February 17-19, 2012 Box Office Results

Weekend of February 17-19, 2012

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance – $30,000,000 estimate – My prediction: Over – $22,115,334 actual – Under
This Means War – $18,000,000 estimate – My prediction: Under – $17,405,930 actual – Under
The Secret World of Arrietty – $5,500,000 estimate – My prediction: Over – $6,446,395 actual – Over

Not too much of a shock this weekend, although a fairly good weekend for the movie business in general. Good job Jason and Randy for getting all of your predictions correct.

Safe House came out at #1 this weekend at the beginning of its second week of release. It’s a 40.8% drop from last weekend, but it still managed to sneak past The Vow, which opened at #2.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance had a sad opening, which is personally fine with me since the first movie was shite and this second one looks even worse. Looks like no one was interested in the sequel, especially after five years of waiting. Box Office Mojo did a really cool comparison showing how Happy Feet 2 also came out five years after the original and opened to 51% of Happy Feet 1’s opening. Ghost Rider 2 opened to 49% of what the first film made. No idea what made me choose Over. I presume that I was on some sort of narcotics.

Journey 2 held up well on its second weekend and beat out This Means War. The Secret World of Arrietty came in ninth place for the weekend, but it was only released in 1,522 theatres, which places it at #15 on the per theatre average list.

Four new films will be added to the mix this weekend. Act of Valor will get a wide release. The film stars real active-duty Navy SEALs in an action film inspired by true events. When the directors were prepping this film, they released that no actors could correctly portray a real Navy SEAL, so they used actual SEALs whose names will not appear in the credits. Then there’s Wanderlust, the Judd Apatow-produced Ken Marino and David Wain-written comedy starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston. It’s basically the same team that brought you Role Models which I found quite funny at times. Then there’s the thriller Gone starring Amanda Seyfried. Haven’t heard much about this, so I don’t think we can see big returns for it. Finally there’s Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds which is directed by Tyler Perry and written by Tyler Perry and starring Tyler Perry and produced by Tyler Perry and screened by Tyler Perry and watched by Tyler Perry.





Tyler Perry.