Universal’s The Fate of the Furious stayed atop the chart in its third weekend with $19.4 million from 4,077 theaters for a domestic total of $192.7 million. In an unexpected upset, How to Be a Latin Lover and Indian film Baahubali: The Connection both beat Emma Watson’s new high-tech thriller The …
Read More »‘Fate Of The Furious’ Maintains Top Spot
Universal’s The Fate of the Furious left the competition in the dust at the North American box office, grossing $38.7 million in its second weekend for a 10-day domestic total of $163.6 million and $908.4 million globally. The action movie fell 61 percent in North America, a fairly good hold for …
Read More »‘Furious’ Runs Over Box Office
Universal’s Fast and the Furious franchise is showing no signs of running out of gas on the world stage. The Fate of the Furious, directed by F. Gary Gray, raced to an estimated $532.5 million global debut over Easter weekend, including $100.2 million domestically and a $432.2 million overseas. The top …
Read More »‘Kong: Skull Island’ Stomps Past Half a Billion at the Worldwide Box Office
Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures and Tencent Pictures’ global blockbuster “Kong: Skull Island” has crossed the $500 million mark at the worldwide box office, it was announced today by Sue Kroll, President of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures, and Mary Parent, Vice Chairman, Worldwide Production for Legendary. The …
Read More »‘Boss Baby’ Barely Beats ‘Beauty and the Beast’
DreamWorks Animation’ The Boss Baby grabbed an estimated $49 million during its debut weekend. The film did better than expected managing to edge out Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, which collected another $47.5 million during its third weekend as it domestic gross rose to $395.5 million. The success of The Boss …
Read More »‘Beast’ Conquers ‘Power Rangers’ At Box Office
Beauty and the Beast continued to make history in its second weekend, declining a scant 49 percent to an estimated $88 million from 4,210 locations, the fourth-biggest sophomore outing of all time. And its North American cume of $317 million is the fourth-biggest 10-day total in history. Lionsgate and Saban’s Power Rangers, an …
Read More »Live Action ‘Beauty And The Beast’ Animates Box Office
Beauty and the Beast opened over the weekend to a monstrous $170 million from 4,210 theaters at the North American box office. Overseas, the female-fueled update of the classic 1991 animated musical also dazzled, earning $180 million for an elegant global bow of $350 million. Beauty set a number of new records, including the biggest …
Read More »Kong Tops Logan At Box Office
Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Kong: Skull Island roared louder than expected in its North American box-office debut, scaling $61 million to top Wolverine threequel Logan. Kong: Skull Island hopes to restore the world’s most famous ape to glory and build a new film franchise, with a Kong v. Godzilla installment already in the works. The top 12 movies …
Read More »‘Logan’ Slices Into Box Office
Fox’s Logan sliced a major chunk from the North American box office over the weekend with $85.3 million from 4,071 theaters, the biggest opening of the year so far and one of the top showings of all time for an R-rated film or for a March release. Logan was also huge overseas, debuting to …
Read More »‘Get Out’ Unseats ‘Lego Batman’ At Box Office
Jordan Peele’s unique, race-conscious horror film Get Out peeled out of the North American box office with an impressive $30.5 debut, toppling holdover The Lego Batman Movie from the top spot. The movie marks Peele’s feature directorial debut, and is the second win in a row for Universal and Blumhouse after M. Night Shyamalan’s Split, which has …
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