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Posted November 4, 2012 by Seth Paul in News
 
 

Box Office Weekend: Wreck-It Ralph Punches Up Box Office

After last weekend’s lull, the box office returned to the sort of numbers typical for the year, thanks in part to a solid debut for Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph. The animated film brought in audiences in a way that the likes of Cloud Atlas (which landed at sixth this week and an estimated $5.3 million) and Silent Hill: Revelation (which came in tenth with an estimated $3.3 million) failed to do a week ago, making an estimated $49.1 million. While a long way from its reported $165 million budget, its strong critical acclaim bodes well for it, as does Disney’s prior success in overseas markets. It staved off Flight, which fell short of Wreck-It Ralph by a wide margin with only an estimated $25 million, but on its own terms did very well, almost making back its $31 million budget in a single weekend.

Argo continues to impress audiences, critics, and Warner Bros. coffers alike, with an estimated $10.2 million, a very minor drop in revenue from last week’s totals. It managed to best another debut, The Man with the Iron Fists, directed by RZA. Like Flight, The Man with the Iron Fists may not appear to be blowing away the competition, but on its own may still be a winner, with an estimated $8.2 million in ticket sales helping to offset its low $15 million budget. Taken 2, on the other hand, needed no help; entering its fifth week of release, its estimated $6 million gives the critically panned sequel $125.7 million in domestic gross alone, putting it within the top twenty earners of 2012.

With Cloud Atlas bombing out big at the box office (making a grand total of $18.3 million so far against a $102 million reported budget) and Silent Hill: Revelation 3D scraping by with its worldwide totals pushing it over the top, it is interesting to see the films in-between them doing much better business. Hotel Transylvania continues its assault on the box office with an estimated $4.5 million, a winner with audiences at home and abroad (if not with critics), as does Paranormal Activity 4, its estimated $4.3 million bringing its domestic total to $49.6 million, making almost tenfold its production costs. Here Comes the Boom is the only one in this group trailing, but at an estimated $3.6 million came a few steps closer to its $42 million costs, meaning it will not likely see profit in its box office run, but should be close to it.

Weekend Box-Office (November 2nd – November 4th)

  1. Wreck-It Ralph…$49.1 million
  2. Flight…$25 million
  3. Argo…$10.2 million
  4. The Man with the Iron Fists…$8.2 million
  5. Taken 2…$6 million
  6. Cloud Atlas…$5.3 million
  7. Hotel Transylvania…$4.5 million
  8. Paranormal Activity 4…$4.3 million
  9. Here Comes the Boom…$3.6 million
  10. Silent Hill: Revelation…$3.3 million
Seth Paul

Seth Paul

When not failing to write novels and screenplays, box-office guru Seth writes humorous comedy tracks for films under the name "The One Man Band" that can be found at Rifftrax.com. Although, he has recently succeeded in writing the novella "Jack Alan and the Case of the Not-Exactly Rocket Scientists," available as an eBook on Amazon. He is also the English voice of Zak in "Zak McKracken: Between Time and Space."