WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2015 to date is still +4% above last year and still +1% above the average for this point the past four years ($8.910 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed over $23.6 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office […]
OPENINGS: We’re starting to get a feel for what this pandemic box office looks like, absent big-studio blockbusters. This week’s HONEST THIEF (Open Road) opened at $3.7M in 2425 theatres (a weekend per-theatre $1525 average), just about the same as last week’s The War With Grandpa, even though they’re in completely different genres. Honest […]
OPENINGS: GHOSTBUSTERS (Village Roadshow/Columbia/Sony) is reporting a $46M weekend (that number assumes the lowest Sunday drop in the Top 10, so it may come down a bit in finals), about 10% higher than the start for Independence Day: Resurgence and 20% higher than The Legend of Tarzan, all on similar $275M+ production/marketing budgets. None […]
OPENINGS: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (Paramount), with its $18.2M weekend, made less at 2867 theatres than the first Paranormal made at 760, a little more than 4 years ago. It was also well below the $29M weekend for the last Paranormal installment in 2012 (which had been the franchise low). In other words, […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2015 to date is now +5% above last year and +8% above the average for this point the past four years ($2.827 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $8.6 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office (that’s +9% […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. The studios are starting to separate from each other as we approach the midpoint of the year. 20th Century Fox is nearing $1.9 billion worldwide box office to date. Fox had a decent week with an additional $148 million worldwide (mostly from the domestic release of The Fault in Our Stars). Warner Brothers […]
OPENINGS: 42 (Warners) had no trouble taking the weekend with an estimated $27.3M. With very limited overseas appeal, the picture isn’t likely to be a huge moneymaker (production and marketing costs will reach at least $100M worldwide, and it probably won’t make that much in US theatres alone), but even a small amount of […]
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 ($9.593 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed over $25.5 billion […]