The movie's $ 3.25 million opening weekend and $ 7.2 M final domestic gross put it near the bottom of each of its stars» all -
time box office records.
Not exact matches
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.
The Disney film shattered
box -
office records over the weekend, edging past «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» to set the highest opening weekend of all
time.
The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered
box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first
time in a decade.
Yes, James Cameron, who holds
box -
office records for not one, but two of the highest - grossing films of all
time, took
time out of making the next three «Avatar» sequels to read over an early «Deadpool» script.
It seems that every
time Marvel (owned by Disney) comes out with a new Avengers movie (released two weeks ago), or Fantastic Four (later 2015 release), or X-Men (2016 release), or Captain America (2016), film, we hear all about how it's breaking some
box office record.
Although the films Alibaba Pictures Group has invested in like So Young (by actress - turned director Zhao Wei, who is also a major shareholder of the company) and Tiny
Times (by popular writer Guo Jingming) have
recorded remarkable
box -
office revenues, the company has yet to turn a profit, with a net loss of HK$ 443.54 million for the first half of last year.
And with an all -
time record $ 3.2 billion collected in other countries (up a whopping 60 % compared to its take the previous year), Paramount easily topped the global
box office charts as well.
In 2012 the studio produced the critically acclaimed Marvel's The Avengers, which set the all -
time, domestic 3 - day weekend
box office record at $ 207.4 million.
The film, which shattered both domestic and international
box office records, is Disney's highest - grossing global and domestic release of all
time and marked the studio's fifth film to gross more than $ 1 billion worldwide.
... Moving on to the Marvel Cinematic Universe now and while it may not have shattered
box office records like its predecessor, Avengers: Age of Ultron has continued its climb up the all -
time box office chart this week and is now sitting in sixth place with $ 1.281 billion, having overtaken Iron Man 3 ($ 1.215 billion) and Frozen ($ 1.274 billion).
«Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End» (2007)
Box Office Take: $ 963m 21st Century
Box Office Ranking: 20 At the
time the most expensive film ever made, budgeted at $ 300m (before its even more dire sequel, «On Stranger Tides,» smashed that dubious
record), the third «Pirates» movie was the one where the franchise's over-reliance on Johnny Depp «s Jack Sparrow really started to tell.
At the
time of release, the film
recorded the second biggest opening weekend of all
time with a $ 191.3 million
box office.
When the film finally arrived in 2006 it went on to smash several
box office records worldwide becoming the third highest grossing film of all
time.
Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm «s Star Wars: The Last Jedi drew in a near -
record $ 220 million in the domestic
box office, the second - highest opening weekend of all
time behind 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Disney and Marvel managed to snag yet another
box office record from themselves this weekend, with THR reporting that Ryan Coogler's Black Panther is now the most successful superhero movie — in terms of domestic
box office returns, anyway — of all
time.
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.
Ted became a surprise blockbuster when it was released in summer 2012, and holds the
record for the highest - grossing original R - rated comedy of all
time with global
box -
office takings of 549.4 million dollars (# 329.5 million).
Warner Bros. is wasting no
time in moving forward on a sequel to the
box -
office record - breaker and I'm honestly a little...
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.
«It may not have done well at the
box office but it broke the all -
time record for the number of film geeks insisting it's genius.»
Now officially the all -
time November opening
record holder, «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» was always a fairly sure thing in terms of
box office.
With a current domestic
box office total of $ 323.7 million, It has become the highest - grossing horror movie of all
time, surpassing the previous
record held by The Exorcist ($ 232.9 million).
Ultimately Chan's accomplishments, however breathtaking, seem to have more to do with the Guinness Book of World
Records than they do with the history of art — though it's worth adding that, according to the New York
Times, Rumble in the Bronx was the number - one
box -
office hit in mainland China last year.
A massive hit in China after smashing
box office records to become the highest - grossing domestic film of all
time, Jiang Wen's action comedy «Let the Bullets Fly» sadly didn't have as much success overseas.
