"Way Back Home" Box-Office Results

Star Cinema's "Way Back Home" opened in cinemas last August 17, 2011 against new Hollywood releases ("Conan The Barbarian", "Crazy, Stupid, Love.") and the still strong "The Smurfs" which is now on its 2nd week and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" on its 3rd week.

Graded B by the Cinema Evaluation Board, "Way Back Home" is topbilled by Mara Clara stars Kathryn Bernardo and Julia Montes.

Now everyone's excited to know which movie led the way last weekend (August 17 to 21).



Did "Way Back Home" successfully defeat the competition? Or will it still be "The Smurfs" which was #1 during its opening weekend (August 10-14)?



No box-office figures yet are available from Box Office Mojo, but SM Megamall, which has 12 cinemas showing 9 different movies, posted on Twitter late last night the 3 movies which dominated the box-office last weekend.



According to its tweet via @SMCinemaMega, the movies which ruled the weekend boxoffice as far as their cinemas are concerned are "Conan The Barbarian", "Way Back Home" and "The Smurfs".



That's most likely the movies' possible ranking when all box-office receipts from different cinemas nationwide are collected and counted.



Last Wednesday, August 17 (opening day), @SMCinemaMega already tweeted that "Conan The Barbarian" was already leading the box-office. "Conan the Barbarian leads the box office on its first day. Way Back Home in close second."



On Wednesday, August 24, four new movies (1 Pinoy, 3 foreign films) will open in cinemas and make the competition even tougher. These movies are "Tween Academy: Class of 2012", "Cars 2", "Final Destination 5" and "One Day".

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 now showing in over 250 theaters in the Philippines

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" is now showing today, July 14, 2011, in at least 250 theaters in the Philippines.

The Philippines is actually one of the 37 lucky countries which are screening the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" one day ahead of its official world premiere, which is tomorrow, July 15, 2011.

And you've heard it right, this final Harry Potter film is being screened now in more than 250 theaters in the Philippines, so expect it to break Philippine box-office records, just like "Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon", which had P209.96 million gross revenues on its first 5 days and after 12 days, it now has P341.92 million gross, currently the 3rd all-time top-grossing film in the Philippines.

In Metro Manila alone, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" is showing in 160 theaters. Wow!!!

While it seems favorable for the cinema business in the country, it doesn't sound good for our local producers.

Two Filipino films are also currently being shown, "Temptation Island" which opened last July 6 and "The Adventures of Pureza: Queen of the Riles" which only premiered yesterday, July 13, but these two Pinoy films are being shown nationwide in only 80-90 theaters (40+ for each film) as of today, July 14.

Out of almost 300 theaters, Metro Manila is only allotting 20+ cinemas each for "Temptation Island" and "The Adventures of Pureza: Queen of the Riles".

"In The Name Of Love" posts P89.87 million gross revenues in 2 weeks

"In The Name of Love", produced by Star Cinema and stars Aga Muhlach and Angel Locsin, managed to earn P42.56 million during its 2nd week despite facing a "giant" Hollywood movie in the box-office.

According to Box Office Mojo's latest box-office tally, Walt Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" earned a record-breaking P63.14-million gross revenues for its first weekend in the Philippines, an impressive earning in only 3 days (May 20 to 22, 2011).

It's already the highest opening weekend sales for any movie in the country this 2011, beating the previous record by another Hollywood film "Thor" which had 59.74 during its first weekend.

Among local films, Star Cinema's "Catch Me I'm In Love" posted the highest opening weekend with P52.95-million.

Adding P42.56M to its 1st 5-day gross the previous week (May 11-15), "In The Name Of Love" now has an accumulated 12-day total of P89.87M as of May 22, the 2nd highest-grossing Pinoy film so far this 2011, and definitely will pass the P100M mark.

For its 3rd week, "In The Name of Love" is now facing two giants: "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tide" and the new release "Kung Fu Panda 2".

PHILIPPINE BOX-OFFICE 2011
Pinoy films only
(figures courtesy of BoxOfficeMojo.com)

1. Catch Me...I'm In Love P120.21M
2. In The Name Of Love P89.87M (as of May 22)
3. Pak! Pak! My Dr. Kwak! P77.15M
4. Bulong P67.27M
5. Who's That Girl? P58.31M
6. My Valentine Girls P44.26M
7. Tumbok P10.53M (as of May 22)
8. Tum: My Pledge Of Love P5.16M

"Pak! Pak! My Dr. Kwak!" Box-Office Gross: P21.89 million in 2 days

Star Cinema and M-Zet co-prod "Pak! Pak! My Dr. Kwak!" has been showing strong in theaters since its opening day last Black Saturday, April 23.

Box Office Mojo tabulation for the period April 20-24 shows that Pak! Pak! My Dr. Kwak! earned P21.89 million on its first 2 days.

That's quite a huge figure for a 2-day gross, and it's already an indication of a box-office success for the movie.

Probably by now, May 6, the movie, which stars Vic Sotto and Bea Alonzo, is already closer to a hundred million.

