> Early numbers for Thursday have TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON adding $21.5M to its boxoffice, making a total of $64.7M since Tuesday evening. Comparing the Transformers movies isn’t apples to apples, because the first played a full day on its opening Tuesday, and the second didn’t begin until 12:01AM on Wednesday. As of now, […]
Nothing much changed at the boxoffice between Friday and Saturday, and that was bad news for the weekend’s openings. According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, neither ROCK OF AGES (Warners) nor THAT’S MY BOY (Sony) had more than the most negligible Saturday bump, so unless one or both benefits appreciably from Father’s Day on Sunday […]
PRISONERS (Warners) had a strong Saturday at the box office, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline. The dark thriller increased by 28% on its second day to $9M, and should reach $21-22M for the weekend. That would put it right in between Argo ($19.5M) and The Town ($23.8M), the successes Warners hopes to emulate […]
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (Marvel/Disney) held strongly on Saturday despite its massive opening day. According to preliminary numbers at Deadline and elsewhere, the outer space superhero romp dropped about 15% from Friday (which included $11.2M from Thursday night shows) to $32M. That’s a better Day 2 hold than Transformers: Age of Extinction, Godzilla or X-Men: Days of […]
A weak slate of newcomers is almost always good news for the holdovers in the market, and that will be the case this holiday weekend. According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (Warners Animation) declined a mild 45% from last week’s opening day to $8M, and should take in at least […]
It’s a busy but not particularly big weekend at the multiplex. The weekend’s winner will be BOO 2! A MADEA HALLOWEEN (Lionsgate), which did a fairly good job of holding the audience for last year’s original Boo. Deadline reports a preliminary $7.5M opening day, down 21% from Boo‘s start. If that percentage holds, the […]
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: SUMMER VACATION (Sony Animation/Columbia/Sony) continues to be a solid mid-level franchise. Preliminary numbers at Deadline have the opening day box office at $16.3M, the best of the trio, although it’s a bit misleading to compare that with the $11M Friday for the first Transylvania and the $13.3M for the second, since […]
After AVENGERS: ENDGAME (Marvel/Disney) torched the record books last weekend, the remaining question was whether it would have the stamina to challenge the biggest records of them all, The Force Awakens in the US ($936.7M) and Avatar worldwide ($2.79B). It’s not clear after Friday whether this weekend will answer that in a definitive way. […]