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INTERNATIONAL Box Office through June 23

Posted June 23, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Updated international box office chart:

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Year to Date Box Office & Studio Scorecard

Posted July 28, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

STUDIO SCORECARD. 20th Century Fox vaulted ahead of Paramount into fourth place in worldwide box office for 2013 to date, mostly because of The Wolverine.  Universal and Warner Brothers remain a very close #2 and #3, respectively, with both studios grossing well over $100 million this past week (primarily from overseas grosses for Universal’s Despicable Me […]

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International Box Office Report through September 8

Posted September 8, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Updated international box office chart:  

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Weekend Box Office Predictions OCTOBER 25-27

Posted October 23, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

The 43rd weekend of the year is looking like $104 million for the top 12 films, 22% from the multi-year average for this weekend.  And on its fourth weekend, Gravity will be knocked out of the top spot by…..Johnny Knoxville?  That’s what it looks like. Opening at over 3,000 theaters Friday (slightly above the 2,886 […]

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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard

Posted December 8, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

The year-to-date rankings are very similar to last week, with some studios showing small negative changes versus last week’s totals (as the final domestic estimates for some films have been adjusted downward).  For a complete ranking of 2013 films individually by worldwide performance click here. TOTAL NORTH AMERICAN BOX OFFICE. Looking at wide-release films in North […]

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 1/17/14

Posted January 18, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  OPENINGS:  Kevin Hart has been hanging around the edges of being a movie star for a few years now, and RIDE ALONG (Universal) makes it official.  With a $14.5M Friday start, it could challenge Cloverfield for the Martin Luther King weekend title, currently at $46.1M.  For Universal, this is the start of a nicely […]

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Weekend Studio Estimates MARCH 7-9

Posted March 9, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #10 of 2014 now looks like $131 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, slightly ahead of the the average for this weekend the past few years. Opening at 3,470 theaters Friday, 300: Rise of an Empire from Warner Brothers grossed $17.6 million Friday and $16.2 million Saturday, putting the film […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Studio Summer Movie Guide: Warner Bros.

Posted April 29, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  In our week-long look at the box office prospects of the nearly-here summer movie season on a studio by studio basis, we’ve examined Sony and Universal.  Today our eye is on Warner Bros, typically one of the busiest of the studios. LAST SUMMER:  Overall a success, although not quite to the extent Warners was […]

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