John Carter tops PH box office

John Carter (Taylor Kitsch)

The Taylor Kitsch-starrer "John Carter" is number 1 at the Philippine box office for two weeks in a row.

According to Box Office Mojo, Kitsch's movie added Php25.5 million to its earnings during its second week (March 14-18) in local cinemas, beating out other movies screening that week. It has now collected a total of Php69.6 million for 2 weeks.

The movie's performance is somehow surprising for some since there were calls to boycott the movie after lead actor Kitsch's erroneous statement about the Philippines.

Disney has also released a statement regarding the projected loss of $200 million from the sci-fi movie. So far, the film raked in $184 million worldwide but the problem is it cost more than $350 million to produce and market it.

Meanwhile, check out below Box Office Mojo's Top Grossing Movies in the Philippines for March 14–18, 2012:

TW	LW	Movie	Studio	Weekend Gross					Gross-to-Date	Week
1	1	John Carter	Disney	25,521,039 PHP					69,634,360 PHP	2
2	N	Corazon: Ang Unang Aswang	Star Cin.	20,517,124 PHP					20,517,124 PHP	1
3	N	Dr. Seuss' The Lorax	UIP	12,871,272 PHP					12,871,272 PHP	1
4	N	My Kontrabida Girl	n/a	6,715,616 PHP					6,715,616 PHP	1
5	N	Mirror Mirror	Pioneer	6,475,413 PHP					6,475,413 PHP	1
6	3	The Devil Inside	UIP	1,092,301 PHP					16,489,333 PHP	3
7	5	Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance	WB	951,250 PHP					72,217,457 PHP	5
8	4	This Means War	WB	896,013 PHP					32,094,746 PHP	4
9	7	The Vow	Sony	622,059 PHP					59,222,331 PHP	6
10	6	Moneyball	Sony	141,094 PHP					2,628,771 PHP	2

Data courtesy of BoxOfficeMojo