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INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS: Fast Fives Moves Into Strong Position

Fast Five enters the worldwide January-April box office chart in the #2 position, with plenty more upside in its overseas numbers.  When the final results are in, Fast Five will probably be the #1 movie worldwide for the first third of the year, followed by Rio and Rango.   

The graphic below shows the domestic and international grosses for all 47 films released between January and April at over 500 theaters.  Rio is currently at #1 with just over $400 million worldwide, followed by Fast Five with a current worldwide total of just over $250 million (although it is destined to pass Rio in a few short weeks).  Notice the classic distribution of movies, with a few hits at the top followed by a very long list of losers, which have no chance of covering negative costs, marketing expenses, and distribution costs.  Of course, one mega-hit (close to $500 million worldwide this time of year or $1 billion in the summer season) can cover the failure of many duds and still leave a tidy profit for the studio.  Or can it?  The world of "Hollywood accounting" and profit participants is an extremely complex topic, which I will leave to our resident business affairs expert Mitch Salem in a future post.

Meantime, take a look at the following chart and see the not so fine line between delirious success and despondent failure in movie-making.  (For those of you wanting to see the numbers presented in a more traditional table, don't worry -- the Top 25 worldwide film table can be found after the jump.) 





The more conventional table of worldwide box office grosses can be seen by clicking "Read more." 



JAN-APR 2011 WORLDWIDE FILM GROSSES TOP 25 FILMS            Int'l
 Rank                               ($ MILLIONS)           Impact
LW TW                      Worldwide  Domestic   Overseas   Ratio
 1  1  Rio                    411        150       261*     1.74 
--  2  Fast Five              269        188        81*      .43
 2  3  Rango                  240        122       117       .96
 3  4  Green Hornet           228         99       130      1.31
 4  5  Just Go with It        211        103       108      1.05
 5  6  Battle: Los Angeles    201         83       118      1.43
 6  7  Gnomeo and Juliet      176         98        78       .79
 7  8  Hop                    172        113        58*      .52
 8  9  No Strings Attached    146         71        75      1.06

10 10  Limitless              137         85        52       .62

 9 11  I Am Number Four       129         55        74      1.35
11 12  Unknown                116         65        51       .79
12 13  Adjustment Bureau      115         63        52       .83
13 14  Justin Bieber: Never    97         73        24       .33
14 15  The Rite                96         33        63      1.91
20 16  Source Code             91         56        35*      .62
18 17  Paul                    87         37        49      1.32
19 18  Sucker Punch            85         35        50*     1.45
 
15 19  Season of the Witch     84         25        59      2.38 
17 20  Big Mommas: Like Father 80         38        42      1.11 
16 21  Sanctum                 79         23        56      2.43
24 22  Scre4m                  76         40        36*      .89
25 23  Red Riding Hood         72         37        35       .94
21 24  The Dilemma             67         48        19       .39
22 25  Hall Pass               66         47        19       .41

TOTAL Jan-Apr Movies         4248       2410      1838*      .76
 (Total of 47 movies)

How to read: From left to right, the first two numbers are a film's rankings Last Week (LW) and This Week (TW), Worldwide gross (in millions), which is the sum of Estimated Domestic Final and International gross to date. (The two numbers do not always add up to the worldwide number exactly due to rounding.)  The International Impact Ratio indicates relative international performance. The Domestic number is either the actual final gross or the latest ShowbuzzDaily Domestic Ultimate estimate if the movie is still playing. The Overseas number is the actual gross to date, which tends to lag in reporting. An asterisk indicates significant overseas upside to come.  The International Impact Ratio is the film's Overseas number divided by its Domestic number. 


The worldwide box office ranking now includes movies released in 2011 through April 29. 

The total numbers at the bottom of the chart show that worldwide box office has crossed the $4.2 billion line, in this, the weakest third of the year.  A reminder, we divide the year into thirds (Winter/Spring movies released between January and April, Summer Movies between May and August, and Fall/Holiday movies between September and December).  We will chart the January-April movies through the end of May, when we will start tracking the international audience for the May-August films.      

Check back tomorrow for a look at the mid-week domestic performance of movies currently in release (a combined look at Monday and Tuesday numbers).   

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