Yearly Recap: March 7-9: Weekend 10: Empire of The Sherman Hotel March came in like a Lion with 13 films opening with three extremely successful films. Mr. Peabody and Sherman, is a computer-animated feature film based of a skit on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Hour in 60s. The film opened on March 7, with $32.2 million at Number 2. The $145 million production would stay in theaters for 182 days with a gross of $111.5 million. A slight domestic failure the film would grossed a total of $273 million world-wide. Peabody and Sherman would be the Number 2 movie of March, while going on to be the Number 6 movie of The Winter/Spring 2014 Season. The film is likely to have a Top 25 placement for the Year. While the sequel to 300, was supposed to have been released in July 2013 it suffered to postponements first to Labor Day weekend then to pre-Christmas finally landing in March. 300: Rise of An Empire would open in the number one position with an impressive $45.0 million. The sequel had a huge budget of $110 million, and after a 84-day run would come up $4 million short of breaking its budget. 300: Rise of an Empire would have an impressive $224.5 million internationally. It would be the Number 3 movie of March, and Number 7 for Winter-Spring. Yearly ranking should be in the Top 25! NOTE THAT BOTH PEABODY AND SHERMAN AND 300 ARE LOOKED AT AS FAILURES BECAUSE OF THEIR DOMESTIC GROSS DID NOT ACHIEVE THEIR BUDGET HOWEVER BOTH WERE EXTREMELY PROFITABLE! The Grand Budapest Hotel, had several weeks of per screen average success after debuting in 4 screens with $203,000. With a full limited release two weeks later with $811,000 to a full national release a week later with $8.5 million($8,700 PSA on 966 screens). The $31 million All-star production would go on to gross $59.0 million domestically in a 175-day release and $113.5 million internationally. The film would rank as the Number 6 of March, Number 16 of the 2014 Winter/Spring Season. The Grand Budapest Hotel will be in the Top 100 of the Year. Particle Fever is Documentary about the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland with a series of first run experiments, the unknown budgeted film grossed $869,000. Placing it as the 19 movie of March 2014. Three remaining films grossed over $100,000. The Face of Love with Robin Williams and Annette Bening grossed $332,000, Foreign Film Bethlehem grossed $202,000 and Beyond Sight grossed $101,000.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:15:10 +0000