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 billion…
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. Â The National Association of Theater Owners revealed this fact tonight, with ComScore also supporting stats.
Through…
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…
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.
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