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Monday Box Office Report – The Hunger Games is still on top, avoids the Wrath of the Titans

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The weekend saw a number of big films debut, all attempting to unseat current kings and queens of the box office. But as usual, only one could claim the top spot, bringing in more cash for its hungry studios, so lets have a look at who grabbed the top spot this week.

The Hunger Games continued to control the rankings, earning another $61.1 million over the weekend, preventing Sam Worthington and his mullet from seizing the top spot, in Wrath of the Titans, which debuted with a $34.2 million haul.

Mirror Mirror also lagged behind in it’s sickeningly sweet debut, reaching the third spot with a $19 million opening, unseating 21 Jump Street which slipped to a $15 million fourth place, while The Lorax finally lost some ground to the fifth position, with another $8 million earning over the weekend.

John Carter tenaciously hangs in at the sixth position, bringing in another $2 million, While Ewan MacGregor fished in a seventh place finish for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, which made a $1.2 million splash, ahead of Act of Valour which still clung in at eighth place for a $1 million extraction.

Eddie Murphy’s A Thousand Words dropped yet again, earning an underwhelming $915 000 in total, while not even a Wrestlemania weekend could save the Rock and Journey 2, from a last place finish of $835 ooo in the tenth spot.

Last Updated: April 2, 2012

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  1. Kervyn Cloete

    April 2, 2012 at 12:10

    That brings John Carter over the $250 million mark, which was their production budget. You can probably throw in another $100 million for marketing, which means that unless not a single person ever watches it again, or buys/rents the blu ray/dvd ever, then I think it’s safe to say that Disney’s maths were kinda out when they declared it a $200 million loss.

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    • Darryn Bonthuys

      April 2, 2012 at 13:35

      At the same time, the general consensus in Hollywood is that if a film fails to recoup double its budget, then it failed. Sad fact of crazy Hollywood life.

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    • Theunis Jansen Van Rensburg

      April 3, 2012 at 15:54

      Isn’t that only the domestic total, though? What about the worldwide gross?

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      • Kervyn Cloete

        April 3, 2012 at 21:44

        Nope, that’s the combined gross. It only did $66 million domestically, which is where all the negativity is coming from, but it did $188 million internationally.

        Also, it is currently the no1 most pre-ordered item on Amazon by a huge amount, which means that it’s probably gonna make a fair amount on DVDBluRay sales.

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        • Theunis Jansen Van Rensburg

          April 4, 2012 at 13:35

          Do you think there was a problem with the marketing? It seems to be getting great reviews almost everywhere!

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          • Kervyn Cloete

            April 4, 2012 at 14:01

            “problem with the marketing” is an understatement. Disney botched it up in every regard, to the point where most people had no idea what the film was actually about.

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