>Based on Friday and Saturday box office (and estimated Sunday numbers), The Help continues at #1 yet again, down only 2% from last week. This is really getting to be a tired headline, but with the feeble crop of recent releases The Help is just taking full advantage of the situation. The weekend overall is now […]
OPENINGS: JIGSAW (Lionsgate) had a better Saturday hold than Saw VI (down 21% instead of 32%), and that saved it from having the lowest opening weekend of the franchise. However, its $16.3M start is still far below the $24.2M for the last installment Saw 3D, which killed off the series for 7 years. Jigsaw […]
OPENINGS: HALLOWEEN ENDS (Universal, also on Peacock) underperformed badly with $41.3M, about 25% below pre-release expectations, and 17% under the $49.4M start for last year’s Halloween Kills, despite a stronger Thursday night start than Kills ($5.4M vs $4.9M). The excuse de jour is the Peacock release, which would be dubious in any case considering […]
OPENINGS: The box office may not have hit bottom yet (see “Next Weekend” below), but it’s getting close, with the horror movie THE INVITATION (Screen Gems/Sony) topping the weekend at a painful $7M. Things were no better overseas, where the film opened at $1.6M in 19 markets. Despite these numbers, The Invitation may still […]
OPENINGS: The 3-day weekend in the US went narrowly to MEG 2: THE TRENCH (CMC/Warners) with $30M. That was down more than 1/3 from the $45.4M start for The Meg in 2018, which would ordinarily be concerning for a film with $250M in production/marketing costs, but Meg 2 overperformed internationally even more strongly than […]
OPENINGS: The most hyped box office weekend of the year delivered and then some. BARBIE (Mattel/Warners) burst into theaters with $155M, technically the best of the year (although the $146.4M for Super Mario Bros came after a Wed-Thurs start that had already brought in $58.3M). Among the many records set by the blockbuster were […]
Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #26 of 2014 now looks like $171 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, very close to yesterday’s estimate ($172 million) and 10% below the norm for this weekend and 6% below the same weekend last year as the lackluster summer 2014 rolls on. Opening at 4,233 […]
>Based on Friday and Saturday box office (and estimated Sunday numbers), the box office slump continues. Only $70 million in volume for the top 12 films, down from the $82-87 million range the last three years for the comparable weekend. The #1 movie, New Year’s Eve, collected less than $14 million in its opening weekend, […]