OPENINGS: CAPTAIN MARVEL (Marvel/Disney) launched with $455M worldwide, the highest superhero intro movie ever (although not all the titles in that category opened in China on their first weekend). In the US, its $153M total was #2 behind Black Panther, which had the advantage of a holiday weekend Sunday. Captain Marvel declined 14% on […]
On a weekend prizing quantity of newcomers over box office quality, HOBBS & SHAW (Universal) will easily retain the crown, despite a 70% Friday-to-Friday drop to $7.1M, per preliminary numbers at Deadline. The Fast & The Furious franchise tends to be frontloaded, and that 70% drop is actually better than the 76% for Fate […]
OPENINGS: Horror has been one of the more reliable genres at the pandemic box office, and CANDYMAN (MGM/Universal) opened with a solid $22.4M, buoyed by unusually good reviews (85% on Rotten Tomatoes). That offset a weaker showing overseas, where it earned $5.2M in 51 markets. HOLDOVERS: FREE GUY (20th/Disney) enjoyed its final pre-Shang Chi […]
OPENINGS: Considering that DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW AGE (Focus/Universal) is something like a fresh MCU chapter for the older female audience, the fact that the sequel opened at $16M despite solid reviews–a painful 48% drop from the first theatrical entry in the franchise just 3 years ago–is a sobering sign that this demo just […]
OPENINGS: The surprise isn’t so much that COCAINE BEAR (Universal) “overdelivered,” but that expectations were so low for a picture that had been the subject of pop culture fascination for months. The $23.1M weekend seems like a realistic reflection of that fact, and although business is likely to drop quickly now that audiences have […]
OPENINGS: THE MARVELS (Marvel/Disney) fulfilled the ghastliest projections assigned to it, setting a new low for the MCU with a $47M US opening, and it was similarly dismal overseas, with $63.3M from 51 territories. The internet is already bursting with theories that include “No one liked Captain Marvel in the first place” and the […]
>The 12th weekend of the year should be a whopper: about $176 million for the top 12 films. How big is that for the fourth weekend in March? Enormous, unprecedented: up 62% from last year’s comparable weekend and up 55% from the four-year average for this weekend. Of course, this weekend is all about The […]
>Keep your helmets on: the studios are about to drop three more bombs in movie theaters this weekend. A horror movie, an action flick and an adult comedy are being released, and we expect each to gross not much more than $30 million in their entire domestic theatrical run. Opening weekends should range between $9-12 […]