OPENINGS: Pedro Almodovar’s PARALLEL MOTHERS (Sony Classics) expanded to wide release at 684 theaters in anticipation of the Oscar nominations that are little more than a week away, but its $300K weekend translated into a per-theater average under $500. HOLDOVERS: The lack of any new Hollywood competition was as usual good for the films […]
OPENINGS: HALLOWEEN ENDS (Universal, also on Peacock) underperformed badly with $41.3M, about 25% below pre-release expectations, and 17% under the $49.4M start for last year’s Halloween Kills, despite a stronger Thursday night start than Kills ($5.4M vs $4.9M). The excuse de jour is the Peacock release, which would be dubious in any case considering […]
OPENINGS: NO HARD FEELINGS (Columbia/Sony) slightly exceeded tracking expectations with $15.1M, but those expectations were themselves quite low. With production and worldwide marketing costs in the neighborhood of $100M, the film will need to hold strongly for the next several weeks to reach any profit, and while it has the hard-R comedy field to […]
OPENINGS: ABIGAIL (Universal) launched at the low end of expectations with $10.2M, lower than the $11.8M for Night Swim and virtually the same as the $9.9M for Imaginary. Those films are respectively at $32.5M and $28M in the US, which is the likely range for Abigail. However, the new film reportedly cost $28M before […]
>The Hunger Games continues its rise up the worldwide box office chart with overseas revenue to date now $157 million to go along with an estimated final domestic haul of $380 million. There is probably another $150-200 million to come from overseas territories, which would put it on track for $700 million worldwide. New to […]
>Through Sunday, worldwide box office results show that The Smurfs have moved up to #10 among 2011 releases (out of 88 wide-release films this year to date). Rise of the Planet of the Apes is now at #12, about $70 million behind The Smurfs. Although Rise will out-gross Smurfs domestically, the little blue guys are […]
> The Hollywood Reporter has some early numbers for the weekend’s overseas boxoffice. (Remember: comparisons of international boxoffice receipts aren’t necessarily apples-to-apples, as films follow different distribution patterns with respect to number and size of markets.) As in the US, BREAKING DAWN PART 1 is in the lead, with a projected $40M from 73 territories […]
Skyfall is finally starting to slow down — “only” $16 million overseas since last week. Although still a decent haul, the weekly pace is down substantially from recent weeks. The latest Bond film looks tantilizingly close to $1 billion worldwide, but it will have to stretch to make it. The Hobbit is really rolling overseas, with $146 […]