Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #21 of 2015 looks like $145 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, significantly below the norm for this weekend.  A bit of a clunker Memorial Day Weekend at the box office. Opening at 3,972 theaters Friday, Tomorrowland from Disney is on track for a $30.9 million opening three-day weekend (below our $37.0 million ShowBuzzDaily […]

  OPENINGS:  TED 2 (MRC/Universal) suffered a 16% Friday-to-Saturday drop, and is currently projected by its studio to have a $33M weekend, down 40% from the $54.4M start for the original Ted 3 years ago.  Overseas, Ted 2 opened to $20.3M in 26 markets.  That leaves much of the world still to come, but a […]

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #32 of 2015 looks like $119 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, down significantly from the norm for this weekend (see track below). Opening at 3,995 theaters Friday, Fantastic Four from Fox is on track for a listless $27.0 million opening three-day weekend (well below our $46.5 million ShowBuzzDaily forecast earlier this week). […]

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #38 of 2015 looks like $100 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, somewhat above the norm for the weekend (see track below). Opening at 3,791 theaters Friday, Maze Runner: Scorch Trials from Fox is on track for a $28.0 million opening three-day weekend (well below our $40.5 million ShowBuzzDaily forecast earlier this week). The film is […]

  No one expected this weekend’s soft new arrivals to come near last week’s holdovers, and they’re not.  LOVE THE COOPERS (CBS/Lionsgate) is at least creditable, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, with a $2.7M Friday that should give it $7-8M for the weekend.  Coopers is intended as a long-term play that will hang around […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.     YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2015 to date is now +8% above last year and now +6% above the average for this point the past four years ($9.931 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed almost $26.8 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office (that’s […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Updated look at 2016 by studio, with Fox continuing to lap the field and even show it’s human with Eddie the Eagle its first movie of the year in the weak box office category.  We have amended the summary categories somewhat this year with the top category now reserved for films over $500 million […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Updated look at 2016 by studio.   YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2016 to date is now +2% above last year and now +6% above the average for this point the past four years ($2.948 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $8.1 billion worldwide […]