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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 Weekend US/Worldwide Box Office – 10/26/14

OPENINGS: Cheap PG-13 horror movies are the assembly-line workers of the studios, rarely resulting in showy profits, but paying the bills between blockbusters. OUIJA (Universal) and its $20.006M opening (we’ll ...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 12/6/15

OPENINGS: Little was expected from KRAMPUS (Legendary/Universal), and looked at in that light, it modestly overdelivered with a $16M opening weekend. That’s virtually identical with the $15.8M opening for Unfri...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.12.2017

OPENINGS: In the US, DADDY’S HOME 2 (Paramount) eked out a victory among the newcomers at $30M, thanks to a 6% family audience bump on Saturday. That’s still 22% below the opening for the first Daddy̵...

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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 7/14/13

OPENINGS: Despite the strong weekend, it’s a bit troubling that GROWN UPS 2 (Sony) fell 11% on Saturday (the original Grown Ups rose 2% on its 2d day), suggesting frontloading and less than great word of mouth. ...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 4/5/15

OPENINGS: Here are the records FURIOUS 7 (Universal) has racked up: #4 worldwide opening at $384M (behind the final Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and The Avengers)–although that may be cheating...

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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 Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 5/25/14

(Note: Most of the studios aggressively estimated their Sunday declines as being around 10%, even though last year’s Memorial Day Weekend Sunday drops were mostly steeper than that, so there could be a number of ...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8/16/15

OPENINGS: STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON (Legendary/Universal) turned out to be somewhat frontloaded, with a 20% drop on its 2d day of release. But no one will complain about its huge $56.1M weekend, the #6 August opening ev...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11/2/14

OPENINGS: NIGHTCRAWLER (Open Road) and Ouija are in a dead heat for the weekend title, with Nightcrawler claiming a temporary $9000 edge at $10.909M. We won’t know the real winner until tomorrow, but Ouija is a...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 12/13/15

OPENINGS: Let’s be clear: the decision to greenlight a $100M production budget for IN THE HEART OF THE SEA (Village Roadshow/Warners)–a period whaling adventure that features about 10 minutes of a CG whal...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.19.2017

OPENINGS: Could JUSTICE LEAGUE (RatPac/DC/Warners) actually lose money? That possibility exists after a worldwide opening (except Japan, not a huge superhero market) that hit only $281.5M, a number that sounds big on...

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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 12/15/13

OPENINGS: THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (Warners/MGM) had a better Saturday hold than last year’s An Unexpected Journey (-22% vs. -25%), suggesting that positive word of mouth is kicking in, and no doubt ea...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 4/12/15

OPENINGS: THE LONGEST RIDE (20th) tried to counterprogram Furious 7 with a Nicholas Sparks romance, but didn’t even muss the blockbuster’s hair with a $13.5M opening. That’s better than the lousy $10M star...

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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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New Year’s Eve Box Office Update

Behind the Weekend US/Worldwide Box Office – 10/26/14

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 12/6/15

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.12.2017

BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 7/14/13

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 4/5/15

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

Behind the Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 5/25/14

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8/16/15

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11/2/14

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 12/13/15

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.19.2017

BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 12/15/13

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 4/12/15

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

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