UPDATED, Monday AM writethru: After Saturday and Sunday updates, refresh for update and analysis For the first time since the onset of the pandemic in mid-March 2020, the top 10 films (on a 3-day basis) are set to gross well over $1M+ each.
It may not sound like a big deal, but it is, because it finally demonstrates…
In 2013, when the Universal-Blumhouse horror satire The Purge opened during the Obama era, the premise of a government-sponsored annual night of terror when all murders and violence are allowed to go unchecked and unpunished seemed utterly preposterous, the stuff of Hollywood. But now, with the fifth film in the…
After raising the bar on what a movie can open to during the pandemic with F9‘s $70M weekend, Universal is adding a wide-release one-two punch to the weekend with the debut of two titles geared at two different demos: DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby: Family Business, which is set to do $15M+, and Blumhouse’s TheF…
In a snap, Universal was ready to backfill July 2 today with its long-awaited Blumhouse sequel The Forever Purgewith the news of Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverickleaving the Fourth of July weekend for Nov. 19. The last two Purge movies, 2018’s The First Purge and 2016’s Purge: Election Year played the July 4th…