Sales and viewership for the week of December 9 to December 16, 2011.
The Box Office is still enjoying the final era of Twilight, even though the film is finally knocked off its high horse by new films. The other movies are the usual contenders who are just slipping and slipping as expected as time goes on. The Box Office needs some new life with horror and scifi films.
3 1 Twilight/Breaking Dawn Part 1 $10,546,000 (Total: $262,130,000)
27 32 Paranormal Activity 3 $205,000 (Total: $103,691,000)
29 27 Real Steel $177,000 (Total: $83,656,000)
44 41 Contagion $64,000 (Total: $75,658,000)
The DVD Top 30 Chart is still enjoying the last era of Harry Potter. Pirates/Tides and Twilight/Eclipse literally flip-flop places. Super 8 is hanging in there and X-Men: First Class disappears off the chart.
2 2 Harry Potter/Hallows Part 2 $6,309,000 (Total: $75,586,000)
9 22 Pirates/Tides $2,500,000 (Total: $13,497,000)
12 10 Super 8 $2,039,000 (Total: $9,056,000)
15 9 Transformers/Moon $1,246,000 (Total: $42,521,000)
24 23 Harry Potter/Hallows Part 1 $850,000 (Total: $83,701,000)
30 7 Twilight/Eclipse $586,000 (Total: $162,477,000)
Once Upon A Time and Terra Nova slipping in viewership. Grimm pulled in better numbers this week than last week by more than a million viewers. Bag of Bones premiered to good numbers and slipped slightly during the two-part premiere. The scifi movie Snowmageddon pulled in average numbers for the SyFy network.
Once Upon A Time – 8,910,000
Terra Nova – 6,990,000
Grimm – 5,430,000
Bag of Bones (1) – 3,370,000
Bag of Bones (2) – 2,990,000
American Horror Story – 2,590,000
Snowmageddon – 2,200,000
Dexter – 1,920,000
Fringe – 1,580,000