“Marvel’s The Avengers” dominated the American box-office for a third weekend in a row, taking in a whopping $55.1 million which brings its domestic coffers to $457 million and its global tally to $1.18 billion. The real question was how would the new competition fare? The news is not good, all three wide-release films opened […]
In the US there were 3 wide releases this week which were aiming for the top spot, so strong was Avengers audience power that all three failed quite a lot. Avengers took another $55.1m whilst Battleship opened in the US to just $25.3m although it has gathered over $200m internationally so overall it's done well for the studio. The Dictator landed softly at $17.4m whilst What to Expect When You're Expecting landed with just $10.5m. This week in the US will see the release of Men in Black 3 and Chernobyl Diaries and the first blockbuster challenge to Avengers dominance which has taken it to a current worldwide total of $1.18bn
01 - The Dictator
02 - Avengers Assemble
03 - Dark Shadows
04 - American Pie: The Reunion
05 - The Raid
06 - Beauty and the Beast 3D
07 - The Lucky One
08 - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
09 - The Pirates! An Adventure with Scientists
10 - Safe
The US chart saw Avengers finally leave the top spot
01 - Men in Black 3
02 - The Avengers
03 - Battleship
04 - The Dictator
05 - Chernobyl Diaries
06 - Dark Shadows
07 - What to Expect When You're Expecting
08 - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
09 - The Hunger Games
10 - Think Like A Man
Avengers now sits at just under $1.3bn which puts it within a hairs width of overtaking Harry Potter to become the 3rd highest grossing film of all time behind Titanic and Avatar which it will stay at.
01 - Brave - $66m
02 - Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - $19.7m
03 - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - $16.3m
04 - Prometheus - $9.9m
05 - Snow White and the Huntsman - $8.1m
06 - Rock of Ages - $7.6m
07 - That's My Boy - $7.6m
08 - The Avengers - $7.2m
09 - Men in Black 3 - $5.7m
10 - Seeking a Friend for the End of the World - $3.8m
Brave opens well coming in as the 5th highest opening for a Pixar film. MIB3 looks like it's going to fall behind the total domestic gross for MIB2 but has already overtaken the middle entry in terms of total gross, the film needs only $12m more to be the highest grossing entry in the series (budget none withstanding). Avengers now sits on a global tally of $1.43bn. Despite rumours of a planned rereleased later this year, the film would have to take a massive $700m more to overtake Titanic as #2
It's time for what has been expected to be the biggest release of the year - The Dark Knight Rises
First up, the last superhero film to be released was Amazing Spiderman. How has that tracked compared to Spiderman 1 (bearing in mind SM1 had no installed fanbase to launch from).
Despite aims to bring down costs, it still cost a lot more to make than SM1 and the domestic gross currently sits at half. Given the hit TDKR will deliver it seems like domestically speaking Amazing Spiderman will be the least grossing SM film.
The family alternative to TDKR is Ice Age 4. How's that doing now the series is getting on in age?
The film has opened well, earning 1/3rd of the usual domestic gross straight away. It's international gross is doing well also and is pacing well with the 3rd installment so a fifth entry looks likely. It should prove a light counterpart to TDKR also.
The projection is that TDKR itself will beat, just barely, Avengers opening. If it does, the question is whether it will have the same prolonged success.
Dark Knight Rises took $160m domestically in its opening weekend, $250m in total. The film had the biggest opening for a 2D movie ever. Despite the figures the film came below expectations with some citing the recent shootings as a reason, with some easily worried movie goers deciding against seeing it. Either way it was a whopping $40m below the 3 day haul Avengers made so seemed unlikely to break that record. None the less it's one of the most successful openings of all time and narrowly beat out Dark Knight.
It was a good weekend to be Jessica Chastain, and a bad one to be Arnold Schwarzenegger. Despite mixed reviews, the Guillermo del Toro-produced supernatural thriller “Mama” topped the weekend box-office with a $28 million haul, raking in almost double its $15 million budget from Friday to Sunday. “Mama” star Jessica Chastain saw her other […]
Last Stand has one of Arnies worst openings on record
While it doesn’t open in the United States until this coming Friday, “Iron Man 3” made its debut in over forty international markets this past weekend. Unsurprisingly, the film topped the global box-office and raked in a whopping $195.3 million. That surpasses the $185.1 million international first weekend debut of last year’s “The Avengers,” and […]
With the US yet to go, Iron Man 3 out performs Avengers on its international debut
UPDATE – SUNDAY: “Iron Man 3” has scored the second-highest opening weekend estimate of all time with $175.3 million, behind only “The Avengers”. This comes on top of the $504.8 million the film has earned outside the United States so far, leading to a global total of $680 million. ORIGINAL – SATURDAY: Including a whopping […]
Iron Man 3 continues stonking business, its domestic opening is behind Avengers but the overall total could end up being the second highest grossing of all time for an opening
Two big franchises that appeal to a similar crowds go head to head at the Memorial Day Holiday Weekend box-office. On the one hand is “Fast and Furious 6,” a franchise that once seemed to be dying on the vine and found new life with 2011’s fifth entry. That film scored both the best reviews […]
It's a big head to head this weekend with Hangover 3 and Fast 6 facing off. First reports are that Fast 6 is on course to be the biggest opening of the series whilst Hangover has seen a he-uge drop off.
Will Smith experienced a rare disappointment at the box-office this weekend as he and his son’s sci-fi tale “After Earth” came in well under expectations. Opening in third place with $26.5 million, that’s $12-17 million less than anticipated by the studio. It’s also half the opening of the similarly star-powered sci-fi tale “Oblivion” the other […]
After Earth crashes at the box office. M Nights curse continues, though I'm curious what people think as I've heard horrid things via reviews but despite looking damn dull the trailers didn't look that offensive. They seriously need to stop casting Will Smiths son in things though.
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