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HTTYD soars, 28 Years Later sprints to $60 million, and Elio sets unwanted records for Disney-Pixar at the box office

June 22, 2025 by Matt Rodgers

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 […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: 28 Years Later, box office, Elio, How to Train Your Dragon

Challengers serves up $24 million opening weekend at the box office

April 28, 2024 by Matt Rodgers

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 […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: box office, Challengers, Luca Guadagnino, Zendaya

Dune: Part Two mines sandworm-sized $178 million at the global box office

March 3, 2024 by Matt Rodgers

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 […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News, Top Stories Tagged With: bob marley: one love, box office, Denis Villeneuve, Dune, Dune 2, Dune: Part Two, Madame Web, Rebecca Ferguson, Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya

Expend4bles bombs during miserable box-office weekend

September 25, 2023 by Matt Rodgers

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 […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: box office, Expend4bles, The Nun II

Blue Beetle beats Barbie with second-lowest domestic DC debut at the box office

August 20, 2023 by Matt Rodgers

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 […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Barbie, Blue Beetle, box office, DC, DC Extended Universe, dc studios, DC Universe, Oppenheimer, Strays

Insidious knocks Indiana Jones from the top with $32.6 million box-office bow

July 10, 2023 by Matt Rodgers

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 […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: box office, indiana jones and the dial of destiny, Insidious: The Red Door, Joyride

Spider-Man holds strong, but Transformers Rises to the top of the box office

June 12, 2023 by Matt Rodgers

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 […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: box office, spider-man: across the spider-verse, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Avatar 2 sails to seventh week at the top, while Infinity Pool drowns with $2.7m

January 29, 2023 by Matt Rodgers

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), […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Avatar: The Way of Water, box office, infinity pool, M3GAN

Violent Night fills its bloody stocking with solid $13M opening at the box office as Wakanda Forever fourpeats at the top

December 5, 2022 by Matt Rodgers

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 […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: black panther: wakanda forever, box office, Violent Night

With Wakanda Forever on the horizon Black Adam ekes out another $18.5M atop the box office

November 7, 2022 by Matt Rodgers

Black Adam‘s final stand at the top of the U.S. box-office managed to earn the DCEU blockbuster a further $18.5 million before Black Panther: Wakanda Forever roars into town next weekend.  Dwayne Johnson’s 15-years in the making origin story held quite well in the face of little-to-no competition, taking its domestic tally to $137 million. […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: black adam, black panther: wakanda forever, box office

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