Avengers: Infinity War secured both
the best domestic box office opening of all time with $ 250 million — surpassing Star Wars: The Force Awakens when adjusted for inflation — and the best worldwide debut at $ 630 million, passing The Fate of the Furious» $ 541.9 million by a considerable margin.
Not exact matches
This year's field of
Best Picture nominees features eight movies with widely variant
box office performances, from 20th Century Fox's (FOX) The Martian «s leading $ 228 million in
domestic gross to Room, which barely cracked $ 12.5 million in ticket sales.
Fans bestowed upon 2005's «Revenge of the Sith» a $ 380 million
domestic box office take that's
good for $ 455 million today.
Why not create a
box for
domestic as
well as international traffic?
In the
Best Picture race, the biggest hits were the World War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales,
good for 14th place on the
box office charts, and Jordan Peele's horror film «Get Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk» with $ 176 million in
domestic sales.
Of course, 2011 will go down as Summit's final year as an independent studio; the company was recently acquired by fellow mini-major Lionsgate, a company that had less than half the
domestic box office gross (and an even lower average Metascore) than Summit last year, but one that boasts a significant home video library as
well as a decent presence in television.
Based on the books by Michael Bond, he's become a longtime treasure over in England, which might be why the first film didn't do as
well at the
domestic box office.
Look at «The Hangover», because the first film was so
well liked the sequel became an even bigger hit, but because the sequel was considered to be inferior by critics in general, the 3rd film really suffered and paid the price as it came nowhere near the previous films
domestic box office grosses.
When women and men filmmakers have similar budgets for their films, the resulting
domestic, international, and opening weekend
box office grosses — as
well as DVD sales — are also similar.
Here's how this year's
Best Picture nominees stacked up in terms of
domestic box office:
Marvel's Black Panther passes DC's Wonder Woman at the
domestic box office, as
well as Suicide Squad at the international market.
Academy Award winning
Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence (2012's Silver Linings Playbook) headlines the all - star cast in this action - adventure which became the # 1 movie of 2013 and the 12th highest - grossing film of all time at the
domestic box office.
In that time, it has smashed several major
box office records, including
best domestic opening weekend
box office ($ 250 million) and the worldwide opening record ($ 630 million), among others.
Well, Think Like a Man has not only shattered its perceived limits, but it's also
bested all thirteen of Perry's films at the
box office with its potent off - season
domestic total of $ 91.5 M.
Subtract Dunkirk and Get Out — two pre-season hits that elbowed their way into the awards line - up — and the year's remaining seven
Best Picture nominees have been stuck at an average of about 4.5 million
domestic box - office viewers each.
The new superhero movie directed by Scott Derrickson (Sinister) and starring Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game) has already charted to the top of the
box office over the course of the past two weekends, and has made
well over $ 150 million in
domestic ticket sales alone.
The movie's
box office performance was somewhat mediocre as
well, considering the production and marketing costs, which the $ 85 million
domestic gross failed to recoup, while still placing the film above all but three movies released in the easygoing two months comprising cinema's «fall» season.
It's been a
good week for Universal as it has just been confirmed that they've broken their 2012 record for
domestic box office gross...
It's not uncommon for an animated film to top the
domestic box office — Toy Story and Toy Story 3, as
well as (ugh) Shrek 2 have done so in the intervening years — but it's not normal.
By the time the two companies reached an accord in July 2010, the movie had gone on to take nearly $ 50 million at the
domestic box office, as
well as picking up six Oscar nominations, and winning two of the categories.
After making waves with his critically acclaimed «Snabba Cash» — which is only seeing a theatrical release this summer, two years after it's original Swedish unveiling — Daniel Espinosa was linked to numerous big - name projects before moving onto the Denzel Washington / Ryan Reynolds starrer «Safe House,» which has surely earned him a lot of
good will with its
box office performance (it crossed $ 100 million
domestic this week).
With $ 37.7 million in
domestic ticket sales since its release in October, «Birdman» is one of the lowest grossing
best picture winners ever, underscoring the unusually wide gap this year between Oscar nominated films and
box - office results.
