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Horror Sales: Top Films & DVD Releases of 2012

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Box Office Numbers, DVD Sales, and Television Viewership for the week of December 21 to December 27, 2012.

Box Office Numbers: A few films were removed from theaters this week and the rest are continuing the normal downward trend. Hopefully a new release or two can breathe this chart back to life.

15 6 Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 $4,674,000 (Total: $283,679,000)
21 14 Hitchcock $991,000 (Total: $4,606,000)
30 51 Frankenweenie $156,000 (Total: $34,572,000)
35 18 The Collection $98,000 (Total: $6,828,000)
39 29 Sinister $56,935 (Total: $48,016,000)
49 36 Paranormal Activity 4 $14,000 (Total: $53,851,000)
50 50 ParaNorman $12,000 (Total: $55,985,000)
51 96 Citadel $200 (Total: $13,000)

*Box Office Numbers: These are the top earning horror and scifi films of 2012. Scifi reigned supreme on the first half, horror on the second. Anyway, this is where they all placed on the Top 100.

1 The Avengers $623,357,000
5 Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 $283,023,000
12 Men In Black 3 $179,020,000
15 Snow White & The Huntsman $155,136,000
16 Hotel Transylvania $143,923,000
19 Prometheus $126,447,000
34 Dark Shadows $79,727,000
42 Chronicle $64,575,000
45 Underworld: Awakening $62,321,000
51 ParaNorman $55,982,000
54 The Woman In Black $54,333,000
55 Paranormal Activity 4 $53,851,000
56 The Devil Inside $53,261,000
61 The Possession $49,130,000
63 Sinister $48,016,000
72 Resident Evil: Retribution $42,345,000
73 The Cabin In The Woods $42,073,000
79 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter $37,519,000
86 Frankenweenie $34,572,000
88 House At The End of The Street $31,611,000

cabininthewoodsDVD Top 30: Chart is back to being unupdated every week. Oh, well. May have to move onto another source very shortly.

*DVD Sales: These are the top earning horror and scifi DVD releases of 2012. This is where they all placed in the Top 100.

2 Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 $97,200,000
3 The Avengers $65,814,000
14 Real Steel $24,823,000
18 Snow White & The Huntsman $24,180,000
45 True Blood Season Four $29,232,000
46 Dark Shadows $13,104,000

Television Viewership: Due to the holidays, a lot of the shows I list are still on hiatus or showing repeats. I hope that things will return back to normal right after New Years week.

Fringe – 3,020,000
Arrow (rerun) – 1,890,000
The Vampire Diaries (rerun) – 1,500,000
Supernatural (rerun) – 1,270,000
Beauty and The Beast (rerun) – 940,000
Finding Bigfoot – 914,000

Michael DeFellipo

(Senior Editor)

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