"Maybe This Time" dominates Wednesday

A Scene in Maybe This Time

Sarah Geronimo and Coco Martin proved that local industry can fight with Hollywood movies but it didn't reached higher milestone.

Maybe This Time opened to ₱ 20 million according to Star Cinema. That's a bit below recent Star Cinema movies: Bride for Rent (₱ 21 million) and Starting Over Again (₱ 25 million) and previous Sarah Geronimo movie (It Takes a Man and A Woman opened to a whopping ₱ 39 million).

But for a new team-up and heavy competitions, that's a very good number. The movie is higher than the first John Lloyd-Sarah movie (₱ 9 million) and Gerald-Sarah movie (₱ 15 million) which makes it the highest opening for a new team-up with Sarah Geronimo.

For the week, Maybe This Time could gross around ₱ 65-75 million although higher than that is still possible

Source: Star Cinema

Box Office: Past and Present "X-Mens" rules the country

X-Men: Days of Future Past (Source: IMDB)

This week, X-Men: Days of Future Past dominated the box office. Meanwhile, grosses for other movies are not yet available.

The sequel to the 2011 prequel earned an estimated ₱ 170 million ($3.9 million according to estimates). That's the highest opening gross from a X-Men movie. It is way up from the recent X-Men movies: Wolverine, First Class, The Wolverine (₱ 45.9 million, ₱ 71.09 million, ₱ 93.6 million  respectively).

Thanks to the increase of moviegoers and the addition of 3D, it's now a foregone conclusion that this will be the highest grossing X-Men movie and the next X-Men movie (X-Men: Apocalypse is currently scheduled for a 2017 release date) will be bigger than ever. But for Days of Future Past, ₱ 400 million is likely reachable.

 
May 21-25, 2014 Box Office
Source: Box Office Mojo, IMDB

Box Office: King "Godzilla" dominates

Godzilla

Godzilla finally reached our country and it has done strong numbers. Meanwhile, The Amazing Spiderman 2 slides and Oculus debuts decent.

Godzilla opened to a strong ₱ 90.32 million. That's above with last year's summer original movies - World War Z (₱ 88.9 million) and Pacific Rim (₱ 83.02 million). While it will be hit hard by X-Men next week, it could still make past ₱ 175 million.

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Spiderman 2 slides into second place with ₱ 32.5 million. In three weeks, the Spiderman sequel has already banked ₱ 429 million.

Opening in third place, Oculus grossed a decent ₱ 6.62 million which is nearly identical to the recent 2014's Devil's Due and Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones though it opened in slightly less theaters.With X-Men taking more screens next week, it will likely fade out.

Comedy movie, The Other Woman came in fourth place with ₱ 6.46 million. In fifth place, So It's You took a regular local movie drop. It was down 65 percent to ₱ 6.37 million and ₱ 30 million is still likely. 

Other Grosses:
Amy (2014) - ₱ 1.23 million; New Total - ₱ 1.23 million
Las Vegas - ₱ 0.75 million; New Total - ₱ 2.3 million
Brick Mansions - ₱ 0.67 million; New Total - ₱6.5 million
Da Possessed - ₱ 0.17 million; New Total - ₱122.69 million

May 14-18, 2014 Box Office
Source: IMDB, Box Office Mojo, Click The City

 

Box Office: "Spiderman" hangs into top

The Amazing Spiderman 2

Thanks to softer competitions, The Amazing Spiderman 2 continued to dominate the box office while So It's You and The Other Woman did decent business.

The Amazing Spiderman 2 fell 63 percent to ₱ 91.22 million. That's far from the first one's 30 percent drop but, it has already passed it as the second highest grossing Spiderman movie (Spiderman 3 is still the highest grossing Spiderman). With Godzilla coming next week, it is unlikely that can reach more than  ₱ 500 million.

So It's You

In second place, So It's You opened to ₱ 18.48 million. That's in line with Regal Films' recent movies. The problem is - can it hold in the next weeks? Regal Films announced that the movie grossed  ₱ 6 million on its first day (Wednesday) which means that it didn't hold in the next 4 days. So, above or below ₱ 30 million is likely.

