OPENINGS: ANNABELLE COMES HOME (New Line/Warners) had a $20.3M weekend, but it had opened on Wednesday, so its 5-day total was $31.2M. Even so, its 5 days were lower than the 3-day weekends for Annabelle ($37.1M) and Annabelle: Creation ($35M), and just a bit ahead of the Conjuring spin-off Curse of La Llorona ($26.3M) […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Here is an updated look at the 2019 film slates by studio. BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2019 is now -6% below last year’s comparable span (one point worse than last week) and now -1% below this point the past four years ($6.912 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood […]
OPENINGS: LOVE THE COOPERS (CBS/Lionsgate) was the best of a bad bunch, launching with $8.4M. That’s 30% less than the $12.5M start of 2005’s The Family Stone, but the studio can take some solace from the fact that Stone (which opened closer to Christmas) earned a 5x multiple from its opening weekend. If Coopers […]
OPENINGS: DOCTOR STRANGE (Marvel/Disney) did what a Marvel movie is supposed to do. In the US, its $85M debut was higher than the starts of Captain America and Thor (both $65-66M), and just a hair away from the November opening of Thor 2 ($85.7M), it not quite in a league with the $94.3M for […]
OPENINGS: The major studios abandoned this normally prime summer-season weekend, and a flood of indies rushed in to grab the available theaters. None were able to capitalize to a particularly notable extent, with the anime HAIKYUU: THE DUMPSTER BATTLE (Crunchyroll/Sony) faring best at $3.5M. The genre is typically very frontloaded, so Haikyuu may not […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Updated look at 2016 by studio. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2016 to date is now +3% above last year and still +5% above the average for this point the past four years ($7.527 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed just over $20.0 billion worldwide when […]
OPENINGS: ABIGAIL (Universal) launched at the low end of expectations with $10.2M, lower than the $11.8M for Night Swim and virtually the same as the $9.9M for Imaginary. Those films are respectively at $32.5M and $28M in the US, which is the likely range for Abigail. However, the new film reportedly cost $28M before […]
OPENINGS: We had a new wide release this weekend, and THE WAR WITH GRANDPA (101) managed a win over the weary Tenet with $3.6M. That’s certainly not a number that would make anyone feel good in non-pandemic times, and since War With Grandpa had a semblance of a national marketing campaign, it’s not at […]