Aside from How to Train Your Dragon’s continued dominance at the worldwide box-office, this weekend felt like a tough one to call. How would Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s 23 years in the making horror-sequel fare when released smack-bang in the middle of blockbuster season, and what would happen to Disney-Pixar’s $150 million sci-fi adventure […]
Challengers serves up $24 million opening weekend at the box office
Challengers hit its opening serve straight down the line with a $24 million debut at the global box office. Luca Guadagnino’s R-rated sports drama topped a weak box-office frame with $15 million domestic, and a further $9 million from international markets. The $55 million budgeted film, which was pushed back from its original release date […]
Dune: Part Two mines sandworm-sized $178 million at the global box office
Everything about Dune: Part Two has felt bigger; the anticipation, the size of the sandworms, and the amount of stars awarded by critics (read our ★★★★★ review here), yet the question remained as to whether that would translate into spice-level box-office returns. The answer is a resounding Bene Gesserit-style ‘YES!’, as Denis Villeneuve‘s big-budget sequel […]
Expend4bles bombs during miserable box-office weekend
Expectations were pretty low for the fourth outing of Sylvester Stallone’s Expendables franchise, but Millennium Media’s Expend4bles tanked hard over what was the lowest grossing weekend at the North American box-office in 2023. The original Expendables opened in 2010 to a franchise high $34 million at the U.S. box-office, a tally that the fourth entry will […]
Blue Beetle beats Barbie with second-lowest domestic DC debut at the box office
The billion dollar box-office behemoth Barbie has finally been dethroned by DC’s superhero picture Blue Beetle, which took the top spot with just $25.4 million – a DC Extended Universe domestic low debut save for Wonder Woman 1984, which was released in theaters and HBO Max simultaneously during the pandemic with $16.7 million. Coming into […]
Insidious knocks Indiana Jones from the top with $32.6 million box-office bow
Both are franchises on their fifth outing, and both involve stories in which our protagonist must journey beyond this realm, but it appears that audiences are a little more receptive to opening The Red Door than turning the Dial of Destiny, with the news that Insidious has knocked Indiana Jones from the top spot with […]
Spider-Man holds strong, but Transformers Rises to the top of the box office
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts won a hard fought battle with Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse over the weekend, outperforming expectations with a $60.5 million opening. Paramount/Skydance/Hasbro’s relaunch of the robots in disguise landed with $170.5 million worldwide, with an impressive $40 million of that coming from China. While it was a positional victory for Rise of […]
Avatar 2 sails to seventh week at the top, while Infinity Pool drowns with $2.7m
Unopposed, Avatar: The Way of Water cruised passed $620 million at the domestic box office this weekend, and in the process became the fourth-highest grossing movie of all time with $2.117 billion globally. On Friday James Cameron’s behemoth overtook Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($2.071 billion) to sit behind only it’s predecessor Avatar ($2.92 billion), […]
Violent Night fills its bloody stocking with solid $13M opening at the box office as Wakanda Forever fourpeats at the top
There wasn’t much seasonal joy at the box-office this weekend, with the first frame in December delivering the year’s sixth-worst weekend total of just $52.9 million. Most of that came from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever‘s fourth-weekend gross, and the debut of David Harbour’s R-rated action-comedy Violent Night. The only real new opener of note, Universal’s […]
Pandemic Box Office Fallout
Tom Jolliffe looks at the potential box office fallout in the wake of the coronavirus… You may have noticed in the news that a virus has swept the globe. Depending on what resources you choose to source your information, it’s either the oncoming biblical plague which will lead to our apocalypse, or it’s just a […]
