Inside Out 2 opened to a $155 million domestically over Father’s Day weekend — easily beating an expected $90 million — to secure the second-biggest animated launch of all time for a three-day weekend. It also did historic business overseas, where it opened to a record $140 million for a …
Read More »‘Bad Boys 4’ Delivers Big Box Office Win
Sony’s Bad Boys: Ride or Die jolted the battered summer box office back to life with a better-than-expected domestic opening of $56 million and $104.6 million globally. Ride or Die, reuniting Will Smith with Martin Lawrence, is the fourth outing in Sony’s long-running franchise and earned an A- CinemaScore in North America alongside generally …
Read More »‘Garfield’ Wins Slow Box Office In Its Second Week
Box office revenues dropped 69 percent from a year ago as Hollywood and theater owners continue to grapple with a lack of big event pics. Year-to-date revenue is now down 24 percent over last year. Sony’s The Garfield Movie easily purred past George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga to top the weekend chart …
Read More »‘Furiosa’ Wins Worst Memorial Day Box Office in Three Decades
Warner Bros.’ Furiosa narrowly beat Alcon and Sony’s The Garfield Movie with an estimated $32 million for the four-day weekend, with George Miller‘s latest entry in the Mad Max franchise taking in an estimated $26.3 million for Friday-Sunday versus an estimated $24 million for the animated orange feline. Despite Furiosa‘s victory, it still came in behind expectations and …
Read More »‘IF’ Takes The Top Spot At The Box Office
‘IF’ topped the box office over the weekend. The live-action/CGI hybrid film — starring Ryan Reynolds and featuring an A-list voice cast — came in behind tracking’s projected $40 million domestic opening amid an overall tough early summer at the box office. Paramount insiders say IF‘s performance is a victory for original …
Read More »‘Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Wins Weekend Box Office
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes brought some much-needed heat to the early summer box office with a domestic debut of $56.5 million and $72.5 million overseas for a global start of $129 million. If those numbers hold once final weekend grosses come in, it will rank as the second-best launch of …
Read More »‘The Fall Guy’ Tops The Box Office
Universal’s The Fall Guy, the Ryan Gosling starrer inspired by the 1980s TV show starring Lee Majors, kicked off the summer movie season at No. 1 with $28.5 million. Disney’s rerelease of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace took the second spot pulling in $8 million for the slow weekend. Despite …
Read More »‘Challengers’ Tops The Box Office Despite Soft Open
Romance-tennis drama Challengers easily won the weekend box office match with a $15 million opening from 3,477 theaters, in line with expectations and marking the second-best start for an original R-rated drama since the pandemic behind Don’t Worry Darling. Audiences aren’t embracing the R-rated film quite to the degree that reviewers did, giving it a …
Read More »‘Civil War’ Holds On To Top Spot At Box Office
The dystopian political action film Civil War about an America torn apart triumphed over the newly released vampire movie Abigail at the weekend box office. Civil War held the top spot in its second weekend with $11 million for a domestic total of $45 million for indie studio A24. Heading into the weekend, Universal’s Abigail was expected …
Read More »‘Civil War’ Opens No. 1 At Weekend Box Office
Alex Garland‘s dystopian action movie Civil War conquered the domestic box office this weekend with $25.7 million, ahead of expectations and scoring A24’s biggest opening ever. The $50 million movie about a divided America is a big swing for A24 as it tries to produce bigger movies, marking its most expensive production to date. …
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