"You Changed My Life" Grossed 199.63 Million Pesos on its 3rd Week

It’s now official!

The romantic film You Changed My Life from Star Cinema and Viva Films is now the biggest movie in Philippine history after hitting 199.63 million pesos in 3 weeks, breaking the 197 million pesos earnings of 2008 MMFF movie entry Ang Tanging Ina N’yong Lahat.

The John Lloyd Cruz and Sarah Geronimo starrer topped Philippine Box-Office for the 3rd consecutive week beating the Hollywood movie Race to Witch Mountain last weekend.

You Changed My Life also registered the all-time highest one-day gross by a Pinoy movie, a whopping P27 million last March 1, 2009.

The GMA Valentine movie When I Met U, on the other hand, concluded its 5-week run with P64,281,900.

TOP 10 MOVIES IN THE PHILIPPINES
(for the Weekend March 11-15, 2009)

1. You Changed My Life - P22.2 M
2. Race to Witch Mountain - P15.49 M *
3. Watchmen - P9.75 M
4. Taken - P4.51 M *
5. The Unborn - P3.83 M *
6. The International - P2.0 M
7. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li - P1.95 M
8. Confessions of a Shopaholic - P1.68 M
9. Shaolin Girl - P0.74 M
10. Push - P0.64 M

* New Movies

Figures courtesy of Box Office Mojo

"When I Met U" Grossed 75.58 Million Pesos on its 1st Week

GMA Films and Regal Entertainment's Valentine offering 'When I Met U' ended its first week run with a whopping 75.58 million pesos according to Box Office Mojo.

The Richard Gutierrez and KC Concepcion starrer opened amazingly in SM City North EDSA cinema with an estimated 1.3 million pesos, marked the second biggest opening day income of all time next to Star Cinema's 'Ang Tanging Ina N’yong Lahat'.

In the weekend-gross report, however, When I Met U has reportedly earned 32.46 million pesos. It is not clear however if the figure represents Friday to Sunday gross or if opening day on Wednesday and Thursday gross were included.

GMA Films reported earlier that the movie earned 25 million pesos on Valentines Day alone. This means that the possible first week gross of the movie is in the 70M to 80M bracket. Thus, the total gross-to-date according to Box Office Mojo is $1,598,750 or P75.58 M.

In comparison to Richard and KC’s first movie “For the First Time”, When I Met U is significantly behind because the Star Cinema movie registered 78.9 million pesos on its first 5 days.

Top 10 Philippine Box Office
(February 11-15, 2009)

1. When I Met U - P32.46 M
2. Valkyrie - P12 M
3. Underwold: Rise of the Lycans - P10.73 M
4. The Pink Panther 2 - P6.61 M
5. Push - P4.99 M
6. Marley and Me - P2.89 M
7. Inkheart - P1.41 M
8. My Bloody Valentine 3D - P0.78 M
9. Status: Single - P0.74 M
10. Bride Wars - P0.64 M

Twilight Tops RP Box-Office, Scaregivers Ranks 2nd

Twilight exploded in Philippine Box-office last weekend with a staggering P84.63 million haul on its first 5 days. Despite being pitted with a monster hit, the local comedy film “Scaregivers”, on the other hand, managed to deliver P13.89 million.

APT’s Scaregivers, starring Jose Manalo and Wally Bayola, was not scared at all to had its premiere run together with the highly-anticipated Twilight and Bolt. Although it placed a distant second to Twilight, it was able to best Disney’s Bolt which settled for 3rd place with P12.8 million.

Running on its second week, One True Love, starring Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes settled for 4th place with P 10.39 million. The GMA Films movie has now raked in P53,261,079.95.

Rounding off the Top 5 is Quantum of Solace with 2.93 million. The latest Bond film is now on its 4th week of screening.

The Star Cinema Movie “My Only Ü” has now raked in P79,188,930.07 on its 5th week of screening.

Philippine Box Office
(November 26-30, 2008)

1. Twilight - P 84.63 M
2. Scaregivers - P 13.89 M
3. Bolt - P 12.80 M
4. One True Love - P 10.39 M
5. Quantum of Solace - P 2.93 M
6. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - P 1.95 M
7. Passengers - P 0.48 M
8. My Only Ü - P 0.33 M
9. Sex Drive - P 0.16 M
10. Burn After Reading - P 0.15 M

Box-office Figures courtesy of Box-office Mojo thru Starmometer