The numbers are in — domestic revenue for the 2024 summer box office hit an estimated $3.67 billion, down 10.4 percent over 2023, Comscore said Monday. As counterintuitive as it may seem, Hollywood studio executives and theater owners aren’t panicking. They were experiencing far different emotions at the end of May, the official start of …
Merc with the Mouth is looking better than ever, along with old pal and fellow superhero favorite Wolverine. Marvel Studios and Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine grossed a record-shattering $38.5 million in Thursday previews beginning, by far the best showing ever for an R-rated film and putting it at No. 8 on the list of top …
Ecstatic. Incredible. Gleeful. Overjoyed. Take your pick. Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has iced out fellow Disney release Frozen II to become the top-grossing Hollywood animated film of all time at the worldwide box office after finishing Tuesday with $1.462 billion, not adjusted for inflation. The film’s domestic total stands at $601 million, while it has …
Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters is whipping up huge winds at the box office, with forecasters predicting a far better-than-expected domestic opening of $74.6 million. If projections hold, it will become the top opening domestically for a natural disaster film, not adjusted for inflation. (The current crown holder is Roland Emmerich’s The Day After Tomorrow, which …
A storm has arrived at the box office, with Twisters bringing in $10.7 million in Thursday night previews. Going into the weekend, tracking services projected Twisters could score anywhere from $40 million to $50 million domestically (with some distributors believing it would go higher). The biggest Thursday preview of 2024 belongs to Pixar’s Inside Out …
It’s an emotional day for Pixar and parent company Disney. On Wednesday, Inside Out 2 passed up Incredibles 2 ($1.242 billion) to become the top-grossing Pixar title of all time at the worldwide box office, not adjusted for inflation. That puts it at No. 4 on the overall list of top-grossing animated films, and the …
Europeans are still crazy for their soccer, but record TV ratings for the Euro 2024 championships haven’t had a major impact on the box office. This past weekend saw second-round matches for Euro 2024 pull in huge audiences across most of Europe’s biggest markets, with the U.K., Italy and Spain recording best-ever figures for the …
Michael Rooker is standing up for Kevin Costner‘s Horizon saga following the first film’s extremely modest opening weekend box office performance. Rooker — who plays Sgt. Major Thomas Riordan in the film — was asked about Horizon‘s ticket sales, which tallied only $11 million for the three-hour film. The Guardians of the Galaxy star seemed …