OPENINGS:  The $37M Friday for CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (Disney) was the highest ever in the month of April, ahead of Fast Five‘s $34.4M.  Fast Five fell 13% on Saturday to hit a $86.2M weekend, and Winter Soldier will hope to beat that.  Depending on word of mouth, it could get as high […]

  The summer movie season will be underway momentarily on the east coast, as 7PM screenings commence for The Amazing Spider-Man–which isn’t exactly riding a rave of critical support (56% positive at Rotten Tomatoes, and 35% among “top critics”).  At Sony tonight, uneasy lie the heads that wear a crown.  But meanwhile, our survey of […]

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #21 of 2014 now looks like $179 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, well below our $205 million forecast and down 28% from the same weekend last year (but still up 6% from the norm for this weekend over the last few years).  Basically, the two openers […]

Weekend #25 of 2014 is looking like a limp $146 million for the top 12 films this weekend, 10% below the norm for this weekend and 37% below the same weekend last year, which featured two strong openers (Monsters University and World War Z).  This year’s two major openers are not the stuff of commercial greatness. Opening […]

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 […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has transformed Paramount into player status (now $2.0 billion worldwide year to date), with much more overseas revenue to come from the film.  With continued overseas returns from Guardians of the Galaxy, Disney ($2.33 billion worldwide to date) has widened its lead over Warner Brothers ($2.16 billion). Scroll down […]

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #37 of 2014 looks like $78 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, 6% below the norm for this weekend ($83 million) and better than we forecast. Opening at 2,175 theaters, No Good Deed from Sony/Screen Gems grossed $8.8 million Friday and is on track for a $24.7 million opening three-day weekend (well above our $16.0 […]

  As expected, GONE GIRL (20th) flew past DRACULA UNTOLD (Legendary/Universal) on Saturday and based on preliminary numbers at Deadline, it will easily take the weekend.  Gone Girl‘s $11.4M Saturday was down just 25% from the week before, and it should have a superb $27.5M 2d weekend, down a mere 27% from its debut.  That’s […]