LOS ANGELES, Oct. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), the global leader in box office measurement, today announced the worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of October 7, 2012 as compiled by the company's Box Office Essentials' and International Box Office Essentials theatrical measurement services.
As the trusted standard for all studio box office reporting, Rentrak provides intelligence into overnight theatre-level reporting across the global theatrical market. Coupled with the official reported data, studios are able to analyze admissions and gross results in over 50 territories using Rentrak's suite of products.
Rentrak's President of Theatrical Worldwide, Ron Giambra commented, "Taken 2 opens at No. 1 worldwide with an estimated weekend gross of $105 million in 51 territories."
The top-12 domestic weekend box office estimates listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, October 7, 2012 are below.
- Taken 2 - 20th Century Fox - $50.0M
- Hotel Transylvania - Sony - $26.3M
- Pitch Perfect - Universal - $14.7M
- Looper - Sony - $12.2M
- Frankenweenie - Disney - $11.5M
- End Of Watch - Open Road - $4.0M
- Trouble with the Curve - Warner Bros. - $3.9M
- House At The End Of The Street - Relativity Media - $3.7M
- Master, The - The Weinstein Company - $1.8M
- Finding Nemo - Disney - $1.6M
- Perks Of Being A Wallflower, The - Lionsgate - $1.5M
- Resident Evil: Retribution - Sony - $1.1M
Full details regarding the global domestic and international box office results are listed in the table below.
Weekend BO Estimate (USD) | Weekend Release Cume (USD) | Distributor | |||||||
Title | Worldwide | Int'l | Domestic | Worldwide | Int'l | Domestic | Int'l | No. of | Domestic |
Taken 2 | 105,000,000 | 55,000,000 | 50,000,000 | 117,000,000 | 67,000,000 | 50,000,000 | FOX/EUR | 51 | FOX |
Hotel Transylvania | 39,400,000 | 13,100,000 | 26,300,000 | 105,258,532 | 29,300,000 | 75,958,532 | SNY | 23 | SNY |
Madagascar 3 | 23,400,000 | 23,300,000 | 100,000 | 667,232,292 | 451,000,000 | 216,232,292 | PAR | 30 | PAR |
Looper | 19,700,000 | 7,500,000 | 12,200,000 | 66,300,651 | 26,000,000 | 40,300,651 | MUL | 11 | SNY |
Pitch Perfect | 15,216,400 | 480,000 | 14,736,400 | 22,062,608 | 480,000 | 21,582,608 | UNI | 2 | UNI |
Resident Evil: Retribution | 13,450,000 | 12,300,000 | 1,150,000 | 200,700,730 | 159,700,000 | 41,000,730 | SNY | 67 | SNY |
Ted | 12,133,705 | 12,000,000 | 133,705 | 451,231,005 | 232,900,000 | 218,331,005 | UNI | 46 | UNI |
Frankenweenie | 11,500,000 | - | 11,500,000 | 11,500,000 | - | 11,500,000 | DIS | 1 | DIS |
Masquerade | 6,700,000 | 6,700,000 | - | 40,800,000 | 40,800,000 | - | CJ | 1 | CJ |
Ice Age: Continental Drift | 5,700,000 | 5,700,000 | - | 861,773,030 | 702,600,000 | 159,173,030 | FOX | 4 | FOX |
Dukhless | 5,700,000 | 5,700,000 | - | 5,700,000 | 5,700,000 | - | UNI | 2 | - |
House At The End Of The Street | 4,198,000 | 500,000 | 3,698,000 | 32,531,144 | 5,000,000 | 27,531,144 | MUL | 5 | REL |
End Of Watch | 4,000,000 | - | 4,000,000 | 32,845,946 | - | 32,845,946 | MUL | 1 | OPRD |
Trouble with the Curve | 3,870,000 | - | 3,870,000 | 29,709,823 | - | 29,709,823 | WB | 1 | WB |
Bourne Legacy, The | 3,751,860 | 3,400,000 | 351,860 | 232,082,535 | 119,800,000 | 112,282,535 | UNI | 49 | UNI |
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