>The year to date box office tally picked up a tiny bit of ground moving from -3.8% versus last year to -3.7% this week.
(millions) 4yr vs vs
Week #43 $119 $126 $123 + 4% - 2%
Year to Date $8331 $7883 $8017
-3.7% +1.6%Puss in Boots $129 million (85 percentile)
Paranormal Activity 3 $117 million (83 percentile)
Real Steel $87 million (73 percentile)
Moneyball $76 million (69 percentile)
Dolphin Tale $71 million (67 percentile)
Footloose $55 million (58 percentile)
50/50 $36 million (43 percentile)
Courageous $31 million (34 percentile)
Abduction $28 million (31 percentile)
Killer Elite $25 million (27 percentile)
Dream House $20 million (20 percentile)
The Three Musketeers $20 million (20 percentile)
The Thing $15 million (14 percentile)
What’s Your Number? $15 million (13 percentile)
Johnny English Reborn $8 million (4 percentile)
Weekend Actuals vs Sunday’s Studio Projections
The weekend Studio Projections (Friday and Saturday actual numbers with estimates for Sunday’s box office) for just about every film ended up being close to the actual numbers reported today. Puss in Boots and In Time were each about $100,000 higher today than the Studio Estimate. Paranormal Activity 3 had the biggest error, coming in $400,000 lower than the Studio Estimate on Sunday.
Puss in Boots (DW/Par) $34.0 $34.1 $129
Paranormal Activity 3 (Par) $18.5 $18.1 $117
In Time (Fox) $12.0 $12.1 $ 28
Footloose (Par) $ 5.4 $ 5.5 $ 55
The Rum Diary (FilmDis) $ 5.0 $ 5.1 $ 20
Real Steel (Dis) $ 4.7 $ 4.8 $ 87-
The Three Musketeers (Summit) $ 3.5 $ 3.5 $ 20
Ides of March (Sony) $ 2.7 $ 2.8 $ 42
Moneyball (Sony) $ 2.4 $ 2.4 $ 76
The International Box Office Numbers chart will be updated later tonight or Tuesday.
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