Posts Tagged ‘box office’
 

 

THURSDAY NIGHT BOX OFFICE: “Elysium” Starts Slow

  ELYSIUM (Sony) got off to a very moderate start with $1.7M from 10PM Thursday night shows.  That’s better than the Thursday nights for 2 Guns ($1.2M) and White House Down ($1.35M), but nowhere near the $3.6M for P...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

WEDNESDAY BOX OFFICE: “We’re The Millers” and “Percy Jackson” Start Fairly Well

  America’s summer love for R-rated comedies and YA action-adventure sequels isn’t quite over yet.  WE’RE THE MILLERS (Warners) got off to a creditable start with $6.8M on Wednesday (including $1.7M from...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Weekend Box Office Predictions AUGUST 9-11

The 32nd weekend of the year is looking like $165 million for the top 12 films, a very good result for the second week of August.  Four movies aimed at very different audiences should open reasonably well, giving the box offic...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 8/4/13

  OPENINGS:  With a $27.4M start, 2 GUNS (Universal) is probably headed for $85M in the US, a fair if unexciting return for a movie that claims to have (post-tax credits) a $61M production budget.  With Universal taking ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Year to Date Box Office & STUDIO SCORECARD

STUDIO SCORECARD. The studio rankings for worldwide box office remain the same this week, with Sony, Universal and 20th Century Fox having the most productive weeks.  Sony benefited from the domestic and especially overseas re...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

International Box Office through August 4

Updated international box office chart:
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Weekend Studio Estimates AUGUST 2-4

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #31 of 2013 still looks like a surprisingly weak $126 million for the top 12 films, down 4% from the average for this weekend the past few years (the first such decl...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

FRIDAY AUGUST 2 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #31 of 2013 looks like a surprisingly weak $124 million for the top 12 films, down 5% from the average for this weekend the past few years (the first such decline since the weekend of Ju...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Weekend Box Office Predictions AUGUST 2-4

The 31st weekend of the year is looking like $141 million for the top 12 films, not bad for the first weekend of August. Opening at around 2,800 theaters Friday (near the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the la...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED Weekend Box Office: “The Wolverine” Falls Some More

  On Sunday mornings, the devout go to church, and movie studios lie.  (There’s not much overlap between the two groups.)  The studios lie (or fudge, if you’re sensitive about the L Word), fundamentally, beca...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 7/28/13

  OPENINGS:   Two smart studio decisions bailed out what could have been a scary opening weekend for THE WOLVERINE (20th).  Fox kept the budget relatively low for its expensive genre, just $250M or so including worldwid...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

International Box Office through July 28

International box office chart:
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: 7/27/13

  OPENINGS:  While not an outright flop like The Lone Ranger, Pacific Rim, RIPD, et. al (particularly since it cost less to produce than any of those), THE WOLVERINE (20th) is underperforming in a big way.  Its estimated...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

FRIDAY JULY 26 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #30 of 2013 looks like a decent $159 million for the top 12 films, comfortably above the same weekend the last few years. The Wolverine is way off our projected opening but still but sti...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THURSDAY NIGHT BOX OFFICE: “The Wolverine” Shows Its Claws & Updated Thursday Box Office Chart

  THE WOLVERINE (20th) is the weekend’s only big newcomer at the box office, and it got off to a healthy $4M start last night.  That number is particularly strong since Wolverine held off till 10PM to start its laun...
by Mitch Salem