Meanwhile, "Catch Me I'm In Love" starring Sarah Geronimo and Gerald Anderson has already wrapped up with a total accumulated gross of P120.21 million after 5 weeks while the Robin Padilla-Mariel Rodriguez movie "Tum: My Pledge of Love" is still struggling in the box-office with only P5.16 million in 3 weeks.

'Catch Me I'm In Love' hits P100 million in the box-office: P108.38M in 3 weeks!

'Catch Me I'm In Love' starring Sarah Geronimo and Gerald Anderson has successfully passed P100-million at the box-office, becoming the first movie to achieve that mark in the Philippine Box Office this 2011.

It's also Gerald Anderson's first ever movie to reach P100M, while it's already Sarah's 3rd. The first two were "A Very Special Love" in 2008 and "You Changed My Life" in 2009 where she starred with John Lloyd Cruz.

It's also the first P100-million-earning movie of director Mae Cruz, who almost achieved it last year for the movie "Babe, I Love You" which had P96.34 million.

Figures from Box Office Mojo's show that Star Cinema/Viva Films' "Catch Me I'm In Love" has earned P108.38 million as of 3rd weekend, April 10, 2011, (19 days since it opened in theaters).

Meanwhile, "Tum: My Pledge of Love", a new movie released by Star Cinema last April 6, only earned P3.71 million on its first 5 days.

Robin Padilla and Mariel Rodriguez movie 'Tum: My Pledge of Love' hit or flop?

Robin Padilla and Mariel Rodriguez 's first ever movie team-up is reportedly not a hit, with only less then P15,000 ticket sales in some SM Cinemas.

That's according to Edgar Cruz in his article posted this morning on Stir.ph.

"Tum: My Pledge of Love" which opened yesterday reportedly earned P8,000 at SM Mega Mall, P11,000 at SM North EDSA, P14,000 at SM Fairview and P14,000 at SM Mall of Asia.

However, the figures coming from Cruz are as of 3PM yesterday and to be positive, more movie-goers might have watched the movie after 3 PM or on the evening.

Let's just wait for the official figures to know how much the movie earned on its opening day.

Probably the movie only earned less than 10 million yesterday, because if it was above P10M, Star Cinema Booking and Distribution would have announced it last night.

Just like what they did for 'Catch Me I'm In Love', Star Cinema announced right away via ABS-CBN's late-night show "SNN" that the movie grossed P15million during its first day.

But a high box-office figure isn't expected, 'coz as of today, April 7, "Tum: My Pledge Of Love" is showing only in less than 50 theaters nationwide, 22 of which are from Metro Manila.

"Tum: My Pledge of Love" which is directed by Robin himself has been Graded B by the Cinema Evaluation Board and Rated GP by the MTRCB.

Let's support this movie guys!

'Catch Me I'm In Love' rules Philippine box-office with P52.95 million in 5 days

'Catch Me I'm In Love', which stars Sarah Geronimo and Gerald Anderson, is the 4th Pinoy film to open this 2011 but it's so far the only certified box-office hit of the year.

Figures for the period March 23-27, 2011 are now available at BoxOfficeMojo.com and posted there is the P52.95 million 'Catch Me I'm In Love' in its first five days.

The Star Cinema-Viva Films co-produced movie topped the Philippine weekend box-office for that period, beating other new releases such as 'Sucker Punch', 'Justin Bieber: Never Say Never' and 'Limitless'.

That's quite a strong turnout because it's higher than the two box-office hits last year ("My Amnesia Girl" with 5-day opening gross of P43.9M and "Here Comes the Bride" with 5-day opening of P42.1M), and it almost surpassed the P53.2M first 5 days earnings of 'Petrang Kabayo'.

And when compared to the 1st 5 days grosses of Sarah's previous films, 'Catch Me I'm In Love' opening weekend almost reached the P58.45 opening weekend of 'A Very Special Love' in 2008, far lower than 'You Changed My Life' with P97.89M in 2009, but it's definitely much higher than last year's 'Hating Kapatid' with P43.1 M.

The movie also fared better than Gerald's films with Kim Chiu shown last year. 'Paano Na Kaya' had P41.4M and 'Till My Heartaches End' earned P33.0M during their first 5 days.

Meanwhile, 'Who's That Girl' which was solely produced by VIVA and released last March 2 has only earned P56.91 million in 4 weeks.

No data available yet from Box Office Mojo for the over-all gross receipts of February releases "Bulong" and "My Valentine Girls". But "Bulong" earned P67.27 million in 4 weeks while "My Valentine Girls" raked in only P44.26 million in 3 weeks.

Who's That Girl? Box-Office Gross: P54.28 million in 3 weeks

Box Office Mojo finally released the box-office figure for Viva Films' "Who's That Girl?" which starred Anne Curtis and Luis Manzano.

The said Wenn Deramas film which opened in theaters last March 2 has earned P54.28 million after 3 weeks or for the period Mar. 2 to 19.

The figure is lower than the P64.28M 3-week gross receipts of Star Cinema's 'Bulong' but it's higher than the P44.26M 3rd week earnings of GMA-Regal co-production 'My Valentine Girls', which were both shown in February.

