The Reunion Grosses P55.57 Million in Two Weeks, Just One Summer Flops at the Box Office

Star Cinema's barkada movie The Reunion starring Xian Lim, Kean Cipriano, Enchong Dee and Enrique Gil had already grossed P55.57 million after 2 weeks of showing in theaters according to third party tabulator Box Office Mojo (BOM). The said movie had an opening gross of P10 million according to Star Cinema.

The Reunion added about P24 million to its first week gross of P31.21 million to maintain its 3rd place position on the box office tally for the period of August 22-26, which was dominated by Colin Farrell's Total Recall. It was also last week when The Healing breached the P100 million mark.

Meanwhile, JuliElmo's launching movie, Just One Summer, grossed P6.16 million on its first week run and has been pulled out in theaters. The box office results of the two movies was in contrast to the results of our poll wherein  Just One Summer won over The Reunion by mile.

Cinemalaya movie Mga Mumunting Lihim grossed P0.77 million on its first week of showing. Here are the top 10 movies in the Philippines for the period August 22-26 according to BOM.

TW	LW	Movie	Studio	Weekend Gross	Gross-to-Date	Week
1	N	Total Recall (2012)	Sony	28,809,494 PHP	28.81-M PHP	1
2	2	The Expendables 2	Viva Int.	20,423,228 PHP	74.73-M PHP	2
3	3	The Reunion (2012)	Star Cin.	11,748,208 PHP	55.57-M PHP	2
4	1	The Bourne Legacy	UIP	11,575,873 PHP	195.47-M PHP	3
5	6	Brave	Disney	1,880,653 PHP	65.21-M PHP	4
6	7	Step Up Revolution	Pioneer	937,674 PHP	45.98-M PHP	4
7	5	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days	Fox	820,286 PHP	9.3-M PHP	2
8	N	Mga Mumunting Lihim	n/a	774,349 PHP	0.77-M PHP	1
9	N	Hope Springs	Pioneer	665,466 PHP	0.67-M PHP	1
10	8	The Dark Knight Rises	WB	380,417 PHP	223.01-M PHP	6

Highest Grossing Pinoy Films for 2012
(as of August 26, 2012)

1. Unofficially Yours - P157.25 M
2. Kimmy Dora and the Temple of Kiyeme - P133.34 M
3. The Healing - P104.6 M
4. Moron 5 and the Crying Lady - P64.6 M
5. The Reunion - P55.57 M
6. Born To Love You - P52.37 M
7. Corazon: Ang Unang Aswang - P51.4 M
8. Every Breath U Take - P50.2 M
9. The Mommy Returns - P30.6 M
10. Boy Pick-Up: The Movie - P24.99 M
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11. A Mother's Story - P24.81 M
12. My Cactus Heart - P23 M
13. My Kontrabida Girl - P13.09 M
14. The Witness - P8.6 M
15. Just One Summer - P6.16 M
16. Hitman - P5.75 M
17. Mga Mumunting Lihim - P0.77 M

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Poll: The Reunion vs Just One Summer - Which movie will you watch on August 15?

On August 15, two barkada/teen movies will be hitting the big screen. These are The Reunion under Star Cinema and Just One Summer under GMA Films and APT Entertainment.

Both highly anticipated, The Reunion and Just One Summer are expected to make it big in theaters since both have the hottest young stars of rival networks ABS-CBN and GMA-7 in the cast. The Reunion had the ensemble of Xian Lim, Enrique Gil, Kean Cipriano and Enchong Dee while Just One Summer boasts one hot love team of Julie Ann San Jose and Elmo magalona (JuliElmo).

Here are the plots of the two movies (from Wikipedia):

The Reunion plot

Just One Summer plot

The movie revolves around a group of young men who are friends since high school. Several years later, they decided to meet once again. They have come to know that each other has a feeling of not moving on with their lives because of a wrong did way back high school. Now, they are in the journey of finding the true meaning of love and happiness as they reunite once again

A rich, rebellious boy spends the summer with his father who he has considered long dead and his mistress while waiting for the annulment of his father and his mother's marriage. During his stay with his father during the summer, he meets a poor girl who is his childhood friend and is a scholar of whom her family is depending on; however, she is holding in a secret with regards to the true state of her scholarship. The two meet and comfort each other amidst their problems and they fall for each other as time goes on and as they get to know each other.

With this, we like to open a poll on which movie will you watch come its simultaneous premiere on August 15, 2012. Let's see if what transpires in our poll will also reflect the box office success of these movies. You can vote in the poll below.

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