Sporadic Box Office Update

[sssneaking.livejournal.com]

I've not done one of these in a while (not a lot is happening, but Happy Feet is still in 300 theaters after more than 90 days on release and hasn't finished its run yet).



Happy Feet is currently at $193,916,000 domestically, it got $295,000 this weekend (3 day, not 4 day). It's going to be a close run thing if it is going to manage to sneak past Ice Age 2 ($195,330,621) to be number 2 animated film of last year at the Box Office. Maybe it will get enough of an Oscar boost just being shown being nominated to help it do that. My gut reaction is it will fall short (the DVD is out in a month or so). $200 million is virtually impossible.

World wide, Happy Feet is currently on $168,700,000, giving a world wide total of $362,616,000.

The dog fight between Cars, Ice Age 2 and Happy Feet is quite interesting (well, it is to me LOL)

In the US/Canada it's currently:

1. Cars $244,082,982
2. Ice Age 2 $195,330,621
3. Happy Feet $193,916,000

Basically, Cars is that bit ahead but it's fairly close all round.

Whereas at the international Box Office:

1. Ice Age $454,905,583
2. Cars $217,897,000
3. Happy Feet $168,700,000

Sequel power beats Americana (even from the Pixar behemoth) by a huge thumping amount. Americans are clearly more nuts about penguins than the rest of the world (crf. March of the Penguins) though in comparison to Cars, it's a good number. It's doing very strongly indeed in Australia (obviously).

Adding them together for Worldwide totals:

1. Ice Age 2 $650,236,204
2. Cars $461,979,982
3. Happy Feet $362,616,000

Pretty much the same. It's international box office where the really big money is. Happy Feet is still a hit: 8th in 2006 for US/Canada, 10th for world wide.

And since I'm from the UK, here's the UK only:

1. Ice Age 2 $52,332,021
2. Happy Feet $35,777,149
3. Cars $30,858,370

Note, that Happy Feet has probably performed relatively stronger than average internationally in the UK. Presumably the pretty strong promo campaign plus the complete lack of anything else on at Christmas. Or could it be that Happy Feet just does better with all the original cast voices and the star names? Or Anglophones are just suckers for cute penguins.


Bobby has been released internationally (recently in a lot of countries). It finished with $11,205,901 domestic. Foreign totals currently at $5,741,695. Resulting in a worldwide total of: $16,947,596. For the interested, you see the international totals Here.

All figures from http://www.boxofficemojo.com.

Comments

[frolijah-fan-54.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that info - it's really interesting. It will be interesting to see how long they keep Happy Feet in the theaters - I noticed that The Departed is still in theaters even though the DVD has now been released. I was really hoping Happy Feet would hit 200 million here in the US but I have a feeling it's gonna miss by a smidge.

[sssneaking.livejournal.com]

Animated films often stay in theatres for ages. It'll be interesting to see how long it sticks around. E.g. if it's still in the Imaxs, they might persist with it after the DVD.

[yeuxdebleu.livejournal.com]

Very interesting reading. Thanks for sorting it all out and posting the info.

[sssneaking.livejournal.com]

You are welcome. I think I slightly over did the geeky part lol.

[chickenlegs-11.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that. I know that Bobby is due for release in Australia this weekend I think, so hopefully those box office numbers will go up a bit more. We were supposed to get Paris Je T'aime last weekend but it's been shunted off till April now. :(

[sssneaking.livejournal.com]

Yes, Bobby is still "live" internationally (I don't think it's opened in Germany yet either). So the international total is not final. I think it's actually done OK abroad.

That's a shame about Paris Je T'aime. I don't think we've got a date at all in the UK yet.

[primula-baggins.livejournal.com]

One thing about Cars is that it was released early last year, so it had a lot more time to rack up sales than did Happy Feet.

I heard that the producers of Bobby didn't expect it to do all that well outside the US. At least it made a profit, so that's good. It will also make some sales on DVD.

Thanks for the info!

[sssneaking.livejournal.com]

I think Bobby is doing no so very bad outside the US. By the end, it'll be probably be not so very far away from making 40-50% of it's take from the international box office. Which is pretty good for a film about something so fundamentally American.

I think Bobby will do moderately well on DVD (in comparison to its theater take). It's hard to get it's target demographic to go out the theater these days. They are only going to go to see perhaps one film of Bobby's type over the whole of the holiday period and unless the reviews are raves, films can just get destroyed and lost. Too many people just watch DVDs instead (I'm guilty of that).

[moffel83.livejournal.com]

All I can say for Bobby is that it hasn't even been released in Germany. It will only be out on March8th and my cinema(and I live in a rather small town) is already doing a lot of promotion for it. We have big posters of different scenes, they are giving out leaflets that explain the story behind the movie and tell you about the impact Bobby Kennedy had, etc...I am really looking forward to seeing it:)