>The Hunger Games continues its march around the world, now up to $194 million overseas. This number is driven by $24.1 million so far from the United Kingdom, $22.0 million from Australia, $13.9 million from Germany, $12.9 million from Russia, $10.4 million from Mexico and $9.1 million from France. No numbers yet from Japan, suggesting […]
>Through this weekend, the major action on the Worldwide Box Office chart is happening at the bottom of the Top 10. The Smurfs continue to show an amazing amount of momentum, almost hitting $300 million overseas. Next week it should be able to pass Thor and move into the #9 spot for all films released […]
Latest International Box Office overview.
Updated international box office. The $505 million overseas to date for Iron Man 3 (after only two weeks) puts it on a pace to challenge the $888 million overseas total for The Avengers last year, as well as the $947 million overseas tally for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 in July 2011. But the high-water mark for […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Universal and Warner Brothers again flipped positions in the year to date worldwide box office chart. Universal didn’t have much this week (the lame domestic opening of Kick-Ass 2 and some continued overseas business from Despicable Me 2), but it was certainly more than Warner Brothers, which has grown very quiet here […]
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 […]