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…

Sony’s overall October-December 2015 operating profit rose to $1.68B, beating analyst estimates. The figure reps an 11% increase from the same period last year and was driven by strong performance of its PlayStation business. Net income was $1B. The entertainment division also saw a major upswing, 26.9% in revenue, to…

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Warner Bros’ Pan, which carries an estimated reported budget of $150M, put up its sails Thursday night making $650K in previews from showtimes starting at 6 PM. The film, mired by reshoots, is hoping to bank $20M this weekend, though insiders think it’s more like the <img class="alignright size-dl-article-body…

The autumn season is set to deliver its first two $100M grossing titles with 20th Century Fox’s The Martian and Sony’s Hotel Transylvania 2 poised to cross the century mark this weekend. Ridley Scott’s Martian has zapped up solid weekday figures with Monday hitting $4.4M, Tuesday at $5.5M and Wednesday at an estimated…

Sony/TriStar’s Twin Towers suspense pic The Walk collected an estimated $240K in its top hat from 448 Imax and PLF sites. While that figure files as No. 11 on Wednesday’s chart led by Sony’s Hotel Transylvania 2 in No. 1 with an estimated $1.9M (and $55.7M), keep in mind that only summer audiences (and kids off on…

7TH & 8TH UPDATE, Monday 2:28 PM after 9:27 AM post with chart: Sony has officially reported that Hotel Transylvania 2’s opening weekend is $48.46M, which makes it Adam Sandler’s highest opening of his career on a FSS basis, pegging above 2005’s The Longest Yard ($47.6M). The animated sequel fanged a slew of…

After three up weekends in a row, September moviegoing continues to clickety-clack with Sony Animation’s Hotel Transylvania 2 set to take No. 1 with a FSS in the low $30Ms, maybe $40M at 3,752 theaters. The studio will be very happy if they hit $32M; in fact that would make it their highest opening calendar year to…

Lots has changed since we last checked in to Sony Pictures Animation’s monstrous lodging. The place now allows human guests as well as beasties, and there’s a new little monster toddling around — but is he really a vampire? Here’s the first trailer for Hotel Transylvania 2, the ghoulish sequel to the 2012 toon. Drac (A…

Comedy legend Mel Brooks has been tapped to voice Vlad in Sony Pictures Animation’s Hotel Transylvania 2. He’ll play the very old and grumpy vampire father to Adam Sandler’s Dracula. The sequel to Sony’s 2012 family film sees old-school supernatural meet modern-day cool when Vlad turns up at the hotel for an impromptu…