February Breaks Boxoffice Records...

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February Breaks Box Office Record

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February Breaks Box Office Record
by Brandon Gray

March 3, 2009

The final tally for February came in at nearly $770 million, marking the highest-grossing February ever. Business was up over ten percent from last year, which was the previous February best. Adjusting for ticket price inflation, though, February 2009 was effectively in a tie with February 2004 (fueled by The Passion of the Christ) and February 1997 (driven by two Star Wars special editions).

The bustling February comes in the wake of the first billion dollar January, which was the rare January to out-gross the preceding December. The first two months of 2009 tallied $1.78 billion, a 16 percent improvement over 2008 through the same point and the highest-grossing start to a year on record. The box office boom of January and February followed the weakest December of this decade, which grossed less than $800 million (and rated even worse in terms of attendance). The key difference has been a much stronger overall slate of pictures in January and February than December.

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[Brown Jenkin]

Yes, January had much better movies, such as Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

 

[Mark]

Lots of late-2008 Oscar picks that carried over?

 

[Hand of Evil]

Lots of late-2008 Oscar picks that carried over?

Don't think so, think it was more of no huge holiday movie in 2008, I am talking those that do 200 million domestic.

List of Holiday (Thanksgiving / X-Mas) Movies
2008 - Twilight: 11/21 - Domestic: $190,221,999 (51.3%) + Foreign: $180,810,724 (48.7%) = Worldwide: $371,032,723
2007 - I ma Legend: 12/14 - Domestic: $256,393,010 (43.8%) + Foreign: $328,956,000 (56.2%) = Worldwide: $585,349,010
2006 - Night at the Museum: 12/22 - Domestic: $250,863,268 (43.7%) + Foreign: $323,617,182 (56.3%) = Worldwide: $574,480,450

 

[Mark]

Can you pull up a list of the top ten (or even 20) in Feb?

 

[Hand of Evil]

Can you pull up a list of the top ten (or even 20) in Feb?

January and February

 

[Mark]

Thanks. Very few movies over $50M in either month.

 

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