The big gainers overseas this week: Brave (up $33 million, finally over the $200 million milestone overseas), Dark Knight Rises (up $31 million this week overseas), Ted (up $25 million overseas this week), Total Recall (up $22 million this week), Ice Age: Continental Drift (up $18 million to an incredible $662 million overseas to date) and Madagascar 3 (up $17 million to $369 million […]
OPENINGS: OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (Disney) is having an oddly topsy-turvy weekend. On the one hand, in the US it got the Saturday bump it needed from family audiences, rising 37% (better than Alice in Wonderland, although nowhere near The Lorax), allowing it to claim a $80.3M weekend. Even if that number comes […]
OPENINGS: Despite the strong weekend, it’s a bit troubling that GROWN UPS 2 (Sony) fell 11% on Saturday (the original Grown Ups rose 2% on its 2d day), suggesting frontloading and less than great word of mouth. That may place the studio’s estimated Sunday drop of 21% and $42.5M weekend total in doubt, but […]
Updated international box office chart:
Updated worldwide box office chart for 2013 North American films. The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug and to some extent The Hunger Games: Catching Fire are the top American performers overseas by far. Also, click here for a summary of worldwide performance by studio.
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Year to date, Warner Brothers remains head and shoulders above the other studios, while Sony and Universal form a second tier with about $500 million worldwide each for 2014 to date. Lionsgate/Summit and Disney now join Fox and Paramount in the third tier (between $200 million and $300 million worldwide each). Scroll […]
OPENINGS: DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (20th) brought in $73M in the US, and added $31.1M in 26 (mostly smaller) international markets. While a terrific boost to the franchise (which rebooted at $54.8M with Rise 3 years ago), it’s still a level below the summer’s mega-franchises. However, Dawn has weeks to play […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Big Hero 6 has pushed Disney into a solid second place, giving it some distance from #3 Warner Brothers. Interstellar has allowed Paramount to pull into 4th place, passing Sony and drawing fairly close to Warner Brothers (with Paramount boasting a much higher hit-to-miss ration than Warner Brothers has). Scroll down for domestic and […]