OPENINGS: The major studios took the weekend off in anticipation of next week’s The Batman overwhelming the market. STUDIO 666 (Open Road) didn’t find much of a crowd for its Foo Fighters horror with a $1.6M weekend, and it probably won’t reach $10M in the US. CYRANO (UA/MGM) may have outsmarted itself, scheduled for […]
OPENINGS: As expected, BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (Marvel/Disney) swamped the box office worldwide. Its $180M US weekend was below Doctor Strange 2 ($187.4M) and the original Black Panther ($202M, on a Presidents Day weekend), but still the biggest opening Hollywood has seen in 6 months, reinforcing the MCU as the center of movie culture […]
OPENINGS: The most hyped box office weekend of the year delivered and then some. BARBIE (Mattel/Warners) burst into theaters with $155M, technically the best of the year (although the $146.4M for Super Mario Bros came after a Wed-Thurs start that had already brought in $58.3M). Among the many records set by the blockbuster were […]
>The Smurfs movie continues to inch closer to Cars 2 in worldwide box office (now $9 million away). Real Steel is the only recent movie with any overseas box office pull. Its overseas to date tally of $57 million has moved up to 31st place on the worldwide chart and has upside to around 21st […]
> As we discussed yesterday, first a couple of bar bets. Which film grossed more worldwide: Megamind or The King’s Speech? The answer is King’s Speech. Although Megamind grossed more domestically ($148 million to $132 million), the international audience preferred King’s Speech ($226 million to $171 million), giving the Best Picture winner a $40 million […]
Wreck-It-Ralph enters the worldwide chart with a modest $12 million overseas to date, but that will grow to match and probably exceed the $171 million we expect for the film domestically. The film could end up with $350-375 million worldwide ultimately. Skyfall, which opens Friday in North America, is already up to $287 million overseas in […]
Updated International Box Office Chart:
Updated international box office chart: