> THE HUNGER GAMES ended its first week of release with a $189.9M total that was the 7th highest in history. That result was exceeded only by the blockbuster summer sequels The Dark Knight, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Spider-Man […]
MIRROR MIRROR: Not Even For Free – 7 Years Bad Luck When it was announced that 2012 would bring two big-budget movie versions of the Snow White story, not to mention TV’s Once Upon A Time, in which Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a central character (and that’s not counting Grimm, another […]
> On its first Wednesday in release, THE HUNGER GAMES fell 22% to $8.1M, but just as Tuesday’s hold wasn’t quite as good as it looked, Wednesday’s wasn’t as bad. For whatever reason, Wednesdays tend to be a down day in the dynamic of a typical week, particularly for the previous weekend’s new opening. Last […]
>The 13th weekend of the year should be very strong: about $169 million for the top 12 films up 49% from last year’s comparable weekend and up 32% from the four-year average for this weekend. Wrath of the Titans should open just below $40 million, far behind the pace of Clash of the Titans from […]
> THE HUNGER GAMES held fairly well on its first Tuesday, dropping around 4% to $10.3M. This isn’t quite as good as it sounds, because Tuesday is generally an up day (except where Monday is part of a holiday weekend), and the other Top 10 movies rose by 9-24%. However, it’s not unusual for new […]
> Monday boxoffice is tricky to analyze, because as you’d expect, the all-time list of Monday grosses is largely a history of long holiday weekends, namely Memorial Day, July 4th, Martin Luther King Day, and Christmas/New Year’s week. So strictly speaking, THE HUNGER GAMES’ $10.8M gross on its 4th day in theatres is only the […]
>Now 12 full weeks into 2012, year-to-date domestic box office is running 26% ahead of last year’s worrisome pace, and the year-to-date total is now fully 15% ahead of the comparable period’s average for the last several years. The Hunger Games lived up to the hype and played like an early summer tentpole in March. […]
> So what just happened, and what’s likely to happen next? Here’s a quick look at what’s new in Panem: FINAL NUMBERS: It turns out THE HUNGER GAMES wasn’t such a hit after all, earning a measly $152.5M in its first 3 days of release, instead of the estimated $155M. Actually the discrepancy was pretty […]