>Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 moves past the $700 million worldwide mark, with $421 million overseas to date. Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol edges past $550 million worldwide with $337 million overseas. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is now a $450 million worldwide picture, while Adventures of Tintin has an outside shot of […]
>Despite a downgraded estimated domestic total, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 expanded its international gross to date to come very close to the billion dollar mark. Transformers: Dark of the Moon is starting to top out in its overseas gross — the worldwide gross will probably end up around $950 million. Captain […]
>Weekend #17 of 2012 looks like it will be about $112 million for the top 12 films, down 23% from last year’s comparable weekend (when Fast Five exploded with an $86 million opening weekend) and down 17% from the four-year average for this weekend. A lack of compelling new product should make this weekend the […]
>Deadline is reporting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is opening to an eye-popping $90-100 million Friday. This estimate from Warner Brothers includes the incredible $43.5 from midnight showings. This destroys the single-day record of $72.7 million by Twilight Saga: New Moon on Friday, November 20, 2009. Even adjusted for inflation, this is […]
> Three Muppets at a Rehearsal Thanksgiving weekend brings three well-reviewed family/ holiday entries and a mild expansion for a comedic-drama with Oscar hopes. Total box office volume should be around $161 million for the three-day portion of the weekend, down about 6% from the same weekend last year when Tangled and Burlesque opened and […]
> Let the summer begin! The fourth Pirates of the Caribbean will open all by itself with close to $95 million this weekend. Opening at over 4,000 theaters, Pirates 4 should average a killer $23,500 per theater (for $94 million total). On Stranger Tides is the most coolly-received movie in the franchise by critics (read […]
> For anyone attending the Toronto International Film Festival that begins in just over 2 weeks, today was a crucial day: the release of the Festival schedule. (TIFF also announced some not-shabby final additions to its roster of titles, including Gus Van Sant’s Restless and Jonathan Demme’s third and latest Neil Young documentary.) Now […]
> I wasn’t aware that the Toronto Film Festival showed TV pilots until I caught a screening of PEACE, LOVE & MISUNDERSTANDING. As a pilot, Peace certainly has its appeal, with a strong cast that includes Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and rising star Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene), and a reliable […]