The first weekend of 2025 — which sources have declared “a normal year” — is eyeing a grand estimated total of $105.5M for all movies, which is certainly better at +23% than the first weekend of 2024 which did $85.9M, per Box Office Mojo. Overall, it was a blasé frame of holiday carryovers without any new wide releases: one of three currently in 2025 along … Continue reading ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ Claws Up to Top Spot at the BO!!
Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is racing up the box office rankings, having debuted towards the end of last year to stupendous results. The three-quel is poised to pass the $200 million mark very soon, and in a few days, will overtake its predecessor’s $190 million haul to become the highest-grossing film of the trilogy. Until then, however, it will celebrate another momentous achievement. Sonic … Continue reading ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’ Set to Become the 2nd-Highest Grossing Video Game Adaptation Ever!!
After what could be described as a moderately challenging (or totally disastrous) 2023 for The Walt Disney Company, The (Disney) Empire Strikes Back to reclaim its crown as the King of the Box Office, officially becoming the #1 studio domestically and internationally in 2024, thanks to an astonishing $5.46 billion global box office haul (made up of $2.23 billion domestic and $3.23 billion international) In … Continue reading Disney Officially Dominates 2024 BO!!
Who knew that hedgehogs were predatory creatures that could spring out of the ground and take down the king of the jungle in full? Paramount’s $122M production Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is the dominant heading into the Christmas frame with a $62M opening, well ahead of Disney’s $200M prequel Mufasa which is nothing to sing ‘Hakuna Matata’ about with a $35M start. Sonic the Hedgehog … Continue reading ‘Sonic 3’ Speeds Past ‘Mufasa’ With $62M Opening at the BO!!
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is continuing its stellar run, leading the IMAX box office yet again. Paramount and IMAX have capitalized on overwhelming demand from the viewing public for the sci-fi epic by expanding the domestic IMAX screen count to 320 this weekend, which helped gross an impressive $3.5 million domestically and $3.75 million globally. The 10-day domestic re-release total now stands at an extraordinary $10.8 … Continue reading ‘Interstellar’ Has Become the Highest Grossing IMAX Re-Release of All Time!!
Women are in full attendance this weekend at the domestic box office, walking over fanboys as a pair of Thanksgiving holdovers, Disney’s Moana 2 and Universal’s Wicked, are driving an early pre-holiday weekend to $92 million, up 21% over the same frame a year ago. Moana 2‘s third weekend came in at $26.6M, -48%, while Wicked continued to hold like a rock with $22.5M, -38%, … Continue reading ‘Kraven’ and ‘LOTR: Rohirrim’ Flop Hard at the BO!!
What’s the trick to keeping the post-Thanksgiving period alive? Great holdovers from the holiday weekend before. One of the year’s dullest box office periods historically will not be the case in 2024, with all films grossing $132 million, the best this frame has ever seen. That surpasses the previous record set in 2018 when all movies totaled $120M. And that’s because this weekend is powered … Continue reading ‘Moana 2’, ‘Wicked’ & ‘Gladiator II’ Set Record Breaking Post-Thanksgiving Frame at the BO!!
Everything is higher: Disney’s Moana 2 is settling its 5-day at $225.2M, while Universal’s Wicked is coming in at $118.2M, and Paramount’s Gladiator II at $44.3M. 3-day for Moana 2 is $139.7M after a $34.7M Sunday, -31% from Saturday. For a project that was originally destined to be on Disney+, and was flipped to theatrical, that’s pretty amazing. The mind wonders how much cash Disney … Continue reading ‘Moana 2’ Sets Best 5-Day & Thanksgiving Opening with $225M at the BO!!
Two of the most anticipated tentpoles this year missed their projections, but are still rich enough to make exhibition happy in what’s driving an overall estimated $205M weekend. EntTelligence says that a combined 12M people went to see Wicked and Gladiator II, representing 81% of the weekend’s foot traffic. Everyone relish it: That’s on par with the pre-Thanksgiving frame of 2019 when Frozen 2 drove … Continue reading ‘Wicked’ & ‘Gladiator II’ Set Best Pre-Thanksgiving Records at BO!!
Despite having delivered the country’s number one film this weekend, the mood at Amazon MGM Studios might be tense right now, considering the circumstances. Red One, the new Christmas-themed action-adventure film starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, is estimated to have grossed around $34 million in its opening weekend at the domestic box office. While this is an improvement over the $30 million projections that … Continue reading ‘Red One’ Takes Top Spot with Mixed Results at the BO!!
