In The Spotlight
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.17.2024
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.10.2024
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.3.2024
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.27.2024
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.20.2024
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.13.2024
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.17.2024
OPENINGS: A $34.1M US launch for a movie that reportedly carries about $350M in production and marketing costs likely means a nine-figure loss in theatrical release, which traditionally is considered less than desirable. But the ways of Box Office Magical Thinking are infinite (and the number of pundits willing to parrot such spin similarly […]
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.10.2024
OPENINGS: THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER (Lionsgate) is claiming “victory” among the newcomers, but its reported $11.1M comes with a huge asterisk, as $2.1M of that total was from a preview day the previous week. Strictly on a weekend vs weekend basis, it wasn’t close to the win. It’s also estimating the smallest Sunday […]
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.3.2024
OPENINGS: Despite being the only high-profile arrival of the week, and having a pedigree and visual style that guaranteed it media attention, Robert Zemeckis’s HERE (Miramax/TriStar/Sony) bombed with $5M. It’s been a tough decade for Zemeckis, once a maker of blockbuster hits, whose most recent moderate success was 2012’s Flight. Here hasn’t opened overseas, […]
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.27.2024
OPENINGS: With an assortment of excuses (the World Series! a video game release! Halloween! birthday parties?!?), VENOM: THE LAST DANCE (Marvel/Columbia/Sony) tottered to $51M in the US, down 43% from 2021’s Let There Be Carnage. At this point it seems to be heading for $125M domestically, down from $213.6M. Things are much stronger overseas, […]
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.20.2024
OPENINGS: SMILE 2 (Paramount) opened on par with its predecessor, at $23M compared to $22.6M. A small dip had been projected, so that was slightly above expectations. The sequel, unlike the first Smile, will face major competition in its 2nd weekend, so it remains to be seen whether it can have that film’s stellar […]
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.13.2024
OPENINGS: TERRIFIER 3 (Cineverse) broke through to a mainstream audience with an $18.3M weekend, which is more than the entire $10.6M run of 2022’s Terrifier 2 (that one’s highest weekend was $1.9M). The new entry in the unrated, ultra-violent slasher series accomplished this with not just a low production budget, but reportedly a miniscule amount […]
