| Theatrical Performance (US$) | ||
| Australia Box Office | $3,557,933 | Details |
| Worldwide Box Office | $68,191,643 | Details |
| Home Market Performance | ||
| North America DVD Sales | $23,752,673 | Details |
| Total North America Video Sales | $23,752,673 | |
| Further financial details... | ||
| Australia Releases: | December 13th, 2007 (Wide) |
| Video Release: | March 4th, 2008 by Fox Home Entertainment |
| MPAA Rating: | G |
| Running Time: | 96 minutes |
| Keywords: | Living Toys, Family Comedy, Musicians, Retirement |
| Source: | Original Screenplay |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Fantasy |
| Production/Financing Companies: | Mandate Pictures, Walden Media |
| Production Countries: | United States |
| Languages: | English |
March 17th, 2008
New releases were again plentiful this week with nine reaching the top 30 and three of them sweeping the top few spots. The best of the best was 101 Dalmatians, which sold 1.36 million units during its first week for $21.64 million in revenue.
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March 17th, 2008
There were only four new releases to chart this week, and only one made it into the top five. This left Beowulf with an easy road to first place as it added $9.02 million in rentals for the week and $19.94 million after two.
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March 4th, 2008
The first week of the month, but it's not very strong both in terms of raw numbers and in terms of high-profile releases. (There are a surprising number of spotlight reviews, on the other hand.) There are a few releases worth picking up, like 101 Dalmatians - Two-Disc Platinum Edition - Buy from Amazon and My Kid Could Paint That - Buy from Amazon, but none that screamed to be DVD Pick of the Week.
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January 13th, 2008
Bee Movie slipped to sixth place this weekend with $14.34 million on 4820 screens in 49 markets for a total of $131.97 million. This includes a first place opening in South Korea where it earned $1.96 million on 334 screens over the weekend and $2.30 million in total, but this is not a particularly strong start.
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January 6th, 2008
Alien vs. Predator: Requiem opened in sixth place internationally with $16.43 million on 1877 screens in 20 markets. The film opened in second place in Germany with an impressive $4.64 million on 553 screens, while it debuted in fourth place in Australia with $1.86 million on just 182 screens over the weekend and $2.95 million since Boxing Day.
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December 19th, 2007
With two weeks to go, the international box office set a record bringing in $8.6 billion in total ticket sales. Additionally, all six major studios crossed the $1 billion mark during the same year, which is a first. On the other hand, the celebration is tempered by the fact that the American dollar hit record lows against the Euro this year, and was at decade old lows against the Pound, and other international currencies, which helped to artificially inflate the box office numbers.
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November 27th, 2007
Thanksgiving provided plenty of reasons for studios to give thanks, especially since every single film managed to earn enough to be called a hit in one form or other.
Even the weakest releases of the week did well compared to their modest costs.
Overall, the box office brought in $162 million over three days, which is 55% more than last weekend.
More importantly, it is virtually identical to the same weekend last year.
Over five days, movies earned an estimated $229 million, which is up just shy of 2% from last year.
This is great news after a Fall that most would like to forget, but the growth is still lower than ticket price inflation, meaning actual attendance was down.
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November 25th, 2007
Elizabeth: The Golden Age nearly reached the top five with $5.79 million on 1579 screens in 12 markets for a total of $21.80 million. This includes a first place, $1.89 million opening on 470 screens in Russia, while the film added $933,000 on 394 screens in the U.K. for a total of $8.40 million so far.
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November 20th, 2007
It was another tough week at the box office. No film missed Thursday's prediction by a significant margin, but there was an overall weakness. This pushed the box office to $104 million, down 8% from last weekend. More importantly it was down 28% from the same weekend last year. It is getting close to the time to panic. Granted, this year is safe but there's little evidence that this slowdown at the box office, which has lasted almost the entire fall, is going to end now that the Holidays have started. The only good news is that last Thanksgiving was a terrible weekend for new releases.
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November 17th, 2007
It was a one horse race for the Weekly Website Award with Beowulf - Official Site walking away with that honor.
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November 15th, 2007
It's looking like 2007 is going to end on a really soft note. Since mid-September, only one weekend has been above the same weekend last year, and there's almost no chance that things will turn around this weekend. This time last year, we had two $40 million openers. This weekend, we might not have a single film top $30 million.
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November 8th, 2007
The third family film of the month is Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, and it is the target film for this week's box office prediction contest.
To win one must simply predict the box office opening for Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.
Whoever comes the closest to predicting the film's opening 3-day weekend box office (Friday to Sunday), without going over, will win a copy of Ratatouille on Blu-Ray. That's right, we have our first Blu-Ray giveaway.
Meanwhile, whoever comes the closest to predicting the film's opening 3-day weekend box office (Friday to Sunday), without going under, will win a copy of Broken on DVD.
Entries must be received by 10 a.m., Pacific Time on Friday to be eligible, so don't delay!
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November 1st, 2007
After a horrible October, we finally get to November and the start of the holiday season.
Just like the summer season doesn't officially begin until Memorial Day, the winter holiday season doesn't officially begin until the Thanksgiving long weekend.
However, studios are trying to stretch the lucrative box office season as long as possible and the holiday-like releases start during the first weekend of the month.
This means practically every weekend this month, there's at least one potential $100 million movie. There are also a few that might be Oscar contenders, although not as many as I had expected.
In fact, so far Award Season has been particularly slow, but at least this means there should be more buzz surrounding the upcoming films as the race is wide open.
