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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Ocean’s 8″” Solid, “Hereditary” Mildly Shivery, “Hotel Artemis” Condemned

OCEAN’S EIGHT (Village Roadshow/Warners) wasn’t expected to be a blockbuster, and its reported production budget of $70M was in keeping with that, although the A-level Warners marketing campaign will raise th...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 2/14/14

Valentine’s Day is an enormous moviegoing event each year, so it remains to be seen whether Friday’s brisk business will translate to the rest of the holiday weekend. OPENINGS: ABOUT LAST NIGHT (Screen Gems...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 8/1/14

OPENINGS: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (Marvel/Disney) has something the summer’s other blockbusters could only dream of: weeks ahead without any A-level competition. When the biggest titles coming up are the rebo...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Black Panther” Stays Superpowered, “Game Night” OK, “Annihilation” Perishes

BLACK PANTHER (Marvel/Disney) is now in competition only with the loftiest movie hits. According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, its 2nd Friday was $28.4M (down 63% from last week), behind just The Avengers‘ ...

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 9/27/13

OPENINGS: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (Sony) had an even softer Friday than the early numbers claimed with $9.3M. That’s barely ahead of the first Cloudy‘s $8.1M, and sequels tend to be more front...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” Tuneful, “Equalizer 2″” Solid, “Hotel Transylvania 3″” & “Skyscraper” Drop

A weekend of sequels is dancing to the beat of MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN (Perfect World/Universal), which had a $15.1M opening day according to preliminary numbers at Deadline. That’s up an impressive 53% from ...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “The Upside” Has Some, “Aquaman” Subsides, “On The Basis of Sex,” “Beale Street” Expand

THE UPSIDE (STX/Lantern) survived the wreckage of the Weinstein Company bankruptcy, and found an opening between the end of the holiday movie season and next week’s MLK weekend, poking through with what preliminary...

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 11/15/13

OPENINGS: THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY (Universal) took advantage of being the only new movie in the market and nosed ahead of Thor on Friday, $10.7M to $10.5M. That lead won’t hold for the rest of the weekend, but it&...

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 6/21/13

OPENINGS: A bit surprisingly, perhaps, Pixar’s recent movies haven’t exploded at the Saturday/Sunday matinee box office, with merely normal (as opposed to “family”) weekend multiples off their F...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 6/13/14

OPENINGS: 22 JUMP STREET (Sony/Columbia) went even higher on Friday than early estimates had it, reaching $25M. Even if it’s front-loaded as a young-skewing sequel, a $60M weekend is all but guaranteed, which w...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 6/20/14

OPENINGS: THINK LIKE A MAN TOO (Screen Gems/Sony) had almost exactly the same start as the first Think, up $75K from that movie’s opening day at $12.2M. Being a sequel, though, it will likely fail to reach T...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Dumbo” Flies Low, “Unplanned” OK, “Hotel Mumbai” & “The Beach Bum” Dim

The Disney machine is hitting an atypical pothole with DUMBO (Disney), which according to preliminary numbers at Deadline had a $14.8M Friday ($2.6M of that from Thursday night). That’s very much on the low end o...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: Another Winning Holiday For “Last Jedi” & “Jumanji,” But “All The Money” Starts Slow

Most films will rise this weekend compared to last week, simply because New Year’s Eve is a bigger moviegoing occasion than Christmas Eve. Generally, box office should rise 20% or so on Saturday, drop around 30% ...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 10/10/14

Once again, Gone Girl was vanquished for a day by a horror movie, but will almost certainly rebound to take the weekend. OPENINGS: DRACULA UNTOLD (Legendary/Universal) gets the partnership between Universal and its new...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “The Great Wall,” “Fist Fight,” “Cure For Wellness” Fall to “LEGO Batman”

A weak slate of newcomers is almost always good news for the holdovers in the market, and that will be the case this holiday weekend. According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (Warners Animati...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Ocean’s 8″” Solid, “Hereditary” Mildly Shivery, “Hotel Artemis” Condemned

Behind the Friday Box Office – 2/14/14

Behind the Friday Box Office – 8/1/14

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Black Panther” Stays Superpowered, “Game Night” OK, “Annihilation” Perishes

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 9/27/13

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” Tuneful, “Equalizer 2″” Solid, “Hotel Transylvania 3″” & “Skyscraper” Drop

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “The Upside” Has Some, “Aquaman” Subsides, “On The Basis of Sex,” “Beale Street” Expand

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 11/15/13

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 6/21/13

Behind the Friday Box Office – 6/13/14

Behind the Friday Box Office – 6/20/14

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Dumbo” Flies Low, “Unplanned” OK, “Hotel Mumbai” & “The Beach Bum” Dim

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: Another Winning Holiday For “Last Jedi” & “Jumanji,” But “All The Money” Starts Slow

Behind the Friday Box Office – 10/10/14

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “The Great Wall,” “Fist Fight,” “Cure For Wellness” Fall to “LEGO Batman”

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