OPENINGS: It wasn’t so much that THE BYE BYE MAN (STX) overperformed at $13.4M for the 3-day weekend (that number should rise to $15M on Monday thanks to the Martin Luther King Day holiday), but that everything around it flopped, clearing the way for it to be the #1 new title at the box […]
OPENINGS: PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING (Legendary/Universal) pulled in a family audience on Saturday, giving it a 3% bump, while the first Pacific Rim had dropped 13% on its 2nd day of release. That pushed Uprising‘s weekend to $28M, still down 25% from the original’s start. The US result for Uprising, however, is almost an afterthought, […]
OPENINGS: READY PLAYER ONE (Village Roadshow/Warners) had a fair if unthrilling start, with $41.2M over the 3-day Good Friday/Easter weekend plus $12M on its Thursday opening day for a $53.2M 4-day total, considerably less than the $61M Kong: Skull Island earned in its first 3 days. That points toward a $125M US ultimate, and […]
OPENINGS: In the world of family movies, the 33% Saturday bump for A WRINKLE IN TIME (Disney) was mediocre. (By comparison, Peter Rabbit rose 97% on its 1st Saturday.) That brought the weekend to a soft $33.3M. Family movies sometimes enjoy lengthy runs and high multiples, and Wrinkle faces little direct competition in the […]
OPENINGS: We’ll see how the numbers hold up in tomorrow’s finals, but for now at least THE BOSS BABY (DreamWorks Animation/20th) is the weekend winner with $49M, considerably better than expectations. The only dour note on the success is that it was rather frontloaded for a family non-sequel, with a 28% Saturday bump. That […]
OPENINGS: By horror movie standards, INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY (Blumhouse/Universal) didn’t collapse on Saturday (down 13%), and that propelled it to a very solid $29.3M weekend, which among horror product in that first-weekend-in-January slot puts it behind only The Devil Inside‘s $33.7M (by way of comparison, that one fell 30% on its Saturday). Last […]
OPENINGS: THOR: RAGNAROK (Marvel/Disney) exceeded high expectations, which is no mean feat for a Marvel blockbuster. In the US, its weekend was $121M, 42% ahead of both Thor: The Dark World and last November’s Doctor Strange. (The one slight negative was that its 5% Saturday drop was a bit worse than the 1%/4% dips […]
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 +4% above last year and still +5% above the average for this point the past four years ($7.134 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed almost $18.8 $19.0 billion worldwide when we […]