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WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES June 8-10 — A Soft Saturday Makes for a Very Front-Loaded Weekend

Posted June 10, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted now looks like a $60.4 million weekend, according to the studio estimate this morning (down from yesterday’s early estimate but still exceeding our forecast in Wednesday’s ShowbuzzDaily Weekend Predictions).  Prometheus is looking like a $50.0 million weekend (or so 20th Century Fox is fervently wishing and hoping), down from yesterday’s […]

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Holiday Box Office Volume: updated through 1.3.2019

Posted January 4, 2019 by Mitch Metcalf

UPDATE (19 days Dec 16-Jan 3): $757 million for the top 10 films in North America each day, now -6.5% below the average holiday box office since 2007 ($810 million over this span), ending up well below the pace of 2015-2017 when a Star Wars film anchored the holiday season but slightly above the pace of 2012-2014 […]

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International Box Office through October 27

Posted October 27, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Updated international box office chart:

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Weekend Box Office Predictions 3.13-15.2015

Posted March 11, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

Weekend #11 of 2015 is looking like $126 million for the top 12 films this weekend, up significantly from comparable weekends the past few years and putting 2015 back on track after two down weekends in a row. Opening at around 3,600 theaters Friday (well above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the […]

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Whit Stillman’s “Damsels In Distress”

Posted September 16, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> Whit Stillman has one of the most distinctive voices in American film, and his 13-year absence from the screen barely shows in his new comedy DAMSELS IN DISTRESS; it feels as though, had it been made immediately after The Last Days of Disco in 1998, nothing about it would be the slightest bit different. […]

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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 10.12.2014

Posted October 12, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

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), […]

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WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES March 22-24 — Updated

Posted March 24, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #12 of 2013 is another down weekend (making it 10 down weekends out of 12 this year so far): $130 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday (down 9% from an average comparable weekend the past few years and down 36% from the same weekend last year dominated by the […]

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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 5.29.2016

Posted May 29, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Updated look at 2016 by studio.   YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2016 to date is now +1% above last year and now +2% above the average for this point the past four years ($3.837 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $10.4 billion worldwide […]

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