OPENINGS: Taking the spotlight from higher-profile arrivals, the anime title MY HERO ACADEMIA: WORLD HEROES’ MISSION (Funimation) was the weekend’s highest-grossing newcomer with $6.4M, better than the $5.9M opening for the last Academia movie, 2019’s Heroes Rising. These films tend to be fairly front-loaded, but Mission should pass $15M in the US, and it […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Here is an updated look at the 2019 film slates by studio. BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2019 is still -5% below last year’s comparable span and still +1% above this point the past four years ($8.658 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $23.2 billion […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Here is an updated look at the 2019 film slates by studio. BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2019 is now -7% below last year’s comparable span (1 point worse than last week’s comparison) and still basically even with this point the past four years ($9.092 billion). Over the […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Universal had another huge week with the release of Minions and Jurassic World taking over the spot as #1 film of the year worldwide. Universal now boasts four of the top five films of the year (see individual film ranking chart below). The other studios are playing a different game this year. YEAR TO DATE […]
OPENINGS: FREAKY (Blumhouse/Universal) led the weekend at $3.7M. It was the third consecutive weekend that a Universal-branded film opened at #1 (aided by the studio’s deal with AMC that allows its films to hit digital 3 weeks after theatrical release) and the fifth new #1 to open in the $3.1-4.1M range. Like the others, […]
OPENINGS: CREED III (UA/MGM/Amazon) launched with an impressive $58.7M, higher than the 5-day Thanksgiving weekend starts for the previous entries in the series ($42.1M/$56M), and also higher than any of the Rocky movies (not adjusted for inflation). As is typical for this franchise, overseas was somewhat softer, with $41.8M from 75 markets. Nevertheless, the […]
> TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON is reporting (pending actual numbers tomorrow) a 4-day weekend gross of $116.7M, giving it a total of $181.1M since opening Tuesday evening. That puts it around 10% ahead of the original Transformers and 15% behind Transformers 2. The original Transformers declined only 47% in its second weekend (the first […]
OPENINGS: THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (Screen Gems/Sony) won the weekend’s battle (among newcomers) but isn’t likely to win the war, with a very blah $3K average at over 3000 theatres for a $9.3M weekend ($14.1M since its Wednesday opening). The big question is whether Constantin Film, the German studio that financed the […]