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Horror Sales: Lords of Salem, Holla II, and Defiance

salemsalesBox Office Numbers, DVD Sales, and Television Viewership for the week of April 19 to 25, 2013.

Box Office: Lords of Salem debuts and is labeled as a flop, although it made back half its budget in the first week of release. Also, the horror-comedy sequel Holla II debuts with a limited release.

4 2 Scary Movie 5 $7,389,000 (Total: $24,036,000)
8 5 Evil Dead $5,522,000 (Total: $49,867,000)
10 8 Oz The Great and Powerful $3,726,000 (Total: $224,448,000)
14 11 The Host $1,308,000 (Total: $25,487,00)
15 12 The Call $1,181,000 (Total: $50,403,000)
16 Lords of Salem $855,000
25 18 Jack The Giant Slayer $261,000 (Total: $63,313,000)
31 23 Warm Bodies $198,000 (Total: $66,166,000)
40 56 Dark Skies $91,000 (Total: $17,317,000)
42 33 Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters $83,000 (Total: $55,704,000)
53 Holla II $41,000
67 65 Stoker $15,000 (Total: $1,696,000)

DVD Top 30: Twilight is still the top horror/scifi flick. Let’s get this last reign over with and we’ll never have to deal with it again.

1 1 Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 $20,232,000 (Total: $51,873,000)
10 9 Hotel Transylvania $1,038,000 (Total: $40,984,000)
12 7 Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 $812,000 (Total: $102,235,000)
15 8 Sinister $723,000 (Total: $5,750,000)
18 10 Monster High Double Feature $588,000 (Total: $7,086,000)

Television Viewership: Defiance continues to be a massive hit for the SyFy network, and its really needed it lately. Same with the CW and Arrow. Ugh, is The Walking Dead back yet?

Castle – 11,130,000
Once Upon A Time – 7,272,000
Arrow – 3,502,000
Bates Motel – 2,928,000
Supernatural – 2,422,000
Defiance – 2,402,000
Hannibal – 2,401,000
The Vampire Diaries – 2,150,000
Beauty and The Beast – 1,291,000
Haunted Collector – 1,119,000
Lost Girl – 1,026,000
Deep South Paranormal – 849,000
Robot Combat League – 490,000

Michael DeFellipo

(Senior Editor)

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