Disney Animation Studios’ Frozen 2 easily stayed atop the North American box office in its third weekend with $34.7 million, while fellow animated pic Playmobil: The Movie came apart with a debut of just $668,000. The Disney sequel finished Sunday with a massive global total of $919.7 million, including $337.6 million domestically and $582.1 …
Read More »Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance Makes Galactic Debut at Walt Disney World Resort
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance makes its public debut Dec. 5, 2019, inside Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida, and at Disneyland Park in California on Jan. 17, 2020. After years of anticipation for this groundbreaking new attraction, guests will now become heroes of the Resistance in a climactic battle with …
Read More »‘Frozen 2’ Freezes Out Competition At The Box Office
Walt Disney Animation’s all-audience tentpole Frozen 2 led the box office with a record-shattering $123.7 million for the Wednesday-Sunday stretch, easily besting the $109.9 million grossed by The Hunger Games: Catching Fire during the same corridor in 2013. Frozen 2 marks the biggest Thanksgiving showing ever for a Disney animated film after taking the crown …
Read More »‘Frozen 2’ Tops Box Office
Princess Anna and Queen Elsa thawed hearts around the globe in their triumphant return to the big screen over the weekend. Walt Disney Animation Studios’ music-infused Frozen 2 opened to a record $127 million in the U.S. and a fiery $223.3 million overseas from 37 markets for a massive worldwide start of …
Read More »Terminator Bombs But Still Tops Weak Box Office
Terminator: Dark Fate bombed in its domestic box office debut over the weekend with $29 million from 4,086 theaters, well behind expectations though still bowing at No. 1. Not even the return of James Cameron in the producer’s chair and original series stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger could spark …
Read More »‘Joker’ Retakes Top Spot At Box Office
In a supervillain showdown, Joker edged out Maleficent: Mistress of Evil at the weekend box office. Warner Bros. is estimating a North American gross of $18.9 million for Joker, while Disney shows Maleficent at $18.5 million. It’s always possible the order could change when final weekend numbers are tallied on Monday. The top 12 films of the …
Read More »‘Maleficent 2’ Barely Tops A Struggling Box Office
There was nothing magical about the domestic box office debut of the Angelina Jolie-starrer Maleficent: Mistress of Evil over the weekend. The sequel stumbled to first place with $36 million from 3,790 theaters, well behind expectations and more than 45 percent behind the $69.4 million launch of Maleficent five years ago. It also supplanted Dumbo to …
Read More »‘Lion King’ Continues To Rule The Box Office
The Lion King took in $75.5 million in its sophomore outing in North America for a domestic tally of $350 million and a global cume of $962.7 million, including a weekend haul overseas of $142.8 million. Disney has now reached $7.67 billion in 2019 global ticket sales, eclipsing the industry record …
Read More »‘The Lion King’ Roars to Record $185M To Top Box Office
Furthering Disney’s domination, Jon Favreau’s The Lion King opened to a record-breaking $185 million at the North American box office over the weekend for an early global total of $531 million. The movie scored the biggest domestic launch ever for a PG film, and the ninth-biggest for any movie, not to mention …
Read More »‘Toy Story 4’ Scares Off Box Office Challengers
Pixar and Disney’s Toy Story 4 had no trouble staying No. 1 in its second weekend and fending off new offerings Annabelle Comes Home and Yesterday.The animated family film dipped 52 percent to $58 million as it raced past the $200 million mark domestically and cleared an impressive $496.5 million worldwide. Its North American tally …
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