Martin Scorsese has bemoaned the obsession
with box office figures in the movie business.The Academy Award - winning director has penned an essay in The Hollywood Reporter in which he's hit out at «research firms like Cinemascore»...
Not exact matches
Box office sales for Perth's two major arts festivals have remained steady against last year's
figures,
with Perth Festival on track to make $ 3.8 million and Fringe World Festival hitting $ 10 million.
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.
For comparison, this same 12 - week period in 2017 had only five weekends where films
with diverse leads (Hidden
Figures, Get Out, and Beauty And The Beast) topped the
box office charts.
Here are today's eight most successful Mexican film directors,
with each listed
with his or her biggest worldwide
box office hit (box office figures are from Box Office Moj
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To date, only seven of the studio's more than fifty releases have cracked eight
figures at the domestic
box office and only
with much effort and / or major awards buzz.
None of the nominated films was a
box -
office smash (a whispered groundswell of support for comic - book film Deadpool never materialized), although films like La La Land, Arrival, and Hidden
Figures have majorly outdone expectations
with audiences.
I've said this before, but one of the problems
with modern
box office analysis is that it treats studio tracking numbers, which are supposed to be internal
figures that can be used to adjust marketing in the run up to release, as ironclad
box office predictions.
Along
with Hidden
Figures, Girl's Trip and of course Black Panther, it showed that the old beliefs about films
with non-white protagonists not selling at the
box office are bigoted nonsense.
Accounting for inflation (
with figures provided by
Box Office Mojo), here are the 10 biggest ticket sellers in the United States in Disney's history:
Irish people are Europe's keenest cinema - goers,
with big screen attendances double the EU average,
box office figures show.
If I were to pick the single most impressive
box -
office story of the summer, it wouldn't be Iron Man 3 hitting a
figure that is, however large, not that big a deal for a movie
with its kind of budget, especially one serving as de facto sequel to a film that destroyed very nearly every record that exists.
At this
box office level with Game Night, New Line is in the same boat of other R - rated original IP comedy openers such as Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates ($ 16.6 M opening, $ 46M final domestic), Office Christmas Party ($ 16.9 M, $ 54.8 M), and How to Be Single ($ 17.8 M, $ 46.8 M), so figure it comes in within $ 40M - $ 50M at the domestic B.O. when all is said and
office level
with Game Night, New Line is in the same boat of other R - rated original IP comedy openers such as Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates ($ 16.6 M opening, $ 46M final domestic),
Office Christmas Party ($ 16.9 M, $ 54.8 M), and How to Be Single ($ 17.8 M, $ 46.8 M), so figure it comes in within $ 40M - $ 50M at the domestic B.O. when all is said and
Office Christmas Party ($ 16.9 M, $ 54.8 M), and How to Be Single ($ 17.8 M, $ 46.8 M), so
figure it comes in within $ 40M - $ 50M at the domestic B.O. when all is said and done.
Deadline reports that Sony is closing in on a 7 -
figure deal
with the helmer to take over the Arad - produced adaptation, which we're guessing will be finalized after the
box office results of the latest «Ghost Rider» outing roll in this weekend.
John Michael McDonagh's Calvary posted a strong second session,
with a decline from the previous weekend of just 30 %, and # 1.39 m so far, but this
figure is boosted by big numbers in Ireland, which are always included in reports of UK
box -
office.