Box Office Weekend
Box-Office Weekend: Toy Story 4 Crushes All Competition
Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 4 absolutely demolished its competition to reign supreme over this week’s box-office weekend. Though the studio was expecting somewhere in the area of a $140 million opening, they probably aren’t too disappointed with the $118 million opening that they got. This was not only the best opening for any film in the franchise to date, but it is also the fourth largest openi...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Men in Black: International Tops Another Disappointing Box Office
Although a new film debuted atop the box-office weekend top ten again this week, it was a bit of a disappointment given the success of its predecessors. The latest film in the “Men in Black” series, Men in Black: International, debuted on top of the weekend box office bringing in $28.5 million domestically. Unfortunately, this was the lowest opening of all the previous films in the franchise. This...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Secret Life of Pets Sequel Leads Disappointing Box Office
While the top two film’s over the box-office weekend were new releases, they both proved to be disappointments, of sorts. Although the animated family film The Secret Life of Pets 2 finished on top of the box-office weekend with $47.1 million, it failed to make anywhere near what its predecessor had made during its opening weekend just a few years earlier. Elsewhere, the latest offering in the X-M...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: John Wick Bows to Aladdin
The live-action reinterpretation of Aladdin granted its studio a wish and stood atop the box-office weekend earning $90.2 million in its first weekend of release. The latest offering from Disney easily bested Keanu Reeves and last week’s top film, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, which finished with $24.6 for its second weekend. Despite the film’s second-place finish, the third film of the John ...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: John Wick Takes Out The Avengers
Keanu Reeves and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum easily took the top spot at this week’s box office with a $57 million opening. This is almost twice what John Wick: Chapter 2 brought in when it debuted with $30.4 opening. In second place, was Avengers: Endgame with $29.4 million in its fourth week of release. This gives the finale of the current spate of Marvel films a domestic total of $770.8 m...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Avengers: Endgame Shatters Records
The latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), and the one everything has been building towards, Avengers: Endgame opened with a three-day domestic gross of an estimated $350 million. This staggering amount gives the Marvel juggernaut the largest opening weekend box-office tally of all-time. In a very distant second place (approximately $342 million behind) was Marvel’s other current blo...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Shazam! Dominates Again
For the second consecutive week, Shazam! held on tightly to the top spot on the Box-Office Weekend leaderboard. This week, the film’s second in release, the latest film in the DC Extended Universe, added $25.1 million to give it a two-week total of $94.9 million. The Zachary Levi-led film continues to perform will internationally as well, adding $35.9 million to give it a global two-week total of ...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Shazam! Makes DC Movies Fun Again
The unbelievable has happened, that is, a film in the DC Extended Universe has proven both critically and commercially popular. Shazam! performed above expectations, delivering a debut opening weekend of $53.5 million. The film, starring Zachary Levi, did well internationally as well, generating approximately $102 million to give it a worldwide opening weekend somewhere south of $160 million. The ...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Dumbo Soars at Box Office
The latest beloved animated film turned live-action spectacle, Dumbo, debuted at the of the box-office weekend countdown with an impressive $46 million opening. Despite the solid opening, the film still came up short of many industry expectations. But, perhaps, like those that didn’t believe in the adorable pachyderm’s ability to fly, the industry will be surprised by the little guy’s staying powe...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: How to Train Your Dragon Sequel Bests Madea Sequel
Tyler Perry’s latest offering to the Madea canon, A Madea Family Funeral, made an impressive bid for the top spot at the box office this weekend but was unable to fell the proverbial dragon as How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World held onto the top spot for the second week in a row. Universal and DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World brought in $30 million over the weekend to...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: ‘Alita’ On Top, Despite Disappointing Overall Holiday Numbers
The three-day President’s Day holiday this year belonged to Alita: Battle Angel which stood atop the box-office weekend with an estimated $27.8 million debut. Despite the impressive opening tallies, the film is still burdened with a $170 million price tag that it could be hard-pressed to earn enough to turn a profit. Overall though, the holiday box-office was the worst collective showing for a Pre...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: ‘Glass’ Threepeats
For the third consecutive week, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film, Glass, finished on top of the weekend box office. This week, the film added another $9.5 million to lift its three-week total to $88.7 million. Similarly, the Kevin Hart/Bryan Cranston vehicle The Upside held onto second place for a third week in a row as it took in $8.9 million over the weekend to give the comedy/drama a four-week ...[Read More]