Not to beat a dead horse but I wanted to follow-up on my post yesterday where I stated yet again that the hype that the domestic box office is dead or dying is off base. Here is a link to the annual domestic box office performance since 1980 courtesy of BoxOfficeMojo.com. Several things jump out […]
Did you hear the hype that the domestic movie business is dead? Don’t believe it. I wish I had 300 reasons to tell you why it isn’t dead but I can give you one — 300. 300 from the Warner Brothers division of Time Warner (TWX) broke box office records opening to $70 million, the […]
Good breadth of popular movies appealing to all the major movie-going demographics allowed the box office to recover during the holiday season, pulling the fourth quarter to about breakeven with 2005 according to data from BoxOfficeMojo.com. The final weekend of the year, including January 1st, saw box office receipts rise 15%, building on a gain […]
This weekend marks the start of Hollywood’s biggest box office period besides the summer. Led by the wide releases of the latest James Bond film, Casino Royale, and Happy Feet, Warner Brothers latest attempt to break into the big time animation game, Hollywood hopes to add a finishing kick to 2006’s rebounding box office performance. […]
Following three straight weekly declines, the box office rose 6.6% vs. a year ago this past weekend. The weekend is actually the first one of the fourth quarter. Consequently, I wanted to look back at the completed numbers for the third quarter. Despite the weakness exhibited in the final three weeks, the third quarter still […]
The weekend box office was up again, making it four straight weekends. Eight of the last nine weeks have also been up so the summer continues to shape well as it winds down. This past weekend was up 5% from a year ago as lots of films did well. Talladega Nights held the top for […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (POTC) continues to rule the box office. Nevertheless, Disney (DIS) shares have sold off since the movie was released. I wouldn’t chalk that up to any disappointment over the film, however. In the early part of last week, before catching a downgrade on Thursday, DIS shares actually outperformed […]
The numbers for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (POTC) are truly enormous even in an era when studios, theatres, and moviegoers have become used to huge opening weekends. Over at The Hot Blog, David Poland has referred to these big opening weekends and lesser legs as “front loading.” All the comparisons below are […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (POTC) blew away even the most optimistic estimates and broke all opening weekend records pulling in $132 million in just three days. All by itself, POTC would have made for a successful weekend for the movie business, but not be overlooked is that the other films in the […]
It wasn’t that long ago when almost everyday I was reading an article or a piece of research talking about the death of the movie business. Long-term decline in the box office is conventional wisdom these days, so it might come as a surprise for you to learn that so far in April, the domestic […]
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