Random Factoid #164

8 01 2010

Since I just talked about Box Office Mojo in my factoids, I thought I might share with you some interesting response I gave to polls on the site.

Q: What is your most anticipated movie of 2009?
A: “Watchmen”

Q: What will be the top-grossing December [2009] release?
A: “Sherlock Holmes”

Q: What will be the highest-grossing September [2009] release?
A: “Jennifer’s Body”

Just a sampling of my bad prognostication.  Somewhere on the site In Contention, I commented that I thought “Avatar” would not make more than $250 million domestically.


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Random Factoid #163

7 01 2010

I get inspiration from strange places.  This factoid hails from Box Office Mojo’s chart of the highest grossing overall weekends in movie history (or at least since 1982).

As a hyperactive moviegoer, you can imagine that I dropped my change in Hollywood’s bowl on some of these weekends.  Just how much?  Look below.

Top Grossing Overall Weekends at the Box Office

  1. December 25-27, 2009
    • #1 movie: “Avatar” with $75.6 million
    • Total gross of weekend: $260 million
    • Marshall’s participation: $30 ($7.50 to “The Princess and the Frog,” “Nine,” “Up in the Air,” and “Sherlock Holmes”)
  2. July 18-20, 2008
    • #1 movie: “The Dark Knight” with $158.4 million
    • Total gross of weekend: $253 million
    • Marshall’s participation: $25.50 ($9.25 to “Wanted” and “Hancock,” $7.00 to “The Dark Knight”
  3. November 20-22, 2009
    • #1 movie: “New Moon” with $142.8 million
    • Total gross of weekend: $250 million
    • Marshall’s participation: $15 ($7.50 to “Couples Retreat” and “2012”)
  4. July 7-9, 2006
    • #1 movie: “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” with $135.6 million
    • Total gross of weekend: $209.9 million
    • Marshall’s participation: $12.25 ($6.50 to “Pirates,” $5.75 to “Nacho Libre”)
  5. May 25-27, 2007
    • #1 movie: “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” with $114.7 million
    • Total gross of weekend: $199.2 million
    • Marshall’s participation: $8 to “Pirates”
  6. June 26-28, 2009
    • #1 movie: “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” with $109 million
    • Total gross of weekend: $192.9 million
    • Marshall’s participation: Technically – nothing.  I saw “Transformers” on Thursday and I went to a free screening of “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” on Saturday morning.
  7. May 26-28, 2006
    • #1 movie: “X-Men: The Last Stand” with $102.8 million
    • Total gross of weekend: $188.4 million
    • Marshall’s participation: $5.50 to “The DaVinci Code”
  8. May 28-30, 2004
    • #1 movie: “Shrek 2” with $72.1 million
    • Total gross of weekend: $185.6 million
    • Marshall’s participation: nothing.  I saw “Shrek 2” for the second time that Wednesday.
  9. June 4-6, 2004
    • #1 movie: “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” with $93.7 million
    • Total gross of weekend: $182.7 million
    • Marshall’s participation: $5.50 to “Potter”
  10. May 4-6, 2007
    • #1 movie: “Spider-Man 3” with $151.1 million
    • Total gross of weekend: $181.3 million
    • Marshall’s participation: $6 to “Spider-Man 3”

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Random Factoid #91

27 10 2009

A few months ago, Apple introduced the Top Sites function of Safari.  This feature allows you to put up to 16 (I choose to do only 12, though) of your favorite sites on an easily accessible page.  Included in my 9 are Box Office Mojo (a site about the revenue of movies), Awards Daily and In Contention (my two favorite Oscar blogs), the IMDb (Holy Grail for movie lovers), Entertainment Weekly, the link to my AMC Moviewatcher Homepage, and a link to my own blog.  That is a whopping 8 out of 12, or 67% of my Top Sites dedicated to movies.


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