Disney and Pixar’s Coco continued to make magic in its second weekend, grossing a strong $26.1 million for a 10-day domestic total of $108.7 million. It also topped the foreign chart with $69 million for an early foreign tally of $171.3 million and $280 million globally, including a stellar $75.6 …
Read More »‘Coco’ Beats Up ‘Justice League’
Pixar’s Coco is the latest title from the Disney animated empire to win the annual box-office turkey trot, posting a hearty five-day debut of $71.2 million from 3,987 theaters to score the fourth-best Thanksgiving opening of all time behind Toy Story 2, Frozen and Moana. That includes $49 million for …
Read More »Disappointing ‘Justice League’ Manages To Grab Top Spot
The world’s most famous superheroes seemingly lost their powers over the weekend as Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment’s big-budget Justice League opened to a sorely disappointing $96 million in North America. Justice League posted the lowest domestic opening of any title in the DC Extended Universe dealing a major blow to the …
Read More »‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Tops Box Office For Second Week
Thor: Ragnarok’ wins the box office for the second week in a row. The tentpole won the frame with $56.6 million for a 10-day domestic tally of $211.6 million. Overseas, Ragnarok also topped the chart with $75.9 million for a foreign total of $438.5 million and a global cume of …
Read More »‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Hits Box Office Like A Hammer
In an era when many tentpole franchise installments stall, director Taika Waitii’s Thor: Ragnarok is wielding nothing short of a golden hammer at the box office for Disney and Marvel Studios. Over the weekend, the threequel opened to $121 million from 4,080 theaters in North America, 41 percent ahead of sequel …
Read More »‘Blade Runner 2049’ Fails To Live Up To Expectations
Despite strong reviews and an A- CinemaScore, Denis Villeneuve’s big-budget sequel Blade Runner 2049 did not live up to box office expectations, but still grabbed the top spot. The long-awaited follow-up to Ridley Scott’s 1982 cult classic grossed $31.5 million, a dismal start for a movie that cost $150 million to make …
Read More »Darren Aronofsky’s ‘mother! Slaughtered At Box Office
Darren Aronofsky’s mother! stalled in its domestic box-office debut, grossing an estimated $7.5 million from 2,368 theaters after receiving a rare F CinemaScore and facing competition from the blockbuster It. mother!, a psychological horror-thriller, supplanted The House at the End of the Street to mark the lowest nationwide launch of Jennifer Lawrence’s …
Read More »‘It’ Scares Up Massive $117.2M At Box Office
There is nothing clownish about New Line Cinema and Warner Bros.’ It, which grossed a massive $117.2 million from 4,103 theaters in its North American box-office debut over the weekend. The horror film is also a hit overseas, launching to record $62 million from 46 markets for a global start …
Read More »‘Dunkirk’ Soars While ‘Valerian’ Bombs
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk stormed the box office with a better-than-expected $50.5 million domestic debut, the best opening in recent memory for a World War II film. Valerian, a sci-fi epic costing $180 million, crash-landed in the U.S. with a $17 million bow from 3,553 theaters. The film is based on the French …
Read More »‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Scares Off ‘Spider-Man’
War for the Planet of the Apes succeeded in scaring off Spider-Man: Homecoming at the North American box office, winning the weekend with an estimated $56.5 million from 4,022 theaters. War for the Planet of the Apes came in 22 percent behind sequel, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which …
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