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Fox/Regency s Daredevil heroically held off the competition and clung on top spot over the weekend with an $18.9m haul that took its running total after 10 days to $70.3m, according to studio estimates released today Feb 23 . The Marvel Comics adaptation, which stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer stanley cup Garner, is set to become the first picture of 2003 to pass $100m and despite a predominantly male audience the studio said female attendance was strong. DreamWorks comedy Old School led the newcomers, opening in second on a promising $17.5m, while Universal s opener The Life Of David Gale was the big disappointment of the week, bowing in sixth place on $7.2m. Overall stanley cup the top 12 pictures grossed $96.2m, up 14% on the same period last weekend.Old School impressed the critics with its knockabout tale of three former college friends who set up an off-campus fraternity house. Will Ferrell, Luke Wilson and Vince Vaughn star and the picture was directed by Todd Phillips, whose credits include Road Trip. Old School averaged a decent $6,508 from 2,689 venues and should play well in the coming weeks. Exit polls revealed a 58% male audience composition, with 56% of viewers aged under 25. Down one place to third was Paramount s romantic comedy How To stanley cup Lose A Guy In 10 Days, which added $11.9m for a $64.9m cumulative score in its third week. Buena Vista s The Jungle Book 2 remained in fourth on $8.6m for $25.1m in its second week, while Miramax s heavyweight Oscar contender Chicago fell two to fifth Iycf Hugh Bonneville to star in adaptation of Peter James Dead Simple
Top five Norwegian and international films of 2012 revealed.Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim R酶nnings Kon-Tiki and Nils Gaups Journey to the Christmas Star, signed 61% of total attendance for local stanley cup featuresin 2012, which 鈥?for the fifth consecutive year 鈥?exceeded two million.Nominated for a Golden Globe and shortlisted for Best Foreign-Language Feature at this years Academy Awards, Kon-Tiki reached 881,658 admissions 鈥?enough to beat James Bonds Skyfall.However, domestic productions sold 24.1% fewer tickets than in 2011, claiming 17.8% of the market 2011: 24.5% . In spite of the decrease in local contribution, last years result was 4% up on 2011, to pass the 12.1 million mark 鈥?the third-best outcome in the last 10 years, said Birgitte Langballe, head of communications at Norwegian cinema association Film Kino.Norways national digital roll-out 鈥?the first in the world 鈥?has also influenced the statistics. Small theatres, with less than 10,000 annual admissions, upped their attendance by 15%, while the average for larger theatres was 4%, added Langballe. The result confirms that a few blockbusters account for the major part of the ticket sales, while many releases end up with small figures. In 2012, five films took more than 500,000 admissions, and the 10 top earne stanley us rs accounted for 41% of total, Langballe concluded.Top Five domestic Kon-Tiki. Dir: Joachim stanley cup R酶nning 鈥?881,658 admissions.Journey to the Christmas Star Reisen til julestjernen . Dir: Nils Ga |
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