As expected The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt 1, dominated ticket sales at the box-office over the weekend. The penultimate chapter in the extraordinarily successful series scored the biggest opening weekend of the year. However it is a significant drop from the previous two Hunger Games films, which opened to $158 and $152 million dollar weekends. […]
It looks like this was a weekend of escapism for moviegoers. Clearly people either needed a brief escape from reality or to just turn their brains off and have a good laugh. Jim Carrey has his first hit in a long time. In a year where Sin City: A Dame to Kill For and the […]
After a dry fall season, people came back to movie theaters this past weekend in full force. Two films opened with over $45 million dollars out of the gate and it seems that there is a movie for everyone’s taste waiting for them. Disney and Marvel’s first direct collaboration was a success on many levels […]
It was slow at the box-office this past weekend, however it was not devoid of drama. In it’s first week of release the Jake Gyllenhaal led Nightcrawler, debuted in first place. The thriller made and estimated $10.9 million dollars, which is a very strong start for the lower budgeted film. Things got really interesting when […]
The feature film adaptation of the popular board game, Ouija, benefited from the Halloween spirit and finished in first place over the past weekend. Despite mediocre reviews the movie managed to make $2o million dollars, in its first week of release. The horror film bested, John Wick, which was enjoying a significant buzz with both […]
It’s Labor Day weekend and apparently the weather is good because it was a slow weekend at the theaters. Guardians of the Galaxy sits atop the box office universe for yet another weekend, with another impressive pull of $22 million dollars, in its fifth week of release. It has already become the highest domestic grossing film […]
There is officially no doubting the power of the turtle. For the second weekend in a row Platinum Dunes’ reboot of the popular brand, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, finished in first pulling in an estimated $28.4 million dollars. More impressively it held off two new entries and the juggernaut Guardians of the Galaxy. Marvel’s space […]
Crowds flocked to theaters to see the latest mutation of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. Despite mixed reviews and a debatable modernization of the property, the film pulled in an impressive $65 million dollars over the weekend. Industry insiders were skeptical if it would have a good opening since there is an overlap of […]
Guardians of the Galaxy took the top spot at the box-office this weekend pulling in an estimated $94 million dollars, exceeding many industry predictions. This bodes well for Marvel Studios whose film has received rave reviews from fans and critics alike. Expect Guardians of the Galaxy to stay in the top ten for a time […]
In a somewhat surprising weekend, Lucy defeated Hercules at the box-office by a large margin. The Scarlett Johansson vehicle, Lucy, about a woman who unlocks the infinite power of her mind, pulled in a shocking $44 million dollars over the three-day weekend period. Audiences were eager to see Johansson in another action movie after her scene-stealing […]
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes topped the box-office again by means of natural selection. In its first week, The Purge: Anarchy came in second place with $28.4 million. The sequel to the hit tale about scheduled anarchy was made on a very low budget, so this franchise has been hugely profitable for Universal and […]
Despite a drop of over 60% from the previous week’s box-office, Transformers: Age of Extinction managed to hold on to first place for the second week in a row pulling in over $36 million dollars. Coming in second place was the Melissa McCarthy vehicle Tammy, which earned an estimate $21 million dollars in it’s second […]
