The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume All films in wide release playing between November 19 and November 25 grossed an excellent $325 million, up 19% from the four-year average for the week and up 25% from the same week last year. Over the last four weeks, The past six weeks are now 15% […]
The big movers overseas this past week were Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (up $151 million to $351 million to date overseas) and Skyfall (up $61 million to $568 million overseas to date). Updated worldwide tracks for Twilight and the completely re-energized James Bond follow. Entering the worldwide chart this week are Rise of the Guardians (starting at […]
Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #47 is now on pace to exceed the multi-year average for this weekend by over 20% — a much stronger pace than the Wednesday-Thursday pre-weekend box office suggested. Rise of the Guardians from Paramount/ DreamWorks opened with $8.6 million Wednesday-Thursday and added $9.3 million Friday, putting it on pace for […]
Based on grosses from Wednesday and Thanksgiving, Weekend #47 is on pace to exceed the multi-year average for this weekend by 10% — exactly on the pace we forecast earlier in the week. Breaking Dawn Part 2 is running slightly behind our forecast pace in this second weekend, but still clearly #1 for the weekend. […]
According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, something unexpected happened on Thanksgiving Day: two of the holiday weekend’s openings changed places in the boxoffice ranks. LIFE OF PI (20th), which had been considerably behind on Wednesday, reportedly took a 24% leap on Thursday to $4.5M. This is similar to the track for last year’s Hugo, […]
This weekend is solid but definitely cooler than last weekend’s torrid pace: $180 million for the top 12 films this Friday-Sunday, up 10% from a typical fourth weekend in November. The final Twilight installment will remain at the top of the chart this weekend, while Skyfall’s third weekend will challenge the family-friendly Rise of the […]
The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume All films in wide release playing between November 12 and November 18 grossed an amazing $300 million, up 28% from the four-year average for the week and up 24% from the same week last year. The past six weeks are now 13% above the four-year average and […]
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 enters the worldwide chart with $200 million overseas to date. Ultimately, we expect the overseas number to rise to about $425 million, putting the final Twilight on track for $710 million ( a touch ahead of New Moon as the highest Twilight worldwide gross). For a complete track of worldwide/ domestic/ overseas […]