The top three films — Venom: The Last Dance, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and Heretic — in a Veterans Day weekend sans a major tentpole, overperformed this weekend. The biggest eyebrow raiser is that Lionsgate/Kingdom Story’s Best Christmas Pageant Ever had a better than anticipated hold ($2.9M vs. $3.3M) on Saturday, putting the Dallas Jenkins-directed family movie neck-in-neck with Heretic for a No. 2 … Continue reading ‘Venom: The Last Dance’ Holds On as ‘Christmas Pageant’ & ‘Heretic’ Overperform at the BO!!
For a weekend that’s making less than $100M for all titles, there were some impressive feats going on. From out of the blue, Sony/Marvel’s Venom the Last Dance after registering the lowest opening in the trilogy with $51M, actually held fantastically with a -49% second weekend or $26.1M. That percentile hold is the best for the trilogy ahead of Venom‘s second weekend decline of -56% … Continue reading ‘Venom 3’ Shows Great Hold as ‘Forrest Gump’ Reteam ‘Here’ Flops at the BO!!
The previous Venom: Let There Be Carnage drew 10 million people during its opening weekend off a $90M opening, and the threequel here, Venom: The Last Dance, is pulling in close to half that in admissions. The numbers speak for themselves, at least at the domestic box office, as Sony/Marvel’s Venom: The Last Dance saw the franchise’s lowest domestic opening with $51M after a $22M … Continue reading ‘Venom: The Last Dance’ Takes Up Top Spot with Franchise-Low Opening at the BO!!
Paramount’s $28M production Smile 2 is in great shape with a $23M opening (or 1.6M admissions per EntTellgence) after a $9.4M Friday and great Saturday of $8.1M (a -15% hold against previews/Friday!) and a B CinemaScore. That’s better than the B- on the first one, and nickels above the opening of that 2022 movie which did $22.6M. Smile 2 is Paramount’s fourth No. 1 opening title … Continue reading ‘Smile 2’ Happily De-Thrones ‘Terrifier 3’ from Top Spot at the BO!!
In one of the year’s second-best triumphs for indie genre cinema after NEON’s Longlegs, Cineverse’s under $5M investment, Terrifier 3, is screaming to an estimated $18.3M+ 3-day after an $8.2M Friday, $5.9M Saturday and $4.2MSunday. That Sunday hold -30% is on account of the Indigenous Peoples holiday. The threequel received a B CinemaScore, which is high praise from the moviegoer pollster as it doesn’t hand … Continue reading ‘Terrifier 3’ Slashes ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ From Top Spot at the BO!!
Joker: Folie á Deux might want to consider renaming itself Joker: Échec Ênorme after a disastrous opening weekend that, quite incredibly, was worse than first reported. For a film that was once tracking for a $70 million debut in theaters, expectations were lowered and lowered following critical scorn from reviewers and word of mouth that can only be described as toxic at best. Monday’s final … Continue reading ‘Joker: Folie a Deux’ Opening Weekend Figures Are Worse Than Originally Reported!!
“This isn’t a box office marketplace problem, this is a creative development problem,” declared one movie marketing vet this weekend over Warner Bros‘ bold swing with a foul Joker: Folie à Deux, which at a production cost of $190M+ net is coming in way, way, way below forecasts at $39M, steeper than the $47M which was spotted by the town yesterday. Warner is reporting $40M … Continue reading ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Makes Disastrous Debut at the BO!!
Families continued to flock to theaters this fall: Not only did Wild Robot post the third best opening for an animated movie in September with $35M after an $11.3M Friday (including near $2M previews) and $14.2M on Saturday, but Warner Bros’ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice refused to die with a -38% fourth weekend estimated hold, $16M take and a running total of $250.1M by EOD. The sequel … Continue reading ‘Wild Robot’ Opens Strong as ‘Megalopolis’ Bombs at the BO!!
In an upset nobody saw coming, the third weekend of Warner Bros’ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice stole No. 1 away from Paramount and Hasbro Entertainment’s Transformers One, $26M to $25M. On Friday and into Saturday AM, some saw a tight race between the Tim Burton-directed movie and the Josh Cooley-helmed animated pic, however, the notion was that matinees would work greatly in favor of the newer tentpole. … Continue reading ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Sweeps ‘Transformers One’ For Top Spot at the BO!!
The second weekend of September for all movies came close to the $100M mark for the first time since pre-Covid 2019 thanks to Warner Bros’ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice rally at the box office, coming in at $51.6M weekend (-56%) after a second Friday of $14.4M and Saturday of $22.5M. The running stateside total is $188M with global at $264.3M. Blumhouse/Universal’s Speak No Evil came in a … Continue reading ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Scores $51M+ as ‘Speak No Evil’ Impresses at the BO!!
