>Based on Friday and Saturday box office (and estimated Sunday numbers), Paranormal Activity 3 is now looking like a $54 million opening weekend, almost matching the last big opening ($54.8 for Rise of the Planet of the Apes on August 5) and blowing past the $41 million opening for Paranormal Activity 2 this week last year. […]
>Now 14 full weeks into 2012, year-to-date domestic box office is still running 27% ahead of last year’s dreadful pace, and the year-to-date total is still fully 15% ahead of the comparable period’s average for the last several years. Updated final domestic gross estimates are available below for recent releases, with The Hunger Games now […]
> The past week (seven days ending Sunday) came in down 2% versus last year’s comparable week (the first down week after five up weeks in a row). Year-to-date box office is now down 3.9% versus last year. The Help was the lone bright spot this weekend, down only 23% from its opening weekend and managing to […]
>The Hunger Games continues its rise up the worldwide box office chart with overseas revenue to date now $157 million to go along with an estimated final domestic haul of $380 million. There is probably another $150-200 million to come from overseas territories, which would put it on track for $700 million worldwide. New to […]
> Overseas, The Smurfs film continues to do solid business and is closing in on two more benchmarks: $400 million overseas (only $7 million to go) and $550 million worldwide ($13 million to go). $550 million is important because that would match Cars 2, which it now looks like it can pass. DreamWorks and Disney’s […]
Deadline is reporting that THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Sony) has set a new all-time Tuesday record with $32-35M, beating previous record-holder Transformers, the last movie to open on a Tuesday that fell on July 3, which had $27.9M in 2007. (There are, admittedly, very few movies that open on Tuesdays–after Transformers, the next was the […]
Weekend #27 of 2012 looks pretty solid: $185 million for the top 12 films, up 27% from last year’s comparable weekend and up 22% from the four-year average for the weekend. Much of this increase can be attributed to the calendar and the unusual placement of July 4 on a Wednesday, having little effect on […]
> The Hollywood Reporter has some rough early numbers for Friday’s boxoffice, and the news looks good for CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER. Including Thursday midnight grosses of $4M, it seems to be around $25M for the day. This would be right in the neighborhood of its Marvel-mate Thor, which had a $25.5M opening day […]