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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 12.1.2024
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.24.2024
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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 – 12.1.2024
OPENINGS: It was the Thanksgiving holiday of Hollywood’s dreams, spearheaded by the record-breaking performance of MOANA 2 (Disney), which shoveled in $221M during the Wed-Sun period and $135.5M for the weekend itself. Most Thanksgiving blockbusters launch the weekend before the holiday, so there aren’t a lot of direct comparisons to make. In contrast to […]
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.24.2024
OPENINGS: The $114M launch of WICKED (Universal) (which included “fan event” screenings throughout the previous week) set a new high for Broadway musical adaptations, and indeed for live-action musicals in general, while still being slightly behind sky-high expectations. For those doing the 2023 vs 2024 comparison, it was also about 30% under the opening […]
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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, […]
