Philippine Box Office Recap 29

To check out the previous recap click here and as always some reminders and disclaimers:

• The following box office stats are from the ever awesome Box Office Mojo's Philippine Box Office Index. Thus, my box office comparisons and analysis are only limited to what Box Office Mojo has in its records
• Studios and local distributors sometimes issues press releases about the box office performance of their movies and there are instances that they do not exactly match the data Box Office Mojo have in hand. I'm not sure how wide Box Office Mojo's scope is with our local theaters but for the purposes of a consistent discussion and analysis I will only focus on the numbers posted at Box Office Mojo.
• I added some stuff like the Mission Impossible : Ghost Protocol box office for 2012 since Box Office Mojo does not include that 2011 holdover on their Top Movies 2012 list. Meanwhile the box office numbers for the holdovers from the MMFF last year are not on BOM's list so they're not on here as well.
• Box Office Mojo does not have the numbers for Ayala Cinemas Exclusive My Week with Marilyn and local movie Gun Guni so it's not on the charts below.

The Mistress leapfrogs The Dark Knight Rises and The Bourne Legacy to take the bronze medal on the 2012 Philippine Box Office chart. The John Lloyd-Bea starrer already accumulated P231 million ahead of The Dark Knight Rises' P219 million and The Bourne Legacy's P200 million. Is The Mistress lock for the #3 spot until the end of the year? Well not yet as we have Vice Ganda's upcoming comedy This Guy is in Love With You Mare and let's not forget how Vice Ganda's Praybeyt Benjamin dominated the box office last year, finishing as the #2 movie bbehind Transformers 3 and beating the final installment of Harry Potter series. There's also the final installment of the Twilight series so #3 spot is not lock yet for The Mistress but it sure did phenomenal in the local box office.

Among the new releases, the animated flick Hotel Transylvania performed the best with P25 million while the Aga Muhlach-Regine Velasquez reunion movie Of All The Things disappointed with P14.5 million. The excellent adaptation The Perks of Being a Wallflower sadly didn't perform that well with just P3.2 million. The Mel Gibson movie Get the Gringo (titled here as Most Wanted) did fine with P2 million considering it's basically an obscure movie that didn't get that much promotion or even a release date in the US. The Cinemalaya movie Sta. Nina only got a miniscule P332K

Here is the latest Philippine Box Office tally as originally posted at BoxOffice forums

Top Movies for 2012 To Date (as of Sept. 30, 2012)

