January 27, 201114 yr Did the christina aguilera film flop It opened with $11.9 Million and ended up grossing $39 Million. Not a great success.
July 10, 201114 yr Hiya can anyone answer a few questions about the UK Box Office Chart or me? I'm trying to compile a full list of No1s at the UK Box Office from whenever the first chart was until the latest chart. I know that the current chart is compiled by Nielsen EDI (part of Rentrak) and is the one in the archives on imdb and boxoffice mojo and the archives go back to 1998, apart from a few random weeks and some earlier news stories still lurking on the bbc and elsewhere on the web. I know that the current chart is compiled on weekend receipts (Fri- Sun or poss Fri- Mon on bank hols (or is it just the US one that does that?)). Have the charts always been weekend only in the UK or has any compiler ever done a full week chart. When did Nielsen EDI or a direct predecessor of the same chart first start publishing the weekend charts? Also I ordered from amazon and recieved within 36 hrs (!amazed considering it was free delivery!) a book published by Guiness in 1995 called 'Box Office Hits' which gives all the No1s at UK Box Office since 1969 and the top 10 films at BO for each year from 1945 to 1968. The charts in the book are compiled by Screen International (or it predecessors) and I have no idea if it's a weekend or full week chart, any ideas? Also wikipedia now has articles for the No1 Uk films for every year since 1991, but the years from 1991 to 1994 do not correlate at all with the above book's version of events, at times the no1 film on wiki is not in the top 5 in the book or vice versa. Does anyone know what source(s) wikpedia uses pre 1998 (post 1998 matches imdb as far as I can tell)? Is the Nielsen EDI chart the direct sucessor of the Screen International one, or just the same one [Like the OCC music charts are the Rceord Retailer's charts)? Or do two rival charts still exist? And finally I see in your archive page a descrepancy between UK Chart, UK-Ireland chart and I've seen elsewhere UK-Malta chart, are these all different charts by the same or different compilers? Sorry to ask so many questions, but maybe someone could point me to a website that answers them (if such site exists). Thanks for any help recieved.
July 15, 201114 yr Good to see that my post was moved unanswered to a thread that noone has used in 6months. I take it noone can answer any of my questions then? Given how much information is freely given out with current film charts (as compared to music charts where you're either lucky, rich or know the right person to get detailed sales and year to dates and the like) I didn't expect it to be so difficult to find out even one fact about the history of UK box office charts.
July 19, 201114 yr 50 Biggest Grossing Films: Rank/ Title/ Worldwide gross/ Year/ Ref/ 1 Avatar $2,782,275,172 2009 [# 1] 2 Titanic $1,843,201,268 1997 [# 2] 3 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $1,119,110,941 2003 [# 3] 4 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest $1,066,179,725 2006 [# 4] 5 Toy Story 3 $1,063,171,911 2010 [# 5] 6 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides $1,024,353,634 2011 [# 6] 7 Alice in Wonderland $1,024,299,904 2010 [# 7] 8 The Dark Knight $1,001,921,825 2008 [# 8] 9 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone $974,733,550 2001 [# 9] 10 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End $963,420,425 2007 [# 10] 11 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 $955,501,070 2010 [# 11] 12 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix $938,212,738 2007 [# 12] 13 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince $933,959,197 2009 [# 13] 14 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $925,282,504 2002 [# 14] 15 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace $924,317,558 1999 [# 15] 16 Shrek 2 $919,838,758 2004 [# 16] 17 Jurassic Park $914,691,118 1993 [# 17] 18 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire $895,921,036 2005 [# 18] 19 Spider-Man 3 $890,871,626 2007 [# 19] 20 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs $886,686,817 2009 [# 20] 21 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets $878,643,482 2002 [# 21] 22 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring $870,761,744 2001 [# 22] 23 Finding Nemo $867,893,978 2003 [# 23] 24 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith $848,754,768 2005 [# 24] 25 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $836,297,228 2009 [# 25] 26 Inception $823,576,195 2010 [# 26] 27 Spider-Man $821,708,551 2002 [# 27] 28 Independence Day $817,400,891 1996 [# 28] 29 Shrek the Third $798,958,162 2007 [# 29] 30 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban $795,634,070 2004 [# 30] 31 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial $792,910,554 1982 [# 31] 32 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull $786,636,033 2008 [# 32] 33 The Lion King $783,841,776 1994 [# 33] 34 Spider-Man 2 $783,766,341 2004 [# 34] 35 Star Wars $775,398,007 1977 [# 35] 36 2012 $769,304,749 2009 [# 36] 37 Transformers: Dark of the Moon $762,318,797 2011 [# 37] 38 The Da Vinci Code $758,239,851 2006 [# 38] 39 Shrek Forever After $752,600,867 2010 [# 39] 40 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe $745,011,272 2005 [# 40] 41 The Matrix Reloaded $742,128,461 2003 [# 41] 42 Up $731,342,744 2009 [# 42] 43 The Twilight Saga: New Moon $709,711,008 2009 [# 43] 44 Transformers $709,709,780 2007 [# 44] 45 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse $698,491,347 2010 [# 45] 46 Forrest Gump $677,387,716 1994 [# 46] 47 The Sixth Sense $672,806,292 1999 [# 47] 48 Ice Age: The Meltdown $655,388,158 2006 [# 48] 49 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl $654,264,015 2003 [# 49] 50 Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones $649,398,328 2002 [# 50]
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