The Monkey King Dominates Worldwide Weekend Box Office

Los Angles, Feb. 2, 2014, — Rentrak Corporation, the leader in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, today announced the worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of Feb. 2, 2014 as compiled by the company’s Box Office Essentials™ and International Box Office Essentials™ theatrical measurement services.
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Donnie Yen, star of the Monkey King, grew up in Boston.




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Rentrak’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian commented, “The Chinese New Year brought good tidings to the international marketplace with the top two films representing China in solid fashion with “The Monkey King” in first place with a whopping $46 million in 7 territories and “Dad, Where Are We Going” coming on strong in its second place debut in 1 territory with an impressive $34 million. Also representing China was “The Man From Macau” in 6 territories and $12.5 million. Other notable global box office news includes Disney’s “Frozen” now just shy of $865 million and Warner Bros.’ “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” nearing $855 million.”

Full details regarding the global domestic and international box office results are listed in the table below.

Weekend Release Cume  (USD)
Weekend BO Estimate  (USD)
Title Worldwide Int’l Domestic Worldwide Int’l
Monkey King 46,000,000 46,000,000 54,000,000 54,000,000
Dad, Where 34,000,000 34,000,000 34,000,000 34,000,000
Frozen 33,310,000 24,000,000 9,310,000 864,413,000 504,400,000
Wolf Of Wall 29,550,000 26,000,000 3,550,000 226,076,761 122,000,000
Viy 17,700,000 17,700,000 17,700,000 17,700,000
Miss Granny 15,300,000 15,300,000 26,800,000 26,800,000
Jack Ryan: S 14,500,000 9,100,000 5,400,000 100,067,970 61,100,000
Man From M 12,500,000 12,500,000 12,500,000 12,500,000
Ride Along 12,313,765 12,313,765 94,076,515 1,100,000
12 Years A S 11,100,000 9,700,000 1,400,000 96,408,395 50,600,000
I, Frankenstei 11,020,000 7,500,000 3,520,000 39,490,070 25,000,000
That Awkwar 10,360,000 1,350,000 9,010,000 10,360,000 1,350,000
American Hu 10,300,000 6,000,000 4,300,000 181,621,179 48,000,000
Nut Job, The 9,363,155 1,750,000 7,613,155 52,246,150 2,000,000
Lone Survivor 8,461,300 1,300,000 7,161,300 110,854,856 6,000,000
47 Ronin 7,526,150 7,400,000 126,150 130,285,940 92,000,000
RoboCop 5,500,000 5,500,000 5,500,000 5,500,000
Labor Day 5,300,000 5,300,000 5,300,000
August: Osa 4,486,000 1,600,000 2,886,000 44,514,146 13,000,000
Book Thief, T 4,100,000 4,100,000 44,215,854 23,600,000
Devil’s Due 3,950,000 3,000,000 950,000 24,205,868 9,500,000
Hobbit: The D 3,940,000 2,700,000 1,240,000 854,269,814 600,000,000



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