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INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through March 24

Posted March 24, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Updated International Box Office chart below.  Big movers this week include The Croods (debuting on the chart with $63 million overseas to date), Oz the Great and Powerful (up $42 million overseas this week) and Jack the Giant Slayer (up $38 million overseas this week).

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INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through May 5

Posted May 5, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Updated international box office.  The $505 million overseas to date for Iron Man 3 (after only two weeks) puts it on a pace to challenge the $888 million overseas total for The Avengers last year, as well as the $947 million overseas tally for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 in July 2011.  But the high-water mark for […]

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INTERNATIONAL Box Office through June 19

Posted June 16, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Updated international box office chart.  

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s State of the Indies

Posted July 23, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  Now that we’ve looked through all the major and mini-major Hollywood studios (Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Universal and Lionsgate/Summit) and examined their summers, today we’ll wrap up our summer studio survey with snapshots of some of the more prominent independent studios.  Summer isn’t their key season–the August/September film festivals will […]

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International Box Office through September 1

Posted September 1, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Updated international box office chart:

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Weekend Box Office Predictions OCTOBER 18-20

Posted October 16, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

The 42nd weekend of the year is looking like $112 million for the top 12 films, down 8% from this weekend last year but down a smaller 2% from the multi-year average for this weekend. Opening at over 3,000 theaters Friday (slightly above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), Carrie […]

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Weekend Studio Estimates NOV 29-DEC 1

Posted December 1, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #48 of 2013 looks like $195 million for the top 12 films from Friday-Sunday — 3% below last year’s Thanksgiving weekend but 11% above the four-year average for Thanksgiving weekend.  The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is on pace to score $74.5 million this weekend, and we have revised […]

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FRIDAY DECEMBER 20 Box Office Report

Posted December 21, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #51 of 2013 looks like $139 million for the top 12 films from Friday-Sunday, up substantially from the same weekend last year (see comparisons to previous years at the bottom).   Opening at 3,507 theaters Wednesday, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues from Paramount grossed $13.2 million before Friday ($8.1 Wednesday and $5.1 Thursday) […]

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