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Block-Busters for 2007Staff reports - January 01, 2008
Top 10 Movies
Harry Potter's magic couldn't knock the Web slinger from his perch as the top movie for 2007. Based on total domestic box office receipts through the first week of December.
1. Spider-Man 3 - $336,530,303
2. Shrek the Third - $321,012,359
3. Transformers - $319,071,806
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - $309,420,425
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - $292,000,866
6. The Bourne Ultimatum - $227,471,070
7. 300 - $210,614,939
8. Ratatouille - $206,435,493
9. The Simpsons Movie - $183,106,242
10. Wild Hogs - $168,273,550
Source: Neilsen EDI/The Hollywood Reporter
Boxofficemojo.com tracks movies based on, obviously, their box office receipts. It offers the most up-to-date listings (Will Smith's "I Am Legend" knocks "Wild Hogs" out of the top 10) and lets you compare years.
Top 10 Sequels
Neilsen also offers up the top 10 sequels for 2007, which may go down in history as the "year of the thirds" (and higher).
1. Spider-Man 3
2. Shrek the Third
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
5. The Bourne Ultimatum
6. Rush Hour 3
7. Live Free or Die Hard
8. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
9. Ocean's Thirteen
10. Evan Almighty
Source: Nielsen EDI / The Hollywood Reporter
Best of the Year
The American Film Institute picked its top 10 American films for the year. In alphabetical order, they are:
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
Juno
Knocked Up
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
The Savages
There Will Be Blood
The films are selected by a 13-person jury of film professionals. AFI also offers up the top 100 films of the century.
Who goes to the movies?
Nielsen and Scarborough Research found the most avid moviegoers (adults who went the cinema at least four times in the last three months) were more likely to live in urban areas in the West and Southwest. All 10 metro regions beat the national average of 8 percent; tops was Salt Lake City, at 16 percent.
1. Salt Lake City
2. Miami/Fort Lauderdale
3. El Paso, Texas
4. San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose
5. Los Angeles
6. Austin, Texas
7. San Diego
8. West Palm Beach/Fort Pierce, Fla.
9. Las Vegas
10. Fresno/Visalia, Calif.
Source: Scarborough Research, Scarborough USA+ Release 1 2007
Home Movies
Since barely 8 percent of the population can be described as "avid moviegoers," it seems most people like to wait for films to come out on DVD so they can watch them at home.
According to Nielsen, the top 10 DVDs purchased in 2007 (as of November) were:
1. Happy Feet
2. Transformers
3. 300
4. Night at the Museum
5. The Departed
6. Ratatouille
7. Casino Royale
8. Shrek the Third
9. Wild Hogs
10. The Pursuit of Happyness
Source: Nielsen VideoScan / Does not include Wal-Mart sales.
For the complete list of Neilsen's list of top 10 lists, click here. |
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