November 23rd, 2011
This weekend is Thanksgiving and as always that means Black Friday and Cyber Monday plus 48 hours of shopping in-between. And as always, I've already done my Christmas shopping, for the most part. (I'm still waiting to see if the B.C.Lions win the Grey Cup. If not, I'll need to look for an alternative gift.) For everyone else who is still searching, we present the first part in our annual Holiday Gift Guide. As usual, the gift guide is divided into several sections, starting with Major Movie Releases. These are first run releases, franchise box sets, etc. However, before we get into the individual titles, we will start with an update on...
More...
November 5th, 2011
When Jurassic Park came out, the advance buzz was so great that there was almost no chance it would live up to the hype. For the most part, it did. It was the biggest hit of the year domestically, set the record worldwide and was a huge hit with critics as well. A few years later, The Lost World: Jurassic Park opened in theaters and, while it wasn't as well received by critics, it set records at the box office during its opening weekend and in the end was a massive financial success. Finally in 2001, Jurassic Park 3 opened and, while it couldn't live up to its predecessors, it was a hit. Ten years later, the complete franchise is being released on Blu-ray in a Box Set and Gift Set. But how well have the films aged over the years? And does the Blu-ray shine?
More...
Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.
Weekend Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
|---|
| 2001/07/27 |
1 |
$2,569,608 |
|
462 |
$5,562 |
$13,090,845 |
2 |
| 2001/08/03 |
3 |
$1,931,174 |
-25% |
415 |
$4,653 |
$17,638,645 |
3 |
| 2001/08/10 |
3 |
$1,441,540 |
-25% |
414 |
$3,482 |
$20,974,005 |
4 |
| 2001/08/17 |
4 |
$891,296 |
-38% |
398 |
$2,239 |
$23,199,925 |
5 |
| 2001/08/24 |
6 |
$512,135 |
-43% |
330 |
$1,552 |
$24,379,905 |
6 |
| 2001/08/31 |
- |
$411,703 |
-20% |
277 |
$1,486 |
$25,430,557 |
7 |
Full financial estimates for this film, including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, TV and ancillary revenue
are available through our research services. For more information, please contact us at research@the-numbers.com.
For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.
Production and Technical Credits
The bold credits above the line are the "above-the-line" credits, the other the "below-the-line" credits.
