Star Cinema has another reason to celebrate as its latest offering 'One More Chance', which stars John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo, has topped the Philippine weekend box office, November 14-18, 2007, with a gross of $1.5M or 66.3 million pesos.It almost toppled down the opening weekend gross of Aga Muhlach starrer 'A Love Story' with 68 million pesos, when it opened last August. However, when converted to US dollars, 'A Love Story' had $1.4 million gross sales, 100 thousand dollars short from 'One More Chance', considering that the US dollar rate in August was P46.00 as compared to these days' P43.OO-P44.00.
With this, 'One More Chance' has prevented foreign film 'Beowulf' to land on the top spot last weekend. It settled on 2nd place, with $0.7 million or 28.7 million pesos.
'Beowulf' has topped weekend box-office charts in the US, Austria, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand.
If the trend continues, 'One More Chance' is in the running for Top 5 Box-Office hits in the Philippines for 2007 if we look at the total box-office gross of the following Filipino movies shown in the past 9 months:
A Love Story - $3.1 million
Ouija - $2.1 million or 97.7 million pesos
Ang Cute ng Ina Mo - $1.7 million
Paano Kita Iibigin - $1.5 million 0r 70.8 million pesos
Apat Dapat, Dapat Apat - $1.3 million or 51 million pesos as of Nov. 04, 2007
I've Fallen For You - $0.8 million or 36 million pesos as of Oct. 28, 2007
Hide and Seek - $0.47 million
Tiyanaks - $0.46 million
My Kuya's Wedding - $0.37 million or 17.1 million pesos as of September 16, 2007
Silip - $0.32 million
Angels - $0.1 million
PHILIPPINE WEEKEND BOX-OFFICE
November 14-18, 2007
1 One More Chance $1,518,163
2 Beowulf $656,686
3 The Nanny Diaries $51,924
4 The Game Plan $49,012
5 Superbad $39,683
6 30 Days of Night $26,741
7 Balls of Fury $21,805
8 Hide and Seek (2007) $21,386
9 Lions for Lambs $21,178
10 The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising $8,093
US WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
November 16-18, 2007
1 Beowulf $27,515,871
2 Bee Movie $14,008,444
3 American Gangster $12,875,250
4 Fred Claus $11,914,323
5 Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium $9,630,085
6 Dan in Real Life $4,343,185
7 No Country for Old Men $3,075,722
8 Lions for Lambs $2,896,594
9 Saw IV $2,248,805 -54.6%
10 Love in the Time of Cholera $1,924,860
Figures courtesy of boxofficemojo.com and imdb.com
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