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

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 

Saturday Update: "Da Possessed" dominates, but not too big

Cast of Da Possessed Source: Star Cinema

While it didn't reached my expectations, Da Possessed opened up on top on Black Saturday.

According to Star Cinema, Da Possessed  opened to a strong ₱ 17 million. That's almost half of the opening of last year's It Takes a Man and A Woman (₱ 32 million) and in line with 2011's Pak! Pak! My Dr. Kwak! (₱15 million) which both opened on the same day (Black Saturday).

That may be a very good opening but with The Amazing Spiderman 2 coming next week, it should have opened higher because it may lose a big number of cinemas starting on Wednesday. For example: Pak! Pak! My Dr. Kwak! held on its second week but crashed on the third weekend (time when Fast Five opened).

For now, ₱27 million is locked for Da Possessed for its first 2 days though it can reach up to ₱33 million or more if it can hold today (Sunday).