2012 Movie Box Office: 40, 80, 1, 2 , 3

2012 Movie Box Office: 40, 80, 1, 2 , 3

It’s always kind of fun to watch the movie box office.  Of course, some movies cost more to make than others…much, much more.  There’s also a complicating factor, since people pay a few dollars more for 3-D movies.  It would be nice to have actual admissions shown, but we don’t get that.

Also, of course, movies do make more the longer they’ve been in release (especially if there is a re-release, but that’s a different story).

I used to figure that it took twenty million dollars to get on the radar, but I’ve updated that.  I now figure the break point is forty million dollars.  I hit the points after that as eighty million, one hundred million, two hundred million, and three hundred million (almost nothing gets past four).

Here are the numbers as of May 22 2013. We stop after none of them have changed for a week, and we have now reached that point:

40 million

• End of Watch 41.0m=
• What to Expect When You’re Expecting 41.1m=
• Cabin in the Woods 42.0m=
• Resident Evil: Retribution 42.3m=
• The Three Stooges 44.3m=
• Red Dawn 44.8m=
• Here Comes the Boom 45.3=
• Moonrise Kingdom 45.5m=
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 46.4m=
• Savages 47.3m=
• Sinister 48.1m=
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days 49.0m=
• The Possession 49.1m=
• Red Tails 49.9m=
• The Grey 51.5m=
• Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 51.8m=
• The Odd Life of Timothy Green 51.9m=
• The Devil Inside 53.2m=
• Paranormal Activity 4 53.9m=
• The Woman in Black 54.3m=
• Project X 54.7m=
• This Means War 54.8m=
• ParaNorman 56.0m=
• American Reunion 56.7m=
• Total Recall 58.9m=
• The Dictator 59.6m=
• The Lucky One 60.4m=
• Underworld: Awakening 62.3m=
• Hope Springs 63.5m=
• Chronicle 64.6m=
• Mirror, Mirror 64.9m=
• Pitch Perfect 65.0m=
• Battleship 65.2m=
• Madea’s Witness Protection 65.6m=
• Looper 66.5m=
• Contraband 66.5m=
• This Is 40 67.5m=
• Act of Valor 70.0m=
• John Carter 73.1m=
• Parental Guidance 77.3m=
• Dark Shadows 79.7m=

80 million

• Jack Reacher 80.0m=
• Wrath of the Titans 83.6m=
• The Expendables 2 85.0m=
• The Campaign 86.9m=
• Think Like a Man 91.5m=
• Flight 93.7m=
• Zero Dark Thirty 95.7m=

100 million

• Rise of the Guardians 103.0m=
• Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 104.0m=
• The Bourne Legacy 113.0m=
• Magic Mike 114.0m=
• Life of Pi 125.0m=
• The Vow 125.0m=
• Prometheus 126.0m=
• Safe House 126.0m=
• Silver Linings Playbook 132.0m=
• Argo 136.0m=
• 21 Jump Street  138.0m=
• Taken 2 140m=
• Hotel Transylvania 148.0m=
• Les Misérables 149.0m=
• Snow White and the Huntsman 155.0m=
• Ice Age: Continental Drift 161.0m=
• Django Unchained 163.0m=
• Men in Black III 179.0m=
• Lincoln 182.0m=
• Wreck-It Ralph 189.0m=

200 million

• Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax 214.0m=
• Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted 216.0m=
• Ted 219.0m=
• Brave 237.0=
• The Amazing Spider-Man 262.0m=
• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 292.0m=

300 million

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 303.0m=
• Skyfall 304.0m=
• The Hunger Games 408.0m=
• The Dark Knight Rises 448.0m=
• The Avengers 623.0m=

Dogros marked with an * were in the top ten when we updated this list.

Dogros marked with an = have not changed from the previous week. That doesn’t mean that they won’t earn any more money, but it suggests that the initial arc is over.

Comparison to 2011: the number 10 movie last year, Thor, dogroed 181m. The total for the top ten last year was 2,487m. As of May 22, the top ten of 2012 have dogroed 3,312m….surpassing last year’s top fourteen. The top movies in 2012 have done much better than the top movies in 2011 (with The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, and The Hunger Games all breaking $400m…no movie did that last year…and with 2012’s top ten at about 133% of last year’s top ten).

This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the The Measured Circle blog.