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#101

“UP” n º 1 at the box office for the second consecutive weekend
Written by Editorial Noticiasdot.com on August 10 2009 - 20:42 –

“With € 2,816,000, “UP” continues unabated at the top of the box office in its second order week. This represents 35% of the € 8,000,000 raised in the box office over the weekend. …The film has managed to € 11,900,000 since its debut last July 30, € 7,000,000 of which are earned in 35mm and € 4,900,000 of its 3D display, with only 141 copies.”

That was Spain. Here is France:

Top 10 most popular films this weekend: “La-haut” still tops

"(Relaxnews) - According to the box office Relaxnews from 5 to 9 August 2009, the animation studios Walt Disney, Là-Haut, still tops the box office with 610,166 entries. It’s GI Joe: the awakening of the Cobra (Paramount Pictures France), which ranks second in its first week with 375,738 entries. "

These might be some sort of 3-5 day weekend totals, they seem a bit depressed. Foreign box for Up is closing in around $90-100M when this past week is added.

#102

Haha, those French, they love their Up, and rightly so. Nice to see it doing well overseas still, and thanks again for the Up-date!

#103

C’est génial! Félicitations, Là-Haut! :smiley:

I’m waiting for the box-office results of last weekend from Singapore, since I believe it’s just premiered last week! :slight_smile:

#104

As Up has finally left the Americas and gone overseas, here is something I dug up from ScreenDaily.com:

[i] * Disney releases grossed more than $30m in total over the session, driven by Up with $16.9m from 2,442 in 21 for $108.8m…

* Pixar’s Up dominated France for the second consecutive weekend as $5.3m from 716 sites elevated the total to $17.1m following last weekend’s excellent launch. The animated release also stayed top in Spain for the second weekend in a row, adding $3.8m from 547 for $16.3m, which is already 7% greater than the entire run of Wall-E.

In a record start in China’s rapidly accelerating market, Up took $3.3m (RMB 22.3m) from 300 screens for Disney’s biggest animated launch ever…

The film took $1.1m from 400 in South Korea for a $5m running total that is tracking well ahead of Wall-E and Ratatouille at comparable stages. There was another record for a Pixar launch in Singapore on $1m from 65 sites, where Disney’s claim of a number one launch will no doubt raise eyebrows at PPI, who believe G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra is the champion on $1.2m. The film stands at $2.6m in Hong Kong.

  • Fox International’s formidable animated hit Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs – already the biggest animated release in international history – reaped a further $14.7m from 7,833 screens in 66 markets to reach $579.7m. …In Venezuela, Ice Age 3 became the first film ever to cross $10m in the market

Clash Of The Titans. Box office Global: Jul 31-Aug 02:

* 1Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince ($62.0m)
* 2Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs ($30.2m)
* 3G-Force ($29.2m)
* 4Up ($24.7m)
...[/i]

Let me comment on much of this. First of all, the list you see at the end is from last week. GI Joe was #1 for Aug3-9. Secondly, they are misusing the word ‘international’ here, in regards to IA3. They may mean foreign or overseas. IA3 has not passed up either Shrek2 or Finding Nemo, both of which were phenomenal smash hits in my country and produced enormous box office. But as I’ve mentioned it is the biggest overseas (non U.S.) animated feature ever. It’s too bad that it passed beyond the $7M or so that Up made in Venezuela. Thirdly, the world box office total for Up is now apparently around $395M based on this info.

And there you go thedriveintheater for info about Singapore this past weekend.

#105

Thanks for the info, DarkHand!

#106

Up will premiere in Brazil on Sept. 4th. Don’t count this country out as a major player. It’s given Ice Age 3 nearly $44M of its huge $600M+ overseas pie. We should see it do quite well, as all the other countries in South America gave Up millions to its coffer.

U.S. Up limped over $288M, at least according to Boxofficemojo, which actually deleted it from its listings entirely for the past 10 days, which is weird. Potter will pass Up, finally, to take over the #2 domestic spot later this week. ( Internationally, Potter is the hit of the year, no one comes close. Then you have T2 and IA3 going at it neck and neck. T2 is just going to barely pass the $400M mark domestically.)

