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Horror Sales: The Purge, True Blood, and Falling Skies

the-purge-posterBox Office Numbers, DVD Sales, and Television Viewership for the week of June 7 to June 13, 2013.

Box Office: The Purge easily becomes the fourth #1 horror film of 2013. Unfortunately, it’s the only thing worth mentioning at theaters right now.

1 The Purge $43,664,000
18 14 Oz The Great and Powerful $635,000 (Total: $233,932,000)
46 32 Jack The Giant Slayer $42,000 (Total: $65,187,000)
50 49 Scary Movie 5 $23,000 (Total: $31,443,000)

DVD Top 30: The season five compilation of True Blood and the book-turned-movie Beautiful Creatures debut in the top 10.

1 True Blood Season Five $3,725,000
3 Beautiful Creatures $2,231,000
7 5 Dexter Season Seven $1,034,000 (Total: $3,765,000)
14 6 MaMa $720,000 (Total: $5,164,000)
20 4 Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D $485,000 (Total: $2,065,000)
24 17 Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 $433,000 (Total: $66,700,000)

Television Viewership: Falling Skies is still doing insanely well in its third season, which debuted this week. Teen Wolf and Defiance are still doing well, all things considered. Paranormal Witness saw a little bump in viewership – which makes me happy.

Falling Skies – 4,210,000
Pretty Little Liars – 2,972,000
Teen Wolf – 2,108,000
Hannibal – 2,006,000
Defiance – 1,908,000
Warehouse 13 – 1,663,000
The Killing – 1,488,000
Continuum – 1,421,000
Ghost Hunters – 1,353,000
Primeval: New World – 1,332,000
Paranormal Witness – 1,181,000
Supernatural (rerun) – 1,058,000
The Vampire Diaries (rerun) – 869,000
Exit – 812,000
Beauty and The Beast (rerun) – 631,000
Total Blackout – 616,000

Michael DeFellipo

(Senior Editor)

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