Skyfall is finally starting to slow down — “only” $16 million overseas since last week. Although still a decent haul, the weekly pace is down substantially from recent weeks. The latest Bond film looks tantilizingly close to $1 billion worldwide, but it will have to stretch to make it. The Hobbit is really rolling overseas, with $146 […]
Updated international box office chart.
OPENINGS: If a movie like THE BUTLER (Weinstein) can make back most of its production cost in a single weekend (and The Help did the same 2 years ago), why aren’t there more movies like The Butler? The answer is the other side of the coin of “Why are there so many action-fantasy adventure […]
OPENINGS: THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (Lionsgate) came up from initial Friday estimates to $70.5M, the 7th highest single day box office in US history (behind the final Harry Potter, The Avengers, The Dark Knight, and 3 Twilights) and $3.2M ahead of the opening day for The Hunger Games. If Catching Fire held as […]
International box office for 2013 releases through February 9, 2014. Frozen now has Despicable Me 2 in its sights, after passing both Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in recent weeks. And another very good week for The Wolf of Wall Street overseas as it approaches $300 million worldwide. Click here for a summary of worldwide performance by […]
(Note: Most of the studios aggressively estimated their Sunday declines as being around 10%, even though last year’s Memorial Day Weekend Sunday drops were mostly steeper than that, so there could be a number of downward adjustments in store when final numbers are released.) OPENINGS: X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (20th), oddly enough, was […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. The studio rankings remain unchanged, although Warner Brothers had a nice week ($141 million worldwide the past seven days thanks to the domestic debut of Dolphin Tale 2 and a good start overseas for the sequel). No other studio was over $100 million worldwide for the week, and most were well below that. Scroll […]
OPENING: THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH (Relativity) fell to 4th place for the weekend, as expected, after a strong opening day. Still, a $15.1M haul for the cheap thriller isn’t at all bad, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see a Woman in Black 3 come along in a year or […]