Box Office Numbers, DVD Sales, and Television Viewership for the week of August 16 to August 22, 2013.
Box Office: Nothing new here… With the Fall season coming, there are a hand full of new horror/scifi titles coming to make this chart interesting again.
6 4 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters $12,617,000 (Total: $43,146,000)
12 8 The Conjuring $5,657,000 (Total: $129,610,000)
14 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones $4,751,000
25 20 Monsters University $746,000 (Total: $261,420,000)
26 21 World War Z $673,000 (Total: $198,540,000)
92 N/A Evil Intent $1,710 (Total: $4,250)
DVD Top 30: My good source has finally updated, although it’s way behind. Here are the top 30 horror/scifi DVDs from exactly two months ago.
1 Oz The Great and Powerful $4,922,000
2 Jack The Giant Slayer $4,787,000
4 2 Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters $2,261,000 (Total: $5,949,000)
8 6 Warm Bodies $899,000 (Total: $4,250,000)
3 The Last Exorcism Part 2 $604,000
14 15 Monsters Inc $555,000 (Total: N/A)
16 25 True Blood: Season Five $540,000 (Total: $8,147,000)
23 21 Dark Skies $268,000 (Total: $3,143,000)
24 20 Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 $249,000 (Total: $67,751,000)
Television Viewership: Several shows – True Blood, Teen Wolf, Joe Rogan – see their season finales. Also, Ghost Shark fails to capture the nation as much as Sharknado.
Under The Dome – 10,340,000
True Blood – 4,137,000
Teen Wolf – 2,081,000
Dexter – 1,943,000
Ghost Shark – 1,383,000
Continuum – 1,160,000
Joe Rogan Questions Everything – 1,108,000
Paranormal Witness – 1,029,000
The Vampire Diaries (rerun) – 927,000
Heroes of Cosplay – 879,000
Supernatural (rerun) – 829,000
I Survived A Serial Killer – 627,000