Hollywood kicked off the New Year on a positive note, with three films vying closely for the weekend box-office title that nevertheless remained with The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies for the third straight week.
Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth
finale took in $21.9 million (Dh80.4 million) for Warner Bros in North
American theatres, according to studio estimates on Sunday, narrowly
edging out the Disney musical Into the Woods ($19.1 million) and Angelina Jolie’s Second World War survival tale Unbroken ($18.4 million) from Universal.
Luke Evans (centre) in The Hobbit: The
Battle of the Five Armies. The movie
made $21.9 million in North American
theatres.
Aamir Khan’s latest movie PK made it to number 10 in the top international releases with $8.9 million in earnings.
The weekend’s lone new wide-release, the Relativity Media horror sequel The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, landed in fourth place with $15.1 million.
The first weekend of 2015 gave Hollywood the
chance to begin turning the page on a rough 2014 in which box-office
revenue slid 5 per cent and attendance dropped to its lowest level in
nearly 20 years. With a closely contested weekend at the multiplexes,
overall business was strong, up 5.5 per cent from the same weekend last
year, according to box-office firm Rentrak.
In its second week of limited release, Sony Pictures’ controversial The Interview,
depicting the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim
Jong-un, earned an estimated $1.1 million theatrically. A representative
for Sony said digital figures likely wouldn’t be announced on Sunday.
In its first
four days of online streaming and sale, the comedy made $15 million,
Sony said last week. Since then, the film has expanded to
video-on-demand via cable operators and on more digital platforms like
Apple’s iTunes.
Several Oscar contenders
began to attract larger numbers of moviegoers, as Hollywood’s awards
season picks up stream. The Golden Globes are Sunday, January 11.
Playing at 754 theatres, The Imitation Game,
the Weinstein Co’s code-breaker thriller about Second World War hero
Alan Turing took in $8.1 million in its sixth week. (By comparison, The Hobbit played at more than 3,800 theaters.) The Reese Witherspoon drama Wild also added $4.5 million for a five-week $25.8 million total for Fox Searchlight.
Opening in limited release at four locations, J.C. Chandor’s New York thriller A Most Violent Year debuted
with a theatre average of $47,000. The acclaimed A24 release, starring
Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain, will soon expand.
Demand, though, was strongest for American Sniper, Clint Eastwood’s drama about Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper). In its second week playing in just four theatres, American Sniper attracted a remarkable $160,000 per-screen-average. The film opens wide on January 16.
Estimated ticket sales
for Friday through Sunday at US and Canadian theaters, according to
Rentrak. Where available, the latest international numbers are also
included. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday.
1. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, $21.9 million ($52.5 million international).
2. Into the Woods, $19.1 million ($1 million international).
3. Unbroken, $18.4 million ($2.3 million international).
4. The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, $15.1 million ($3.5 million international).
5. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, $14.5 million ($26 million international).
6. Annie, $11.4 million ($4.2 million international).
7. The Imitation Game, $8.1 million ($6.5 million international).
8. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, $7.7 million ($5.3 million international).
9. The Gambler, $6.3 million.
10. Big Hero 6, $4.8 million ($20.2 million international).
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Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at international theatres (excluding the US and Canada), according to Rentrak:
1. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, $52.5 million.
2. Exodus: Gods and Kings, $31.5 million.
3. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, $26 million.
3. The Taking of Tiger Mountain, $23.8 million.
4. Penguins of Madagascar, $23 million.
5. Big Hero 6, $20.2 million.
6. Seventh Son, $18.6 million.
7. International Market, $18.3 million.
8. Paddington, $12.5 million.
9. Taken 3, $9.5 million.
10. PK, $8.9 million.
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