OPENINGS: The east coast blizzard seems to have had less effect on the weekend box office than one might have assumed, considering that all the newcomers went up from Friday to Saturday, even though they were in typically front-loaded genres. Their studio estimates have them bunched within a narrow $825K range for the weekend, […]
There’s a lot of new product in the market this weekend, which will drive up multiplex totals, but nothing is really breaking through. The battle at the top looks like it will be close between GOOSEBUMPS (Columbia/Sony) and THE MARTIAN (TSG/20th), both of which should come in at $23-24M. Goosebumps has the early lead, […]
OPENINGS: KONG: SKULL ISLAND (Legendary/Tencent/Warners) is playing as a quasi-family movie, perhaps in response to the R-rated Logan and Get Out. That gave it a much more muscular Saturday than similar big-budget monster movies, up 19% on Saturday where Godzilla fell 16% and Pacific Rim dropped 13%. With that boost, Kong should hit its […]
OPENINGS: There weren’t a lot of significant changes from Friday night’s picture of the weekend box office. The only wide opening, ESCAPE ROOM (Columbia/Sony), inevitably fell 13% on Saturday, considering its genre and its unusually early Thursday afternoon start. Nevertheless, the $18M studio weekend estimate should stand up, and that’s a solid number for […]
OPENINGS: FORD VS. FERRARI (20th/Disney) had a strong start with $31M, and will hope to extend its run through the holidays and into Oscar season based on its initially older-skewing audience and excellent reviews and exit polls. The only caution is that FvF was pricey for a non-IP project, with around $200M in production/marketing […]
The 11th weekend of 2013 looks like it will be off the pace of the last few years. The top 12 films Friday-Sunday should total $96 million, down 7% from the four-year average for this weekend. Two new movies will give it the old college try this weekend, and neither should excel. Opening at about […]
OPENINGS: As is frequently the case these days, the biggest opening numbers are outside the US. DOCTOR STRANGE (Marvel/Disney) won’t arrive here until Thursday night, but it’s already racked up $86M in 33 overseas territories covering less than half the world, and not including China or Japan. It’s a particularly impressive start since Strange […]
OPENINGS: The spectacular success of SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (Marvel/Columbia/Sony) may have less to say about the box office overall than some would like to think. No Way Home vaporized all pandemic-era records with a $253M weekend that was 2.8x the previous Covid high ($90M for Venom: Let There Be Carnage), becoming the #1 […]