Box office numbers, dvd sales, and television viewership for the week of March 1 – 7, 2013.
Box officer: Three horror-sci films debuted this week. The $200mil budget feature Jack The Giant Slayer becomes the first huge box office bomb of 2013. The Last Exorcism II comes in with bad numbers compared to the first film, but still managed to make back its budget in week one. Then we have Stoker, which I haven’t seen any tv spots for, but remember seeing the preview when I went to see MaMa. I think it’s worth checking out.
1 Jack The Giant Slayer $33,791,000
5 The Last Exorcism II $8,962,000
10 6 Dark Skies $4,413,000 (Total: $14,310,000)
11 8 Warm Bodies $3,199,000 (Total: $62,559,000)
19 9 Beautiful Creatures $1,233,000 (Total: $18,839,000)
20 14 Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters $785,000 (Total: $54,332,000)
24 18 MaMa $431,000 (Total: $70,964,000)
33 Stoker $214,000
35 30 Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2 $139,000 (Total: $292,324,000)
56 61 Hitchcock $19,000 (Total: $5,993,000)
63 58 John Dies At The End $10,000 (Total: $106,000)
Dvd sales: The chart that I use is being updated more frequently, but we’re still behind. This is the horror-scifi sales for the week ending January 20.
2 The Possession $2,760,000
3 2 FrankenWeenie $2,724,000 (Total: $8,789,000)
5 1 Dredd $1,911,000 (Total: $6,707,000)
9 4 House At The End of The Street $1,403,000 (Total: $4,874,000)
14 15 ParaNorman $778,000 (Total: $16,764,000)
19 14 Resident Evil: Retribution $643,000 (Total: $10,499,000)
20 23 Men In Black 3 $620,000 (Total: $27,059,000)
24 19 Total Recall $485,000 (Total: $9,765,000)
Television Viewership: Walking Dead still killing it in ratings. Everyone is still saying pass on the SyFy shows, which saddens me. Grimm returns next week after a three month hiatus and I’m excited to see how its numbers fair.
The Walking Dead – 11,926,000
Once Upon A Time – 7,221,000
Castle – 6,761,000
The Talking Dead – 3,746,000
Pretty Little Liars – 2,559,000
Arrow (rerun) – 1,758,000
Face Off – 1,609,000
Finding Bigfoot – 1,218,000
Supernatural (rerun) – 1,114,000)
The Vampire Diaries (rerun) – 1,052,000
Continuum – 1,010,000
Being Human – 973,000
Beauty and The Beast (rerun) – 757,000
Lost Girl – 742,000
Haunted Collector – 826,000
Robot Combat League – 825,000
Stranded – 668,000