After over a decade, director Tim Burton is ready to experience blockbuster success again with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The filmmaker’s latest feature — his first since 2019’s Dumbo remake — exceeded expectations with a massive $110 million debut, the second-biggest ever for the month of September, behind It’s $123 million opening in 2017. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a sequel to Burton’s breakout film, 1988’s horror-comedy Beetlejuice, which … Continue reading ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Surprises With Massive Debut at the BO!!
The 2024 Disney/Pixar sequel Inside Out 2 has overtaken Disney’s 2019 remake of The Lion King at the global box office. Inside Out 2 debuted in US theaters on June 14, 2024, and has since made more than $1.666 billion globally, surpassing The Lion’s King’s $1.6569 billion box office take. Inside Out 2 overtakes 2019’s The Lion King in the worldwide box office Inside Out … Continue reading ‘Inside Out 2’ Crosses ‘The Lion King’ at the Worldwide BO!!
Nothing seismic going on in a traditional weak Labor Day weekend in regards to box office fluctuations, but we’ll leave you with this: Disney, together with its 20th Century Studios label, led summer 2024 (May 3-Labor Day) with $1.53 billion thanks to a comeback in brands Pixar with Inside Out 2 and MCU with Deadpool & Wolverine, as well as its Fox brands of Kingdom … Continue reading ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Continues Dominance as Disney Crosses $3.6 Billion at the Summer BO!!
Blame the lack of want-to-see fare in addition to the return-to-school as this penultimate weekend of summer is coming in at $94.5M for all movies, -33% from last weekend. That’s the third lowest weekend of this summer after the first weekend of June/post Memorial Day frame ($66.3M) and the first weekend of May ($73.9M) per Box Office Mojo. Compared to the same weekend a year … Continue reading ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Reclaim Top Spot as ‘The Crow’ & ‘Blink Twice’ Flop at the BO!!
Thanks to its fabulous 15th anniversary re-release, LAIKA’s cult hit Coraline is on the verge of hitting box office milestones that have eluded even the more accessible modern movies. Coraline was originally released in 2009, when it emerged as a modest hit, considering its general kookiness. But in its re-release, the film exceeded all expectations, delivering numbers bigger than even the recent 25th anniversary re-issue … Continue reading ‘Coraline’ Re-Release Sets New Milestones at the BO!!
So much for the doldrums of August. Between Alien: Romulus and the near $100M-grossing Sony/Wayfarer Studios movie’ It Ends With Us, it’s clear we’ve shaken off all the strike jitters. Disney continues to keep the shine on its 20th Century Studios brand with their own fingerprints on storied franchises as Alien: Romulus settles with $41.5M, the second highest opening ever in the 45-year old franchise … Continue reading ‘Alien: Romulus’ Delivers Second-Best Franchise Opening at the BO!!
The Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor starrer Stree 2 has taken the box office by storm since its release on August 15. Benefiting from the extended Independence Day holiday weekend, the horror-comedy opened to a phenomenal start, raking in Rs. 55.40 crore on its first day. The film’s business has only grown since, crossing the Rs. 100 crore mark by the end of its second … Continue reading ‘Stree 2’: Rajkummar Rao, Shraddha Kapoor Starrer Enters Rs. 200 Crore Club in Just 4 Days!!
While congratulations are certainly in order for Inside Out 2 becoming the top-grossing Pixar movie and the biggest animated release of all time, it’s now among the most successful films in the history of the medium, and that deserves a different level of admiration altogether. In its 10th weekend of release, the animated blockbuster surged past a new milestone that only nine movies were previously … Continue reading ‘Inside Out 2’ Has Become the Highest-Grossing Animated Film of All Time at the Worldwide BO!!
Its official: Deadpool & Wolverine has done the unthinkable and dethroned Joker to become the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time globally. After weeks of breaking records and raking in box office cash, the dynamic duo of Ryan Reynolds‘ Deadpool and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine has soared past the $1.074 billion global haul that Joker achieved in 2019. Following another blockbuster day, the movie took in … Continue reading ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Has Become the Highest-Grossing R-Rated Movie of All-Time!!
