But now that video games generate nearly as much revenue as
domestic movie ticket sales, actors say they want a piece of every game sold rather than one - time up front fees.
As the year comes to a close, the domestic box office is on pace to set another new industry record just one year after topping $ 11 billion in
domestic movie ticket sales for the first time ever.
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.
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.
Unbroken — Directed by Angelina Jolie ($ 89,071,545)(Maleficent, written by Linda Woolverton, is the sixth - highest grossing
movie of the year with over $ 241 million in
domestic ticket sales)
The 4 - day for Black Panther should be around $ 242.4 M.
Ticket sales for the Ryan Coogler - directed
movie were -34 % on Presidents Day Monday for $ 40M - $ 40.1 M. With those figures, Black Panther could very well own the all - time Monday
domestic record as well, beating Force Awakens» $ 40.1 M. Another big winner for Disney, which now owns eight of the top 10 slots on the all - time
domestic openers chart.
We decided to create a data visualization to show how Logan compares to the rest of the X-Men franchise by looking at production budget,
domestic opening weekend
ticket sales, and Rotten Tomatoes
movie scores.