OPENINGS: DON’T BREATHE (Screen Gems/Sony) had an unusually strong Saturday for a horror movie, down just 1% from Friday (which, remember, these days includes Thursday night). By way of comparison, Lights Out fell 22% on its 2d day of release. That propelled Don’t Breathe to an exceptional $26.1M weekend, the biggest opening for a […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Updated look at 2016 by studio. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2016 to date is still +4% above last year and still +5% above the average for this point the past four years ($6.905 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $18.3 billion worldwide when we add […]
OPENINGS: The weekend’s tallest dwarf was WAR DOGS (RatPac/Warners) with a soft $14.3M start. The 12% Saturday drop indicates that word of mouth isn’t great, and early international numbers are weak as well, with $6.5M in 31 markets. War Dogs cost $125M+ in production and worldwide marketing, and it seems likely to add to […]
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 +4% above last year and now +5% above the average for this point the past four years ($6.767 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed almost $17.8 billion worldwide when […]
OPENINGS: The SAUSAGE PARTY (Annapurna/Columbia/Sony) audience was somewhat frontloaded, with a 16% Saturday decline, but the weekend total of $33.6M was still outstanding, the best starring debut for Seth Rogen since the original Neighbors, and higher than the $33M 5-day opening for This Is The End (which opened on a Wednesday). There’s certainly nothing […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Updated look at 2016 by studio. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2016 to date is still +3% above last year and now +5% above the average for this point the past four years ($6.592 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $17.3 billion worldwide when we […]
OPENINGS: The answer to the question of whether the Day 2 drop for SUICIDE SQUAD (RatPac/DC/Warners) would be as bad as the one for Batman v Superman turned out to be no–it was worse. Suicide plunged 41% on Saturday, compared to BvS‘s 38%. That’s the kind of drop usually associated with the hugely-frontloaded Twilight series, […]
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 now +4% above the average for this point the past four years ($6.388 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $16.7 billion worldwide when […]