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Streaming did not kill moviegoing this year, not one bit. While we all knew that the domestic box office was headed for an $11 billion-plus year, it turns out that we’re going to hit that mark in record time this week on either Tuesday or Wednesday completing the feat in 345 or 346 days. Through the end of today…

By the end of today, the domestic box office per ComScore will have hit the $10 billion mark, doing so in record time: Ten months and 11 days. Given how U.S./Canada ticket sales have been clicking ahead of last year at the same point in time by 10%, it’s clear we’re headed for a fourth year that will cross $11…

Finally, some good news for those who like a sprinkling of fact in their films: barely a month past the mid-year mark, Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan's World War II drama, appears poised to outperform last year's top-selling historical movie, Theodore Melfi's Hidden Figures. Hidden Figures, about black female…

Thanks to Black Friday’s tickets sales, the domestic box office clicked past the $10B mark for the eighth year in a row. But what makes this year special is that we arrived at this point in record time.  The National Association of Theater Owners revealed this fact tonight, with ComScore also supporting stats. Through…

UNIVERSAL CITY, CA—August 6, 2012—Universal Pictures announced today that the studio has reached the $1 billion mark at the domestic box office, three months earlier than at any time in history. The previous record was set during the weekend of November 7, 2008 with films that included Mamma Mia!, The Incredible Hulk…

This is the 11th consecutive year that Sony Pictures has passed this milestone, an achievement matched by only one other studio (Warner Bros). This is the second fastest that the studio has ever hit $1 billion in domestic box office receipts. In 2002 it was on July 11th after 191 days versus 209 days this year…

Specialty Box Office: Shame (Fox Searchlight) NEW [10 Theaters] Friday $110K, Saturday $139K, Weekend $361K, Per Screen $36,118 The Dirty Picture (FLM) NEW [48 Theaters] Friday $76K, Saturday $120K, Weekend $268K, Per Screen $5,583, Cume $268K Pastorela (Lionsgate) NEW [55 Theaters] Friday $23K, Saturday $24K, Weekend…

Spielberg Moves ‘War Horse’ Release Amid DreamWorks Money Woes Paramount said today that it is shifting the release dates for two of its prime holiday movies. Now, the Steven Spielberg-directed The Adventures of Tintin and the Tom Cruise-starrer Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol will both open in wide release…

MONDAY AM, 8TH UPDATE: As a studio exec exclaimed to me this morning: “I guess there’s been a reason there has never been three $20 mil pics on a September weekend. Football!” Monday numbers show both Moneyball ($19.5M) and Dolphin Tale ($19.1M) missed the mark. Weekend B.O. Brawl! 'Lion King 3D' Still #1, 'Moneyball'…

The Weinstein Co is experiencing a brutal 2011 with every movie it releases that’s not The King’s Speech. In quick succession, Scream 4, Spy Kids 4D, Our Idiot Brother, Apollo 18, and last weekend’s I Don’t Know How She Does It didn’t open worth a damn. And that doesn’t even count the rough reception given Madonna’s W…

FRIDAY 3PM: Very early numbers show Disney’s Lion King 3D roaring back to #1 with $15M weekend in 2,330 theaters; Warner Bros’ holdover Contagion #2 with $12M in 3,222 theaters, FilmDistrict’s Drive #3 with $11M from 2,886 theaters, Sony/Screen Gem’s Straw Dogs #4 with $8M from 2,408 theaters, and The Weinstein Co’s I…

Washington, D.C. (September 7, 2011) — The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) today announced summer 2011 box office reached a new record of $4.4 billion. Summer admissions were up an estimated 1.0% over summer 2010 to 546 million. 2011 also marked the fifth consecutive summer in which box office revenues…