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THURSDAY NIGHT BOX OFFICE: “Maleficent” Spreads Its Wings, “Million Ways” Dies

Posted May 30, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  MALEFICENT (Disney) made it clear very quickly that it’s not going to play strictly as a family movie, earning a strong $4.2M in Thursday night screenings that began at 7PM.  That’s better than the Thursday night business for Alice in Wonderland ($3.9M) and Oz: The Great and Powerful ($2M), and more than half the […]

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Weekend Box Office Predictions MAY 30-JUNE 1

Posted May 28, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

Weekend #22 of 2014 is looking like a solid $172 million for the top 12 films this weekend, 26% above the norm for this weekend and 7% above the same weekend last year.   Opening at over 3,800 theaters Friday (well above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), Maleficent from Disney should average […]

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MEMORIAL DAY BOX OFFICE UPDATE: “X-Men” Goes Even Higher

Posted May 26, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  The studios continued to be bullish on their holiday estimates, with preliminary Monday numbers expecting strong business that may or may not be confirmed in final box office figures tomorrow.  For now, the most optimistic film is HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (TriStar/Sony), expecting a mere 7% drop on Monday, with the older skewing NEIGHBORS […]

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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard

Posted May 25, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  The release of X-Men: Days of Future Past has pushed 20th Century Fox to the top of the heap with over $1.5 billion in worldwide box office in 2014 to date.  The race will ebb and flow through the rest of the summer and into the holiday season, but Fox, Warner Brothers and Sony […]

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Behind the Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 5/25/14

Posted May 25, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  (Note:  Most of the studios aggressively estimated their Sunday declines as being around 10%, even though last year’s Memorial Day Weekend Sunday drops were mostly steeper than that, so there could be a number of downward adjustments in store when final numbers are released.) OPENINGS:  X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (20th), oddly enough, was […]

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Weekend Studio Estimates MAY 23-25

Posted May 25, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

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 […]

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EARLY HOLIDAY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “X-Men” Slips, “Blended” Climbs Weakly

Posted May 25, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  Day 2 for X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (20th) was down by a larger margin than expected, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline and elsewhere, from $36M on Friday to $29-30M on Saturday.  If that number holds, it’ll be as much as a 20% drop, compared to 16% for Godzilla and 6% for Captain […]

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 5/23/14

Posted May 24, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  OPENINGS:  With $36M on Friday, X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST is assured of going over $100M by Monday, and the only question is by how much.  The day fell a bit below the openings for Godzilla ($38.4M) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($36.9M), but above The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($35.2M).  (On their 2d […]

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