Since that auspicious debut, he has continued to collaborate with Anderson on «The Darjeeling Limited» (which the pair wrote with Roman Coppola); the short film «Hotel Chevalier»; his animated feature, «Fantastic Mr. Fox» (for which he contributed his vocal talents); «Moonrise Kingdom» (part of Anderson's stellar ensemble cast of Murray, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Frances McDormand), which set a new
record at the specialty
box office over Memorial Day weekend for best limited indie debut of all
time, and, the Academy Award nominated film, «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» whose eclectic cast brought back thespians Murray, Norton and Swinton, along with Willem Dafoe, Soirsae Ronin, Ralph Finnes, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Owen Wilson and Adrian Brody.
While Jurassic World was beating US
Box Office records at the weekend, British TV showed Jurassic Park for the millionth
time.
Though the
box office record may suggest otherwise (still, when was the last
time a black and white silent movie or anything from France made $ 45 million domestic?)
Huge Thursday night numbers and a big Friday point to «Black Panther» setting an all -
time (4 - day)
box office record, when all is said and done and the cash is counted Sunday night.
Beauty and the Beast, according to
Box Office Mojo, has just set a March
record for opening and became the 7th largest domestic opener of all
time.
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens is breaking all sorts of
box office records and represents the largest opening of all -
time.
At the end of February it smashed through another milestone after it already
recorded the biggest Monday at the
box office of all
time (in the US), earning $ 40.2 million.
In 2012 Marvel's critically acclaimed «The Avengers» set an all -
time, domestic three - day weekend
box -
office record at $ 207.4 million.
Even if that doesn't happen, Black Panther has wasted no
time in cementing itself as an early
box office powerhouse, and easily broke the
record for biggest pre-summer opening.
The seven SAW films grossed $ 874 million at the
box office worldwide and were hailed by the Guinness Book of World
Records as the «Most Successful Horror Franchise» of all
time.
Black Panther has smashed
box -
office records left and right, seizing the highest - ever February debut, and the fifth - highest of all
time.
This
record will be short - lived, as the film will pass Titanic ($ 659.3 million) in short order to become the # 3 movie of all
time at the domestic
box office.
Right now, Black Panther and A Wrinkle in
Time are the best performers in the cinema and both boast huge black achievement; the former being the highest rated Marvel film, and the latter breaking
box office records.
Avengers: Infinity War broke not only the domestic opening weekend
box office record bringing in $ 250 million this weekend, but it also succeeded in taking in a total of $ 630 million worldwide, giving it
records for both domestic and global openings of all
time.
The seventh entry in the series opened this last April to strong reviews, and even stronger audience reaction, skyrocketing past $ 1 Billion at the
box office in
record time, only to be beaten by Jurassic World...
Marvel's Black Panther annihilates the all -
time February opening weekend
record at the
box office that was previously held by Deadpool.
In an explosive weekend at the specialty
box office, Paul Thomas Anderson's «The Master» broke the
record for the best limited debut of all
time (topping «Moonrise Kingdom»), while Nicholas Jarecki's «Arbitrage» managed some excellent numbers on a much wider screen count.
Last weekend's
box office was lower than expected with Kingsman: The Golden Circle failing to hit $ 40 million, The LEGO Ninjago Movie barely earning $ 20 million, and Friend Request
recording the worst wide opening of all -
time with a mere $ 2 million across 2,500 screens.
In its short
time in theaters so far, Avengers: Infinity War has already proven itself to be a juggernaut, breaking
Box Office records.
This milestone marks the high point of an already exciting year for Virtuos, which has seen the company achieve a string of
record - breaking successes, including: contributing art to 50 % of the top 10 best - selling games on XboxOne and Playstation 4; shipping XCOM Enemy Within for IOS, the third title developed in China to exceed the 85 % Metacritic Metascore * (the other two titles were also co-developed by Virtuos); and providing 3D models for Transformers: Age of Extinction, which has become China's top - grossing
box office game of all
time.
The film broke
box -
office records when it first opened as the biggest February opening of all
time, and the best opening yet for a movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a four - day weekend of $ 242 million.