INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through May 12
Updated international box office chart.
WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES May 25-27
Men in Black 3 now looks like a $55.0 million weekend, according to the studio estimate this morning (up from yesterday’s early estimate and now exactly hitting our forecast in Wednesday’s ShowBuzzDaily Weekend Pre...
SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “The Avengers” Conquers the World
> Marvel spent a great deal of time and effort setting the stage for its full-house-of-heroes extravaganza THE AVENGERS, and it’s all paying off. The movie opened in 39 international territories this past week (some...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Agents of SHIELD”
AGENTS OF SHIELD: Tuesday 9PM on ABC It took most of its first season for AGENTS OF SHIELD to start becoming the show the synergy experts at Disney, Marvel and ABC desperately wanted it to be, and by then it had squa...
SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: Here Come “The Avengers”
> Now that we’ve all taken a breath after the extraordinary success of The Hunger Games (and Lionsgate has had a chance to count its money), Hollywood’s real blockbuster season is about to begin, and indications are...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Gifted”
THE GIFTED: Monday 9PM on FOX – In the Queue FOX’s THE GIFTED exists in the X-Men region of Marvel’s mythology, which in corporate terms means that it (along with Fantastic Four) belongs to 20th Centu...
FULL WEEK BOX OFFICE ACTUALS and YEAR TO DATE May 7-13
Now 19 full weeks into 2012, year-to-date domestic box office is now running 21% ahead of last year’s pace and now 17% ahead of the comparable period’s average for the last several years. Marvel’s The...
THOR: Hammered
> Watch It At Home: The God of Thunder Musters a Tinny Roar. Put it this way: the new superhero epic THOR cost something like $150M to produce, required the diligent services of hundreds of professionals over a peri...
INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS through May 6
Marvel’s The Avengers (distributed by Disney) has jumped to $441.5 million to date overseas (up from $178.4 million last week, when it opened ahead of Friday’s North American debut). United Kingdom ($25.7 millio...
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS June 15-17 — Adam Sandler & Tom Cruise’s Weekend of the Banal
Weekend #24 of 2012 looks like it will total a just okay $146 million for the top 12 films, down 1% from last year’s comparable weekend and down 6% from the four-year average for the weekend. Two films with once-big sta...
WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES May 11-13
Marvel’s The Avengers continues to tear up the record books. The studio is projecting the second weekend will come in at $103.2 million (now almost exactly hitting the $104 million in our ShowBuzzDaily Weekend Predicti...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Agents of SHIELD”
AGENTS OF SHIELD – Friday 9PM on ABC It’s hard to believe that only 5 seasons ago, when ABC’s AGENTS OF SHIELD arrived on the air, the idea of a superhero TV series still seemed somewhat new and cool. ...
WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES June 1-3 — Snow White Leads Soft Box Office
Snow White and the Huntsman now looks like a $56.255 million weekend, according to the studio estimate this morning (up a touch from yesterday’s early estimate and exceeding our forecast in Wednesday’s ShowBuzzDail...
FRIDAY MAY 4 BOX OFFICE RESULTS — Revised Numbers for The Avengers
UPDATE: We have revised the numbers for Marvel’s The Avengers to reflect Disney’s outlook for the film based on Friday’s opening, which puts the film on track for the biggest opening weekend of all time. The 1...
FULL WEEK BOX OFFICE ACTUALS and YEAR TO DATE April 30-May 6
Now 18 full weeks into 2012 (entering the middle third of the year, the all-important May-August period), year-to-date domestic box office is now running 20% ahead of last year’s pace and now 15% ahead of the comparab...