With few new releases debuting this week,the female-fronted Ocean’s 8 opened over the weekend to a series-best $41.5 million to easily place No. 1 in North America. Overseas, the pic grossed $12.2 million from its first 16 markets, many of them in Latin America, for a global start of $53.7 million. The …
Read More »‘Solo’ Holds Top Spot Despite Plummet
Solo: A Star Wars Story, in its second weekend, continued to lose altitude, but held the top spot at the box office due to a lack of new competition. The space adventure from Disney and Lucasfilm attracted an estimated $29.3 million in North America, down 65 percent from the $84.7 …
Read More »‘Solo’ Wins Box Office Despite Missed Expectations And Overseas Crash
Disney and Lucasfilm’s Solo: A Star Wars Story struggled in its debut at the Memorial Day weekend box office, where it came in well behind expectations with a three-day total of $84.8 million and four-day total of $103 million, according to Monday numbers. The news is altogether grim overseas, where Solo rolled …
Read More »‘Deadpool 2’ Ousts ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ At The Top Of The Box Office
Superheroes continued to dominate the box office as Ryan Reynolds and 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool 2 debuted to $125 million domestically and $301 million globally after scoring the biggest foreign debut in history for an R-rated title. After falling off more than expected on Saturday, the sequel couldn’t match the North …
Read More »‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Continues Breaking Box Office Records
Disney and Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War finished its third weekend at the box office with $1.606 billion in global ticket sales after earning another $61.8 million in North America and launching in China to a near-record $200 million.The movie’s domestic weekend take of $61.8 million was the fourth-biggest gross for …
Read More »‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Breaks Billion Dollar Record And Crushes Box Office
Disney and Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War continued to dominate the early summer box office over the weekend, earning $112.5 million domestically from 4,474 theaters to score the second-biggest sophomore outing ever as it topped the $1 billion mark globally faster than any film in history. Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, …
Read More »‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Breaks Box Office Records
Marvel’s Avengers Infinity War conquered the box office with a record breaking $250 million opening weekend. The film, which was the culmination of ten years of Marvel movies, became the biggest domestic opening of all time beating Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It also broke records overseas becoming the biggest worldwide …
Read More »‘A Quiet Place’ Reclaims Top Spot At Box Office
The horror pic ‘A Quiet Place’ reclaimed the number one spot in its third weekend of release, as ‘Rampage’ became the weekend’s top worldwide grosser amid weak results from new releases. A Quiet Place took in an additional $22 million to bring its domestic total to $132 million, enough to bump the …
Read More »‘Rampage’ Squeaks Out A Box Office Win
Rampage opened to $34.5 million from 4,101 theaters, one of the best showings ever for a video game adaptation and enough to win the weekend ahead of holdover horror sensation A Quiet Place. That was still behind expectations, however. In Rampage, Johnson plays a primatologist whose beloved pal, an albino gorilla, …
Read More »‘A Quiet Place’ Crushes At The Box Office
The importance of originality to moviegoers came across loud and clear at the weekend box office. Paramount’s A Quiet Place — a high-concept horror-thriller directed by John Krasinski that has less than three minutes of dialogue — opened to a booming $50 million from 3,508 theaters in North America, well ahead …
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