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…
UPDATE, writethru: Expanding to a handful of key markets this weekend, Universal/DreamWorks Animation's How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World swooped into the top spot on the international box office chart with a $40.2M frame. This lifts the overseas running total to $84.4M from 41 markets so far in release. The…
Sunday AM Update/Writethru: With most of the majors sitting on the sidelines this Super Bowl weekend, 3-day ticket sales have dropped to $74.7M per ComScore.
As we projected, that’s the lowest Super Bowl weekend gross in 19 years, the previous low being $66.3M. This year’s weekend ticket sales figure is also -21% from…
UPDATE, writethru: With no big wide releases, and only some expansions, it was a fairly sleepy weekend at the international box office; down roughly 27% on the comparable frame last year across the Top 5 titles. Play was again led by last week’s champ, M Night Shyamalan's Glass, while Deadpool made his first foray…
It was a lackluster weekend for everyone except Universal, which saw its Oscar nominated Best Picture Green Book in its widest release and the studio’s and BVI/Blumhouse’s Glass holding onto No. 1 for its second weekend in a row. For the two newbies — The Kid Who Would Be King and Serenity — they saw little to no…
UPDATE, writethru: M. Night Shyamalan's Glass took the top spot at the international box office this weekend with $48.5M in 55 markets. That's right in line with pre-weekend projections and positions the Blumhouse pic at 13% ahead of its predecessor, Split. Disney, which handled the first movie in Shyamalan's Eastrail…
Final Sunday AM after 7:49AM post: Glass, like a horror movie, was front-loaded in regards to its $14.6M Saturday being down 9% from its $16M opening (which included previews). This is a different path from M. Night Shyamalan’s previous film Split which saw a 13% spike between the two days going from $14.6M to…
Few contemporary filmmakers have come out swinging as impressively as M. Night Shyamalan did when he was heralded as the “new Spielberg” after a series of successes near the start of this century, including most notably his Oscar-nominated The Sixth Sense, Signs and Unbreakable, the latter being the 2000 film with…
After a post-holiday sleeper period at the box office largely dominated by Warner Bros’ Aquaman, the 2019 box office is set to wake up this weekend with its first, truly fire-breathing event film, Glass, from two-time Oscar nominee M. Night Shyamalan. It is looking at a $105 million-$120 million global start…
Glass star James McAvoy will host NBC’s Saturday Night Live on January 26, the show announced today. Musical guest will be Meek Mill.
Glass, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, hits theaters January 18. McAvoy has never hosted SNL before.
SNL returns to air this weekend after its holiday break with host Rachel Brosnahan…
2019 can rely on Blumhouse/Universal/BVI’s Glass as the first box office hit of the New Year.
The M. Night Shyamalan-directed sequel to his 2000 title Unbreakable and 2016 film Split came on tracking today with a 4-day start that’s around $75M per industry sources. The pic opens on Jan. 18. We hear other tracking…
