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When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

Spider-Man: Far From Home (which opens Tuesday) imports a newcomer to cinema’s ever-expanding superhero sector: Jake Gyllenhaal, the 38-year-old Oscar nominee who has a wildly eclectic body of work but has somehow managed to avoid the pervasive superhero genre until now and the release of Far From Home, his 38th…

UPDATE, writethru: Sony/Marvel's Spider-Man: Far From Home came swinging into China, Japan and Hong Kong this weekend to nab an early $111M at the international box office. The launch sets the webslinger 45% over Spider-Man: Homecoming and 21% above Captain Marvel in the like-for-likes. The opening result is slightly…

4TH Update/Writethru, Sunday AM FINAL after Friday midday and Saturday AM posts: W/chart Moviegoers continued to flock to Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4, which saw a 23% rise in business on its second Saturday from Friday, with $23M heading toward a slightly higher weekend of $58M ($57.9M per Disney), down only…

SATURDAY UPDATE: Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: Far From Home has caught an estimated $71M in its China web through Saturday, putting it on track for an opening in the high $90Ms there. This is slightly lower than where we saw it yesterday as the increase from Friday (not including Thursday midnights) was about 8%, but…

UPDATE, THURSDAY AM: New Line’s Annabelle Comes Home made $7.2M in its opening Wednesday, close to 50% of that was made in its Tuesday preview. 5-day opening is now figured to be around $28M, down from the $30M-$35M some were spotting. Annabelle 3‘s Wednesday is less than The First Purge‘s $9.3M a year,  but keep in…

Disney’s Toy Story 4 drew an estimated $14.2 million Monday, taking its four-day total to $135.1M. It will continue to conquer the box office into this weekend with $60M-$70M ( a 40%-50% drop) before Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: Far From Home brings another flood of cash in next Tuesday. Toy Story 4‘s first Monday is the…

Hollywood has certainly hit the valley of the dolls lately. First we had the sublime Toy Story 4 (featuring four scary ventriloquist dummies among others) and Child’s Play, the seventh iteration of the demonic Chucky doll movies, both opening over the weekend. Now we have Annabelle Comes Home, the latest edition of…