The Box Office Year in Review
>We have been covering the sagging box office in 2011 throughout the year, and now that we have official numbers through Sunday, the year has closed down 3% from 2010. But the year is much more...
View ArticleWEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS January 6-8
>2012 is underway with one wide release this weekend (and only 2,000 theaters or so at that) and one major expansion. The Devil Inside should battle Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol for the top...
View ArticleFRIDAY JANUARY 6 BOX OFFICE RESULTS
> 2012 is off to a solid start with $135 million in business for the top 12 films — up 12% from a typical performance for the first weekend of the year but up sharply from the disaster that was...
View ArticleWEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES January 6-8
>The Devil Inside looks like a $34-35 million opening weekend based on studio estimates (Friday and Saturday actual results with estimates for Sunday). The top 12 films combined total this weekend...
View ArticleFULL WEEK BOX OFFICE ACTUALS and YEAR TO DATE January 2-8
>2012 is underway, and the first week of the year (January 2-8) which includes strong early week business for the holiday holdovers and a better than expected weekend from low-budget The Devil...
View ArticleWEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS January 13-15
>The second weekend of 2012 looks to be fairly anemic: $103 million for the top 12 films for the traditional three-day Friday-Sunday period. This would be down 11% from the same weekend in 2011 and...
View ArticleFRIDAY JANUARY 13 BOX OFFICE RESULTS
> The second weekend of 2012 looks better than we forecast (Contraband and Beauty and the Beast 3D are ahead of the ShowBuzzDaily weekend predictions), but the weekend is still looking pretty soft....
View ArticleWEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES January 13-15
>The weekend studio estimates (based on Friday and Saturday actuals and projections for Sunday) are coming in very similar to the weekend numbers posted yesterday (based on Friday actuals only)....
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Year to Date Box Office & Studio Scorecard
STUDIO SCORECARD. With the strong domestic and international opening of Despicable Me 2, Universal had a very good week (up $311 million from last week and almost catching Warner Brothers in terms of...
View ArticleAmerican Sniper: Putting the Phenomenal Box Office in Perspective
One useful way to look at box office momentum is to compare the Opening (normally the first Friday-Sunday or in some cases the first wide-release weekend and all the additional days before that) to the...
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