As we continue to tally the films released wide in 2013, Disney has pulled ahead of Warner Brothers in worldwide box office for the 2013 slate (now an $18 million margin out of over $9 billion between the two rival studios). Disney continues to benefit mightily from Frozen, both in North America and overseas. For a complete […]
OPENINGS: Considering its 17% Saturday drop, GODZILLA (Warners/Legendary) may ease down a bit from its $93.2M weekend estimate when final numbers are released on Monday. (It’s assuming a 30% Sunday drop, equal to Amazing Spider-Man 2‘s and less than Captain America: The Winter Soldier‘s, even though those 2 movies fell only 6% from their […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. The studio rankings remain unchanged, and the most noteworthy change is that Universal now boasts a film in the $300+ million worldwide box (Lucy with $126 million domestic and $192 million overseas to date). But the success of Lucy cannot make up for an excess of clunkers, as Universal is showing a hit-to-miss ratio even […]
UPDATE: The release of THE INTERVIEW continues to be improvisational, and contrary to regular practice–as well as Sony’s previously expressed plans–the studio announced on Sunday that in addition to its $2.8M take from independent theatres, the film earned $15M from online viewing in the Wed-Sat period. However, Sony didn’t specify how that amount was […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2015 to date is now +5% above last year and +8% above the average for this point the past four years ($2.827 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $8.6 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office (that’s +9% […]
OPENINGS: With a $10M production budget (and tens of millions in marketing on top), the $10.6M weekend for SINISTER 2 (Blumhouse/Gramercy/Focus/Universal) will test Blumhouse’s ability to make money out of just about anything. The opening is far below the $18M start for 2012’s Sinister, and its US total won’t be near the $48.1M gross […]
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 +2% above last year and now +6% above the average for this point the past four years ($2.948 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $8.1 billion worldwide […]
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 […]