Weekend Box-Office
Box-Office Weekend: Joker Obliterates Competition
The latest comic-book adaptation, Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix, completely dominated the box-office weekend, as it brought in $93.5 million during its opening weekend. The film enjoyed the largest domestic October opening weekend box-office of all time. This is also the fourth largest domestic opening for an R-rated film of all time as well. Audiences seem positive towards the film, with critic...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Abominable Downs Downton Abbey
The animated adventure Abominable from Universal finished on top of the box-office weekend with a $20.9 million showing during its opening weekend. This bested second-place finisher (and last week’s top earner) Downton Abbey by approximately $6.4 million. Still, Abominable has a long way to go to justify its $75 million budget, but positive reviews and word of mouth could help it along in that reg...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Downton Abbey Dominates
With an estimated $31 million opening weekend, the theatrical incarnation of Downton Abbey easily topped the box-office weekend, besting its nearest competitor by over $12 million. The film also gave Focus Features it’s most successful opening of all time. The other new releases over the weekend—Ad Astra and Rambo: Last Blood—did well enough, finishing just behind Downton Abbey and delivering soli...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Fast & Furious Keeps Pace Ahead of Scary Stories
Still standing tall on top of the box-office weekend countdown was Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, which held onto first place for the second week in a row. The latest offering of the “Fast & Furious” franchise took in $25.4 million this weekend, giving it a two-week tally of $108.5 million and an ever-so-slight first-place finish over newcomer Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Fast & Furious Franchise Unseats the King
There is a new film stop the box-office weekend top ten yet again as the “Fast & Furious” franchise has proven viable for at least one more installment. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw opened this weekend to the tune of $60.8 million. This put the film over $20 million above its nearest competitor, The Lion King. Despite slipping from the top spot, Disney’s live-action reboot of ...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Lion King Stands Ground Against Tarantino
Standing proudly atop Box-Office Weekend Rock (if there was such a place) for the second week in a row was Disney’s The Lion King. The live-action rendition of the beloved animated feature took in $75.5 million in its second weekend of release, giving it an impressive two-week tally of $350.8 million. In a distant second place was Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, whi...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: The King Has Returned
A new king reigned over the box-office weekend as the live-action (sort of) version of The Lion King debuted with a $185 million haul over the weekend, easily besting the number two film of the weekend, Spider-Man: Far from Home, which made only $21 million (a pale number comparison). Although it was knocked from the top spot in the countdown, Spider-Man: Far from Home still sports a domestic thre...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Spider-Man Repeats on Top!
This week’s box-office weekend was essentially a repeat of last week, at least for the first two spots, as both Sony’s Spider-Man: Far from Home and Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4 held firm in the first and second spots of the top ten respectively. Spider-Man: Far from Home added $45.3 million over the weekend to bring its two-week domestic total to $274.5 million. Meanwhile, Toy Story 4 tossed anothe...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: Spider-Man Puts the Toys Away!
Not only did Sony’s Spider-Man: Far from Home soundly unseat Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4 from the top spot of the weekend box office, it also delivered the largest six-day opening for a Tuesday release in history (albeit that is undoubtedly a very select group). The film brought in $92.6 million over the weekend and first week cumulative total of $185.1 million. The film also looks as though it cou...[Read More]
Box-Office Weekend: The Toys are Back on Top…Again!
For the second week in a row, Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4 finished on top of the weekend box office. This week, the film took in $57.9 million. Although this was just shy of half of what the film pulled in last week, it was still good enough to finish over $37 million ahead of the next highest total in this week’s countdown. The strong showing gives the film a two-week total of $236.9 million and i...[Read More]
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]