Sep 12, 2019 | Box Office, New Releases
It wasn’t just Pennywise’s signature red balloons that inflated this weekend. Warner Bros. and New Line’s “It: Chapter Two” jolted ticket sales at the international box office, collecting $94 million in 75 foreign markets. Combined with a $91 million start in North...
Sep 12, 2019 | Box Office
Even with an impressive number of billion-dollar blockbusters, the 2019 summer box office won’t be one for the record books. Popcorn season, the four-month stretch between May and August, generated $4.324 billion in ticket sales in North America, marking a 2% decline...
Aug 15, 2019 | Box Office, Trending
Universal Pictures is pausing marketing for its upcoming thriller “The Hunt,” following three mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio; El Paso, Texas; and Gilroy, California. “Out of sensitivity to the attention on the country’s recent shooting tragedies, Universal...
Aug 15, 2019 | Box Office, Trending
Funny hasn’t equaled money this year at the nation’s multiplexes. Comedy fans seem to have largely turned to streaming fare, including Netflix romcoms, stand-up specials — and endless rewatches of “The Office.” Universal is hoping to reverse this trend with the...
Aug 15, 2019 | Box Office, Trending
“Hobbs & Shaw” raced past its competition this weekend, taking in another $7 million in Friday’s domestic ticket sales for a projected $25 million sophomore outing. If estimates hold, the “Fast and Furious” spinoff could increase its domestic haul to around $108...
Jun 23, 2019 | Box Office, Trending
By now, audiences have caught on to the way American distributors tend to stockpile their quality movies for end-of-year award-season release, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t treasures to be found in the first two quarters. In fact, sometimes it’s the movies that...
