> THE HUNGER GAMES held fairly well on its first Tuesday, dropping around 4% to $10.3M. This isn’t quite as good as it sounds, because Tuesday is generally an up day (except where Monday is part of a holiday weekend...
The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume All films in wide release playing between November 19 and November 25 grossed an excellent $325 million, up 19% from the four-year average for the week and up 25% from the same week last y...
> THE HUNGER GAMES has an excuse. Last night at midnight, The Hunger Games began its long-awaited run in theatres by grossing $19.7M. Which is, by any estimation, a lot of money–the most ever earned by a non-sequel,...
> Boxoffice numbers have been bouncing around all day (Per-theatre averages as of 3PM Pacific time! Number of left-handed, red-haired patrons sitting through the entire end credits!), and they’re still not final or ...
THE TWILIGHT SAGA – BREAKING DAWN PART 1: Watch It At Home – The Saga Sags In Slow Prelude To The End The worldwide phenomenon that is Twilight often finds itself compared to Harry Potter, and...
> Per a Box Office Mojo tweet, the final actual number for BREAKING DAWN PART 1‘s opening weekend fell a bit to $138.1M. This isn’t a major surprise, as the first 2 days of the weekend had indicated numbers mo...
> In less than 24 hours, boxoffice figures for tonight’s midnight opening of THE HUNGER GAMES will start to arrive, and after that, the data, analysis and comparisons will be flooding in all weekend. You can play al...
This weekend is looking incredibly strong: over $250 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, up 27% from a typical third weekend in November. The final Twilight (12-34 females), Lincoln (35+ adults), and the second weeken...
>This weekend is all about Twilight Breaking Dawn, which will be huge. But Happy Feet Two should manage an opening that would look stellar on any other recent weekend. Overall box office this weekend should be up 33...
Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #48 is on pace to exceed the multi-year average for this weekend by 33% — the fourth weekend in a row 20% or more above the comparable weekend average. All credit goes to strong ...
So much for front-loading. The preliminary Saturday number for THE AVENGERS (Disney), as reported by Deadline, is genuinely extraordinary. If it holds up, Avengers will have one of the best 2d day holds of a meg...
> THE HUNGER GAMES ended its first week of release with a $189.9M total that was the 7th highest in history. That result was exceeded only by the blockbuster summer sequels The Dark Knight, Transformers: Revenge of ...
> BREAKING DAWN PART 1: Christmas comes but once a year, and for Summit that day is the 24 hours after a Twilight movie opens. (A little credit to the studio, too, for not fudging the numbers, which would have been ...
> Deadline has preliminary boxoffice figures for Wednesday, and there doesn’t seem to be great news for anyone. BREAKING DAWN PART 1 appears to be the easy winner for the day and probably for Thanksgiving weekend, b...