Other Grosses:
The Other Woman -  ₱ 12.09 million; New Total - ₱ 12.09 million
Brick Mansions - ₱ 5.8 million; New Total - ₱ 5.8 million 
Da Possessed - ₱ 4.7 million; New Total - ₱ 122.07 million
Transcendence -  ₱ 0.49 million; New Total - ₱ 24.46 million
 Rio 2 -  ₱ 0.33 million; New Total - ₱ 112 million 

May 7-11, 2014 Box Office
Source: Box Office Mojo, Facebook

Box Office: All falls as "Spidey" leaps into top

The Amazing Spiderman 2

After quiet weeks in the box office, it has finally rise again with The Amazing Spiderman 2 opening into one of the highest openings in the country ever.

Spiderman 2 opened to a strong ₱251 million in its first week. That almost doubled the opening of the first movie (₱138 million). If it follows the same pattern of what the first one did, it could reach ₱600 million.

But, it is unlikely to happen. This could play like last year's Man of Steel which opened to a whooping ₱245 million but fell after that and ended its run with ₱388 million. It was maybe caused by not so good word of mouth and some strong competition.

The movie's reviews worldwide and domestically have been "so-so" and competition this year is tougher (Godzilla, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Maybe this Time, Maleficient opens week after week). But overall, it will still play very well for its distributor.

In second place, Da Possessed earned ₱17.99 million. In three weeks, the horror-comedy movie has now grossed ₱117 million which is Navarro's highest grossing solo movie.

Transcendence crashed on third place. The Johnny Depp Sci-Fi groosed ₱2.71 million which was off 70 percent from last week. It has now grossed ₱23 million.

In fourth place, Diary ng Panget managed to hold with ₱ 2.66 million which was just off  10 percent from last week. In five weeks, it has already earned ₱119 million.

Taking up its 3D screens and young moviegoers, Rio 2 fell 94 percent to a ₱0.66 million gross. Captain America: The Winter Soldier also fell 74 percent to ₱1.26 million. 

Other Grosses:
Heaven is for Real - ₱0.63 million; New Total -  ₱23.7 million
The Grand Budapest Hotel - ₱ 0.35 million; New Total - ₱2.98 million
300: Rise of an Empire - ₱0.1 million; New Total - ₱ 148 million

April 30 - May 4, 2014 Box Office 
Source: Box Office Mojo 

Box Office: "Rio" leads with no "Da Possessed" official gross reports

With no official reports for Da Possessed (Star Cinema announced the movie has grossed 100 million in two weeks), Animated sequel Rio 2 takes the first place.

In its third week, Rio 2 grossed ₱12.16 million. Overall, the movie has now grossed ₱110.6 million. It should atleast gross ₱ 120 million before it ends its run.

In second place, Heaven is for Real earned a strong ₱11.31 million. That's up a whooping 100 percent from last week. In third place, Transcendence earned ₱ 9.2 million which was up 16 percent from last week. 

Movies that opened (even not) on Easter Weekend usually sees an increase from their opening and the two movies above are no exception to that. 

In two weeks, the faith-based movie has now grossed  ₱20.2 million which is strong while the Johnny Depp's movie has now grossed ₱19.01 million and will be one of the lowest grossing Depp movies in the country (it is also performing poorly in its domestic market).

Captain America: The Winter Soldier continues its strong run. The movie has grossed 
₱4.99 million on its fifth weekend. Overall, it has already earned ₱312 million and will probably not reach 320 million with Spiderman taking over its screens.

Diary ng Panget grossed ₱ 2.98 million this weekend and has grossed ₱116 million in four weeks.

Other Grosses:

The Grand Budapest Hotel - ₱ 1.55 million; New Total - ₱ 2.64 million
Son of God - ₱1.29 million; New Total - ₱ 21.97 million
Hunter X Hunter: The Last Mission - ₱ 0.92 million; New Total - ₱ 3.13 million
The Love Punch - ₱ 0.62 million; New Total - ₱ 2.5 million
Divergent - ₱ 0.39 million; New Total - ₱ 73.2 million
300: Rise of an Empire - ₱ 0.19 million; New Total - ₱ 148.4 million
   


April 23-27, 2014 Box Office
Source: Box Office Mojo