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Weekend Box Office Predictions 11.21-23.2014
Posted November 19, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf
Weekend #47 of 2014 is looking like $227 million for the top 12 films this weekend, up 22% from the norm for this weekend and similar to this weekend last year (which also featured the opening of a Hunger Games installment). Opening at over 4,000 theaters Friday (well above the 2,886 average theater count for […]
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INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through May 12
Posted May 12, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf
Updated international box office chart.
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FRIDAY JUNE 28 Box Office Report
Posted June 29, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf
Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #26 of 2013 looks like an okay $181 million for the top 12 films, even with or slightly down from the same weekend in recent years. Not a bad weekend at all, just not the blistering pace of the last two weekends. Opening at 3,181 theaters Friday, The Heat from 20th Century Fox […]
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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Gus Van Sant’s “Restless”
Posted September 9, 2011 by Mitch Salem
> Gus Van Sant has been making movies for 25 years, but Restless–apart from its technical polish–feels like the work of a Sundance newcomer. And one who’s been reading too much Salinger, while meanwhile wearing out his DVD of Harold and Maude. Restless is way beyond twee; its mega-tweeness is like a Transformers movie compared […]
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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 3/18/12
Posted March 18, 2012 by Mitch Salem
> Get ready for the flood of jokey 80s TV show remakes that will now be unleashed upon us. OPENINGS: 21 JUMP STREET (Sony) fell ever-so-slightly on Saturday, and if it fails to hit its $35M weekend estimate, it won’t miss by much. CASA DE MI PADRE (Pantelion/Lionsgate), though, is predicting a highly suspect 19% […]
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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 7/15/12
Posted July 15, 2012 by Mitch Salem
Everyone enjoys a quiet weekend before the Bat-attack begins at 12:01AM Thursday night. OPENINGS: The important number for ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (20th) isn’t the $46M US opening (the lowest of the franchise), but the $95.2M earned overseas, giving it a total of $339.2M internationally since the movie started opening in foreign territories more […]
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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 7.31.2016
Posted July 31, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf
This feature will return next week. ###
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Weekend Box Office Predictions 12.26-28.2014
Posted December 24, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf
Weekend #52 of 2014 is looking like $156 million for the top 12 films this weekend, down -2% from the norm for this weekend and down -14% from the same weekend last year. Opening at around 2,400 theaters Christmas Day (somewhat below the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), Into the Woods from Disney […]