Transformers Wins The Summer Box Office Wars In The States
posted by Jay Cochran in movies at 07:39 AM on 2009.09.18
Rentrak Corporation, today announced the 2009 summer movie season box office results for both North America and International territories according to the company's Box Office Essentials(TM) and International Box Office Essentials(TM) theatrical box office data collection and analytical services. The top summer box office chart topper in North America was "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" that helped drive an increase in the summer movie season revenue total by 2.51 percent as compared to the comparable time period, May 2 through September 8, 2008. Globally, "Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince" was ranked number one and "Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs" earned the greatest amount of foreign box revenue, with foreign box office revenue for the summer movie season up 5.90 percent as compared to similar period May 2 through September 8, 2008.
Summer movie season revenue for 2009 included $4,335,545,158 for all movies across North America, and $10,044,529,301 for all films internationally. In comparison, for the same date ranges in 2008, North American total summer movie season box office revenue was $4,229,257,486 and the international revenue tally was $9,485,164,239.
Top-ranking movie rating categories that drove North American box office revenue included 67 PG-13 rated movies that earned collectively US$2,004,470,951 and were, again for the second year in a row, the top box office ticket sales drivers; 31 PG-rated movies that drove US$1,173,515,157 in revenue; 82 R-rated features that drove US$1,071,841,391 in ticket sales; 8 G-rated movies that earned US$52,080,035; and 137 Not Rated (NR) films that brought in US$33,637,624 in ticket sales.
Comparatively, during the summer movie season of 2008, 76 PG-13 rated films led box office revenue earnings as a ratings category, with 90 R-rated movies as the second largest North American ticket sales revenue driver, 22 PG-rated movies in third position, 13 G-rated movies in fourth position and 172 Not Rated (NR) films in fifth position respectively.
"The drawing power of high quality Hollywood feature films remains very strong as one of America's greatest exports and global income earners during the 2009 summer movie season," commented Ron Giambra, Executive Vice President Worldwide at Rentrak. "Despite the economic downturn that has impacted consumers worldwide, Hollywood movies continue to be a huge global draw for audiences, with discretionary spending on movie theater tickets increasing as compared to other forms of consumer discretionary and leisure spending such as dining out , retail purchases and travel which are noticeably-to-significantly down," Giambra added.
The top ten 2009 summer movie season titles across North America were:
May 1st, 2009 thru Sept 7 2009 , North America
1 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen PG13 Paramount 6/24/2009 400,641,549
2 Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince PG Warner Bros. 7/15/2009 297,614,366
3 Up PG Disney 5/29/2009 290,866,563
4 Hangover, The R Warner Bros. 6/5/2009 272,197,388
5 Star Trek PG13 Paramount 5/8/2009 257,171,491
6 Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs PG 20th Century Fox 7/1/2009 194,224,066
7 X-Men Origins: Wolverine PG13 20th Century Fox 5/1/2009 179,875,159
8 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian PG 20th Century Fox 5/22/2009 176,794,393
9 Proposal, The PG13 Disney 6/19/2009 161,137,964
10 GI Joe Rise of Cobra PG13 Paramount 8/7/2009 141,021,754
The top ten international 2009 summer movie season chart toppers were:
May 1st, 2009 thru Sept 7, 2009 International
1 Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince 59 788,495,945 568,955,595 7.85% 892,998,905
2 Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs 64 778,416,156 606,311,150 7.75% 856,765,746
3 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 61 677,784,470 366,611,145 6.75% 831,263,387
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Rentrak Corporation, today announced the 2009 summer movie season box office results for both North America and International territories according to the company's Box Office Essentials(TM) and International Box Office Essentials(TM) theatrical box office data collection and analytical services. The top summer box office chart topper in North America was "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" that helped drive an increase in the summer movie season revenue total by 2.51 percent as compared to the comparable time period, May 2 through September 8, 2008. Globally, "Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince" was ranked number one and "Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs" earned the greatest amount of foreign box revenue, with foreign box office revenue for the summer movie season up 5.90 percent as compared to similar period May 2 through September 8, 2008.
