It's been a great season for horror, with Blumhouse's «Happy Death Day» becoming the latest horror film to
top the domestic box office in its opening weekend.
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.
In the spirit of the season, Box Office Mojo has released a list of 2013's
top domestic box office movies (as of December 1).
The surprisingly dark and fairly entertaining Star Wars spin - off Rogue One
topped the domestic box office for the third week in a...
The panel also discusses «Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle»
topping the domestic box office for the third straight weekend.
VARIETY — Steven Spielberg's latest blockbuster
topped the domestic box office over the four - day holiday weekend.
At the box office, Paul Feig's Spy, George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road and Francis Lawrence's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 (which again
topped the domestic box office for a fourth straight time this weekend, according to the Los Angeles Times) have all been big successes.
2017 did continue a now three - year trend of the domestic box office hitting over $ 11 billion, three years in which a Star Wars film has
topped the domestic box office every year.
Steven Spielberg's action - adventure «Ready Player One» has
topped the domestic box office over the holiday weekend.
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.
2 from the
top spot at the
domestic box office.
In fact, half of the
top 10 grossing films of the year came from Walt Disney Studios — which hauled in $ 3 billion in
domestic box office, Disney reported.
Canadians trust
domestic drug stores and big
box chains, while Research In Motion falls out of the
top 10.
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.
(In fact, 4 of the
top 10 highest - grossing films at the
domestic box office so far in 2016 are animated movies.)
The original «Star Wars»
tops our list, with a $ 461 million
domestic box office take that translates to $ 1.8 billion in 2015.
And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the
top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide
box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros. hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the
top - earning studio at the
domestic box office for the year.
Director Kathryn Bigelow's intense Iraq war drama made the ultimate case for a large
box - office haul not predicting Oscar success when it took
top honors in 2010 over James Cameron's Avatar and its $ 760 million in
domestic gross.
For the fourth consecutive weekend, Disney / Marvel's «Black Panther»
topped the weekend
domestic box office with an estimated $ 41.1 million, according to boxofficepro.
After one month in theaters, Wonder Woman broke the $ 700 million barrier at the worldwide
box office this past weekend, thereby becoming one of the
top 100 highest - grossing movies ever released; the news came mere days after the film surpassed all three previous installments to become the largest DCEU release at the
domestic box office.
Disney and Pixar's Coco
topped the moderate
domestic box office for a third time, adding $ 18.3 million to bring its North American total to $ 135.5 million.
Black Panther is already off to a strong start at the
domestic box office, pulling in $ 25.2 million on Thursday night to
top Deadpool's February preview record.
Thanks to the obsession with blockbusters that has preoccupied major studios for the past 40 years or so, there have been many weekends where two heavily promoted tentpole films — sometimes even from the same studio — have occupied the
top two slots at the
domestic box office.
Exalted audiences and approving critics confirm the hype: Black Panther's opening weekend
box office numbers has usurped 2012's The Avengers as the
top - grossing
domestic opening for a Marvel movie at $ 235 million, and the picture has a 97 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
And those weren't even the only films with female leads in the
top 5 of this weekend's
domestic box office: Underworld: Blood Wars, the fifth installment in the vampire hunter series starring Kate Beckinsale, opened at No. 4 with $ 13.1 million from 3,070 theaters.
The success of Catching Fire marks the first time the first two installments of a franchise have each
topped $ 400 million at the
domestic box office, and both films now rank among the
top 15
domestic film releases in history.
Unexpected
box - office juggernaut Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle got another jolt over the weekend,
topping the U.S.
domestic box office for the third weekend in a row with a $ 20 million haul.
Topping Runner Runner was last weekend's
box - office ruler Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, which bumped its gross
domestic total up to $ 60.5 million with a $ 21.5 - million second weekend in release.
Katniss Everdeen may have come out on
top of the weekend
box office with an estimated $ 101 million in
domestic ticket sales, but the new «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2» fell short of industry expectations and, unlike the «Twilight» and «Harry Potter» young - adult juggernauts, her «Hunger Games» finale fell far short of other films in the franchise.
Prisoners took
top honors at the
domestic box office this weekend, with an estimated $ 21.4 million from 3,260 locations.
It now sits in the
top 30
domestic box office hauls of all time, blowing its source material out of the water, and has earned itself the Honest Trailer treatment.
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
top ten
domestic box office grosses of 2017 demonstrate, yet again, that audiences will show up for cool new stories told about women and people of color.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug pulled off a narrow victory over Disney's Frozen on 2013's final frame, making it just the second title of the year to spend three weeks on
top of the
domestic box office.
That puts it in the
top five on the all - time
domestic charts, and makes it the biggest superhero movie in U.S.
box office history.
«Coco» rode strong reviews and an A-plus CinemaScore from audiences to the
top spot at the
domestic box office.
This weekend marks the 13th in a row that Black Panther has been in the
domestic top 10 at the
box office, earning just over $ 2 million.
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.
It seems all but inevitable that Marvel's latest will become the most lucrative comic - book movie ever made by the end of this weekend, finally slaying the cumulative
domestic box office of Joss Whedon «s affable Avengers and taking its rightful place in the
top five highest grossing movies of all time domestically.
Last year saw five superhero movies account for the
top ten
domestic box office rankings, and grossing close to $ 6 billion globally.
It's also worth noting that earlier Thursday, the San Diego State Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film released its annual report on the state of the film industry and found that the percentage of women directing films in the
domestic top 205 for
box office actually dropped in 2016, down from 9 to only 7 percent.
On the same weekend «Sausage Party» broke records and «Suicide Squad» made the most money at the
domestic box office, a Western heist indie starring Jeff Bridges as a Texas Ranger is the weekend's
top performer.
That not only
topped «12 Years a Slave» and «Blue Jasmine» as the highest grossing specialty release of 2013, but beat out «Pan's Labyrinth» to become the highest grossing Spanish - language film ever at the
domestic box office.
And while the
domestic numbers for that film are less than thrilling — only $ 67 million despite two straight weekends at the
top of the
box office — internationally, the film is kicking ass and with more than $ 150 million worldwide, if the movie shows some legs, the studio will at least have a blueprint to get rolling on a followup.
The Twilight Saga has held its spot as the
top - selling home entertainment franchise since 2008 and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 took in $ 281.3 million in
domestic box office sales after its release on November 18, 2011.
From 2010 to 2015, the company
topped $ 200 million every year at the
domestic box office.
2» on May 5, which
topped the opening weekend
box office with a
domestic take of over $ 146 million and has gone on to garner over $ 860 million at the worldwide
box office to date.
By the end of the weekend, Black Panther will pass 2012's Avengers to become Marvel's
top - grossing movie at the
domestic box office.
2017's
top three highest - grossing films — The Last Jedi, Beauty and the Beast, and Wonder Woman — all feature female leads and account for a combined $ 1,449,666,801 at the
domestic box office.
After weeks of new releases either losing outright to or just barely beating Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle at the
domestic box office, this weekend saw three new releases jump headfirst into the
top five with one seemingly destined for first place by the end of Sunday.