In a highly unusual turn of events, two movies starring a married couple — Deadpool & Wolverine, and It Ends with Us — took the top two spots at the domestic box office this weekend. Starring Ryan Reynolds, the superhero blockbuster retained its number one position for the third time in a row, while his wife Blake Lively’s romantic drama exceeded expectations in its debut, … Continue reading ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’, ‘It Ends with Us’ Battle for Top Spot; ‘Borderlands’ Flops at the BO!!
Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine passed a handful of significant box office milestones in its third weekend of release, as it continued a record-breaking theatrical run that has breathed new life into Marvel Studios after a string of underperformers. Starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in the titular roles, the superhero blockbuster held on to its number one position, despite a strong challenge — especially at … Continue reading ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Crosses the $1 Billion Mark at the Worldwide BO!!
The summer box office season got off to a worrying start this year, but picked up the pace gradually, before exploding over the last month or so. And one studio has experienced the entire gamut of emotions, having released four movies that encapsulate the spectrum of hits and misses across the summer. This weekend, Disneybecame the first studio to pass the $3 billion mark in … Continue reading Disney Becomes the First Studio to Cross $3 Billion at the 2024 Worldwide BO!!
At $395.5M Deadpool & Wolverine is the highest grossing R-rated movie ever at the domestic box office surpassing Passion of the Christ ($370.7M) as well as the previous two Deadpools this weekend (Deadpool at $363M and Deadpool 2 at $324.6M). This is after a phenomenal second weekend of $97M, -54%, the 8th best second weekend ever, ahead of Barbie‘s $93M second frame a year ago, … Continue reading ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Breaks More Records, ‘Trap’ Opens Well, ‘Harold & The Purple Crayon’ Flops at the BO!!
Days after Inside Out 2 broke every box office record for animated films that it could, and even as Deadpool & Wolverine sets new benchmarks for R-rated movies, Neon’s Longlegs is continuing its own success story in its weight class. The horror-thriller recently became the indie distributor’s top-grossing domestic release, ahead of Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, and this past weekend — its third — it also … Continue reading ‘Longlegs’ Has Become the Highest-Grossing Indie Horror Film of the Last Decade!!
Days after overtaking Frozen II to become the top-grossing animated movie in global box office history, Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has repeated the feat at the domestic box office as well, overtaking Incredibles 2’s lifetime haul in its seventh weekend of release. Directed by debutante Kelsey Mann, Inside Out 2 has pretty much broken every box office record that it could have, and this weekend, … Continue reading ‘Inside Out 2’ Has Become the Highest-Grossing Animated Film at the Domestic BO!!
Buoyed by incredible pre-release buzz and a resounding panel at the ongoing San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine is not only breaking records at the box office, but is also setting benchmarks so high that they’ll probably remain untouched for quite some time. The superhero sequel was initially expected to deliver a domestic debut of around $170 million, but is now estimated to … Continue reading ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Sets Records with $205 Million Debut at the BO!!
Inside Out 2 has officially become the highest grossing animated movie of all time. Disney has made the announcement through a social media post, where the team at Pixar expressed their gratitude to audiences from all over the world for making the achievement possible. With $1.462 billion earned at the global box office, the sequel surpassed Frozen II, the previous record holder. Ever since Inside … Continue reading ‘Inside Out 2’ Has Become the Highest Grossing Animated Movie Ever!!
Universal has called the domestic opening for the Lee Isaac Chung directed Twisters at $80.5M as we told you last night. That’s 60% ahead of the $50M+ that tracking was spotting. The rebounding post-strike summer at the box office continues to see actual opening ticket sales bury any piece of tracking. Exclaimed Universal Domestic Distribution Boss Jim Orr, “Lee Isaac Chung crafted an incredibly engaging … Continue reading ‘Twisters’ Sets Biggest Domestic Debut for a Disaster Movie with $80.5M at the BO!!
After a month of release during which it broke nearly every box office record imaginable for an animated film, Disney-Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has overtaken Universal’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie to become the second-biggest animated release of all time, both domestically and worldwide. On its fifth Tuesday, the blockbuster sequel added around $3.8 million domestically, which takes its running total to $578 million, which … Continue reading ‘Inside Out 2’ Has Become the Second-Biggest Animated Film of All Time!!
Illumination/Universal’s Despicable Me 4 won the weekend with $44.6 million, but Neon‘s Nicolas Cage-Maika Monroe starrer Longlegs stole the headlines, delivering the best original horror opening year-to-date and the best-ever start for the Tom Quinn-run 7-year old distribution company with $22.6M. That’s an excellent win for original movies, a much-needed boost for the horror genre, and a big win for the arthouse circuit, which we … Continue reading ‘Longlegs’ Sets Record Debut while ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ Stumbles at the BO!!
