MANILA, Oct. 01, 2012 – Monsters had a ball at the
Philippine box office as Columbia Pictures’ animated comedy “Hotel
Transylvania” opened at No.1, with a nationwide gross of a blood-curdling
P25.42-million in three days for the Sept. 28-30 frame. This was
announced today by Victor R. Cabrera, managing director of Columbia Pictures
Industries, Inc.
Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures |
The family-oriented 3D crowd-pleaser now holds the distinction of having the
biggest opening ever from Sony Pictures Animation whose past big hits include
“Surf’s Up” and “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.”
In the U.S., “Hotel Transylvania” also captured the
No. 1 crown at $43 million. It's likewise the biggest hit for Sony
Pictures Animation, surpassing the $31 million opening of “Cloudy with a Chance
of Meatballs” back in 2009 as well as setting a new September opening record,
which was previously held by Reese Witherspoon's “Sweet Home Alabama” for ten
years with $35.6 million.
The film is also Adam Sandler's second biggest opening
after his 2005 remake of “The Longest Yard.” The movie is Sony's eighth No. 1
movie for the year and it pushes them back into the lead in terms of market
share.
Back in the Philippines, “Hotel
Transylvania” bowed in 142 screens, including 25 3D cinemas. Power Plant
Mall posted the highest sales at P1.72-M, while SM Mall of Asia and Trinoma
were the runners-up at P1.43-M and P1.18-M, respectively.
Two more cinemas performed over
the one million mark – Eastwood at P1,028,975 and SM North EDSA at P1,028,061.
Rounding out the Top Ten are SM
Megamall (P798,386), Greenbelt 3 (P715,977), Market! Market! (P692,293),
Glorietta 4 (P642,273) and Alabang Town Center (P549,087).
The 11th to 20th
rankings are occupied are Newport Cinema (P506,802), Ayala Center Cebu
(P427,720), Robinsons Manila (P410,404), Robinsons Galleria (P394,347),
Robinsons Magnolia (P391,922), Greenhills (P387,860), SM Marikina (P370,900),
Harborpoint (P365,392), Shang Cineplex (P359,260) and SM Fairview (P354,636).
In the film, “Hotel
Transylvania” is Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their
families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to
bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula (voice of Adam Sandler) has
invited some of his best friends – Frankenstein and his bride, the Mummy, the
Invisible Man, the Werewolf family, and more – to celebrate his beloved
daughter Mavis’s 118th birthday. In the vampire world, that signals the time to
break out from the sanctuary. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary
monsters is no problem – but everything could change for the overprotective dad
when one ordinary guy stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis (voice
of Selena Gomez).
Now playing across the Philippines in Digital 3D, 2D and regular theaters,
“Hotel Transylvania” is distributed by Columbia Pictures, local office of Sony
Pictures Releasing International. Visit http://www.columbiapictures. com.ph
for trailers, exclusive content and free downloads. Like us at www.Facebook.com/ ColumbiaPicturesPH
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