>The Hunger Games has moved up to $229 million overseas (up from $216 million last week). The film is probably headed for a worldwide total of $660 million, including our newly revised forecast of $399 million domestic. Click “read more” to see the updated weekly worldwide table. Arriving in North America Friday, The […]
>Overseas box office show big gains for Puss in Boots and Real Steel, now at $142 million and $186 million overseas to date, respectively. Both films are solidly in the top five films worldwide, approaching $300 million worldwide each. New Year’s Eve has $13 million overseas to date, but it only stands at $44 million […]
> Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides hits an even $1 billion worldwide, while Kung Fu Panda skips past Rio right on the heels of Hangover Part II. Cars 2 debuts at #10 with a lot of upside. Read more and see the updated Top 20 chart by clicking below. Super 8 is starting […]
>Those interested in the disconnect between old-line film critics and audiences need look no farther than “In Defense of the Slow and the Boring,” a column in today’s NY Times. In it, chief Times critics Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott each write about the worth of films some find unduly slow-paced, like The Tree […]
Memorial Day weekend pushed Team Metcalf’s front-loaded slate to $682 million through Monday in the second annual ShowbuzzDaily Summer Movie Fantasy Draft, with only two significant films left to open on his slate: Prometheus (#8 pick overall) and Madagascar 3 (#11), both opening June 8. Team Weil totals $47 million so far (with Battleship his lone film to have opened). Weil’s […]
> This weekend should be another good one versus last year, up around 9%. The strongest entry looks to be Hugh Jackman and the robot boxers in Real Steel — it’s playing in a lot of theaters and we expect a very solid per screen average, giving it a forecast $26 million opening. (Aside from The Lion […]
The second annual ShowBuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft still looks like a runaway for Team Metcalf ($518.9 million total through Sunday versus about $25 million each for Teams Salem and Weil), but the early lead is really a function of Metcalf’s slate being heavily weighted toward May and June releases. The lead will only get bigger […]
>Deadline is reporting that Cowboys & Aliens ended up edging The Smurfs at the weekend finish line, $36.4 million to $35.6 million. But remember that given the genre of each film, The Smurfs should easily outgross Cowboys & Aliens in the long run. The #1 status of Cowboys & Aliens will be very short-lived, indeed. […]