Last March 23, another Pinoy film ('Catch Me I'm Fallin') has opened in theaters, but no figure yet has been released for its opening week.

Catch Me I'm In Love, a box-office hit, being shown in 3 cinemas at SM Megamall

"Catch Me I'm In Love" is indeed a box-office hit that a good number of malls in the country are showing the movie in at least two of its cinemas.

SM Mega Mall, for example, is showing the movie in 3 of its theaters.

From only one cinema during the movie's opening day last Wednesday, SM Mega Mall has decided to add two more cinemas the next day to accomodate large number of moviegoers.

"To accommodate fans and movie goers, we will be opening two (2) Cinemas starting Thursday, March 24 for Catch Me Im In Love. Watch it best at SM Cinema Megamall!," as posted on its Facebook Page.

The movie is being shown at SM Mega Mall Cinema 7, 9 and 11.

Aside from SM Mega Mall, other Metro Manila malls which are showing "Catch Me I'm In Love" in at least two cinemas include Ali Mall, Festival Supermall, Gateway Cineplex, Glorietta 4, SM City Fairview, SM City Manila, SM City North EDSA, SM City Sta. Mesa, SM Mall of Asia, SM Muntinlupa and TriNoma.

In the provinces, these malls have also alloted 2 cinemas for the movie: SM City Batangas, SM City Marilao, SM City Naga, SM City Sta. Rosa, SM City San Pablo, SM City Pampanga, SM Clark, SM City Rosales, SM City Lucena and Sta. Lucia East.

"Catch Me I'm In Love" is the first ever movie team-up of Sarah Anderson Geronimo and Gerald Anderson.

According to Star Cinema Booking and Distribution, the movie grossed P15 million on its opening day.

Congrats to Star Cinema, to its stars, staff and crew!

'Catch Me, I'm In Love' grosses P15 million on its opening day: Star Cinema

'Catch Me, I'm In Love' reportedly earned P15 million on its opening day last Wednesday, March 23, 2011.

The figure came from Star Cinema's Booking and Distribution Department, and it isn't surprising as the movie really has the box-office potential.

Thanks to the refreshing loveteam of Sarah Geronimo and Gerald Anderson, who unexpectedly brought out great screen chemistry despite coming from two successful loveteams.

Sarah had successful movie team-up with John Lloyd Cruz while Gerald was identified for the longest time with the Kimerald loveteam.

The P15 million opening gross of "Catch Me, I'm In Love" is in the same level with Star Cinema's previous box-office hits "A Love Story" and "In My Life".

"Catch Me, I'm In Love" is directed by Mae Czarina Cruz (the beautiful and brilliant director of "Babe, I Love You") and is graded B by the Cinema Evaluation Board.

John Lloyd Cruz dethroned as Box Office King

John Lloyd Cruz's 3-year streak as Box Office King has ended.

John Lloyd held the title beginning in 2007 for the movie "One More Chance", then the next year for "A Very Special Love" and again in 2009 for "You Changed My Life".

And for 2010, he almost retained the title with two box-office hits under Star Cinema: "Miss You Like Crazy" with Bea Alonzo and "My Amnesia Girl" with Toni Gonzaga.

But neither of the two films surpassed the earnings of the MMFF 2010 entries "Si Agimat at si Enteng Kabisote", which starred Sen. Bong Revilla Jr and Vic Sotto, under GMA-Regal Films and "Ang Tanging Ina Mo Last Na 'To", starred Ai-Ai delas Alas, produced by Star Cinema.

Guillermo Mendoza Scholarship Foundation has officially announced that the Box Office King title for 2010 will be awarded to Sen. Bong and Vic, while the Box Office Queen is Ai-Ai delas Alas.

It goes to show that they already changed the ruling now. Instead of the December 31 cut-off, they used January 7 as the cut-off in determining who will be crowned with the titles.

(I smell politics here.)

December 31 Cut-Off:
1. My Amnesia Girl P144.8M
2. Miss You Like Crazy P143M
3. Si Agimat At Si Enteng Kabisote P123M (estimated amount only)
4. Here Comes the Bride P116M
5. Petrang Kabayo P115.5M
6. Ang Tanging Ina Mo Last Na 'To P109M (estimated amount only)

January 7 Cut-Off:
1. Si Agimat At Si Enteng Kabisote P159M
2. Ang Tanging Ina Mo Last Na 'To P157M
3. My Amnesia Girl P144.8M
4. Miss You Like Crazy P143M
5. Here Comes the Bride P116M
6. Petrang Kabayo P115.4M P115.5M

This news saddens the fans of both John Lloyd and Toni 'coz the movie "My Amnesia Girl" was shown for a month only, from November 24 to December 24, and had to give way to the MMFF 2010 entries which opened on December 25.

"My Amnesia Girl" could have earned more than its final gross if it was extended for 1-2 weeks, just like John Lloyd's previous films which made him a Box Office King.

So maybe next time, if MMFF is coming in a month, don't release a new movie.

With the new ruling, it's most likely that the Box Office King and Queen titles for 2011 and the coming years will go to the stars whose movies were shown for the MMFF.

Shall we expect Ai-Ai, Bong and Vic getting the titles year after year?