> It was a solid Saturday for most films in the market, according to the preliminary numbers at Deadline, which are subject to revision on both Sunday and Monday. THINK LIKE A MAN (Screen Gems/Sony) is reporting a 10% uptick for the day, which would be a very good sign (Tyler Perry’s Why Did I […]
Updated worldwide box office chart for 2013 North American films. Also, click here for a summary of worldwide performance by studio.
The big gainer overseas this week was The Dark Knight Rises again, up $67 million to an overseas total of $445 million. A billion dollars worldwide is still possible, but $950 million could be more realistic. Ice Age 4 continues to pound away, up another $37 million overseas this week to $621 million to date. Brave, […]
The 35th weekend of the year is looking like $83 million for the top 12 films, exactly in line with the Friday-Sunday portions of recent Labor Day weekends and among the three or four weakest weekends of the entire year. After all, this is the weekend that has spawned Oogieloves and Shark Night 3D among other […]
The 32nd weekend of 2012 is looking like a halfway decent $138 million for the Top 12 films Friday-Sunday — despite being down a moderate 4% from the same weekend last year, this weekend is actually up 8% from this comparable weekend over several years. The Bourne Legacy from Universal […]
International box office for 2013 releases through January 5, 2014. Click here for a summary of worldwide performance by studio.
Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #26 of 2014 looks like $172 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, 9% 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 theaters, Transformers: Age of Extinction from Paramount grossed $41.1 million through Friday […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Fox rolls on, running away with 2014 worldwide with another $144 million this week (mostly from continued strong overseas grosses from Maze Runner and Gone Girl). Fox is a huge #1 with almost $4.2 billion for the year to date worldwide. The next best week came from lowly Universal ($134 million worldwide the past week), […]