Overview of the USA box office
On the previous week the USA box offices have achieved a great results according to different reviews.
Animation studio Pixar is the eleventh time has hit eleven jackpot on American screens, having achieved its currently the biggest success continuation of "Toy Story."
For the premiere weekend of the third cartoon in the series has earned 110.3 million in 7,200 cinemas 4,025 theaters (27,385 dollars from the site), setting passing several notable records. The first in this list is taken from the sequel "Transformers" (109 million), the best result among all June primes, the next largest record sales the first day of rental for cartoons with 41.1 million against $ 37.6 million in "Shrek 3D". According to box office debut weekend of "The Great Escape" is the tenth largest in history.
60% of the total weekend cash had been received from 3,200 three-dimensional screens in 2,463 theaters, including the leading role played by 180 IMAX cinemas. The third "Toy Story" became the first Pixar project going on in this format, and cartoon characters have fully justified the trust placed in them. Gained for the premiere weekend sum of 8,4 million dollars has become a new record for animated films, leaving far behind the result of last year's "Monsters vs. Aliens" (5.1 million). "Our evening sessions were very good. With cartoons often happens that after six o'clock in the evening the audience simply disappears, but now it did not happen" - admired the head of IMAX Filmed Entertainment Greg Foster.
Higher ticket prices in IMAX 3D and added approximately $ 20 million to the box office weekend, though, on the other hand, we can only guess how many potential viewers were put off sharply risen in recent years the price at the box office cinema. At the same time, the share of revenue from 3D "The Great Escape" slightly below the previous representative of the genre "Shrek forever" (61%) and Disney movie "Alice in Wonderland" (71%). In recognition of the studios, the presence of other movies in theaters in 3D is not possible to reserve a maximum number of screens, and for this reason had to reach missing number of what was available.
Traditionally it was believed that the previous part of the "Toy Story" cartoon was based entirely on the family audience, this trend is largely obscure and now. Proportion of parents with children made up 67% of all visitors, 54% of viewers was younger than 25 years with equal proportions of both sexes.
At the international box office animation starts with the cashier in 44,8 million dollars in 25 territories, and have also established a number of records, twice or even more surpassing those found earlier Pixar releases.
To be continued...