Inception Continues Impressive Box Office Run

Posted on Monday, August 9, 2010 at 11:21 pm by George

After three straight weekends atop the box office, Inception‘s streak was ended by Adam McKay’s The Other Guys (opening with over $35.5 million). Slipping to #2, Inception still managed another impressive drop (32.7%) and drew $18.5 million worth of tickets in its fourth weekend. Inception’s North American total now stands at $227.6 million after 24 days, on track for a domestic run ending around $300 million. A big test of that potential landmark will arrive this coming weekend, as Inception must contend with three new wide releases: The Expendables, Eat Pray Love, and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Amidst growing competition and a dropping theater count, Inception will need to pull at least $12 million in its fifth weekend to keep alive the $300 million domestic trajectory.

Foreign totals for Inception have now exceeded $251 million, bringing the worldwide total to $478.8 million. The United Kingdom and South Korea are currently the film’s second and third strongest markets, with $41 million and $25.7 million respectively. This past weekend saw openings in Spain ($4.5 million) and Brazil ($2 million). Remaining releases for Inception include Venezuela (August 13), Greece (August 24), China (September 2), and Italy (September 24). What did you see this past weekend? And are you planning on seeing anything this coming weekend?

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Cilogy

You can really feel the :/ face in this news post.
Dark enV

Inception has a really good shot at $300 million domestically and a worldwide total of $700 million or more, hope it continues to score big in the next few weeks.
http://www.nolanfans.com George

@Cilogy
It’s not #1, but that’s not something to be disappointed with. Inception had its usual low 30′s drop, The Other Guys just happened to make more.
#1fan

come we all need to take a friend to see inception with us
kanjisheik

Its ‘amidst’, not ‘admist’.
brian

just came back from my 11th viewing!
Akash Kumar

Saw it 3 times
mike

@brian i hope you are joking. that is officially effing ridiculous.

anyway does anyone know or think maul saying to cobb in essence ‘look you are just making up scenarios b/c you are dreaming , with fake coporations and armies chasing you’ is that supposed to be a clue to the audience that the whole movie was a dream?
Chee

I saw The Other Guys this weekend and I’m probably gonna go see Scott Pilgrim and The Expendables.

I’ll try to see Inception one more time before it leaves theaters, but it really depends on the money.
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ronnee

@mike…yea it is. actually there are a lot of things in this masterpiece which will point to quite some different things. its how you choose to perceive them, i think, that will give you the way to interpret the whole movie. giving it sort of a dreamscape feel and a huge scope altogether.
Matt

Saw Inception twice, probably my favorite Nolan film. Saw the Other Guys this past weekend and didn’t think it was very good (I’m actually a Will Ferrel fan and the movie received decent reviews, don’t see why). Wished I would have seen Inception a third time.
EMIRC-DNIM

I will not see anything else until Inception is not in theaters anymore! UGHH, I hate just saying that, it gives me a sick feeling in my stomach ;( I have got to see it at least 3 times! I don’t understand how Avatar made more money than this. Just shows you how many idiotic people are in this world.
ronnee

yay!!!saw it three times…
vinay

i feel out of place on this topic since i seen it ONLY once:)
misko

I saw it twice and next time I’ll just go on something else, bluray sounds better for next time watching for me
John

I’ve seen it 8 times, but it took me 7 times to figure out the last, niggling little detail that was puzzling me.

It was just an amazing experience for me to see a movie that got more gratifying to watch the more effort I put into it. Kudos to Nolan, and his cast and crew, for actually having faith in the willingness of their audience to put things together themselves.
http://blog.naver.com/onlyfornada FromK

Inception has earned about $25 million in Korea which surpasses Japan with $23.
It will earn about more than $30~35 milion total in Korea.
ronnee

@john…what’s that detail?
http://www.nolanfans.com George

@FromK
You are correct. It looks like foreign tallies from the weekend were updated just after I posted this article. They also pushed the UK total up to $41 million. And France (with $22.7 million) is not too far behind South Korea and Japan.
vinay

thats getting it to close to half billion then rite?
http://www.nolanfans.com George

New worldwide estimates put Inception past the half billion dollar mark with $562.6 million!
John

@ronnee

I don’t want to get too specific in order to avoid spoilers, but it has to do with the characters conversing in the very first scene in the movie.