It takes a team of dedicated people to make a feature film. If you don’t believe me just watch the ending credits of any film that has come out in the last sixty to seventy years. It takes a lot of hard work and time to tell a tale in ninety minutes, and it can take one or two executives to turn it into a flop.
A case in point is the decision to open …
After last weekends box office opening of $122 million, Thor: Ragnarok had a strong second weekend earning an estimated $56 million. Ragnarok’s domestic total now sits at $211 million, its foreign total at $438 million, bringing its total box office intake $650 million after just two weeks after its release. Not too bad. Not too bad at all.
Ragnarok’s main competition this weekend were the releases of Daddy’s Home 2 and Murder on the Orient …
In an especially terrible weekend in the land of Hollywood, one release MUST rise above the rest. It’s a weekend in which three of the new wide-releases barely crack the double digit mark on Rotten Tomatoes. Geostorm is sitting comfortably with a solid 13% fresh. The Snowman sits at the single digit mark of 9 % fresh. Say what you will about the Rotten Tomatoes system and how it represents the films, but it’s …
Blumhouse’s reign of terror continues to be a bright spot in otherwise light 2017 box office returns. Made on yet another micro-budget of around $5 million, their new film Happy Death Day has opened with an estimated $26 million. Following the financial success of Get Out and Split, Happy Death Day is another example that you don’t need to spend $150 million on a movie to earn huge profits as long as you make …
The Tom Cruise led American Made was expected to take the top spot at the weekend box office, but things were far closer than anyone expected. In a close three-way race, It was able sneak past both American Made and last weekends champ Kingsman: The Golden Circle. While the final numbers may not come out until tomorrow, the estimates have the three films neck and neck…. and neck.
After two weeks number one and …
After two weeks on top, Kingsman: The Golden Circle has topped the juggernaut hit IT. While the Kingsman sequel earned enough to take the top spot, the film performed under expectations. Kingsman: The Golden Circle brought in an estimated $39 million domestically in its opening weekend. The original Kingsman earned $36.2 in its opening weekend domestically ($128.2 million in total in the States)) and $414 million worldwide back in 2015. The numbers seem on …
It continues to crush the box office competition, winning the box office for the second straight week. It brought in an additional $60 million this weekend, bringing the films estimated domestic total to just over $218 million. With excellent business overseas, It has brought an international cume of just over $152 for a worldwide total of $370 million. It’s been an impressive start for It, and it should be interesting to see how It performs …
(AOTN) As expected, Stephen King’s It has opened to massive numbers, bringing in an estimated $117 million at the box office. Thats exactly $117 million more than the the original 1990 version, as that was a television miniseries. Worldwide, It grossed an additional estimated $62 million, for an estimated weekend total of $179 million. Wow.
It started off strong, and has been been breaking records all weekend. According to Box Office Mojo, by Saturday, …
