Box Office: "Maleficient" beats "Maybe This Time"

Maleficient

UPDATED:

Box Office continues to surprise us as Maleficient opened to huge numbers. Meanwhile. Maybe This Time also did fine but not extraordinary.

Maleficient opened to a ₱ 179.8 million. That's higher than Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (₱156-M), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (₱155-M) and Alice in Wonderland (₱140-M) making it the highest non-Marvel opening for Disney.

It's a very surprising opening for Maleficient. This is likely due to the lack of family-friendly movies (Spiderman 2 crashed on its second week and Rio 2 closed weeks ago). Even if How To Train Your Dragon surprises too, ₱ 280 million is now locked for Maleficient. 

Want to see Maleficient's gross per location? See here 

Maybe This Time

Maybe This Time opened to ₱ 72.96 million. That's the highest opening week for a movie starring Sarah Geronimo (not including It Takes A Man and A Woman). Recently, movies both domestic and foreign fell on their second week (by 60%) and Maybe This Time is likely to follow that pattern. Still, it is likely to finish between
₱ 140-150 million.

X-Men: Days of Future Past fell 65 percent this week to ₱ 60.27 million. With ₱ 273 million in 2 weeks, it is now the highest grossing X-Men movie in the country. 

While X-Men is losing power, Godzilla crashed harder. The monster movie crashed 81 percent to ₱ 5.59 million. In three weeks, it has now grossed ₱ 154 million.

The Quiet Ones opened to ₱ 1.98 million and appears to fade quickly from the theaters. Thanks to the overcrowded market today.

Other Grosses:

The Amazing Spiderman 2 - ₱ 0.59 million; New Total: ₱ 446.20 million 

May 28-June 1, 2014 Box Office
Source: IMDB, Box Office Mojo, Star Cinema