OPENINGS: TERRIFIER 3 (Cineverse) broke through to a mainstream audience with an $18.3M weekend, which is more than the entire $10.6M run of 2022’s Terrifier 2 (that one’s highest weekend was $1.9M). The new entry in the unrated, ultra-violent slasher series accomplished this with not just a low production budget, but reportedly a miniscule amount […]
>Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 moves past the $700 million worldwide mark, with $421 million overseas to date. Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol edges past $550 million worldwide with $337 million overseas. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is now a $450 million worldwide picture, while Adventures of Tintin has an outside shot of […]
> Super 8 misses the Top 20 Worldwide Gross list, while Hangover Part II, Kung Fu Panda 2 and X-Men: First Class continue to move up the rankings. Super 8 joins the Worldwide Gross list just outside the Top 20 (tied for 21st place with $111 million worldwide — an estimated $104 million domestic total […]
Total Recall joins the chart this week in the middle of the pack, with a projected $66 million final domestic total and $6 million to date overseas. It might get to $95 million overseas ultimately, which would put its eventual worldwide total around $160 million (just behind The Dictator, not what Sony was banking on). Diary of […]
A Good Day to Die Hard ballooned to $133 million overseas to date, pushing its worldwide estimate to over $200 million. Completely updated worldwide table follows.
Updated international box office chart:
Updated international box office chart:
OPENINGS: Stop me if you’ve heard this before: an expensive action-adventure will need to overperform internationally in order to get past its red ink. With Thor 2 opening in just a week, ENDER’S GAME (Summit/Lionsgate) had a very narrow window to make an impression, and its $9.9M Friday, probably meaning a weekend in the […]