Articles

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard

Posted January 19, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

2013 is turning into a photo finish.  The worldwide studio tallies below are for total box office performance of the films released wide sometime in 2013, so we are still counting up the figures for movies released late in the year.  Warner Brothers and Disney are separated by only $9 million.  Warner Brothers is actually […]

Full Story »

Articles

2013 International Box Office through January 12

Posted January 12, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

International box office for 2013 releases through January 12, 2014. Click here for a summary of worldwide performance by studio. We will start tracking the 2014 films in a few weeks.

Full Story »

Articles

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard

Posted January 12, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

Warner Brothers remains a mere $61 million ahead of second-place Disney, looking at worldwide grosses for films released in 2013.  Each of the top two studios reaped about $50 million this past week, mostly from overseas activity for The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug (Warner Brothers) and Frozen (Disney).  For a complete ranking of 2013 films individually by worldwide performance click […]

Full Story »

Articles

Behind the Weekend Box Office – 1/12/14

Posted January 12, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  OPENINGS:  A bit surprisingly, LONE SURVIVOR (Universal) had no Saturday bump to speak of (under 1%), giving it a more frontloaded weekend than a movie appealing to an older audience (which tends not to run out on opening night) with strong reviews might be expected to have.  American Hustle, by way of comparison, went […]

Full Story »

Articles

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard

Posted January 5, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

Warner Brothers and Disney remain in a tight battle for the worldwide crown for 2013.  We will keep updating this over the next few weeks and declare a winner after the overseas grosses are fully counted.  The most significant films still grossing overseas are The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug (for Warner Brothers) and Frozen (for Disney).  For a […]

Full Story »

Articles

BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 1/5/13

Posted January 5, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  OPENINGS:  PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (Paramount), with its $18.2M weekend, made less at 2867 theatres than the first Paranormal made at 760, a little more than 4 years ago.  It was also well below the $29M weekend for the last Paranormal installment in 2012 (which had been the franchise low).  In other words, […]

Full Story »

Articles

2013 International Box Office through January 5

Posted January 5, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

International box office for 2013 releases through January 5, 2014. Click here for a summary of worldwide performance by studio.

Full Story »

Articles

BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 12/29/13

Posted December 29, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  Truth be told, “weekend” box office doesn’t mean much in a week where Friday/Saturday/Sunday are no stronger than the weekdays that surround them, and virtually all the openings took place on Wednesday.  (Also, morning estimates aren’t very different from the preliminary numbers we posted last night.)  Nevertheless, a few thoughts. OPENINGS:  THE WOLF OF […]

Full Story »