Overseas>>> still collecting info on this. Up is about $19M in Spain, and $22M in France. These have now passed up Mexico and Russia as the best overseas scores. It’s doing well in Israel, Singapore, now over $2M, and very well in Hong Kong, not so well in Taiwan, but better than Wall-E did. In fact, it’s passing up the more recent Pixar films in all these countries, the ones where Up has been released for the past 3 weeks, except in France where it will take about 2 more weeks to beat our gizmo friend. Of all these recent releases, Spain is unsurprisingly the standout, considering how well it did in South America and the nearby Cannes festival.

Other releases are in Indonesia and Switzerland earlier this month and its doing well in those places too. Up just premiered in Portugal this past weekend and it did ok, and also in some of the Baltic Republics. Czech Rep and Slovakia are next week.

Relaxnews says that Up had 380,000 tickets sold in 5 days thru Aug 16th in France. It remained #1 there for the third week!

A Spanish source says that Public Enemies was just 10% ahead of Up for the 3rd week of release. So Up was #2 in Spain, perhaps.

So total world box is now $400M+ as of last Sunday and with other unreported receipts is actually well past this mark. Up will probably pass up Wall-E around early October.

Edit: Potter at $290M now, 6th and falling steadily, passes Up to become #2 box office movie of the year in the U.S.

Global gross is est to be around $415M as of Aug 23rd.

#107

In the U.S., Up’s box was perhaps 300K for the week and limped to $288.8M. Now here is where the action is, overseas:

MADRID, 24 (EUROPA PRESS): ‘Up’, the latest gem from Disney / Pixar has regained the Spanish reign at the box office, which had reigned since its release last week except when Public Enemies, the film starring Johnny Depp, he dethroned from the top.

The animated film has been seen by over 2.8 million visitors since it opened in Spain on 30 July, has grossed in 25 days in the lineup more than 18.5 million and again has placed at the top of the box office this weekend with a take of 1,153,066 euros, of which 630,000 have been conventional and 523,066 in 3D rooms.

In the latter, ‘Up’ has achieved the best average per copy of the weekend: 3,836 euros on average for each of its 141 screens.

The film, which has grossed U.S. $ 288,510,371, accumulated over 120 million dollars in the world has yet to be premiered in countries like UK, Germany or Italy.

Here is France: b[/b] - According to box office Relaxnews of 19 to 23 August 2009, the latest film by Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (UPI), gathered 696,753 spectators during its first five days of operation… Relegated to second place, the animated film Up (Disney) shows 316,252 entries.

I think the overseas take is about $125M now. Domestic take might get a bounce in the next couple of weeks with a holiday in the U.S. as students go back to school. But here is what Screendaily.com says:

“Up earned a further $8.7m from 2,237 sites in 19 territories and stands at $142.3m. The Pixar release added $2.9m in its fourth weekend in France from 710 theatres for $27.5m, which is more than the entire run of Wall-E, and looked like holding on to number one for the fourth consecutive weekend in Spain as $1.8m from 570 cinemas raised the tally there to $25.5m.”

#108

Darn, it’s getting a bit crowded in the box office overseas, but it’s nice to see that Up is doing fairly well. Thanks again for the update DarkHand!

#109

I think it is pretty funny that some people go and watch the movie like fifty times in theaters, I understand that some people enjoy movies, and I go and watch them for their cinematic elements, not necessarily “emotional attachment” which I found none of in this Movie. I think Inglorious Basterds was a much better watch personally.

#110

Ellie_Fan_123 - You must have just as much spare time with nothing better to do if you’ve signed up here, trying to insult people who enjoy watching a certain film several times.

#111

I offended by this. Badly! :imp:

#112

Don’t worry, wannabeechef91. Obviously someone with too much time on their hands.

Anyway, back on topic.

