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Weekend Box Office Numbers Nov. 22-25 – We Are Movie Geeks

Weekend Box Office Numbers Nov. 22-25

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Thanksgiving weekend provided strong box office numbers and THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN: PART II as the leader of the pack. Reports are coming in that over the course of the long weekend, a total of $290 million was made in ticket sales.

The final “Twilight” movie made $64 million between Wednesday and Sunday, bringing the film to an overall total of $227 million domestically. For the three-day total, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN: PART II brought in $43.1 million.

Daniel Craig’s James Bond movie, SKYFALL continued its box office success. The 007 film took the number two spot, making $51 million over the five days (its three-day weekend total was $36 million). Now at a total gross of $221.7 million, SKYFALL became the first James Bond movie to earn more than $200 million. The worldwide cume now stands at $577.8 million. Lionsgate has now surpassed the $1 billion mark internationally and domestically.

Spielberg’s LINCOLN, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the former president, had a strong weekend and took the number three spot. The Oscar hopeful saw five-day earnings of $34.1 million, with the three-day gross totaling $25.1 million. The movie has earned $62.2 million since its opening.

Other films that made a mark at the box office were RISE OF THE GAURDIANS and LIFE OF PI. The animated RISE OF THE GAURDIANS was number four for the weekend, making $24 million for the three-day total. The holiday-themed flick cost $145 million to produce. Ang Lee’s LIFE OF PI had an opening weekend of $22 million over three days. The film adaptation of Yann Martel’s 2001 novel by the same name has received strong critical acclaim.

The top-12 domestic weekend box office estimates listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, November 25, 2012 are below.

  1. Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 – Lionsgate – $43.1M
  2. Skyfall – Sony – $36.0M
  3. Lincoln – Disney – $25.0M
  4. Rise Of The Guardians – Paramount – $24.0M
  5. Life Of Pi – 20th Century Fox – $22.0M
  6. Wreck-It Ralph – Disney – $16.8M
  7. Red Dawn – FilmDistrict – $14.6M
  8. Flight – Paramount – $8.6M
  9. Silver Linings Playbook – The Weinstein Company – $4.6M
  10. Argo – Warner Bros. – $3.9M
  11. Taken 2 – 20th Century Fox – $1.0M
  12. Anna Karenina – Focus Features – $0.8M

Full details regarding the global domestic and international box office results are listed in the table below.

 Weekend BO Estimate  (USD)
Title  Worldwide  Int’l  Domestic  Worldwide  Int’l 
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 140,570,000 97,500,000 43,070,000 577,750,682 350,800,000
Skyfall 77,300,000 41,300,000 36,000,000 790,120,000 568,400,000
Life Of Pi 39,500,000 17,500,000 22,000,000 47,650,000 17,500,000
Rise Of The Guardians 34,025,000 10,000,000 24,025,000 46,107,000 13,500,000
Lincoln 25,020,000 – 25,020,000 62,177,000 –
Wreck-It Ralph 18,860,000 2,100,000 16,760,000 190,712,000 41,200,000
Red Dawn 14,600,000 – 14,600,000 22,004,000 –
Argo 9,875,000 6,000,000 3,875,000 148,114,000 50,000,000
Flight 9,323,000 723,000 8,600,000 78,280,000 3,400,000
Silver Linings Playbook 6,223,000 1,600,000 4,623,000 8,050,643 1,600,000
Hotel Transylvania 5,860,000 5,500,000 360,000 291,384,000 147,900,000
Werewolf Boy, A 4,200,000 4,200,000 – 37,000,000 37,000,000
Don’t Cry, Mommy 3,600,000 3,600,000 – 3,615,000 3,615,000
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo 3,600,000 3,600,000 – 17,600,000 17,600,000
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