While you are reading this I’ll be heading to O’Hare to hop a plane to Salt Lake City on my way to Park City and the Sundance Film Festival. The Festival started last weekend with many questions surrounding the market for films given the economy and major cutbacks at the Hollywood studios. As though the […]
The expected surge in the fourth quarter box office is back on track after an interruption for Halloween falling on a Friday night. Madagascar 2 brought in a better than expected $63 million and Role Models surprised with $19 million to push the weekend box office up 32% from a year ago for the top […]
I spent all weekend hitting refresh on my browser monitoring the news on Lehman, AIG, and Merrill Lynch. Apparently a bunch of Americans decided to do something else: go to the movies. The weekend box office rose 35% from a year ago, breaking a seven weekend losing streak. The last up weekend was the opening […]
It looks like a weak finish to the summer box office will leave Summer 2008 just short of Summer 2007’s all-time record. Labor Day weekend is down 22% for the top 12 films likely making it five straight weeks of negative growth. According to my data, pulled from BoxOfficeMojo.com, from the first weekend in May […]
It’s been awhile since I provided an update on the domestic summer box office. Relative to my initial expectations it continues to shape up well. Since the first weekend in May, Hollywood’s official start to summer, the box office is unchanged from 2007’s all-time record. Given my expectations, including particularly tough comparisons in July and […]
It’s been kind of hard to miss the news on the record breaking opening of The Dark Knight but I’ll try to put my usual Wall Street spin on the numbers. The Dark Knight’s $155.4 million is the best ever three day opening, beating Spiderman 3’s $151.3. The Dark Knight also set a single day […]
Last weekend, the #1 film came from NBC Universal (I wrote up NBCU and its impact on parent General Electric on Monday). Hellboy 2: The Golden Army had a strong opening, exceeding its predecessor. The film looks headed to a total domestic run of over $100 million. I did not realize this until reading it […]
A whirlwind weekend had me all over the place so just a brief comment on another great weekend for the box office this morning. But first, major props to Providence, RI where I dropped my daughter off for a summer in the Early College program at Rhode Island School of Design. The city has done […]
The box office rose for the fourth consecutive weekend with the top 12 films up 9.7% according to BoxOfficeMojo.com. Every weekend in June has been up bringing the summer to a 2.6% gain. Quarter-to-date the box office is still down 2% due to a very weak April. Comps stiffen considerably starting this coming weekend but […]
The weekend box office was strong again, up 25% vs. a year ago. Another good weekend brings the summer, which begins the first weekend in May in Hollywood, into positive territory, up 2%. A poor April leaves the quarterly comp still down 3% but one more weekend of easy comps will probably allow the quarter […]
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