Outside the US, the film grossed an additional $5,568,696, bringing its total gross box office revenue to $73,830,340.
In the last 20 years the nominee with the top gross box-office revenue at the time of the Academy Awards won best picture only five times.
Over all, attendance is down about 600,000 from the same period last year, while gross box office sales are off only about 5percentt.
The degree to which the producers wanted him may be gauged by his deal – a cool $4,000 a week against 10% of the gross box office.
Films screened in 3D in 2012 generated 18 per cent of the UK's gross box office.
Among his biggest hits: Big Daddy ($235 million worldwide gross box office sales), The Waterboy ($185 million) and The Longest Yard ($190 million).
The image of the SB scientist as "Do-it-yourself biologist" seems to be completely absent from the high gross box-office movies.
The research firm, which raised Pixar's target price to $95 from $78, also increased the worldwide gross box office projection for The Incredibles to $600 million from $525 million.
Apple's profit last quarter was $3 billion more than all of Hollywood's gross box office receipts for all of last year, notes Eric Spiegelman via Anthony De Rosa.
It earned more than in rentals, industry language for a distributor's share of gross box office receipts.
