OPENINGS: Things couldn’t have gone better for M. Night Shyamalan’s SPLIT (Blumhouse/Universal). It built on its strong Friday with a 13% bump, extremely good for a horror movie, and is estimating $40.2M for its weekend in the US against modest production/marketing costs of about $50M, which means a healthy profit is a sure thing. […]
For the 15 days December 16-30, the top 10 films each day in North America have totaled $825 million, now -12% below last year’s record pace but +42% above the average since 2002. Holiday Box Office Volume — Top 10 Films North America $ millions by year $ millions (2002-2015) # days Period 2016 2015 2014 2013 […]
Ugliness abounds, unless your title is Argo. OPENINGS: CLOUD ATLAS (Warners) will be the tallest tree in the weekend’s bonzai forest, but that’s small comfort for a movie that cost $100M (plus heavy marketing) and probably won’t make much more than $10M for the weekend, based on its $3.5M Friday. This, sadly, is why […]
OPENINGS: ANGEL HAS FALLEN (Millenium/Lionsgate) smartly picked a weekend to open that was far enough away from Hobbs & Shaw with its larger and overlapping audience, and near enough to the end of summer to keep the competition sparse The result was a solid $21.3M opening, almost the equal of the last franchise installment […]
Updated international box office chart.
> Three Muppets at a Rehearsal Thanksgiving weekend brings three well-reviewed family/ holiday entries and a mild expansion for a comedic-drama with Oscar hopes. Total box office volume should be around $161 million for the three-day portion of the weekend, down about 6% from the same weekend last year when Tangled and Burlesque opened and […]
> The boxoffice was steady as expected yesterday, virtually everything within 5%, up or down, from where it was on Wednesday. There were just a couple of exceptions: PARIAH (Focus): Proved to be scarily front-loaded, down a horrible 55% on its 2d day to an average $2500 in 4 theares. EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE […]
>Weekend Studio Estimates came in slightly higher than yesterday’s first look for Hangover Part II and Kung Fu Panda 2. Weekend is up almost 50% over last year. The ShowbuzzDaily Domestic Final estimates now show that Hangover Part II Tides should finish its domestic run with $296 million. Kung Fu Panda 2 now looking like […]