OPENINGS: UNCHARTED (Columbia/Sony) had a strong start with $44.2M ($51M with the holiday Monday), once again largely due to the M18-34 demo, but also suggesting that Tom Holland may be emerging as an action star even without webs to spin. (Of course it didn’t hurt that Uncharted followed his mega-smash Spider-Man so closely that […]
OPENINGS: ONE PIECE FILM: RED (Crunchyroll/Sony) opened at $9.5M, on the low end of recent national anime releases compared to Jujutsu Kaisen‘s $18M and Dragon Ball Super‘s $21.1M. As is typical for the genre, it was extremely frontloaded, earning more than 50% of its weekend total by the end of Friday. However, its US […]
OPENINGS: There had been an expectation, or at least a hope, that MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART I (Skydance/Paramount) would get a boost from the spectacular performance of Top Gun: Maverick, but that didn’t come to pass, and Mission 7 performed in line with others in the franchise. That meant $56.2M over the […]
OPENINGS: IF (Paramount) was at the low end of projections with $35M, although that was an improvement over where it seemed to be headed after Friday’s $10.4M. The key was strong family turnout on Saturday, but while IF benefited from being the first major release for that demographic in the 11 weeks since Kung […]
>The Smurfs movie continues to inch closer to Cars 2 in worldwide box office (now $9 million away). Real Steel is the only recent movie with any overseas box office pull. Its overseas to date tally of $57 million has moved up to 31st place on the worldwide chart and has upside to around 21st […]
> As we discussed yesterday, first a couple of bar bets. Which film grossed more worldwide: Megamind or The King’s Speech? The answer is King’s Speech. Although Megamind grossed more domestically ($148 million to $132 million), the international audience preferred King’s Speech ($226 million to $171 million), giving the Best Picture winner a $40 million […]
Wreck-It-Ralph enters the worldwide chart with a modest $12 million overseas to date, but that will grow to match and probably exceed the $171 million we expect for the film domestically. The film could end up with $350-375 million worldwide ultimately. Skyfall, which opens Friday in North America, is already up to $287 million overseas in […]
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