2012 on the way to break all Box-Office Records

It looks like the Greatest disaster movie 2012 is becoming the highest money grosser. The 1st day of release Friday grossed $23.6M, Saturday $24.8M(+5%) and Sunday $16.6M from 3404 theater all around the world. This makes total of $65M domestic Weekend, and $160M international Wednesday through Sunday launch (with 2/3s of the 100 territories releasing day and date starting Friday, including North America). That is a very huge success of $225M withing 5 days from the release for the PG-13 rated movie which is neither a previously established brand or franchise or bestselling novel.


The prediction is made that it will break all the Records previously made by top movies of times in US and also Globally. Beating previous Ronald Emmerich's disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow.

Talking about other releases, these are the Box-Office reports of the weekend.

1 - 2012 (Sony) - $65.00 ($19,095) - $65.00
2 - A Christmas Carol (Disney) - $22.33 ($6,062) - $63.29
3 - The Man Who Stare at Goats (Overture) - $6.20 ($2,528) - $23.38
4 - Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (Lionsgate) - $6.09 ($35,000) - $8.92
5 - Michael Jackson's This is It (Sony) - $5.10 ($1,679) - $68.21
6 - The Fourth Kind (Universal) - $4.74 ($1,875) - $20.59
7 - Couples Retreat (Universal) - $4.25 ($1,695) - $102.13
8 - Paranormal Activity (Paramount) - $4.20 ($1,549) - $103.85
9 - Law Abiding Citizen (Overture) - $3.93 ($1,899) - $67.33
10 - The Box (Warner Bros.) - $3.18 ($1,209) - $13.21
11 - Pirate Radio (Focus) - $2.86 ($3,253) - $2.86

There is a significant difference between 1st(2012) and 2nd(A Christmas Carol) according to the Reports. 'Michael Jackson's This is It' is making lot of wows around the world. Last month's 'Couples Retreat' is a Comedy still in the race, making Hollywood Debut for Academy Award winning Music Composer - A. R. Rehman. Paranormal Activity is an Independent film with a Scary Formula is also making good Fan-Follow.

Next Week has three major releases: A sequel to a Monster love-story Twilight - Twilight: New Moon, The Blind Side and Sony's humans-as-alien-invaders animated comedy Planet 51.