Neighbors 2 is another victim of the studio - mandated sequel, where originality goes to die and all that matters is the opening
weekend box office gross.
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.
Not exact matches
Dinosaur thriller Jurassic World overwhelmingly won the
weekend box office, but it's global
gross is one for the record books.
All this sets up The Force Awakens — the seventh chapter in the Star Wars franchise that takes place 30 years after The Return of the Jedi — to break the record for the highest
grossing opening
weekend at the
box office.
The movie, which focuses on the titular superhero who is king of the fictional African country of Wakanda, is forecasted to pull in as much as $ 165 million in domestic
box -
office gross for its debut over the four - day President's Day holiday
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.
Paramount's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot was one of August's surprise successes with $ 149.6 million in ticket sales, while The Walt Disney Company (DIS) scored the hit of the summer with Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which broke the opening -
weekend box -
office record for August on its way to
grossing $ 258 million in the U.S. and more than $ 500 million worldwide within less than a month of its release.
A few weeks ago, the superhero movie Deadpool
grossed $ 132 million at the domestic
box office on its opening
weekend, setting a record for R - rated premieres — and dousing its $ 58 million budget in black ink.
The
weekend box office saw some major upsets, not the least of which was Pacific Rim: Uprising being the movie to finally topple Black Panther as the highest -
grossing weekender in the United States.
A largely unknown story outside of teen reader circles, it has become a juggernaut, breaking records for advance cinema booking, recording the biggest opening
weekend for a non-sequel in
Box Office history, and
grossing double its substantial budget within a week.
The actual earnings for the movie over the
weekend were actually a
gross total of $ 22.5 million, which made the second slot at the
Box Office.
In a most unusual turn of events, the picture not only received many outstanding reviews in the press, but became the top
box -
office grosser of its
weekend.
* 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.
** Per - Film is the average domestic
gross per new film released nationwide by the studio in 2014, and includes additional 2015 domestic
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.
The action comedy, starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, also
grossed $ 17.7 million internationally this
weekend for an overseas total of $ 484 million and a worldwide
box office of $ 821.7 million.
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.
Its re-entry in theaters actually gave it the
weekend's highest PTA among all movies reporting
box office Sunday at $ 12,411 ($ 24,822
gross).
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.
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.
After the largest opening day of the year with a $ 55 million on Friday, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1
grossed an estimated $ 123 million at the U.S.
box office over the
weekend, which is a 22 % drop from Catching Fire that debuted to $ 158 million.
Not only did Jackass 3D demolish all of the competition at the
box office this
weekend, it made $ 50 million earning it the highest
grossing October opening
weekend ever stealing the honor from Scary Movie 3 and its $ 48.1 million.
Hop topped the
box office after
grossing an estimated $ 38 million this
weekend.
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.
Last
weekend finally saw some good
box office results as Sully
grossed over $ 35 million in its opening
weekend, and this
weekend looks to continue that trend.
«No Good Deed» didn't just go unpunished this
weekend — it thrived, topping the
box office with an estimated $ 24.2 - million opening and outpacing Sony's prediction that the Screen Gems thriller would
gross in the mid-to-high teens.
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.
After the largest opening day of the year with a $ 55 million on Friday, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1
grossed an estimated $ 123 million at the U.S.
box office over the
weekend,
Updated November 14, 2016 at 10:06 a.m. EST: Doctor Strange maintained the # 1
box office spot in its second week, with an estimated $ 43.03 m domestic
gross over the
weekend for a lifetime - to - date of $ 153.01 m in North America and $ 339.6 m internationally for a combined $ 492.6 m total according to BoxOffice.
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.
Disney will release Marvel's «Guardians of the Galaxy» on Aug. 1, and the film is on tracking to
gross at least $ 60 million at the domestic
box office during its opening
weekend.
Women in Cinema: With the highest opening of 2014 and the fifteenth highest opening of all time, at the domestic
box office, Mockingjay Part 1, which
grossed nearly $ 122 million in its opening
weekend, might inaccurately give the impression that female films (starring, written by or directed by) are making progress at the
box office.
Not only has Stephen King's IT broken
box office records (
grossing an insane $ 117 million on opening
weekend) and received huge critical acclaim, but it's also left fans obsessing over hidden references from the original book, the»90s miniseries, and other classic horror films.
Focus Features» «Darkest Hour» added $ 5.28 million to its
box office gross through Sunday, bringing its domestic cumulative
gross to $ 17.927 million in its fifth
weekend of release.
Box Office: It looks as though Fast Five's claim to fame as 2011's highest
grossing opener of the year was rather short lived because Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides managed to top it this
weekend with its $ 90.1 million intake, beating Fast Five's start by about $ 4 million.
Landing at No. 6 at the
weekend box office, the film earned $ 6.6 million in its sixth week of release, bringing its domestic cumulative
gross to $ 178.9 million.
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.
The top ten films over the
weekend, according to final figures compiled by
Box Office Mojo (figures in parentheses represent total
gross to date): 1...
The film
grossed $ 55.6 million domestically to finish the
weekend in top spot at the
box office ahead of fellow new releases Fifty Shades Darker ($ 46.8 million) and John Wick: Chapter 2 ($ 30 million), and -LSB-...]
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.
Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation scored its lead actor one of the highest
grossing weekends of his career when it opened with $ 56 million at the domestic
box office.
Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship is boasting robust
grosses this
weekend, landing 9th in the overall
box office even though its in far fewer theaters than most in the top 10.
Box office numbers for the Specialties were slow in coming Sunday, with only some holdovers reporting their Friday to Sunday
grosses over the holiday
weekend.
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.
The Hunger Games was a massive hit at the
box office on its opening
weekend,
grossing an estimated $ 155 million domestically, The Wall Street Journal reports.
At first I wasn't going to write anything about last
weekend's «disappointing» domestic
grosses for «M: I: III» (or, as Stephen Colbert pronounces it, «Miiii»), because, well, who really cares about the
box -
office numbers of movies like «Miiii» (or Celebs Who Act Out)?
«Black Panther» loses the
weekend box office fight to «Pacific Rim: Uprising,» but becomes the # 1 domestic
grossing superhero movie of all time.
Per
Box Office Mojo, Deadpool 2
grossed $ 125 million this
weekend, which is the second - highest opening for an R - rated movie in the U.S..
It's the third - highest
gross in history for a four - day opening
weekend, according to
Box Office Mojo.
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.
UK
box office top ten and analysis for the
weekend of Friday 6th November to Sunday 8th November 2015... Spectre has wasted little time in overtaking Jurassic World to become the highest -
grossing movie of the year at the UK
box office, with 007's 24th adventure posting a second
weekend haul of # 13.15 million to push -LSB-...]