Rentrak Announces Worldwide Box Office Results for Weekend of July 20, 2014 (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

LOS ANGELES, July 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT), the leader in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, today announced the worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of July 20, 2014 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 Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian commented, "Transformers: Age of Extinction" continues to impress in the international markets with $81.2 million and a global total pushing in on $900 million. "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" again makes its mark in the international marketplace adding another $61 million and thus brings its global total to nearly a quarter of a billion dollars."
The top-12 domestic weekend box office estimates listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, July 20, 2014, are below.
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes - 20th Century Fox - $36.0M Purge: Anarchy, The - Universal - $28.4M Planes: Fire and Rescue - Disney - $18.0M Sex Tape - Sony - $15.0M Transformers: Age Of Extinction - Paramount - $10.0M Tammy - Warner Bros. - $7.6M 22 Jump Street - Sony - $4.7M How To Train Your Dragon 2 - 20th Century Fox - $3.8M Maleficent - Disney - $3.3M Earth To Echo - Relativity Media - $3.3M Begin Again - The Weinstein Company - $2.8M America - Lionsgate - $1.7M[/list]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
Territories
Domestic
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
97,000,000
61,000,000
36,000,000
241,952,844
103,000,000
138,952,844
FOX
51
FOX
Transformers: Age Of Extinction
91,200,000
81,200,000
10,000,000
886,256,888
659,100,000
227,156,888
PAR
59
PAR
Tiny Times 3.0
30,000,000
30,000,000
-
48,000,000
48,000,000
-
LEV
1
-
Purge: Anarchy, The
28,788,660
420,000
28,368,660
28,788,660
420,000
28,368,660
UNI
15
UNI
Planes: Fire and Rescue
27,000,000
9,000,000
18,000,000
27,000,000
9,000,000
18,000,000
DIS
25
DIS
House That Never Dies, The
21,000,000
21,000,000
-
21,200,000
21,200,000
-
MUL
1
-
Sex Tape
18,000,000
3,000,000
15,000,000
18,000,000
3,000,000
15,000,000
SNY
10
SNY
How To Train Your Dragon 2
17,800,000
14,000,000
3,800,000
386,171,895
225,500,000
160,671,895
FOX
56
FOX
Maleficent
11,302,000
8,000,000
3,302,000
697,167,000
468,800,000
228,367,000
DIS
46
DIS
Step Up All In
10,300,000
10,300,000
-
11,800,000
11,800,000
-
MUL
27
LGF
22 Jump Street
7,900,000
3,200,000
4,700,000
268,809,111
88,300,000
180,509,111
SNY
43
SNY
Tammy
7,605,000
-
7,605,000
78,753,096
7,500,000
71,253,096
WB
1
WB
Blended
6,700,000
6,700,000
-
103,937,050
59,000,000
44,937,050
WB
47
WB
Fault In Our Stars, The
5,400,000
4,600,000
800,000
249,583,078
128,000,000
121,583,078
FOX
41
FOX
Divine Move, The
4,500,000
4,500,000
-
25,000,000
25,000,000
-
SHO
1
-
Edge Of Tomorrow
3,410,000
2,300,000
1,110,000
357,924,650
261,300,000
96,624,650
WB
53
WB
Earth To Echo
3,260,000
-
3,260,000
31,979,314
-
31,979,314
NUM
2
REL
Begin Again
3,212,000
450,000
2,762,000
11,987,666
2,500,000
9,487,666
MUL
5
TWC
Old Boys: The Way of the Dragon
2,900,000
2,900,000
-
28,500,000
28,500,000
-
MUL
1
-
*Territory is a movie studio term for regions of the world consisting of various countries.
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[Ejanss]

"Transformers: Age of Extinction" continues to impress in the international markets with $81.2 million and a global total pushing in on $900 million.

It says, as it hits 5th place in the US (below Sex Tape) in its third week.

With all the nonstop Chinese-market sycophancy in the movie, Transformers 4 has now become the official industry poster-child for "Send it overseas, THEY'LL like it!" Which was the case with Pirates 4 a few years ago, but that little detail about where exactly all that "near billion" dollars was coming from tended to get lost in the headlines.
Well, that outs action blockbusters; now we wait for Kung Fu Panda 3 to kiss up to Asian markets and expose the international gap for CGI animal movies.

Speaking of which, better than average showing for Planes 2, as well, which...isn't that bad a movie, really.

 

[Cine_Capsulas]

Non-US people get a lot of flack for driving en masse to watch reviled films like Transformers, but it is thanks to them that some decent films which failed to find an audience in the US have a chance to break even. Case in point, Snowpiercer, Edge of Tomorrow, How to Train Your Dragon 2 etc.

 

[Ejanss]

Non-US people get a lot of flack for driving en masse to watch reviled films like Transformers, but it is thanks to them that some decent films which failed to find an audience in the US have a chance to break even. Case in point, Snowpiercer, Edge of Tomorrow, How to Train Your Dragon 2 etc.

Until you realize that most action blockbuster and CGI-critter movies appeal internationally because they don't have as many, y'know, words in them, which makes them easier to translate for export.
Dreamworks's "Monsters vs. Aliens", which depended heavily on jokes kidding 50's US B-movie mentality, did poorly overseas, while Madagascar 3 (the one with the Paris setting) and all the collected Ice Age sequels cleaned up in Europe and Asia. Apparently, everyone understands a funny squirrel and a zebra in a funny wig.
(And it's bad enough their fandom-imitation keeps sending us all the lame foreign funny-critter CGI movies that surface on Netflix and Redbox.)

To say that TF4, Pirates 4, 2012 and Edge of Tomorrow did well overseas while plummeting at home because "Stuff blowing up translates everywhere" isn't...erm....exactly....a COMPLIMENT.