Not exact matches
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.
Ghostbusters
opened on Thursday night with $ 3.4 million, and now Variety is reporting that
while the studio estimates it'll bring in up to $ 40 million
opening weekend, «
box office trackers» are convinced it will fall somewhere within the $ 45 - 50 million dollar range.
While the film is only expected to bring in around $ 5 million for its
opening weekend,
box office experts expect the movie to have a long life with Blu - ray and DVD sales in the future.
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.
UK
box office top ten and analysis for the
weekend of Friday 24th to Sunday 26th July 2015... It was Joy at the UK
box office for Disney this past
weekend, as Pixar's Inside Out topped the chart with an
opening weekend of # 7,376,513,
while Marvel's Ant - Man enjoyed a healthy second
weekend of # 2.52 million -LSB-...]
«Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials» ignited the
weekend box office with an estimated $ 30.3 - million domestic debut,
while the Johnny Depp gangster film «Black Mass»
opened with some heat of its own.
Disney - Marvel's Black Panther was number one at the domestic
box office for the fifth
weekend in a row with $ 27 million,
while Warner Bros. and MGM's Tomb Raider
opened in second place with a less than stellar $ 23.5 million (at 3,854 theaters).
And
while it doesn't look like the film will be the hit many fans of the novel would have hoped for, the film starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey is set to beat its
opening weekend rival Detroit at the
box office.
While X-Men: The Last Stand managed to make more on its
opening weekend, Days of Future Past has almost equaled that film in overall domestic earnings with $ 233,921,535 at the
box office.
Taking home more than the theatrical
box office weekend openings of both Thor: Ragnarok and Wonder Woman, the World War 2 shooter also set a new record for digital downloads on its first day on the PlayStation 4,
while sales overall were double that of the previous Call of Duty title Infinite Warfare.
While it took $ 26million on its
opening weekend in the United States (it cost $ 125million to make), critics are not being kind about its
box -
office performance or merit.