What’s Going on With West Side Story?
An extremely in-depth analysis of why moviegoers did not show up this past weekend for ‘West Side Story’
Category: Box Office Rundowns
Weekend Preview! Dec 10th-12th, West Side Story Debuts!
Steven Spielberg’s long gestating West Side Story finally arrives in theaters alongside an thoroughly under-advertised STX release and offbeat Oscar Hopeful Red Rocket! We officially are just one week away from the release of the likely/hopeful box office juggernaut that Spider-Man: No Way Home! With many analysts predicting that film will have the first $100 […]
Post-Thanksgiving Weekend Box Office Rundown
Full of Surprises, Encanto Retains First Place While Ghostbusters Falls Much Harder Than Anticipated and Not One, but TWO Specialty Event Features Crack the Top Ten! Weekend Box Office Top 10 (Dec 3-5): (Title / Weekend Gross / Percent Change from Last Week / Weekend # / Distributor), Sunday Estimates: Encanto / $12,739,000 / -53% / […]
December 3rd-5th Weekend Preview and Predictions
Post-Thanksgiving Leftovers: Ghostbusters looks to Reclaim First Place, House of Gucci Showing Surprising Staying Power, and Wolf Sets a Debut in the Specialty Market! As is pretty typical of the post-Thanksgiving holiday weekend, there isn’t looking to be much of a change to the lineup at the box office that weekend with the vast majority […]
Thanksgiving Box Office Report (Official)
Encanto Falters a bit in Debut, Ghostbusters stays strong, House of Gucci still a mixed bag (but a good movie!), Licorice Pizza astounds in Specialty Market Release! Weekend Box Office Top 10 (Nov 26-28 ): (Title / Weekend Gross / Percent Change from Last Week / Weekend # / Distributor), Sunday Estimates: Encanto / $27,000,000 […]
Interim Box Office Report: Thanksgiving Weekend Runs the Gambit of Box Office Performance with New Release
Encanto looking strong, Resident Evil looking bad, and House of Gucci looking….who knows? Since I wasn’t able to post Thursday or Friday for holiday reasons, let’s take a quick look at how the 5-day weekend is progressing so far: Regarding new releases this weekend, we have Disney’s Encanto, MGM’s House of Gucci with Lady Gaga, […]
Ghostbuster’s Afterlife Debuts Big! King Richard Loses Out! Rest of the Box Office Primes for Thanksgiving!
Weekend Box Office Top 10 (Nov 19-21): (Title / Weekend Gross / Percent Change from Last Week / Weekend # / Distributor), Sunday Estimates: Ghostbusters: Afterlife / $44,000,000 / (n/a) / Weekend 1 / Sony (Columbia) Eternals / $10,825,000 / -60% / Weekend 3 / Disney (Marvel) Clifford, the Big Red Dog / $8,100,000 / -51% / Weekend […]
Box Office Rundown (Apr 19-Apr 21)!!! An Uneventful Easter Unfolds in the Lead Up to Endgame!! The Curse of La Llorona Made the Best of it Though!!!
Weekend Box Office Top 10 (Apr 19-Apr 21): (Title / Weekend Gross / Percent Change from Last Week / Weekend # / Distributor), Sunday Estimates The Curse of La Llorona / $26,347,631 / (N/A) / Weekend 1 / Warner Bros. Shazam! / $16,464,508 / -32.7% / Weekend 3 / Warner Bros. Breakthrough / $11,282,333 / (N/A) / Weekend […]
Box Office Rundown (Apr 12-Apr 14)!! Shazam Continues to Struggle as a Blockbuster!! Little Opens BIG while Hellboy Gets Buried!! After Opens Big Outside the US while Missing Link Fails to Impress!! And Could Molly Shannon be Gunning for an Oscar???
Weekend Box Office Top 10 (Apr 12-Apr 14): (Title / Weekend Gross / Percent Change from Last Week / Weekend # / Distributor), Sunday Estimates Shazam! / $25,140,000 / -53% / Weekend 2 / Warner Bros. Little / $15,499,000 / (N/A) / Weekend 1 / Universal Hellboy / $12,015,000 / (N/A) / Weekend 1 / Lionsgate Pet Sematary […]
Box Office Predictions (Apr 12-Apr 14) Mid-Budget Newcomers diversify the Top ten while Shazam! tries to prove itself as a Blockbuster!!!!
I must say, after weeks of major motion pictures and blockbuster announcements (did you see new teaser for Star Wars: Episode IX), it is quite refreshing to have a weekend of more mid-range pictures entering the fray as a palette cleanser. Sure, there are still some blockbusters in play, most notably Shazam! which needs to prove itself […]
The Price of Admission 