Venom: The Last Dance gained ground in its second weekend. The Sony comic book movie declined a franchise-low 49 percent to $26.1 million from 4,131 screens to win an overall quiet weekend heading into the hotly contested presidential race The final installment in the Venom trilogy has now earned $90 million domestically. DreamWorks …
Read More »‘Terrifier 3’ Scares Up The Top Spot At The Box Office
Terrifier 3 easily won the weekend box office, where Joker: Folie à Deux suffered the worst decline in history for a comic book movie and one of the biggest among any film. Cineverse and Icon Events’ Terrifier threequel opened ahead of expectations with an estimated $18.2 million from 1,988 theaters. The Wild Robot continues to shine for …
Read More »‘Joker’ Bombs But Tops Box Office
Joker: Folie à Deux bombed in its box office debut with an estimated domestic opening of $40 million, well behind expectations after becoming the the first Hollywood comic book movie in history to earn a D CinemaScore from audiences. Exit polls are equally as grim as audiences express their unhappiness with the antihero-musical …
Read More »‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ Sets Box Office Record
Deadpool & Wolverine opened to a record-shattering $205 million at the domestic box office, landing the eighth biggest opening of all time among any film and by far the biggest launch for an R-rated film, not adjusted for inflation. The first Deadpool was the previous record-holder at $133.7 million. The movie also shattered records …
Read More »‘Twisters’ Whips Up The Box Office
Twisters is whipping up huge winds at the box office, with forecasters predicting a far better than expected domestic opening of $80.5 million in North America. Twisters arrives 28 years after Twister, the envelope-pushing feature that broke ground for marrying visual effects with practical effects. Overseas the film is coming in slightly behind expectations. It took …
Read More »‘Despicable Me 4’ Dominates The Box Office
With an estimated five-day domestic opening of $122.6 million from 4,428 theaters, including a three-day weekend haul of $75 million after earning a stellar A CinemaScore, Despicable Me 4 dominated the Fourth of July box office, proving that Illumination and Universal’s Minions franchise is holding its own. The fourth film …
Read More »‘Inside Out 2’ Delivers Historic $155M U.S. Opening
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 »‘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 »‘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. …
Read More »‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ Scares Up $45M Opening
Sony’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire won the weekend box office. Sunday estimates show Frozen Empire launching with $45.2 million in North America thanks to multi-generational turnout and families. In 2021, the pandemic-challenged Ghostbusters: Afterlife debuted to $44 million. Frozen Empire is a direct sequel to Afterlife, which succeeded in restoring some of the luster to the classic franchise …
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