OPENINGS: MONEY MONSTER (TriStar/LStar/Sony) held up well over the course of the weekend, thanks to an older audience that doesn’t rush out on Friday nights, and tripled its opening day to a $15M weekend total. Not that many years ago, that would have seemed like a crazy low number for a thriller starring George […]
OPENINGS: TOM & JERRY (Warners, also on HBO Max) had a solid opening for this moment in time with $13.7M, an especially impressive number since the movie is available at no extra cost to anyone with an HBO Max subscription. If Tom & Jerry can have the kind of sustained run that other family […]
OPENINGS: Despite a holiday opening and a much higher (and more costly) level of hype, GLASS (Blinding Edge/Blumhouse/Buena Vista Intl/Universal) barely squeezed past Split over the 3-day weekend, $40.6M vs. $40M. Even that number assumes a solid Sunday, although an 8% Saturday drop (Split gained 13% on its 1st Saturday), indicates that word of […]
OPENINGS: Things didn’t get better for ALLEGIANT (Summit/Lionsgate) as the weekend went on. Its $29.1M opening was down an awful 44% from the $52.3M for Insurgent, and with massive competition arriving next week and word of mouth that’s likely to be terrible, it may struggle to get past $75M in the US. As we […]
>Super 8 now looks like a $37 million opening weekend based on Friday and Saturday results. The weekend top 12 should be down 6% from 2010. The ShowbuzzDaily Domestic Final estimates now show that Super 8 should finish its domestic run with $109 million. X-Men: First Class has been downgraded a touch to $163 […]
OPENINGS: STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Lucasfilm/Disney) had an excellent Saturday for a blockbuster of its size, dropping 39% from Friday, where The Force Awakens had fallen 43%. That cemented Last Jedi as the 2nd-highest opening in US history at $220M (down 11% from Force Awakens)–and that studio estimate may even be a tad […]
Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #26 of 2013 now looks like $185 million for the top 12 films, up a bit from yesterday’s $181 million estimate and still very close to the same weekend in recent years. Opening at 3,181 theaters Friday, The Heat from 20th Century Fox grossed $13.6 million Friday and $14.3 million […]
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 […]