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 […]
OPENINGS: EVIL DEAD RISE (Warners) modestly exceeded expectations with $23.5M, although that was still below the franchise’s last reboot in 2013 at $25.8M (which only reached a $54.2M total in the US and didn’t spawn a sequel). Horror has become the most dependable genre in Hollywood, and Evil Dead Rise is the only one […]
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 […]
OPENINGS: THE INVISIBLE MAN (Blumhouse/Universal) had a 12% Saturday bump, evidence of extremely strong word of mouth in the horror genre (among recent uncommonly leggy horror releases, Get Out rose 17% on its 2nd day of release, and A Quiet Place was up 1%). That brought it to a strong $29M weekend, and with […]
OPENINGS: We’ll find out tomorrow if the studio’s $100.2M US weekend estimate for THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS (Universal), which counts on an influx of post-church Easter Sunday Christians, will slip into double figures. But even if the number holds, it’s down 32% from the Furious 7 opening. If Universal’s hypothesis that this decline […]
Updated worldwide box office chart for 2013 North American films. Also, click here for a summary of worldwide performance by studio.
>The Hunger Games has moved up to $229 million overseas (up from $216 million last week). The film is probably headed for a worldwide total of $660 million, including our newly revised forecast of $399 million domestic. Click “read more” to see the updated weekly worldwide table. Arriving in North America Friday, The […]
OPENINGS: SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (Columbia/Sony) owned the Independence Day holiday, with $93.6M over the 3-day weekend, and a $185.1M total since its Tuesday opening. Comparisons are inexact due to the 6-day holiday start, but it was considerably ahead of The Amazing Spider-Man, which also had a 6-day opening (with July 4th on Wednesday […]