UPDATE, WRITETHRU: After reaching the $1B global mark in a record 11 days on Saturday, Disney/Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War has now posted a running estimated total of $1,164.1M worldwide through Sunday. It has also become the No. 5 superhero movie of all time globally and has the potential to top the four ahead of…
MONDAY UPDATE: Disney/Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War has blown past its estimated $630M global opening. That was already a giant worldwide record, and with updated weekend numbers tallied, it has bounded to $640.9M through Sunday. The final domestic figures won't be available until later today, although Disney is…
TUESDAY AM UPDATE, writethru: New Line/Warner Bros' Rampage continued to dominate overseas play over the weekend, adding a better-than-estimated $58M in 61 markets to push the international box office to $217.6M through Sunday. The global tally on the Dwayne Johnson-starrer is $283.3M, also through Sunday. In China, Ra…
UPDATED, Monday Final: While audiences anxiously await Avengers: Infinity War to kick-start the summer on Friday (it’s expected to be a box office gem), A Quiet Place took the top spot in its third weekend as two comedies — IFeel Pretty and Super Troopers 2 — and the dark thriller Traffik debuted. A Quiet Place…
New Line’s Dwayne Johnson monster mash Rampageand John Krasinski’s horror thriller A Quiet Place will continue to battle for No. 1 with industry box office sources predicting that a clear winner won’t be decided until Saturday. Each title is expected to pull in $20M-$21M.
Rampage currently has grossed $41.6M through…
7TH UPDATE, Monday AM: Rampage only dropped 26% on Sunday to bring its debut opening weekend up to $35.7 million, roughly $1M above what was estimated for the weekend. The Dwayne Johnson film distributed by New Line/Warner Bros stomped to the top of the box office chart Saturday and held its ground throughout the rest…
UPDATE, WRITETHRU: Rocking up in 61 offshore markets, New Line/Warner Bros' Rampage grossed $114.1M in its international box office bow. The Dwayne Johnson sci-fi simian movie played on 39,800 screens overseas, and with domestic has a worldwide gross of $148.6M. In China, where Johnson has a solid base, the Brad…
SATURDAY UPDATE: With Friday's numbers included, Warner Bros' Rampage has grossed $36.7M at the international box office so far. The Dwayne Johnson sci-fi ape pic is dominating offshore play with 61 markets now open; on Friday it grossed an estimated $27.1M. In China, its Friday haul was $15.6M (with Thursday sneaks)…
After the smash success of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle there can be no question that Dwayne Johnson is the superstar action hero of the moment, and while we wait for his upcoming heroics in saving the world’s tallest building in Skyscraper, we have his attempts to save Chicago from three rampaging genetically…
After delivering Sony its largest movie of all-time at the domestic box office with Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Dwayne Johnson reteams with his San Andreas and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island director Brad Peyton and producer Beau Flynn’s Flynn Picture Company with the feature adaptation of the 1980s video game Ra…
As reported last November following several sexual harassment allegations against filmmaker and producer Brett Ratner, Warner Bros. is no longer in business with his co-financing entity RatPac-Dune Entertainment which co-financed more than 70 titles amounting to a reported $450M in funding across such movies as The Leg…
Known for adapting video games for film, Uwe Boll isn’t too happy with Warner Bros. and New Line’s upcoming action pic Rampage starring Dwayne Johnson. The German director released a Rampage trilogy of his own starting in 2009 and in a statement released on his website, it is said he is pursuing legal action against…
