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 […]
OPENINGS: JASON BOURNE (Perfect World/Universal) is claiming a $60M US start, although as is par for the course, that number includes an aggressive Sunday estimate and could come down a bit on Monday. In any case, it will be the #2 opening for the franchise, behind the $69.3M for 2007’s Bourne Ultimatum. That film […]
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OPENINGS: STAR TREK BEYOND (Skydance/Alibaba/Huahua/Paramount) had a tepid start, claiming a $59.6M opening weekend in the US. Even if that number holds (it includes an extremely aggressive Sunday estimate), it would be 20% below the $75..2M 2009 franchise reboot, and even below the $70.2M earned by Star Trek Into Darkness, which opened on a […]