If preliminary numbers at Deadline hold, the Weekend 2 drop for CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (Marvel/Disney) will be in line with comparable superhero epics. Its second Friday looks like $19.5M, which would be down about 74% from last week’s opening day. That compares to Friday-to-Friday drops of 75% for Avengers: Age of Ultron, 71% […]
OPENINGS: Word of mouth kicked in on Saturday for CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (Marvel/Disney), which fell a mild 19% from opening day, much better than the 38% drop for Batman v Superman and the 33% for The Avengers: Age Of Ultron (although not quite as good as the 10% for Iron Man 3, 14% for The Avengers […]
Deadline is reporting a preliminary opening day of around $75M (including $25M from Thursday night) for CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (Marvel/Disney), and one has to wonder: are audiences getting the teensiest bit tired of superhero spectacles? That $75M is a giant number, of course–it blows away the $36.9M that Captain America: Winter Soldier earned […]
OPENINGS: The biggest noise of the weekend by far was made outside the US, where CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (Marvel/Disney) began its global campaign, and earned $200.2M in 63 territories comprising about two-thirds of the international terrain (not including China and Russia, among others). Disney has made it clear that that this is an […]
With summer blockbuster season just days away, none of the studios brought their A game this weekend. KEANU (New Line/Warners) isn’t going to do for Keegan Michael-Key and Jordan Peele what Trainwreck did for Comedy Central colleague Amy Schumer: Trainwreck earned $10.7M on its opening day, and based on preliminary numbers at Deadline, Keanu […]
OPENINGS: On such a razor-thin margin, the standings could change tomorrow with final numbers, but for now, THE BOSS (Universal) has the weekend edge with $23.48M, barely a nose ($45K) ahead of those creaky superheroes. Bragging rights are nice, but even if it falls behind on Monday, this is still a win for The […]
How much more humiliating can things get for Warners? On Friday, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, THE BOSS (Universal), which isn’t even a high-performing Melissa McCarthy vehicle, beat up both the studio’s superheroes with about $7.5M. The Boss will likely have trouble sustaining itself over the weekend, but at about $20M+, it will […]
THE MAIN EVENT: As the roof caved in on BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE (DC/RatPac/Warners), the studio had two last-ditch goals: to avoid a Weekend 2 result that dropped 70% from last week or dipped below $50M in the US. Pending tomorrow’s final numbers, it appears to have managed that, with a 68% […]