Sentences with phrase «first weekend box office»

First weekend box office is currently the most important measure of any big budget action picture's success.

Hitch is a date movie, released in time for St. Valentine's day in the US, which probably explains its massive first weekend box office — US$ 43.1 million — the biggest romantic comedy opening ever!

The research shows that even as the key first weekend box office receipts were reported, prices stayed remarkably stable as traders ignored new value - relevant information and continued to rely on their initial estimates.

Not exact matches

2 continued its box office reign this weekend, while King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is the summer season's first major flop.

The first superhero blockbuster film of 2018 is gearing up for a huge box - office opening this weekend.

But despite the anticipation for Spider - Man's first solo entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, «Spider - Man: Homecoming» didn't win the title of best opening weekend for a Spider - Man movie, according to Box Office Mojo.

That figure not only makes it Universal's largest box - office opening ever, but also the largest worldwide opening for a movie ever and the only to crack $ 500 million in its first weekend.

The five films Murdoch's 20th Century Fox division put out this summer season (which runs from the first weekend in May through Labor Day in the entertainment industry) grossed $ 783 million as of earlier this week, according to film revenue - tracking website Box Office Mojo.

Deadpool became the first R - rated movie to top $ 100 million in domestic box office sales over its opening weekend, pulling in an impressive $ 135 million in North America and a whopping $ 260 million worldwide, according to box office research firm Rentrak.

Since its release, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has smashed almost every Hollywood box - office record, racking up more than $ 500 million in worldwide ticket sales in just its first weekend.

Identity Thief, which stars Jason Bateman as the victim of McCarthy's (yep) identity thief, opened in first place by a landslide, earning $ 36.6 million over the weekend despite a severe winter storm that caused several movie theaters in the Northeast to close temporarily, Box Office Mojo reports.

In 2010 Marvel's Iron Man 2, starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury took the # 1 spot in its first weekend with a domestic box office gross of $ 128.1 million.

Of the first - weekend limited release Best Picture Nominees currently in theaters, most are in the same realm in terms of box office totals as the Best Picture winners of the past several years.

Lone Survivor has triumphed in its first weekend of release to rise to the top of the US and Canadian box office.

Indeed, the first time the film's weekend box office was less than its opening weekend was January 26th — a full month after the movie first hit theaters.

A Wrinkle In Time director Ava DuVernay is the first woman of color to direct a film with a $ 100 million - plus budget, and alongside her «little brother,» Black Panther's Ryan Coogler, she crossed another milestone this past weekend, which marked the «first time films by black directors with $ 100 million plus budgets have ever placed in the first two box office spots,» as CNN puts it.

Women and space were a winning combo at the movies this weekend, with Theodore Melfi's fact - based drama Hidden Figures and the blockbuster prequel Rogue One: A Star Wars Story finishing in a virtual tie for first at the domestic box office.

The very first theatrical release of New York - based film distributor Bleecker Street, Danny Collins grossed a somewhat respectable $ 5.6 million, despite a max theater count of just 739 and only a single top ten finish at the weekend box office.

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«Iron Man 2» opened big the first weekend in May, but the box office has lagged since then.

Nearly a year after it was first scheduled to hit theatres, Paramount's Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is poised to take first place at the weekend box office.

British audiences proved this past weekend that they have an appetite for serious films, putting three of the year's top awards contenders in the first three spots on the box office chart.

Sizable box office numbers are expected next weekend for the third installment of The Hunger Games, Mockingjay — Part 1, the first of two major competitors to Transformers: Age of Extinction.

The grim box - office for Mars Needs Moms ($ 7 mil opening weekend) marks the year's first toon casuality...

dropped at the box office two weeks ago and performed poorly, taking in only $ 7 million its first weekend while scoring a rare «F» on CinemaScore.

It may or may not correlate to actual box - office performance come opening weekend, but Deadline reports that ticket presales for Marvel's Black Panther have already outpaced previous record holder Captain America: Civil War for Fandango's fastest - selling MCU title in the first 24 hours.

Doctor Strange's $ 493m worldwide box office to date in just its third weekend of release already puts it head of the lifetime worldwide grosses of Incredible Hulk, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger.

«Jumanji» is also singular in winning the box office in its third, fourth and fifth weekends after finishing second in its first two weekends to «Star Wars: The Last Jedi.»

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has proved its mettle by dominating the box office on its first weekend of opening.

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd November 2014... Exactly a year after its predecessor topped the chart, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 debuted in first place at the UK box office, pulling in # 12,654,109 — accounting for 2 out of every 3 cinema tickets -LSB-...]

For the first time since January, six films managed # 1m in weekend takings at the UK box office, spreading the wealth evenly.

Transformers: The Last Knight wins its first weekend at the box office with a franchise low of $ 45.3 million.

After three weeks atop the chart, Minions has been knocked from pole position at the UK box office by Marvel's latest superhero blockbuster Ant - Man, which debuted in first place with an opening weekend of # 4,011,345.

The first movie of 2018, Insidious: The Last Key, takes on the biggest movie of 2017, Star Wars: The Last Jedi at the box office this weekend.

Fox's «The Greatest Showman» is holding strong at No. 4 at the box office, grossing more over the New Year's holiday than it did in its first weekend of release.

As expected, the latest installment of the Star Wars saga, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, finished atop the box office in its first weekend.

Disney and Pixar's latest animated feature Coco delivered on its promise to top the box office upon release by finishing first during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend with an estimated $ 49 million.

Ryan Coogler's comic - book sensation on Sunday became the first film since James Cameron's 2009 smash to top the weekend box office five straight...

Black Panther made $ 350 million dollars in its first weekend at the box office.

Over the weekend, «Black Panther» became the first film since 2009's «Avatar» to top the box office in North America five straight weekends.

First, though, Hoult stands to possibly rule the box - office this weekend with Warm Bodies, a surprisingly well - received zombie love story, in which Hoult takes the lead as a malcontent member of the undead.

Allegiant's box office debut brought in $ 29.1 million, which was a more than 40 percent drop from both Divergent and first sequel Insurgent's opening weekend earnings.

Despite the fictional box office success of its movie star, Entourage sputtered in the real world, opening in fourth place and barely tripling that first weekend gross (the 47th worst put up by a 3,000 + theater release) en route to a front - loaded $ 32 million domestic and weak $ 12 million overseas.

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As previously reported, the weekend of March 9 marked the first time in recent memory, and possibly ever, that films by African - American directors have claimed the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the same weekend, with Coogler's «Black Panther» again topping the box office, while Ava DuVernay's adaptation «A Wrinkle in Time,» which boasts a black female protagonist in Storm Reid as young heroine Meg Murry, opened in the second - place spot.

Tim Burton's latest fantastical oddity, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, earned a hefty $ 28.5 m at the US box office in its first weekend on release, but Peter Berg's acclaimed disaster movie Deepwater Horizon, about the 2010 oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, failed to attract an audience.

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In other words, the summer box office will kick off earlier than expected (the first weekend in May is historically considered the official start of the summer season).

The studio is most likely waiting for the weekend box office results to announce any sort of follow - up, and there's no kind of preliminary word on whether first time director Tim Miller could return as well.

Black Panther won its fifth consecutive weekend this past week over new releases A Wrinkle in Time and Tomb Raider, marking the first time any movie has won five straight weekends at the box office since Avatar in 2009.