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Behind the Friday Box Office – 7/4/14

OPENINGS: Star/co-writer/co-producer Melissa McCarthy reportedly took a fraction of her usual fee on TAMMY (Warners) to keep the production budget down to the low $20Ms. After a $6.4M 4th of July (up 17% from Thursda...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Jigsaw” Doesn’t Scare, “Thank You For Your Service” & “Suburbicon” Flop

Rebooting an aged horror franchise can be tough. Recent attempts to bring back Alien, Scream and Friday the 13th have faltered, and now Saw, rechristened as JIGSAW (Lionsgate), isn’t off to much of a start. Pre...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “The Upside” Has Some, “Aquaman” Subsides, “On The Basis of Sex,” “Beale Street” Expand

THE UPSIDE (STX/Lantern) survived the wreckage of the Weinstein Company bankruptcy, and found an opening between the end of the holiday movie season and next week’s MLK weekend, poking through with what preliminary...

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 12/27/13

OPENINGS: THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (Paramount/Red Granite) fell behind American Hustle on Friday, dropping 6% to $6.3M, but considering that it’s a polarizing, 3-hour, hard-R saga that people aren’t even sur...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 9/26/14

OPENINGS: THE EQUALIZER (Columbia/Sony) was just a tad below the opening day for Denzel Washington’s Safe House, $12.6M vs. $13.6M. That suggests a $36-37M weekend, which would be the 3rd highest of his career,...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 4/4/14

OPENINGS: The $37M Friday for CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (Disney) was the highest ever in the month of April, ahead of Fast Five‘s $34.4M. Fast Five fell 13% on Saturday to hit a $86.2M weekend, and Wi...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “The Great Wall,” “Fist Fight,” “Cure For Wellness” Fall to “LEGO Batman”

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 Animati...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 7/4/14

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Jigsaw” Doesn’t Scare, “Thank You For Your Service” & “Suburbicon” Flop

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “The Upside” Has Some, “Aquaman” Subsides, “On The Basis of Sex,” “Beale Street” Expand

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 12/27/13

Behind the Friday Box Office – 9/26/14

Behind the Friday Box Office – 4/4/14

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “The Great Wall,” “Fist Fight,” “Cure For Wellness” Fall to “LEGO Batman”

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