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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 8/11/13

Posted August 11, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  Here’s an instructive piece of box office math, courtesy of Disney and The Lone Ranger.  Ranger cost (including worldwide marketing) about $350M all told, and it’s going to have global theatrical revenues of about $240M.  Disney is reporting that the movie will end up losing around $190M, which is $80M higher than the usual […]

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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 6 Box Office Report

Posted September 7, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #36 of 2013 looks like a very average $62 million for the top 12 films, down 5% from the average post-Labor Day weekends the past few years. Riddick and The Butler did not hit our more aggressive forecasts, although the other films were close to our projections. Opening at 3,107 […]

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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 10/5/13

Posted October 6, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  If preliminary numbers at Deadline hold, GRAVITY (Warners) will own the new record for all-time best October opening.  It had a superb $23.5M Saturday, up 35% from its $17.5M opening day, for what should be a $55M+ weekend.  That would handily break the current October record of $52.6M for Paranormal Activity 3.  More importantly, […]

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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 11/3/13

Posted November 3, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  OPENINGS:  There are still several days before THOR: THE DARK WORLD (Disney) reaches these shores, and it hasn’t opened yet in other major countries like China or Japan, but it’s already looking like a blockbuster, with a huge $109.4M start in 36 territories.  The first Thor made a total of $268.3M internationally, so the […]

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THANKSGIVING DAY BOX OFFICE: “Catching Fire” and “Frozen” Carve the Turkey

Posted November 29, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  As usual, Thanksgiving Day itself was down for many films.  However, that didn’t keep the holiday’s pair of blockbusters from rewriting the record books. THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (Lionsgate) set a new Thanksgiving Day record with $14.9M, tearing past the $13.1M set by Toy Story 2.  With the meat of the holiday weekend […]

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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard

Posted December 22, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

No changes in the studio rankings this week, but four studios had $100+ million weeks: Paramount (with the release of Anchorman 2), Disney (the release of Saving Mr. Banks and continued international strength of Frozen), Sony (the release of American Hustle) and Warner Brothers (continued overseas prowess of The Hobbit despite a reduction in the domestic projection for the film).  For a […]

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Weekend Studio Estimates JANUARY 10-12

Posted January 12, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #2 of 2014 looks like $124 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, down 10% from the average for the same weekend the past few years (but better than we forecast earlier this week and now 2% above last year’s comparable weekend). Opening at 2,876 theaters Friday, Lone Survivor from Universal […]

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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard

Posted February 9, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

As we continue to tally the films released wide in 2013, Disney has pulled away from Warner Brothers in worldwide box office as Frozen refuses to slow down.  For a complete ranking of 2013 films individually by worldwide performance click here. We will begin tracking the 2014 Studio Scorecard next week. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at […]

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