With less than $ 40 million in
domestic box office gross, so far, Spotlight is one of the lowest - grossing Best Picture winners of the past several decades.
PrettyFamous began with the film that did 50th - best in
U.S. box office gross and counted down to the most profitable.
The «Superman» franchise consists of five movies made between 1978 and 2006, and according to Box Office Mojo, it has earned an inflation - adjusted domestic
box office gross of $ 1.2 billion.
** Per - Film is the average domestic gross per new film released nationwide by the studio in 2015, and includes additional 2016 domestic
box office grosses through January 24, 2016 for any 2015 releases that are still playing in theaters.
The studio not only kicked Marvel n00bs to the curb, they also tossed out the guy who racked up nearly $ 3 billion
in box office grosses for them too.
Foreign grosses reflect the preliminary non-U.S.
box office grosses for 2013 reported by each studio in late December.
The third of C.S. Lewis» «Narnia» books to make it to the big screen almost didn't happen when Disney lost the faith after the «disappointing» returns for «Prince Caspian,» with its
worldwide box office gross of $ 419 million.
Adjusting box office grosses to compensate for inflation is detrimental in one respect because many films from decades ago often faced little competition from other films and studios at the time of their release.
This acquisition of Legendary could bode well for the development of Pacific Rim 2, since the original Pacific Rim earned $ 111.9 million in China, the movie's
highest box office gross in any worldwide market, including the U.S. ($ 101.8 million).
Rogue One passed $ 1 billion in
global box office gross over the weekend, and the film is now the highest - grossing domestic film released in 2016 at more than $ 500 million in North American ticket sales, according to Box Office Mojo.
Below is a chart of
box office grosses over the course of the year (the weekly domestic averages from 2000 - 2010):
Note that some films listed below do not have any
reported box office grosses; these films were primarily or exclusively released on VOD in North America (and / or had such a negligible theatrical presence that box office figures were not reported).
The Shape of Water, whose budget is $ 20m, will almost definitely enjoy a much higher
overall box office gross when Fox Searchlight releases it this fall.
* Domestic Gross (here and in all remaining tables on this page)
includes box office grosses through January 19, 2015 (including estimates for the holiday weekend of January 16 - 19) for any 2014 releases that are still playing in theaters.
Tribeca's quality numbers last year were similar to 2012's,
while box office grosses increased a bit, to an all - time high for the company.
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.
TOP 100 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS FOR 2017 Listed By
US Box Office Gross only Title links go to reviews = still in theaters Note: Figures are as of January 21st, 2018
Disney - Lucasfilm's «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» has sped through the half - billion dollar mark in
box office grosses at $ 536.7 million worldwide in a week, with $ 42.1 million on Tuesday.
Total domestic
box office grosses reached an all - time high $ 10.9 billion in 2013, marking the second year in a row that a record was set — though 2013's total represented only a modest 0.8 % increase on 2012's total grosses.
There is something in that
enormous box office gross that needs to be looked at more closely, however, especially in view of Variety's discovery of the «event picture.»
It's worth noting that
though box office grosses were down this year, it has actually become more viable to have such experiences on a regular basis.
For example, «The Big Lebowski» (1998) had
disappointing box office grosses in its initial release, but its enduring popularity has since inspired an annual «Lebowski Fest» that celebrates every aspect of the film and even a religion called «Dudeism» after the nickname of the main character.
When the size of the budget is held constant, films with female protagonists or prominent females in an ensemble cast generate
similar box office grosses (domestic, international, opening weekend) and DVD sales as films with male protagonists.
The latest film, Black Panther, ended up being one of the most successful Superhero Debut movie of all time and generated
record box office gross worldwide surpassing even Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
After all, Slade is handed perhaps the most volatile and cleanly mapped novel from author Stephenie Meyer's imagination, while building off Weitz's momentum, which propelled New Moon to an
astronomical box office gross.
Aside from The Gift, Reeves appeared in several films that received mostly negative reviews and
unimpressive box office grosses, including The Watcher, Sweet November and The Replacements.
This has setup Disney to break the record for total global
box office grosses as the studio has earned a reported $ 7 billion in 2016, surpassing previous studio records as pointed out by The Tracking Board.
AMC reports that Avengers: Infinity War had the highest Friday and
Saturday box office gross for a single title in AMC's 98 - year history.
While most people are predicting Moonlight to win (as I am) the film is the second
lowest box office grosser of the bunch and this is a category that favors two things: the Best Picture frontrunner or a populist hit.
And I like how personally people
take box office grosses, too - like their team is winning / losing the Super Bowl.
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.
Quality Flix / D» Souza Entertainment's doc Hillary's America grossed over $ 2.38 M in 1,066 theaters, easily making it the year's best
doc box office grosser, topping Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next, which topped out at $ 3.82 million.
So in the effort to offer an alternate preview — and to kind of contradict myself — here's a look at the 2011 summer flicks that yours truly believes will venture into the coveted $ 300 million
box office gross on the domestic front.
Although still on roughly 1,200 screens domestically, Justice League's $ 650.9 m would place it last in the
DCEU box office grosses, behind Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($ 873.6 m), Wonder Woman ($ 821.8 m), Suicide Squad ($ 746.8 m), and Man of Steel ($ 668m).
But while Marvel's first real attempt at comedy had good reviews and a
sizable box office gross, enough to greenlight a sequel, Ant - Man and the Wasp this summer, there's an ineffable notion that Ant - Man is kind of a forgotten Marvel movie.
Two movies, quite unlike in dignity, In
fair box office grosses, where we lay our scene, From ancient Judge Dredd, which bombed two years past» 93, To Alex Garland's ass - kicking version, which made no money.
This a score out of 100 that takes into account a movie's IMDb rating, Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer and Audience Score, Gracenote rating, Metacritic Metascore and the inflation - adjusted
U.S. box office gross.
* Domestic Gross (here and in all remaining tables on this page) includes
box office grosses through January 24, 2016 for any 2015 releases that are still playing in theaters.
Note that some films listed below do not have any
reported box office grosses; these films were primarily released on VOD in the U.S. (and while all of them did also play in at least one theater for at least one screening, there wasn't enough of a theatrical release to have box office figures reported).
The largest reported five - day opening worldwide
box office gross figures, held by Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince ($ 394 million)
Others, like Avatar director James Cameron and Interstellar «s Christopher Nolan, have argued that the startup threatens the health of the movie industry, which turned in a record year in 2015 in terms of
overall box office gross.