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October 14th, 2007
Quite a few full sites launched this week, but as is the case most times, there were pretty Spartan at the moment and it will take a few more updates before we can tell if they are award-worthy or not. That said, it was a site for a movie that opens this week, Lars and the Real Girl - Official Site, that won the top prize as it finished adding all the material marked coming soon this week.
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June 30th, 2007
One of the slowest weeks I can remember for this list, but at least we have a top-notch site to give the Weekly Website Award to: Ratatouille - Official Site.
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December 17th, 2006
This week's round of new movie release information contains release dates for I am Legend, Angels & Demons and more.
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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.
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007/12/14 | - | $948,690 | 237 | $4,003 | $948,690 | 1 | |
| 2007/12/21 | - | $859,583 | -9% | 237 | $3,627 | $2,581,890 | 2 |
| 2007/12/28 | - | $685,752 | -20% | 234 | $2,931 | $3,557,933 | 3 |
| Territory | Release Date |
Opening Weekend |
Opening Weekend Screens |
Maximum Screens |
Theatrical Engagements |
Total Box Office |
Report Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 12/13/2007 | $948,690 | 237 | 237 | 708 | $3,557,933 | 1/10/2017 |
| North America | 11/16/2007 | $9,630,085 | 3,164 | 3,168 | 14,860 | $32,061,555 | |
| Rest of World | $32,572,155 | ||||||
| Worldwide Total | $68,191,643 | 1/10/2017 | |||||
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| Dustin Hoffman | Mr. Edward Magorium, Avid Shoe-Wearer | |
| Natalie Portman | Molly Mahoney, the Composer |
| Jason Bateman | Henry Weston, the Mutant | |
| Zach Mills | Eric Applebaum, the Hat Collector | |
| Ted Ludzik | Bellini, the Bookbuilder | |
| Madalena Brancatella | Jessica, Who Got a Cowboy Hat | |
| Paula Boudreau | Brenda, Who Wants a Mobile | |
| Mike Realba | Dave Wolf, Who's an Engineer | |
| Steve Whitmire | Kermit the Frog Performed by | |
| Liam Powley-Webster | Andy, the Boy Who Likes to Color | |
| Marcia Bennett | Lora, Who Wants a Fire Engine | |
| Oliver Masuda | Jordan, Who Said Hi | |
| Samantha Harvey | Cassie, the Girl Chased By a Goose | |
| Jesse Bostick | Derek, Who Opened the Door | |
| Isaac Durnford | Jason, Who's a Little Too Curious | |
| Daniel Gordon* | Jimmy, Who Captures the Ball | |
| Rebecca Northan | Ellie Applebaum, the Mom | |
| Dash Grundy | Ari, Who Wants a Book | |
| Dylan Authors | Mark, Who Fingerpaints | |
| Aidan Koper | Brett, the Yo-Yo Guy | |
| Lin Lin Feng | Angie, Who Nearly Was Hit By a Blimp | |
| He Wen | Larry, Who Held On For Dear Life | |
| Gan Zhen | David, Who Also Held on For Dear Life | |
| Quancetia Hamilton | Gia, With A Squid On Her Head | |
| Matt Baram | Eddie, the Dentist | |
| Jonathan Potts | Dr. Dunn, Who Gives People Sedatives | |
| Matthew Peart | Wyatt, Who Sells Hot Dogs | |
| David Rendall | Tim, the Hot Dog Manager | |
| Kiele Sanchez | Mrs. Goodman, Who Wants the Store | |
| David Collins | Tom, the Realtor | |
| Michael Costa-Parke | Jack, Who Thinks It's Magic | |
| Milo Gladstein | Milo, Who's Not Bad |
For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.
| Zach Helm | Director | |
| Zach Helm | Screenwriter | |
| James Garavente | Producer | |
| Richard N. Gladstein | Producer | |
| Nathan Kahane | Executive Producer | |
| Joe Drake | Executive Producer | |
| Roman Osin | Director of Photography | |
| Thérèse DePrez | Production Designer | |
| Sabrina Plisco | Editor | |
| Christopher Hargadon | Costume Designer | |
| Aaron Zigman | Composer | |
| Alexandre Desplat | Composer | |
| Barbara A. Hall | Co-Producer | |
| Jim Miller | Associate Producer | |
| Lyn Lucibello-Brancatella | Unit Production Manager | |
| Brandt Gordon | Art Director | |
| Rex Fields | Lead Set Decorator | |
| Clive Thomasson | Set Decorator | |
| Pauline Chung | Costume Supervisor | |
| Steven Weisberg | Editor | |
| Harry Yoon | Additional Editor | |
| Glen Gauthier | Production Sound Mixer | |
| Michael Minkler | Re-recording Mixer | |
| Bob Beemer | Re-recording Mixer | |
| Bruce Stambler | Supervising Sound Editor | |
| Paul Aulicino | Sound Editor | |
| Bruce Stambler | Sound Designer | |
| Harry Cohen | Sound Designer | |
| John C. Stuver | Dialogue Editor | |
| Andrew Silver | Supervising Music Editor | |
| Julie Pearce | Music Editor | |
| Jordan Samuel | Key Makeup | |
| Jennifer O'Halloran | Key Hairstylist | |
| Amanda Mackey | Casting Director | |
| Cathy Sandrich Gelfond* | Casting Director | |
| Robin D. Cook | Casting Director | |
| John Stoneham, Jr. | Stunt Coordinator |
The bold credits above the line are the "above-the-line" credits, the other the "below-the-line" credits.
