The major Hollywood studios always knew the post-presidential election weekend was going to be especially quiet this year as they avoided releasing big event films. This allowed Sony’s Venom: The Last Dance to stay atop the domestic box office chart in its third weekend with an estimated $16.2 million from 3,905 theaters for a domestic …
Read More »‘Venom 3’ Holds On To Top Spot At Box Office
Venom: The Last Dance gained ground in its second weekend. The Sony comic book movie declined a franchise-low 49 percent to $26.1 million from 4,131 screens to win an overall quiet weekend heading into the hotly contested presidential race The final installment in the Venom trilogy has now earned $90 million domestically. DreamWorks …
Read More »‘Venom: The Last Dance’ Tops The Weekend Box Office
Venom: The Last Dance struggled at the domestic box office, but had no trouble coming in No. 1 both domestically and globally. The final title in Sony’s franchise — based on the popular comic book antihero — opened to $51 million from 4,131 theaters in North America, well behind an expected $65 …
Read More »‘Smile 2’ Wins Box Office
Smile 2, won the domestic box office race with an estimated $23 million from 3,619 theaters, including Imax and other premium large-format screens. That would put the film’s debut just ahead of the first Smile, a sleeper hit that opened to $22.6 million in late September 2022 on its way to grossing more than …
Read More »‘Terrifier 3’ Scares Up The Top Spot At The Box Office
Terrifier 3 easily won the weekend box office, where Joker: Folie à Deux suffered the worst decline in history for a comic book movie and one of the biggest among any film. Cineverse and Icon Events’ Terrifier threequel opened ahead of expectations with an estimated $18.2 million from 1,988 theaters. The Wild Robot continues to shine for …
Read More »‘Joker’ Bombs But Tops Box Office
Joker: Folie à Deux bombed in its box office debut with an estimated domestic opening of $40 million, well behind expectations after becoming the the first Hollywood comic book movie in history to earn a D CinemaScore from audiences. Exit polls are equally as grim as audiences express their unhappiness with the antihero-musical …
Read More »‘The Wild Robot’ Soars to No. 1
DreamWorks Animation and Universal’s family film The Wild Robot is charming reviewers and audiences alike. The great word of mouth propelled The Wild Robot to win the box office this weekend with an estimated $35 million. Wild Robot is based on Peter Brown’s beloved bestseller about a robot nicknamed ROZ who forms an unexpected …
Read More »‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Threepeats At The Box Office
Beetlejuice continued to hold the top spot at the box office in North America, finishing Sunday with a domestic total of $226.8 million. The Tim Burton-directed movie hasn’t done nearly as well overseas, where it has earned $103 million for a global total of $329.7 million. Paramount and Hasbro Entertainment’s Transformers One missed …
Read More »‘Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice’ Holds Top Spot At Box Office
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice held the top spot at the box office in its second weekend with an estimated $51.6 million as it hurtles toward the $200 million mark domestically. Blumhouse and Universal’s new horror-thriller Speak No Evil was also good news for the early fall box office. The film opened in second place with …
Read More »‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Bewitches Box Office
Tim Burton’s long-awaited sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice from Warner Bros., opened to a monstrous $110 million, coming in on the high end of expectations. The campy comedy-horror movie delivered the second-biggest September opening of all time behind fellow Warners’ 2017 R-rated Stephen King adaptation It($123 million), not adjusted for inflation. And it was …
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