OPENINGS: There were no truly wide openings this weekend. However, a few low-budget films entered mid-level distribution. The horror movie SHORTCUT (Gravitas) averaged $420 over the weekend at 725 theatres for a $305K total. The other two arrivals were Sundance acquisitions. THE LAST SHIFT (Sony) averaged $270 at 871 for a $235K total. KAJILLIONAIRE […]
OPENINGS: The only wide opening of the week was the Christian-aimed action movie INFIDEL (Cloudburst), the first release from that studio. The official estimate is $1.5M from 1724 theatres, or a bit less than $900 per-theatre for the weekend, but that number assumes a very strong Sunday, so we’ll see if it holds up. […]
OPENINGS: Even in a normal box office marketplace, a mild rom-com with no big-name stars like THE BROKEN HEARTS GALLERY (TriStar/Sony) probably wouldn’t have made much money, and it has both a low production budget and limited marketing costs going for it. All that being said, though, there’s nothing about a $1.1M weekend at […]
OPENINGS: The hugely-anticipated US opening box office numbers for TENET (Warners) turned out to be frustratingly opaque to interpret, and to the extent they were comprehensible, simply not very good. (Let’s assume it was coincidental and not meta that some are saying the same about the film itself.) Warners issued a grand total of […]
OPENINGS: THE NEW MUTANTS (20th/TSG/Disney) was DOA long before the world was engulfed by a pandemic, repeatedly postponed as first 20th and then Disney tried to figure out what to do with it. The only reason it’s having a theatrical release at all is that 20th’s pre-Disney co-financier TSG had the contractual right to […]
The weekly Year to Date Box Office Report & Worldwide Studio Scorecard will return when North American theaters reopen and studios resume wide releases. Coverage of broadcast and cable television ratings will continue as normal. ###
This was the weekend that the COVID-19 crisis hit the box office in earnest, and while that fact pales in importance compared to the human cost of the pandemic, it’s going to represent a multi-billion dollar hit that will reverberate through the lives of many throughout the world. As bad as the numbers below […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Here is an updated look at the 2020 film slates by studios (films entering wide release in the 2020 calendar year). BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2020 is now -9% below last year’s comparable span (another 7 points worse than last week) and -21% below this point averaged over […]