INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through May 12
Updated international box office chart.
ShowBuzzDaily SUMMER MOVIE DRAFT — June 24 Update
Team Salem’s top pick (Pixar’s Brave) opened this weekend, helping increase the slate to $290 million, up almost $97 million from last week. Meanwhile, continued strong business from Madagascar 3 and a few other...
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS May 3-5
Iron Man 3 will push the 18th weekend of the year to well over $210 million for the top 12 films, fully 19% better than the average for the comparable weekends recently but still 15% below the same weekend last year, when The A...
INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS through June 3
Men in Black 3 increased to $275 million overseas to date (up sharply from $132 million last week). Battleship has stalled overseas — the foreign total is now $235 million (up marginally from $233 million last week)...
SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: Big, Not Colossal, “Avengers” Midnight – 5/3/12
> The Marvel superhero audience likes to get its sleep. Despite the fact that THE AVENGERS is expected to do record-challenging business this weekend, last night’s midnight screenings totaled $18.7M–a tremendo...
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...
WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES May 4-6 — Historic Weekend for The Avengers
Wow. It’s time to haul out the superlatives and the sports cliches like grand slam and buzzer-beating three-point shot. Marvel’s The Avengers is headed for a $200 million opening weekend, shattering the record p...
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...
FRIDAY JUNE 8 BOX OFFICE RESULTS: Audiences Return in Droves
The box office is roaring back to life this weekend after three weeks of unimpressed moviegoers. The 23rd weekend of 2012 is looking like a killer $183 million for the Top 12 films Friday-Sunday, up 38% from this weekend last...
INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS through June 17
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted had a good week around the world, now $157 million overseas to date (up from $76 million last week). Madagascar is headed for $600+ million worldwide ($215 million domestic according t...
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 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...
WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES May 18-20
Marvel’s The Avengers now looks like a $55.1 million weekend, according to the studio estimate this morning (now exactly hitting our forecast in Wednesday’s ShowBuzzDaily Weekend Predictions). The new films this ...
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...
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...