> The Martin Luther King holiday weekend, a relatively small one for Hollywood because many people work on Monday, begins. UNIVERSAL: The studio made the fairly extraordinary decision to sit out the holiday movie season entirely, presumably because they didn’t think any of their product could compete. They did, however, spend a lot of money […]
> Navy SEALs shoot up the Friday boxoffice. OPENINGS: The very aggressive marketing for ACT OF VALOR (Relativity) made it seem like it was a patriotic duty to see the film, and successfully hid the fact that it’s mostly a sub-par B action movie. The question now is whether its quality will catch up with […]
> The eighth weekend of 2012 is another solid one, running 18% ahead of last year’s same weekend and 22% ahead of the multi-year average for this weekend. This is the third weekend in a row that 2012 volume beats both the easy target of last year’s depressed levels as well as the more difficult […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Year to date, Warner Brothers is closing in on $800 million worldwide, while Sony and Universal remain a second tier with about $500 million worldwide. Fox and Paramount are now in the third tier (with a little over $400 million worldwide each), thanks to Grand Budapest Hotel and Noah. Lionsgate/Summit and Disney form the […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Updated look at 2016 by studio. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2016 to date is still +3% above last year and still +3% above the average for this point the past four years ($9.259 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed over $24.3 billion worldwide when […]
OPENINGS: NO HARD FEELINGS (Columbia/Sony) slightly exceeded tracking expectations with $15.1M, but those expectations were themselves quite low. With production and worldwide marketing costs in the neighborhood of $100M, the film will need to hold strongly for the next several weeks to reach any profit, and while it has the hard-R comedy field to […]
>21 Jump Street joins the worldwide box office chart about a third of the way down the list, ranked #14 out of 44 films released wide in North America over the past three months. We expect its domestic gross to top out at $119 million, while the overseas total should expand from the current tally […]
The first real numbers are in for THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Sony) in the US, and they’re… OK. Amazing made $7.5M in midnight screenings last night. This is nowhere near the Top 10 midnight openings (#10, Revenge of the Sith, made $16.5M), and it’s far from the $19.7M and $18.7M earned just weeks ago by […]