Weekend #23 of 2014 is looking like a pretty typical $149 million for the top 12 films this weekend, within 1% of the norm for this weekend and 4% above the same weekend last year. Opening at over 3,000 theaters Friday (well above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Updated look at 2016 by studio. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2016 to date is still +4% above last year and still +5% above the average for this point the past four years ($7.371 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed almost $19.7 billion worldwide when we […]
Weekend #37 of 2015 is looking like $65 million for the top 12 films this weekend, below the norm for this weekend (see comparisons below). The Visit from Universal should open with a $16.5 million opening weekend. Mediocre reviews so far: 53% positive at RottenTomatoes. The Visit is on track for around $44 million domestic. Overseas the film could bring in $50 […]
> GREEN LANTERN cost at least as much as Thor ($350-400M with worldwide marketing), and will probably open around 15% lower–and Thor is no blockbuster hit. Which means that although intensive promos got bodies into theatres, Warners and DC aren’t out of the woods. The picture only scored a B on Cinemascore despite what must […]
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> See Also: 2011 HONORABLE MENTIONS 2011 WORST 10 As a movie year, 2011 felt, more than anything else, like a reflection of an art and a business in disarray. Economically, it was a down year and for the major studios, a frightening one: beyond the special case of the Harry Potter finale, virtually […]
Pending the arrival of this week’s finale, Mike Newell’s 2005 HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE may be, on balance, the most satisfying of the series. It combines first-rate moviemaking with one of J.K. Rowling’s most ingeniously constructed, emotionally rich stories–capped, of course, by the unveiling of Ralph Fiennes as the finally fully […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2015 to date is still +5% above last year and +7% above the average for this point the past four years ($3.043 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $9.2 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office (that’s […]