The Christmas box office of 25 December 2014 proved to be as festive as the holidays and the feast day, with tight scores of the first three positions of the charts and two new entries: highly expected Unbroken biopic and fantasy movie Into the Woods, which triggered a great fight in numbers pertaining to the first and second position. Box office mojo shares Christmas figures and their adjoining titles.
Unbroken proved that most befitting for the Christmas box office are heart-felt stories of real-life heroes, as gathered a total of $15,592,000, sum which propelled the Angelina Jolie directed movie into the first position of the charts in its release day. Rob Marshall’s Into the Woods, another 25 December opening movie, traced the scores of the Louis Zamperini drama and earned a total of $15,089,740. The third position of the Christmas box office was taken by previous lead The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and although the sequel met with a downfall in terms of placement, the grossing is quite satisfying for a third position, $13,140,000 being in close distance to the first and second positions of the box office. Number four movie of the Christmas box office was another sequel, but this time a comedy – Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb. The Shawn Levy directed adventure-comedy earned a total of $7,350,000. The comedy was followed by the crime-drama-thriller The Gambler, starring Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Lange and John Goodman. Rupert Wyatt’s Gambler reached the total of $5,000,000 and thus classified as the last position in the top five titles of the Christmas box office.
Deadline reported that Angelina Jolie’s drama Unbroken was also situated among the leading positions of the overall Christmas box offices and proved to be ‘’the third-highest Christmas day opener ever’’, following 2012’s Les Miserables, which cashed a total of $18.11million. The second 25 December 2014 opening movie and second in Christmas box office charts, magical Into the Woods, classified as forth title in the overall charts, as was followed by Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 Django Unchained, which gathered a $15.01million gross. The top Christmas day opener remained the year 2009 and its Sherlock Holmes, with the total of $24.6 million.
Top 10 titles of the Christmas box office (25 December 2014):
1. Unbroken – $15,592,000
2. Into the Woods – $15,084,000
3. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – $13,140,000
4. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb – $7,350,000
5. The Gambler – $5,000,000
6. Annie (2014) – $4,600,000
7. The Imitation Game – $3,077,000
8. Exodus: Gods and Kings – $3,035,000
9. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 – $2,685,756
10. Wild (2014) – $1,660,000