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Horror Sales: Twilight, Super 8, and Grimm

Twilight is the #1 fantasy-scifi film in the country for the third week in a row. Again, this has pretty much irradiated every horror film out of The Box Office except for Paranormal Activity 3. Scifi films Real Steel and suspense-thriller Contagion are both still hanging on.

1 1 Twilight/Breaking Dawn $21,192,000 (Total: $251,583,000)

27 20 Real Steel $237,000 (Total: $83,479,000)

32 23 Paranormal Activity 3 $174,000 (Total: $103,486,000)

40 35 Contagion $98,000 (Total: $75,593,000)

 A lot is going on at the DVD Top 30 chart. All the Twilight movies moved up the chart. Harry Potter/Hallows Part 1 fell almost completely off the chart, as did Pirates/Tides which just debuted last week. Speaking of debuts, Super 8 comes in at #7.

2 1 Harry Potter/Hallows 2 $10,017,000 (Total: $69,276,000)

3 10 Twilight/New Moon $8,258,000 (Total: $183,921,000)

4 6 Twilight/Eclipse $8,034,000 (Total: $161,891,000)

5 24 Transformers/Moon $7,434,000 (Total: $41,275,000)

7 Super 8 $7,017,000

10 19 Twilight $4,097,000 (Total: $200,571,000)

20 2 Pirates/Tides $2,826,000 (Total: $10,996,000)

21 24 Green Lantern $2,518,000 (Total: $15,296,000)

23 25 X-Men: First Class $1,845,000 (Total: $21,704,000)

30 5 Harry Potter/Hallows 1 $859,000 (Total: $82,851,000)

 The majority of horror and scifi television shows are still on winter hiatus. Although, Grimm returned to the airwaves with its lowest numbers of the season; probably due to no marketing. I mean, it’s my favorite show of this season and I didn’t even know it returned. Once Upon A Time is also slipping in viewership, but the new SyFy Channel miniseries, Neverland, debuted to great numbers for that network.

Once Upon A Time – 9,660,000

Grimm – 4,090,000

Neverland – 2,600,000

American Horror Story – 2,540,000

Supernatural – 1,890,000

Dexter – 1,870,000

Ghost Hunters – 1,593,000

Michael DeFellipo

(Senior Editor)

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