of $100.2 million, the true story sport drama, which cost $29 million to make, joins huge films like “Monsters vs. Aliens” (opened to $59 million), “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl” (opened to $70 million over five days), and “The Matrix Revolutions” ($83.8 million over five days) as films that crossed the $100 million mark on their tenth day. With “The Proposal's” $163 million, this should give Bullock the two biggest hits of her career.
In third spot, the Roland Emmerich disaster flick “2012” earned $17.6 million in its third weekend of release. After plunging big last week, the film hold audiences better this week and so far it has earned $138.4 million domestically and also earned $350 million overseas,
Out of the new releases, John Travolta's "Old Dogs" comedy brought in $24 million over the five days ($16.8 million during the weekend), taking fourth place. "Ninja Assassin" stayed in the shadows and opened to $21 million for the five days ($13.3 million during the weekend) to place sixth. “The Road," playing in limited 111 theaters, took in $1,9 million for the five days ($1.5 million during the weekend) for a decent per-screen average of $19,148. In the meantime, Disney's "Princess and the Frog" grossed $1.2 million for the five days ($786,190 for the weekend) by opening in just two theaters. Finally, Zac Efron's "Me and Orson Welles" opened to $86,564 from four theaters during the five day weekend ($64,780 during the weekend).
This Thanksgiving weekend has brought in record revenues and was 15% higher than the same weekend last year, when "Twilight" and "Quantum of Solace" were competing.
Top 10 Movies for weekend of November 27-29, 2009:
Rank – Film Title – Weekend Gross – Running Total
1 – The Twilight Saga: New Moon – $42,870,031 – $230,947,696
2 – The Blind Side – $40,111,364 – $100,238,841
3 – 2012 – $17,651,729 – $138,451,427
4 – Old Dogs – $16,894,511 – $24,228,546
5 – A Christmas Carol – $15,758,273 – $104,927,816
6 – Ninja Assassin – $13,316,158 – $21,193,565
7 – Planet 51 – $10,218,641 – $28,487,409
8 – Precious – $7,081,032 – $32,433,482
9 – Fantastic Mr. Fox – $6,965,267 – $10,024,072
10 – The Road – $1,502,231 – $1,977,453
Sources: Yahoo Movie News, Box Office Prophets
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