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New Year’s Eve Box Office Update

As was the case last Sunday, the weekend holiday has meant that estimates for New Year’s Day (which are all over the place, from 5% down to 40% up) are no more than speculative, and there are only fragmentary inter...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 12/11/16

OPENINGS: The adult-oriented OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (DreamWorks/Paramount) had a 3% Saturday bump and wound up with a fair $17.5M for the weekend If it can hold decently against next week’s monstrous arrival, ...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10/2/13

OPENINGS: The studio-reported $28.5M weekend for Tim Burton’s MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN (TSG/20th) is below the $29.7M opening for Burton’s flop Dark Shadows. Miss Peregrine cost l...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8/14/16

OPENINGS: The SAUSAGE PARTY (Annapurna/Columbia/Sony) audience was somewhat frontloaded, with a 16% Saturday decline, but the weekend total of $33.6M was still outstanding, the best starring debut for Seth Rogen since ...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8/7/16

OPENINGS: The answer to the question of whether the Day 2 drop for SUICIDE SQUAD (RatPac/DC/Warners) would be as bad as the one for Batman v Superman turned out to be no–it was worse. Suicide plunged 41% on Sa...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 7/31/16

OPENINGS: JASON BOURNE (Perfect World/Universal) is claiming a $60M US start, although as is par for the course, that number includes an aggressive Sunday estimate and could come down a bit on Monday. In any case, it...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 5/29/16

OPENINGS: As we forecast on Friday night, X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (TSG/20th) isn’t just running lower than 2014’s Days of Future Past, it’s also been more frontloaded. 20th is projecting a $65M 3-day week...

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Inside the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 4/10/16

OPENINGS: On such a razor-thin margin, the standings could change tomorrow with final numbers, but for now, THE BOSS (Universal) has the weekend edge with $23.48M, barely a nose ($45K) ahead of those creaky superheroes...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 4/3/16

THE MAIN EVENT: As the roof caved in on BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE (DC/RatPac/Warners), the studio had two last-ditch goals: to avoid a Weekend 2 result that dropped 70% from last week or dipped below $50M ...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 3/13/16

OPENINGS: The Saturday bump for 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE (Bad Robot/Paramount) was 8%, a solid number for its genre that indicates good word of mouth. That gave it a $25.3M weekend, a bit higher than Friday indicated, alt...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 3/6/16

OPENINGS: The weekend belonged to ZOOTOPIA (Disney Animation/Disney), which broke its studio unit’s opening record and the March animation record with $73.7M, and also earned $63.4M internationally (including $24...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2/29/16

OPENINGS: The really bad news for GODS OF EGYPT (Summit/Lionsgate) wasn’t the $14M US opening, although that was certainly pathetic enough. No, the really bad news was that in 68 overseas territories covering m...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2/21/16

OPENINGS: RISEN (Affirm/Columbia/Sony) topped the weekend’s arrivals with an $11.8M start that was above the $11.4M for War Room and the $9.2M for God’s Not Dead, although it was well below Heaven Is For Re...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2/14/16

A Valentine’s Day in the middle of Presidents Day weekend allowed for strong Sunday studio estimates–in one case, suspiciously so. OPENINGS: A couple of notable sidelights to the gargantuan success of DEADP...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2/7/16

OPENINGS: It was only 20 years into their career, with 2007’s No Country For Old Men ($74.3M in the US) that Joel and Ethan Coen began to be considered box office forces, and even after that, only True Grit (thei...

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New Year’s Eve Box Office Update

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 12/11/16

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10/2/13

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8/14/16

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8/7/16

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 7/31/16

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 5/29/16

Inside the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 4/10/16

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 4/3/16

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 3/13/16

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 3/6/16

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2/29/16

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2/21/16

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2/14/16

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