Hotel Transylvania joins the worldwide chart at #14 (among films released the past four months), and it will probably move up to 8th place as the overseas receipts come in. Compared to last week, Resident Evil: Retribution and Ted were the big gainers overseas (up $34 million and $26 million since last week, respectively).
OPENINGS: EVIL DEAD (TriStar/Sony/FilmDistrict) took the weekend with $26M, and even though, based on Sunday results for other recent horror movies, that number may drop a bit with final figures tomorrow, it should end up with a pleasantly bloody $50M before it’s done in the US (it also made $4.5M this weekend in 21 international […]
Updated international box office chart:
Updated international box office chart:
International box office for 2013 releases through January 5, 2014. Click here for a summary of worldwide performance by studio.
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Strong overseas grosses for Captain America: The Winter Soldier has pushed Disney slightly ahead of Warner Brothers for worldwide box office to date (with each studio over $800 million so far this year). Rio 2 has pushed Fox to over $700 million worldwide in 2014. Sony, Universal and Paramount are next with about $500 million […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Guardians of the Galaxy has pushed Disney ahead of Warner Brothers in the 2014 to date totals for worldwide box office. And there is much more upside to come for Guardians, which will push Disney toward $2.7 billion in the next few weeks. Sony remains on top with almost $3.2 billion worldwide for the […]
OPENINGS: It’s official: THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART I (Lionsgate) opened to $123M in the US, down 20% from the first Hunger Games and down 23% from Catching Fire. That’s still the #1 opening of the year by 23% (beating Transformers: Age of Extinction), and the 15th biggest opening ever, but there’s no way […]