Re: [dvd-discuss] 2001 Best year ever for movies

[Ronald Austin <ronald(at)caprock-spur.com>]

> How about 10 of the top 50 in the Rental market as of Dec 23 2001:
>
>  Title			Days Out	Rental $ to Date	Box Office Revenues (domestic only)
>
> Rush Hour 2		12		27.8M		226.1M
> Pearl Harbour		19		10.36M		198.5M
> The Princess Diaries	5		9.26M		108.1M
> Jurassic Park 3		12		9.23M		181.2M
> Planet of the Apes	33		7.9M		179.6M
> Grinch that stole Xmas	33		6.18M		260M
> Tomb Raider		40		3.35M		131.1M
> Shrek			51		1.28M		267.7M
> The Mummy Returns	82		0.49M		202M
> Spy Kids		96		0.21M		112.7M
>
> Maybe the formatting won't get too screwed.
>
> The "Days out" column is how many days  since release on Video(DVD&VHS).
> "Rental $ to date" is the amount made on rentals so far . How they figure
> that I don't know, I assume it's a educated guess based on a poll of
> retailers. No one has ever called me. :-) The "Box Office Revenues is what
> I assume to domestic only. I haven't tried to find global box office
> figures yet. Keep in mind that this is just the top 50 renters as of Dec 23
> 2001 that made over 100M in box office revenue. If you changed that to 50M
> you would get about 10 more. I would have to go back  to at least May 2001
> to see if there are 10 more 100M movies but I suspect that there are. There
> are 100's of movies released that have box office grosses of 10-90M most
> are cheaply made B and C Action and Horror movies that more than make back
> there money worldwide. I think it's the Hollywood accounting that is most
> of the problem with movies "MAKING" money. Also note that 4 of these 10
> made 200M+. All of the biggest movies of the year almost always get
> released between Oct. and Dec.
>
> Ronald
 Hate to reply to my own message but I  looked at rental info so some of the 
movies were released in 2000. Heres the list from the internet movie database.


Gross
                                   
                                                        Movie
 314,964,965		Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
 287,573,505		The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
 267,652,016		Shrek (2001)
 252,338,340		Monsters, Inc. (2001)
 226,138,454		Rush Hour 2 (2001)
 202,007,640		The Mummy Returns (2001)
 198,539,855		Pearl Harbor (2001)
 181,856,578		Ocean's Eleven (2001)
 181,166,115		Jurassic Park III (2001)
 180,011,740		Planet of the Apes (2001)


Sorry about that, I "think" rentals and they often roll over to the next year.


Ronald