#113

Yeah. I currently searching for the number of money that Up made in Malaysia. I think Up has done well here as the movie was sold out during lunchtime on weekdays. (that explains me I couldn’t watch the movie during weekdays) :stuck_out_tongue:

BTW, which country haven’t release Up yet?

#114

wannabechef, I’m sure I was reading something the other day that said Up still hasn’t opened in the UK and Japan. Someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the Japanese date in December? UK in October?

#115

Oh yeah. I forgot. And the movie will be released this weekend (or Friday?) in Australia.

#116

Up is opening Friday at the Second-Run/“Bargain” theatre in my neck of the US Woods - is that true elsewhere? I’ve thought in the past that movies tend to go to all the second-run theatres at the same time.

I don’t think I’ll go back; I’m happy with my 8 theatre trips and content to wait for the Blu-Ray at this point. But it’s nice to know it’s still out there.

#117

Released on the 20th it made $352K in 4 days in Malaysia. So it’s probably on track to do about $1.5M in that country, which is better than Wall-E (but it’s not a better movie than Wall-E, which I have seen almost 30x in theaters and enjoy for both the cinematic exposition and emotional attachment.) It was released a few days ago in the Philippines and has already beaten Wall-E with a cool million.

Up not yet released in these countries, in order of probable box office:

U.K., Japan, Germany, Australia, Italy, Brazil, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, New Zealand, Austria, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Turkey, South Africa, India, mainland China? … many small markets in Africa, the Middle East, recent and current Communist Bloc nations … Outer Mongolia, and finally Nome, Alaska.

Now Wall-E made $176.9M in these 20 places, with $2M+ for all the little markets in which Up hasn’t been released in yet, a total of around $180M. And if you factor in the extra box Up is getting, it would reap $228M, but this is pure speculation since many of these countries have Fall and Winter releases. Now Up currently has $415-430M, and is still doing box in most of these nations. My guess is it could do upwards of $40M more from currently released countries, and finish around $698M. I’ve previously estimated a conservative $650M+, but the higher figure is possible.

#118

Not to go too off topic, or try to start a dispute or anything, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It’s not a concrete statement to say that Wall•E is a better movie. It had better marketing, and probably appeals to a broader audience from the trailers, but it’s up to whoever watches it to decide which movie is better. I personally prefer Up, as if no one on here didn’t know, and Wall•E is clearly your favorite. Nothing wrong with that, but it bugged me a smidge when you said

I enjoy Up for those same reasons (and some others, as I’m sure you have others too). It suits me better than Wall•E does, so it’s the better movie to me. Them there’s some strong words partner :stuck_out_tongue:

Again, not trying to start an argument, but I wanted to point that out. Thanks again for all the updates. It’s good to have a reliable source for this info, I like to keep track of how my fave movie is doing. :wink:

#119

Lol, I just knew that would bring about a strong reaction. Maybe we should let the better educated Brits decide which is the better film. (Another strong reaction probable here). As I’ve said in another thread, there might be mobs of irate upper crust Englishman, upset with the depiction of the protagonist in Up. Remember, a mob from a slum in India attacked a theater showing Slumdog Millionaire, and another mob there, having heard the Mercury Theater presentation of War of the Worlds, by Orson Welles, burned down the local radio station.

So watch out in merry old England after Oct. 24th!

#120

Oh wow, I hadn’t heard about those. He never came off as dominantly English to me. If something does stir in the UK about it, they need to relax and realize that it’s an animated movie. It’s for the story, and for entertainment. Pixar’s not isolating and criticizing people, that’s just absurd. I wasn’t offended or anything, but it’s one of those things that gets me started. I like to point out that people are entitled to their opinions a lot, it’s something that makes us unique and stand out from other individuals, so we need to realize how important opinions really are. It’s kind of pathetic when people are criticized about having an opinion, at least to me.

Anyway, sorry for waxing philosophical. I tend to do that sometimes, if not to make a point, to make myself feel smarter. XD Again, sorry for going off topic.