Posts Tagged ‘Boxoffice’
 

 

INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS through April 8

>The Hunger Games continues its rise up the worldwide box office chart with overseas revenue to date now $157 million to go along with an estimated final domestic haul of $380 million.  There is probably another $150-200 m...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE REPORT – 5/12/12

  THE AVENGERS (Disney) just won’t slow down.  If preliminary numbers at Deadline hold, Avengers made $44.5M on Saturday, up 50% from the prior day and down only 36% from the Saturday of its opening weekend, an extr...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS October 16

>The Smurfs movie continues to inch closer to Cars 2 in worldwide box office (now $9 million away).  Real Steel is the only recent movie with any overseas box office pull.  Its overseas to date tally of $57 million ha...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE BIJOU: “Immortals” Stay Up Late

> The new 3D action-fest IMMORTALS got off to a reasonably good start with $1.4M in Thursday midnight screenings.  This isn’t anything spectacular, but it’s slightly higher than the $1.3M RISE OF THE PLANET OF ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Box Office Footnotes – 7/2/11

> After a nice Friday bump, TRANSFORMERS:  DARK OF THE MOON took a small step backwards yesterday, with a lower % of increase than either of its predecessors had on their first Saturdays.  As Mitch Metcalf noted in hi...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE BIJOU: Weekend Boxoffice Footnotes & Early International Numbers – 10/31/11

> DreamWorks Animation can blame the weather for diminishing its PUSS IN BOOTS number–although there seemed to be little effect on the weekend’s other openings–but $34M is awfully low for a major animated rele...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: Tuesday “Dark Knight” Update

  On Tuesday, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES added $17.8M to its Wayne Manor-sized vault, giving it a total of $198M in 5 days of release. It was the only movie in the Top 10 to decline yesterday, but that’s typical for the p...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE BIJOU: Friday Boxoffice Footnotes – 10/7/11

> The irony of the new DreamWorks/Disney is that thus far, their big “event” spectaculars have done only modest business–I Am Number Four opened with $19.5M and ended up with $55M domestically, and REAL STEEL ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

HOLIDAY BOX OFFICE: Daily Moviegoing Patterns

>After generating only $22 million of box office on Christmas Eve this past Saturday, the top 10 films increased their collective gross to almost $55 million on Sunday and a projected $68 million today, Monday, December 26.&nbs...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

FULL WEEK BOX OFFICE ACTUALS and YEAR TO DATE March 26-April 1

>Now 13 full weeks into 2012, year-to-date domestic box office is running 27% ahead of last year’s iceberg-dead-ahead pace, and the year-to-date total is still fully 15% ahead of the comparable period’s average for ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THURSDAY BOXOFFICE: “Star Trek” Doesn’t Go So Boldly

  The Hollywood Reporter has the Thursday boxoffice for STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS (Paramount) at $13.5M, which given the strong reviews and general hype would be a tad disappointing.  Comparisons with the 2009 Star Trek ar...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

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
 

 

 

Valentine’s Day Box Office: Showing the Love for The Vow – 2/14/12

>Love was in the air Tuesday night, as The Vow grossed $11.6 million on Valentine’s Day, shattering the mid-week Valentine’s Day record of $7.5 million for Hitch in 2005, as reported at the Hollywood Reporter. ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS through May 27

Marvel’s The Avengers (distributed by Disney) increased again to $782 million to date overseas (up from $723 million last week), although the growth rate continues to slow down.  (Click “read more” to see t...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

BIJOU BOXOFFICE: EARLY WEEKEND REPORT – 12/17/11

> The news didn’t get any better for Hollywood on Saturday.  In fact, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, the downhill ride got steeper for SHERLOCK HOLMES:  GAME OF SHADOWS.  The film had virtual...
by Mitch Salem