With the recent news that Terminator Genisys has enjoyed massive success in China over the past few weeks, it looks like Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is set for a similar run. Opening in China on Tuesday, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation earned a huge $18.5 million, enjoying the fifth biggest debut in history for a US production, […]
Straight Outta Compton retains top spot at the UK box office
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 4th September to Sunday 6th September 2015… Despite four new entries cracking the top ten, the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton held on to top spot in its second weekend, pulling in £1.37 million to push its UK haul to £5.8 million and […]
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation soars past $500 million worldwide, Terminator Genisys continues international success
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation has passed $500 million at the worldwide box office this weekend, becoming the fourth highest grossing film of Tom Cruise’s career and the third biggest of the franchise to date. Paramount and Skydance are behind Rogue Nation, and have seen it climb to a total of $511.2 million. It stands […]
Straight Outta Compton goes straight to the top of the UK box office
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 28th August to Sunday 30th August 2015… Having proven a smash hit over in the States, the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton took first place at the UK box office this past weekend, with the F. Gary Gray-directed film pulling in an opening […]
Looking Back on the Summer Blockbusters of 2015
Matthew Lee takes a look back at the summer blockbusters of 2015… Last year, Forbes reported that last summer’s box office was down by a whopping $1.223 billion. Hollywood executives were undoubtedly shitting themselves. This was significantly more problematic considering last year’s summer held a number great critical surprises; Guardians of the Galaxy was a […]
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation hits $400 million worldwide
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation has crossed the $400 million mark at the global box office, with the fifth instalment of the spy series having grossed $146.1 million domestically and $259.2 million from international markets for a worldwide haul of $405.3 million and counting. SEE ALSO: Read our reviews of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation […]
Pixels tops the UK box office thanks to four extra days of previews
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 16th August to Sunday 18th August 2015… Adam Sandler’s sci-fi comedy Pixels topped the UK box office chart with £2,660,772 from its opening “weekend”, which happens to include four days of previews, which accounted for £1.33 million of that figure. If it wasn’t […]
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. stumbles at the box office with just $13.5 million
Warner Bros. was probably expecting a warmer reaction to the big screen reboot of the classic TV show The Man From U.N.C.L.E., but sadly the film has under-performed at the box office. Opening on 3,700 screens, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. made just $13.5 million, opening third behind Universal’s Straight Outta Compton and Mission: Impossible – […]
Fantastic Four tops the UK box office chart
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 7th August to Sunday 9th August 2015… It may have failed to dethrone Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation in the States, but 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four has had a modicum of good new here in the UK, with the reboot shaking off […]
UPDATE: Fantastic Four clobbered at the box office, opens behind Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
It was predicted on Friday, and now it’s official: 20th Century Fox’s reboot of Fantastic Four has been clobbered at the North American box office, pulling in just $26.2 million on its debut weekend to place second behind Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation on $29.4 million. SEE ALSO: Josh Trank places blame for poor Fantastic […]