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Holiday Box Office Volume: through December 28

Posted December 29, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

For the 13 days December 16-28, the top 10 films each day in North America have totaled $698 million, now -2% behind last year’s pace and -16% behind the record pace of 2015, when Star Wars: The Force Awakens dominated the holiday season. With Rogue One last year and The Last Jedi this year, the Star Wars franchise has definitely taken the holiday movie […]

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US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office Report – 1.3.2021

Posted January 3, 2021 by Mitch Salem

  OPENINGS:  There were no new wide openings for New Year’s weekend. HOLDOVERS:  Word of mouth still operates in a pandemic, and it wasn’t at all friendly to WW84 (DC/Warners) which crumpled by 67% to $5.5M from one holiday weekend to the next.  It now seems highly unlikely to reach Tenet‘s $57.9M in the US […]

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Holiday Box Office Volume: Final Tally

Posted January 4, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

The 2014 holiday box office has pulled slightly ahead 2013 and remains somewhat above the average for the last decade or so. The top 10 films on Saturday January 3, 2015 totaled a very good $46.8 million, somewhat above the average $42.5 million for the days since 2002 when this date landed on a weekend. […]

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FRIDAY 12.26.2014 Box Office Report

Posted December 27, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #52 of 2014 looks like $192 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, up +21% from the norm for this weekend ($158 million) and up +6% from the same weekend last year.   Opening at 3,131 theaters Thursday, Unbroken from Universal is on track for a $32.3 million opening three-day weekend (well above […]

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2/14/16

Posted February 14, 2016 by Mitch Salem

  A Valentine’s Day in the middle of Presidents Day weekend allowed for strong Sunday studio estimates–in one case, suspiciously so. OPENINGS:  A couple of notable sidelights to the gargantuan success of DEADPOOL (Marvel/20th), which has the #17 opening of all time at $135.1M (probably $155M with the Monday holiday), is now the highest-opening R-rated […]

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Holiday Box Office Volume: updated through 1.3.2019

Posted January 4, 2019 by Mitch Metcalf

UPDATE (19 days Dec 16-Jan 3): $757 million for the top 10 films in North America each day, now -6.5% below the average holiday box office since 2007 ($810 million over this span), ending up well below the pace of 2015-2017 when a Star Wars film anchored the holiday season but slightly above the pace of 2012-2014 […]

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: Soft “Tomorrowland” Slightly Ahead of “Pitch Perfect 2″”

Posted May 23, 2015 by Mitch Salem

  TOMORROWLAND (Disney) appears to be heading for the low end of expectations, earning around $10M on Friday (including less than $1M from Thursday night shows) according to preliminary numbers at Deadline.  Although exit polls are far from infallible, family movies usually score well, and its B grade is a sign that word-of-mouth may be […]

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE OF HORROR: Halloween Slaughters “Burnt,” “Our Brand Is Crisis”

Posted October 31, 2015 by Mitch Salem

  The last time Halloween fell on a Saturday, in 2009, Hollywood mostly stayed away.  (The concert movie This Is It opened the previous Wednesday.)  This year, two studios tried to counterprogram the holiday with problematic star vehicles, and based on preliminary numbers at Deadline, the results weren’t pretty. BURNT (Weinstein) has been conspicuous for […]

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