1. The Avengers - 608,818,151 PHP
2. The Amazing Spider-Man  - 340,249,995 PHP
3. (local) The Mistress - 230,988,832 PHP
4. The Dark Knight Rises -  219,825,031 PHP
5. The Bourne Legacy - 200,560,431 PHP
6. (local) UnOfficially Yours - 157,254,200 PHP
7. Wrath of The Titans - 145,947,263 PHP
8. The Hunger Games - 139,996,453 PHP
9. (local) Kimmy Dora and the Temple of Kiyeme -   133,963,009 PHP
10. MIB 3 - 131,174,819 PHP
11. Battleship -122,592,175 PHP
12. Snow White & The Huntsman - 120,917,585 PHP
13. Resident Evil: Retribution -    117,099,259 PHP
14. (local) The Healing - 104,602,460 PHP
15. Underworld Awakening - 102,119,364 PHP  
16. The Expendables 2 -94,314,276 PHP
17. Ice Age: Continental Drift -   92,215,792 PHP
18. John Carter -87,165,284 PHP
19. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance - 72,209,152 PHP
20. Dark Shadows - 68,972,654 PHP
21. (local) The Reunion - 68,112,967 PHP
22. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - 67,511,470 PHP
23. Brave -66,173,290 PHP
24. (local) Moron 5 and the Crying Lady - 64,642,363 PHP
25. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - 61,951,573 PHP
26. Total Recall (2012) -   61,988,226 PHP
27. The Vow - 59,626,147 PHP
28. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - 56,676,178 PHP
29. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - 56,157,209 PHP
30. (local) Born To Love You - 52,022,256 PHP
31. (local) Corazon: Ang Unang Aswang - 51,389,780 PHP
32. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol* - 50,696,658 PHP*
33. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - 50,576,348 PHP
34. (local) Every Breath U Take - 50,191,540 PHP
35. Step Up Revolution - 45,976,505 PHP
36. Prometheus   - 44,648,261 PHP
37. Chronicle -35,486,025 PHP
38. The Darkest Hour - 34,477,168 PHP
39. This Means War - 32,491,717 PHP
40. (local) The Mommy Returns - 30,613,315 PHP
41. Mirror, Mirror -28,718,269 PHP
42. (local) Boy Pick-Up: The Movie - 25,376,588 PHP
43. (local) Amorosa   - 25,201,412 PHP
44. Hotel Transylvania     -    25,181,599 PHP  
45. (local) A Mother's Story - 24,815,781 PHP
46. The Dictator - 24,387,937 PHP
47. Titanic 3D   - 23,119,015 PHP
48. (local) My Cactus Heart - 23,008,393 PHP
49. The Lucky One - 22,972,803 PHP
50. The Lorax-21,324,022 PHP
51. The Possession - 19,232,521 PHP
52. The Devil Inside -17,961,575 PHP
53. Magic Mike  - 17,960,779 PHP
54. American Reunion - 17,457,036 PHP
55. Rock of Ages - 16,617,234 PHP
56. (local) Of All the Things     -     14,524,958 PHP
57. Safe House - 14,284,788 PHP
58. Jack and Jill - 13,462,940 PHP
59. (local) My Kontrabida Girl - 13,092,496 PHP
60. (local) I Do Bidoo Bidoo -   12,846,578 PHP
61. The Watch - 11,727,783 PHP
62. 21 Jump Street - 11,322,999 PHP
63. Dredd     - 9,617,920 PHP
64. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3: Dog Days -9,590,553 PHP
65. The Campaign   -    9,506,645 PHP
66. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 9,475,901 PHP
67. Contraband - 9,151,255 PHP
68. Safe (2012) - 9,048,485 PHP
69. The Witness - 8,617,970 PHP
70. The Cabin in the Woods - 7,755,247 PHP
71. Lockout -  7,400,961 PHP
72. (local) Just One Summer - 6,155,778 PHP
73. (local) Hitman - 5,757,748 PHP
74. We Bought a Zoo - 5,568,319 PHP
75. (local) Pridyider - 4,883,261 PHP
76. The Raid: Redemption - 4,743,908 PHP
77. Star Wars Episode 1 3D - 4,595,572 PHP
78. Hugo     -   4,407,536 PHP
79. Katy Perry: Part of Me - 4,156,470 PH
80. Special Forces - 4,037,937 PHP
81. The Grey - 4,000,508 PHP
82. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - 3,870,089 PHP
83. The Cold Light of Day - 3,681,644 PHP
84. Ruby Sparks - 3,628,558 PHP
85. What to Expect When You're Expecting -3,626,430 PHP
86. Act of Valor -  3,486,162 PHP
87. Piranha 3DD - 3,424,936 PHP
88. The Perks of Being a Wallflower   -   3,233,047 PHP    
89. The Descendants - 3,217,457 PHP
90. ParaNorman - 3,066,417 PHP  
91. Moneyball - 2,628,771 PHP
92. The Woman in Black - 2,624,792 PHP
93. StreetDance 2 - 2,383,066 PHP
94. Haywire - 2,365,429 PHP
95. J.Edgar -2,092,195 PHP
96. Get the Gringo     -    2,091,989 PHP    
97. The Pirates! Band of Misfits - 2,073,521 PHP
98. War Horse  - 2,032,464 PHP
99. The Muppets - 1,916,008 PHP
100. One For the Money - 1,783,197 PHP
101. Beauty and the Beast (3D) - 1,666,199 PHP
102. Man on a Ledge - 1,588,510 PHP
103. (local) Bwakaw - 1,552,264 PHP
104. Breaking Wind  -1,359,086 PHP
105. Dark Floors - 1,257,270 PHP
106. (local) Ang Nawawala - 1,245,505 PHP
107. Gone - 1,193,074 PHP
108. Machine Gun Preacher - 1,166,230 PHP
109. Coriolanus - 1,180,075 PHP
110. 11-11-11 1,125,821 PHP
111. (local) Captive - 1,113,851 PHP
112. The Hunting Party - 1,112,003 PHP
113. (local) Mga Mumunting Lihim - 774,349 PHP
114. People Like Us - 717,424 PHP
115. Hope Springs - 665,466 PHP
116. Quick     -    653,726 PHP
117. 407 Dark Flight - 634,703 PHP
118. Anonymous -549,309 PHP
119. (local) Sta. Niña     - 332,828 PHP  
120. Big Miracle - 252,798 PHP

* for 2012 only. Total box office: 168,442,905 PHP