A weekly look at the American box office
Hello everyone! I’m Owen, taking over the weekly box office column from Blue Adept. You may remember me from the time I wrote extensively about Gene Autry singing cowboy robot alien invasion serial The Phantom Empire for The Avocado, except … Continue reading “Wakanda Forever” Tops Box Office Amid Five New Releases (11/27/22)
Just to lead things off here, I wanted to say that if anyone was interested in taking this over, I’m more than open to that. I’m not looking to depart from it – I write the same piece for my … Continue reading Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Snares 2nd Box Office Win
While originally being planned for a summer 2022 debut, Marvel Studios had pushed back a number of their films and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever landed with a mid-November 2022 debut that hit this weekend. While nobody doubted that the film would … Continue reading Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Dominates Box Office With $180m Win
All eyes are focusing on next weekend with the debut of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever to see what it does but this has given the Black Adam film one more weekend to dominate at the box office. The film had the top … Continue reading Black Adam Defeats One Piece Film Red At Box Office
The month is drawing to a close and it’s one where Halloween weekend can be a bit light since people are doing things other than going to the movies. This weekend is up 7% over last year with a $69 … Continue reading Black Adam Scores 2nd Box Office Win
One of the more anticipated releases of the fall season has landed with Black Adam from Warner Bros. and DC. The film came in with a $67 million domestic pickup while overseas it did $73 million in 76 markets as it … Continue reading Black Adam Takes Box Office Dominance
As we get ready to see how things go next weekend with the return of a big tentpole with Black Adam, this weekend showed the continued strength of the horror film side of the industry. Universal brought out Halloween Ends in theaters … Continue reading Halloween Ends Scares Up Strong Box Office Win
The second weekend of October is proving to be a good one for Paramount as their film Smile did another $17 million this weekend and its total domestic run so far is at just a hair under $50 million. The film … Continue reading Smile Lights Up Weekend Box Office Again
The first weekend of October is here and it’ll certainly lean a bit more into the horror film side of things. With the marketing campaign for Smile pretty strong, the film opened with a $22 million debut while the worldwide total … Continue reading Smile Lights Up Weekend Box Office
With months worth of drama spooling out from the pre-release period of this film, Don’t Worry Darling has finally arrived in theaters from Warner Bros. The film landed with a $19.2 million take for the weekend. While the film didn’t have … Continue reading Don’t Worry Darling Snags Box Office Debut Win
September doesn’t have a lot going wide but one film that did go wide this weekend was The Woman King, which scored a rare A+ CinemaScore. The film looks like it has the potential to play out similar to projects like Hidden … Continue reading The Woman King Scores Box Office Victory
A win is a win is a win but that can be celebrated only so much when you have the second lowest weekend of the year so far to call your win. The arrival of Barbarian from 20th Century Studios gives … Continue reading Barbarian Takes Weak Box Office Win
The Labor Day weekend is a dead weekend for movies – even though there is money to be made on it – and the theaters tried to up their game for it with a National Cinema’s Day with $3 tickets. … Continue reading Spider-Man: No Way Home Scores Box Office Win
The end of August isn’t when you’ll see a lot of films coming out as a lot of kids are already back in school, college kids are either moving in or making the trek, and things are just up in … Continue reading ‘The Invitation Wins Dead Box Office Weekend
With the estimates in and final numbers to come later today, the release of the Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero film has come in at the top spot with a take of just over $20 million at the box office. It … Continue reading ‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’ Wins Weekend Box Office
The dog days of August are definitely here and with the studios not leaving much in the box office to excite after a strong opening to the summer, it’s a slow crawl for awhile. This weekend does have some good … Continue reading ‘Bullet Train’ Gets 2nd Box Office Win
Showing more of the growing trend of people heading back to the theater, this weekend saw the Sony release of Bullet Train take the spot and slightly pull ahead of its actual projections, something we haven’t seen a lot of for … Continue reading ‘Bullet Train’ Rockets To Box Office Win
With not a lot of big films on the horizon for a bit after a bit of a deluge of projects, one that was hoped to do well was the release of DC League of Super-Pets from Warner Bros. The studio has … Continue reading ‘DC League of Super-Pets’ Wins Box Office
While most of the attention this weekend was on the world of superheroes, comics, and various adaptations thereof, the box office saw the debut of Jordan Peele’s Nope and it took the top spot with a $44 million win. The latest … Continue reading Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’ Wins Box Office
With so much of big blockbuster-type films frontloaded these days and with a lot of people still not going back to theaters (myself still included), the 68% drop in the second weekend for Thor: Love and Thunder isn’t too much of … Continue reading ‘Thor: Love And Thunder’ Weakly Wins Box Office
With a lot of information out there prior to release of how well this was going to do based on ticket presales, the debut weekend for Thor: Love and Thunder comes in at a $143 million weekend domestically and another … Continue reading ‘Thor: Love And Thunder’ Wins Audiences With Box Office Results
