Weekend estimates: jackass forever posts healthy $23.5 million

February 6th, 2022

jackass forever was the hot favorite to win going into the weekend, and it’ll win in some style, as it appears to have gained momentum as the weekend has progressed. On Friday morning our model predicted an $18.1-million opening weekend for the stunt-reality-comedy movie. Paramount projected a $20.7-million weekend on Saturday morning once they’d seen Friday’s numbers, and have now upped that to a projected $23.5 million this morning. While that’s not huge by the standards of the franchise (Jackass 3D opened with over $50 million back in 2010, for example), it’s a very respectable figure by pandemic standards, and a welcome increase in business for movie theaters that have lacked new content in recent weeks. Moonfall’s $10-million debut is more disappointing, but also a little ahead of where things looked based on its modest Thursday previews. More...

Weekend estimates: Spider-Man back to the top with $14.125 million on soft weekend

January 23rd, 2022

Spider-Man: No Way Home is back at the top of the box office chart this weekend, with Sony projecting it will earn $14.125 million this time around for a domestic total of $721 million. Scream will be down 59% from its opening (in line with our model’s prediction). Its $12.4 million takes it to $51.3 million so far. Redeeming Love is coming in well ahead of our Friday-morning prediction with $3.71 million over the weekend and will land in fourth place. More...

Weekend predictions: 355 won’t stop Spider-Man

January 7th, 2022

The 355 goes up against the unstoppable force that is Spider-Man: No Way Home at the box office this weekend, and there’s really only one possible winner. Although the webbed crusader won’t be dislodged from the top spot, 355 could do decent business, and will tell us something about where the market stands as we start out 2022. More...

Weekend estimates: Spider-Man cruises past $600 million with a $52.7-million weekend

January 2nd, 2022

Spider-Man: No Way Home continues to pulverize its competition at the box office this weekend with another $52.7 million taking it past the $600-million mark in the domestic market. With another $644.9 million overseas, Spidey has now amassed a breath-taking $1.255 billion after 17 days in theaters. It’s now in the top ten films of all time at the domestic box office and the top 20 worldwide, with plenty of gas in the tank as it heads into the New Year. More...

Weekend estimates: Spider-Man rewrites pandemic rulebook with $253-million opening

December 19th, 2021

After two dismal years for the theatrical business, Spider-Man has returned to change the rules of the game. Again. Back in 2002, the first Spider-Man movie set an all-time record by opening with $114.8 million—becoming the first film to top $100 million at the box office in a single weekend. That was arguably the beginning of the modern era at the box office.

This weekend, Spider-Man: No Way Home may be kicking off the post-pandemic era with a gargantuan $253-million opening. That’s not just the best result of the pandemic. It’s the best by a huge margin, more than doubling the opening of Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which itself significantly outperformed expectations. Even more impressively, it’s the third-best weekend of all time, behind only Avengers: Endgame ($357 million) and Avengers: Infinity War ($258 million). In fact, a good Sunday number would take it into second place on that list.

Oh, and it’s already the highest-grossing film of 2021. More...

Sing 2 trailer

December 8th, 2021

Musical animated adventure with an all-star voice cast opens in theaters on December 22 ... Full Movie Details. More...