Scoring a Golden Globe nod for
Best Comedy, as
well as a lead nomination for Murray as
Best Actor in a Comedy / Musical, Naomi Watts also secured a surprise SAG nod for her comedic supporting turn, it managed a forty - four million take at the
domestic box office, and was pitched as a return to form for Bill Murray.
With the Oscars less than a month away, here's a look at how the
best picture nominations are doing at the
domestic box office.
In the midst of the Viacom - CBS merger melee, Paramount Pictures is turning itself around and can celebrate the fact that their low budget horror thriller A Quiet Place has
bested Universal / Blumhouse's Get Out at the
domestic box office, $ 176.5 M to $ 176M.
The film has already been pulling in some decent cash overseas after hitting plenty of international territories last weekend, and it's bound to have a
good weekend at the
domestic box office as
well.
Bradley Cooper couldn't have had a much
better 2014, with «Guardians Of The Galaxy» and «American Sniper» proving to be the two biggest movies of the year at the
domestic box office, and the latter winning him his third Oscar nod in four years.
With two big BAFTA wins on Sunday for screenplay and lead actor Casey Affleck, a very
good shot at taking a WGA Original Screenplay award this coming Sunday, a
domestic box office gross nearing $ 50 million, and six Academy Award nominations Manchester By The Sea is riding higher than even anyone expected after its smash Sundance debut over a year ago.
At first I wasn't going to write anything about last weekend's «disappointing»
domestic grosses for «M: I: III» (or, as Stephen Colbert pronounces it, «Miiii»), because,
well, who really cares about the
box - office numbers of movies like «Miiii» (or Celebs Who Act Out)?
To put it in numbers, of the four most - likely
Best Picture winners, only one — Get Out, at No. 15 — cracked the top 49 movies in 2017
domestic box office.
My
best explanation for this is that the film ultimately found itself betwixt and between: too big to be the kind of arty film that critics love to champion, but not big enough (its
domestic box office was almost exactly $ 100 million) to force its way into the conversation, à la Avatar, in a «the people have spoken» fashion.
Mockingjay Part 1 has an uphill battle to fight, as by its very nature it exists purely as a cash grab designed to set up the final installment and get a
good $ 400M in
domestic box office at the same time.
has an uphill battle to fight, as by its very nature it exists purely as a cash grab designed to set up the final installment and get a
good $ 400M in
domestic box office at the same time.
Later, he gives his thoughts on the
better - than - expected
box office for Neighbors and the somewhat dismal
domestic box office for The Amazing Spider - Man 2, then answers some listener feedback and heads into the DVD Round - Up!
Okay, so maybe Taylor Kitsch hasn't had the
best year between «John Carter» flopping and «Battleship» failing to find its sea legs at the
domestic box office, but Aaron Johnson has impressed with his career choices lately, and the idea of Salma Hayek playing the big bad is oozing with potential.
Like
box office receipts for a major motion picture release, equity returns for international markets have begun to show they may be as important as
domestic numbers, as
well.
The cat litter
box, therefore, is a crucial aspect to the
well - being of all
domestic cats.
Skylanders Giants, the sequel to Skylanders Spyro's Adventure — the # 1
best - selling kids» game of 20112 — generated more than $ 195 million in U.S. sales, inclusive of accessory packs and figures, in 2012.3 Additionally, Skylanders Giants eclipsed
domestic box office sales for each of the top holiday kids» feature films including «Wreck - It Ralph» and «Rise of the Guardians» in 2012.4
Kaari Upson's recent
domestic scenes — upended sofas and despoiled rolls of paper towels at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and now the
GOOD THING YOU ARE NOT ALONE show on the third floor of the New Museum — depict America as a big -
box store gone to seed.
Theatrical distribution — the other big - ticket studio revenue stream — has also seen
better days, declining for the second straight year, with the
domestic box office finishing 2011 with about $ 10.17 billion — off from $ 10.56 billion in 2010.
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