I saw that! I'm a bit weirded out by those numbers. Terminator had gone from making $30,000 on Tuesday to $100,000 on Wednesday despite being in only 221 theaters. Even my theater, a 30-plex, isnt showing Terminator anymore.
It's probably a mistake. The number BOM has for
Night at the Museum is wrong too, it's the exact number from Tuesday and doesn't match the ShowBizData info.
Yeah, it seems like a mistake alright, but that's one hell of an error!
I wonder how
that happened? I mean, if those figures are right, it would mean that
Terminator Salvation experienced more than a 200% jump in ticket sales from the previous day, and took in an average of $472/theatre, which it hasn't done it almost a month. I somehow doubt it's that lucky, unless there were a large number of people who couldn't get into
Harry Potter and for some reason said, "Hey, let's go see
Terminator instead!" I just don't see it happening.
Well, even with some of this questionable data, I'm going to post my list of the
Top 10 highest-grossing films worldwide of 2009. Here we go:
1.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Domestic: $347,714,387 / 47.8%
+ Foreign: $380,207,112 / 52.2%
= Worldwide: $727,921,499
2.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Domestic: $130,801,167 / 26.5%
+ Foreign: $362,355,801 / 73.5%
= Worldwide: $493,156,968
3.
Angels & Demons
Domestic: $131,910,770 / 27.6%
+ Foreign: $345,854,043 / 72.4%
= Worldwide: $477,764,813
4.
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Domestic: $171,034,847 / 44.8%
+ Foreign: $210,365,942 / 55.2%
= Worldwide: $381,400,789
5.
Star Trek
Domestic: $252,365,299 / 66.8%
+ Foreign: $125,639,642 / 33.2%
= Worldwide: $378,004,941
6.
Monsters vs. Aliens
Domestic: $197,251,650 / 52.9%
+ Foreign: $175,300,000 / 47.1%
= Worldwide: $372,551,650
7.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Domestic: $178,963,744 / 49.2%
+ Foreign: $184,810,829 / 50.8%
= Worldwide: $363,774,573
8.
Terminator Salvation
Domestic: $123,281,740 / 34.6%
+ Foreign: $233,300,000 / 65.4%
= Worldwide: $356,581,740
9.
Fast and Furious
Domestic: $155,064,265 / 44.4%
+ Foreign: $194,250,339 / 55.6%
= Worldwide: $349,314,604
10.
Up
Domestic: $275,822,368 / 84.0%
+ Foreign: $52,500,000 / 16.0%
= Worldwide: $328,322,368
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs continues to astound, managing to take the #2 spot from
Angels & Demons, thanks to its incredible international gross so far. In fact, its foreign totals have almost caught up with those of
Transformers: ROTF, but it's still a distant second at the worldwide level.
Oh, and if anyone's curious about the totals for
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, here they are:
Domestic: $58,175,412 / 55.9%
+ Foreign: $45,850,000 / 44.1%
= Worldwide: $104,025,412
That's after
1 day, and it would put the movie at #22 on my list above (well, if my list went that long, that is
). Domestically, it's currently the 30th-highest grossing film of the year.
