Posts Tagged ‘Boxoffice’
 

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS January 20-22

>The third weekend of the year should generate about $114 million for the top 12 films.  This would be a marked improvement from last year’s very weak comparable weekend, but in line with most other years for this we...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

FULL WEEK BOX OFFICE ACTUALS and YEAR TO DATE January 9-15

>Two full weeks into 2012, domestic box office is running well ahead of last year’s anemic pace but just ahead of the pace for the same period’s average for the last several years.        Th...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS through January 15

>Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol has moved up to a $320 million overseas tally, bringing the worldwide total to $554 million.  The fourth M:I is now the worldwide leader of the franchise.  Mission: Impossib...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

WEEKEND BOXOFFICE: STUDIO SCORECARD – 1/15/12

> Due to the Martin Luther King holiday on Monday, all studios are estimating low Sunday drops, although some are projecting more aggressively than others. UNIVERSAL:  CONTRABAND held almost even on Saturday, which is good...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

FRIDAY BOXOFFICE: STUDIO SCORECARD – 1/14/12

> The Martin Luther King holiday weekend, a relatively small one for Hollywood because many people work on Monday, begins. UNIVERSAL: The studio made the fairly extraordinary decision to sit out the holiday movie season entirel...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

FRIDAY JANUARY 13 BOX OFFICE RESULTS

> The second weekend of 2012 looks better than we forecast (Contraband and Beauty and the Beast 3D are ahead of the ShowBuzzDaily weekend predictions), but the weekend is still looking pretty soft.  The top 12 films should...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

BIJOU BOXOFFICE: EARLY FRIDAY REPORT

> According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, the weekend is looking auspicious for Mark Wahlberg’s CONTRABAND.  The modestly budgeted thriller (which, however, Universal has been expensively marketing for a solid ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS January 13-15

>The second weekend of 2012 looks to be fairly anemic: $103 million for the top 12 films for the traditional three-day Friday-Sunday period.  This would be down 11% from the same weekend in 2011 and down 28% from the same ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

FULL WEEK BOX OFFICE ACTUALS and YEAR TO DATE January 2-8

>2012 is underway, and the first week of the year (January 2-8) which includes strong early week business for the holiday holdovers and a better than expected weekend from low-budget The Devil Inside was up substantially from b...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS through January 8

>Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows jumped to over $175 million overseas and has a shot at $400 million worldwide.  Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol moved well past $500 million worldwide.  Complete updated ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

WEEKEND BOXOFFICE: STUDIO SCORECARD – 1/9/12

> Live by Cinemascore, die by Cinemascore. THE DEVIL INSIDE:  The most hilarious studio event of the last 24 hours has been Paramount‘s frantic attempt to argue that an “F” Cinemascore for THE DEVIL INSID...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES January 6-8

>The Devil Inside looks like a $34-35 million opening weekend based on studio estimates (Friday and Saturday actual results with estimates for Sunday).  The top 12 films combined total this weekend has been reduced to $128...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

WEEKEND BOXOFFICE: EARLY NUMBERS – 1/7/12

> Dateline has preliminary figures for Saturday and the weekend, and as expected, Paramount’s THE DEVIL INSIDE took a significant 25+% hit in its second day, a trend that will no doubt continue as stories of audiences in ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

FRIDAY BOXOFFICE: STUDIO SCORECARD – 1/6/12

> Everyone wanted to go to the movies on the first full weekend of 2012. PARAMOUNT:  The studio went straight to its Paranormal Activity playbook to launch THE DEVIL INSIDE (pre-release screenings, months of buzz), and it ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

FRIDAY JANUARY 6 BOX OFFICE RESULTS

> 2012 is off to a solid start with $135 million in business for the top 12 films — up 12% from a typical performance for the first weekend of the year but up sharply from the disaster that was 2011’s opening frame....
by Mitch Metcalf