Despicable Me 4 bounced back from where we saw it earlier this weekend for a $27M Friday and $26.8M Saturday, which will result in a $75M 3-day and $122.6M 5-day. Exclaimed Universal Domestic Distribution President Jim Orr, “What a tremendous debut for Despicable Me 4, one of the most beloved franchises in film. Gru, his family and the Minions have once again been embraced by … Continue reading ‘Despicable Me 4’ Dethrones ‘Inside Out 2’ With $122M+ 5-Day Opening at the BO!!
Having recently become the first film of the year to pass the coveted $1 billion milestone at the global box office, Disney-Pixar’s Inside Out 2 is continuing to make a home for itself in highly exclusive territory. Inside Out 2 had already broken into the top 10 lists of the highest-grossing animated movies of all time, both domestically and worldwide, and on Monday, the movie … Continue reading ‘Inside Out 2’ Has Become the Fourth-Biggest Animated Film of All Time at the Domestic BO!!
The blockbuster film Kalki 2898 AD lived up to high expectations in its global box office debut, delivering the best opening weekend haul in the history of Indian cinema. The science-fiction epic, which has been sprinkled with a liberal dose of Indian “masala” by director Nag Ashwin, out-performed last year’s Jawan and the crossover hit RRR, although it had the benefit of an extra day … Continue reading ‘Kalki 2898 AD’ Delivers Biggest Indian Cinema History Debut at the Worldwide BO!!
So, as we approach the end of the weekend, it wasn’t a close call for No. 1 between Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 and Paramount‘s A Quiet Place: Day One, with the former beating the latter $57.4M to $53M. Global debut for A Quiet Place: Day One was $98.5M. Inside Out 2 passes the $1 billion global mark as scheduled. Per box office metrics corp EntTelligence, … Continue reading ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Sets Franchise Record Opening at the BO!!
It helps when a studio has a mass-appealing movie during a heat wave-laden and rainstorm-soaked weekend, and that is what’s going on here for Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2, which is heading to a historic second frame for an animated movie with $100M per Disney. If that number sticks, it’s a -35% second-weekend ease, which is exceptional for any kind of tentpole. Not only does that … Continue reading ‘Inside Out 2’ Continues to Shatter Domestic Records at the BO!!
Sony’s two-month long “Spider Mondays” festival, during which the studio re-released each of the eight live-action Spider-Man movies in theaters, recently concluded with something of a shrug. But immediately afterward, extended and remastered versions of the original Lord of the Rings movies were re-released by Fathom Events for one day each, across three weekends. Widely considered to be one of the greatest film trilogies of … Continue reading ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Trilogy Re-Release Deliver Impressive Numbers at the BO!!
Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 is coming in at the high range of what we told you last night –$155M domestic– and an overall mind-blowing $295M global, by far the biggest Hollywood movie opening both stateside and around the world YTD besting Dune: Part Two ($182.5M) and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire at $194M. As we told you, Inside Out 2‘s domestic opening is the … Continue reading ‘Inside Out 2’ Marks Record Opening Weekend for Disney and Pixar at the BO!!
Sony‘s Bad Boys: Ride or Die had a great Saturday of $19.5M, -10% against previews/first day of $21.6M, for what’s shaping up to be a $56M opening. This is the highest-grossing R-rated opening since Oppenheimer last July, and Will Smith‘s sixth-highest U.S./Canada opening overall of his career and his 18th No. 1 opening as a leading man. For Martin Lawrence, Bad Boys: Ride or Die … Continue reading ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ Blows Expectations with Strong Debut at the BO!!
Here’s some titanic news to scream about: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has stomped, smashed, and roared its way to the top, officially becoming the highest-grossing movie in the Legendary and Warner Bros MonsterVerse franchise. With a monstrous $570 million raked in worldwide, this beast has outperformed even the mighty Kong: Skull Island, which previously held the throne with $568.6 million. Breaking it down, The … Continue reading ‘Godzilla x Kong’ Has Officially Become the Highest Grossing MonsterVerse Movie at the Worldwide BO!!
Sony’s two-month-long “Spider Mondays” celebration has come to an end on a surprisingly positive note. The studio has been re-releasing each live-action Spider-Man film in theaters for the past couple of months, in celebration of Columbia Pictures’ 100th anniversary. And while the festival began with a bang, it spiraled not too long afterward. Last week’s re-release of Spider-Man: Far From Home was by far the … Continue reading ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Re-Release Swings Upwards for Series End at the BO!!
