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 […]
OPENINGS: It wasn’t so much that THE BYE BYE MAN (STX) overperformed at $13.4M for the 3-day weekend (that number should rise to $15M on Monday thanks to the Martin Luther King Day holiday), but that everything around it flopped, clearing the way for it to be the #1 new title at the box […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Fox rolls on, running away with 2014 worldwide with another $144 million this week (mostly from continued strong overseas grosses from Maze Runner and Gone Girl). Fox is a huge #1 with almost $4.2 billion for the year to date worldwide. The next best week came from lowly Universal ($134 million worldwide the past week), […]
OPENINGS: DESPICABLE ME 2 (Universal) had an even better weekend overseas than it did in the US, with $88.8M (in 45 markets, with plenty more major ones to come) vs $82.5M. (Of course, in the US it also had the benefit of a holiday week, giving it a huge $142.1M here so far.) The […]
MONDAY UPDATE: Father’s Day was a holiday, all right… for some movies. 22 JUMP STREET vastly overestimated its appeal to dads, taking a sizable 30% hit on Sunday and falling an ugly $3M below its original weekend number to $57.1M. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 was also a bit weaker than expected, down […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2015 to date is still +4% above last year and now +1% above the average for this point the past four years ($8.615 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $23.1 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office (that’s still +6% […]
OPENINGS: At $53.5M, SHAZAM (DC/New Line/Warners) had the lowest opening weekend of the current DC run of superhero movies (it was also below all the Marvel openings), but it was produced to be a lower-budget companion piece to the megabusters, and with that in mind, its opening was fine. Overseas was bigger at $102M, but […]
OPENINGS: There’s no way to spin the $10.5M US opening of Steven Spielberg’s WEST SIDE STORY (20th/Disney), and its even worse $4.4M start in 37 overseas territories (with $2.8M of that from France and the UK), as anything but flat-out bad. Unlike other 2021 musicals like In the Heights ($11.5M opening even with a […]