International Box Office through August 4
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Weekend Box Office Predictions JULY 26-28
The 30th weekend of the year is looking like $174 million for the top 12 films, a bit lower than last weekend ($181 million) but much better than the average for this weekend the past few years ($137 million) when summer normal...
SHOWBUZZDAILY’s State of the Indies
Now that we’ve looked through all the major and mini-major Hollywood studios (Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Universal and Lionsgate/Summit) and examined their summers, today we’ll wr...
SHOWBUZZDAILY’s State of the Studio: Lionsgate/Summit
Last week we ran through all the major Hollywood studios–Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox and Universal–to see how their summers have been going. Today we’ll take a look at Lions...
BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 7/21/13
OPENINGS: THE CONJURING (Warners) behaved like a horror movie on Saturday, falling 18% despite the great reviews and exit polls, but that didn’t stand in the way of its estimated huge $41.5M weekend. That made ...
