OPENINGS: LUCY (Universal) is claiming the lowest Sunday drop in the Top 10, so the studio’s $44M weekend estimate may come down a bit tomorrow, but it’s still a very solid hit for all concerned. That’s especially true for Scarlett Johansson, who now has non-Avenger action movie bona fides. The only question is whether […]
Strong holds by Dawn of the Planet Of the Apes and some longer-running titles made this weekend look less terrible than it was. OPENINGS: THE PURGE: ANARCHY (Universal) topped the newcomers with $28.4M, but that was 17% below the $34.1M opening weekend for last year’s Purge. While Purge 2 will turn a profit, it […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. 20th Century Fox has pushed past $2.9 billion worldwide in 2014 to date, as Dawn of the Planet of the Apes gets rolling overseas. Paramount is the other studio with more than $100 million this past week (thanks to continued strong overseas receipts for Transformers: Age of Extinction) now past $1.5 billion worldwide for the […]
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. 20th Century Fox has broken away from the pack with over $2.8 billion worldwide to date for 2014, with another almost $400 million worldwide last week. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has enormous upside overseas and it will quickly move out of the middle $100-299 million category to the $300+ million […]
OPENINGS: It was a sad lot of newcomers this holiday weekend. TAMMY (Warners) is claiming a $21.2M weekend ($32.9M including Wed-Thurs), which will leave it struggling to get past $70M in the US. (It also brought in $2.5M from a very small initial overseas release.) DELIVER US FROM EVIL (Screen Gems/Sony) had a relatively […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Paramount again had the biggest week of all the major studios (up $177 million worldwide since last week) exclusively because of continued overseas grosses for Transformers: Age of Extinction. For the year to date, Paramount is up to $1.25 billion worldwide (still in 5th place among the Hollywood studios). Warner Brothers had the […]
MONDAY UPDATE: In the face of widespread industry skepticism, Paramount is sticking to its claim that TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION earned $100M last weekend–actually, $100,038, 390. (The consensus is that the real number is $97-98M.) Here’s the way the system works: the vast majority of US theatres report their results to the 3rd-party company […]