April 29, 201510 yr UK BOX OFFICE Disney’s latest superhero outing posts biggest April opening, biggest Saturday ever for the distributor and the eighth-biggest opening of all time. DISNEY After recording the second highest opening Thursday of all time, it was only a question of how big Avengers: Age Of Ultron would open at the top of the UK box office. The result was a storming $27.3m (£18m) bow from its 585 sites, including $5.5m (£3.6m) from previews, as it dethroned Fast & Furious 7. It marks the biggest debut of 2015, topping Fifty Shades Of Grey’s $20.5m (£13.55m), and the highest opening in the UK since Skyfall shot to $30.6m (£20.18m) in 2012. Overall, Avengers: Age Of Ultron’s chart-topping debut ranks as the eighth biggest opening of all time in the UK, and lays down the gauntlet to James Bond’s Spectre and Star Wars: The Force Awakens for their bows later this year. Among its many records, the film posted the biggest April opening of all time, while Saturday [April 25]saw the film deliver the biggest single day for Disney of all time with $9.4m (£6.2m), also the biggest day for a superhero film ever. It also achieved the biggest IMAX weekend result ever with $2.2m (£1.45m) across the four days. In terms of Marvel Studios outings, it replaces the $23.9m (£15.78m) debut of its predecessor, Marvel’s Avengers Assemble, as the biggest opening, with that film’s final result of $78.6m (£51.9m) firmly in its sights as Avengers: Age of Ultron attempts to become Marvel’s best-ever UK performer. Also for Disney, Cinderella is up to $27.9m (£18.44m) following a $1.1m (£756,000) fifth weekend, a slim drop of 30%. UNIVERSAL Fast & Furious 7 may have been prevented from a fourth straight week as the UK’s number one, but it can take comfort in that it will shortly become the year’s highest grossing film, if only for a brief time. Universal’s latest outing of the popular action franchise added $2.4m (£1.6m) for a terrific $52.6m (£34.76m) to date, still narrowly trailing Fifty Shades Of Grey’s $52.8m (£34.8m) as the year’s current highest grossing film. Fast & Furious 7 will soon overtake Fifty Shades, and then it’s just a question of how long it takes Avengers: Age Of Ultron to overtake it in turn. FOX Falling one place to fourth was Fox’s Home as it took a further $1m (£674,677) for $31.8m (£21m) after six weeks in play, a strong performance for an original animation. ENTERTAINMENT Woman In Gold grossed an additional $424,000 (£278,230) for $2.8m (£1.9m) to date through Entertainment. PARAMOUNT Falling a respectable 32% in its fifth weekend, Paramount’s The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water soaked up an extra $379,000 (£250,000) for $11.4m (£7.5m) to date. EONE Child 44 fell over 50% on its way to a second weekend of $348,000 (£229,653) for $1.5m (£986,133) to date through eOne, while The DUFF added $229,000 (£151,514) for $2.7m (£1.8m) after three weeks in play. Also for eOne, The Divergent Series: Insurgent reached $11.9m (£7.9m), as The Good Lie posted a UK debut of $18,000 (£11,586) from its 24 sites. WARNER BROS Get Hard crossed the £5m mark in its fifth weekend for Warner Bros after grossing $235,000 (£155,000) to lift its running tally to $7.6m (£5.04m). Also for Warner Bros, John Wick shot to a further $158,000 (£104,000) for $2.2m (£1.44m) after three weeks in play. METRODOME Carol Morley’s well-received The Falling posted a promising UK debut of $219,000 (£144,370), including previews, from its 57 sites through Metrodome. It will shortly surpass Dreams of a Life’s $271,000 (£179,125) result as Morley’s best UK performer, although it’s worth noting that Dreams only received an 18-site release at its widest. SONY Now in its third week, Sony’s Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 rode to an additional $188,000 (£124,000) for $1.9m (£1.26m) to date. LIONSGATE Dropping over 50% in its second weekend was Lionsgate’s A Little Chaos as it grossed $172,000 (£113,811) for a ten-day tally of $1.1m (£741,965). Also for Lionsgate, Stonehearst Asylum scared up $47,000 (£30,859) from its 20 sites on its UK bow. CURZON FILM WORLD Continuing its excellent UK run, Curzon Film World’s Force Majeure dropped just 17% in its third weekend on its way to $106,000 (£70,190) as it lifted its running tally to $531,000 (£351,009). Also for Curzon Film World, A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence landed with $52,000 (£34,362) from its 18 sites, including just under $4,500 (£3,000) in previews. UPCOMING RELEASES This weekend sees saturation releases for Fox’s Far From The Madding Crowd, eOne’s Two By Two: Ooops… The Ark has Gone and Universal’s Unfriended. Kaleidoscope/Spectrum’s I Am Big Bird, Vertigo Films’ Monsters: Dark Continent, Koch Media’s Samba and Shear Entertainment’s We Are Monster are among the films receiving limited releases.
May 6, 201510 yr US Avengers: Age of Ultron ruled the box office this weekend with a huge $187.7 million, which is the second-biggest debut ever. Unfortunately, the top opening ever belongs to its predecessor, Marvel's The Avengers ($207.4 million). The Avengers sequel also continues to do strong business overseas, where it's earned $439 million before even debuting in China or Japan. Domestically, Ultron's $187.7 million debut accounted for 85 percent of the Top 12 box office this weekend, which is a new record ahead of Spider-Man 3's 83 percent. The movie earned a bit more than the first Avengers on Friday, but its $57.2 million Saturday was 18 percent lower. It was also a bit below Iron Man 3's $62.3 million. There was a perception heading in to the weekend that the original movie's record was going to easily be topped. In hindsight, though, that was a very unfair assumption. In the years since the first movie's opening, no other title has opened anywhere close to $200 million. To make it that high required a perfect storm of factors, which Age of Ultron couldn't quite replicate. The biggest of these, of course, was that the original Avengers was the first opportunity for moviegoers to see all of these famous superheroes share the screen. The sequel, by its very nature, could never be expected to replicate that experience. It would be wrong to overstate the impact of reviews, but it's likely that they had a tiny impact as well. Heading in to opening, there was a sense that the first Avengers was a top-tier superhero movie; this time around, the word was much more muted. Finally, the movie's Saturday number likely suffered due to a handful of sporting events that drew a lot of attention. The Kentucky Derby and Clippers v. Spurs Game 7 were widely-viewed events, though neither seemed to capture the zeitgeist in the way that the Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather fight did. These probably weren't devastating—Avengers did still have the third-biggest Saturday ever—but they could definitely have shaved a few percentage points off of the weekend. When dealing with numbers this big, that could translate in to $5 to $10 million. All of this is meant to explain the gap between the first and second movie, not to knock the second movie's performance. A $180-million-plus debut is an exceptional result any way you look at it, and it reinforces Marvel's utter dominance over the domestic box office (it currently holds the top three openings ever). Avengers: Age of Ultron's audience was 59 percent male and 59 percent over the age of 25, and they awarded the movie a strong "A" CinemaScore (in comparison, the first Avengers received an "A+"). If Age of Ultron plays like the first Avengers, it will end its run with around $560 million. However, if it follows the same trajectory as Iron Man 3, it will close at $440 million. Either way, it will be one of the highest-grossing movies ever, but there's still a huge difference between those two numbers. As expected, the rest of the movies in theaters experienced steep drops against Avengers. After opening in third place last weekend, Age of Adaline actually jumped a spot to second with $6.25 million (down 53 percent). Through 10 days, the Lionsgate romance has earned $23.4 million. Reigning champ Furious 7 got hit hard by Avengers, plummeting 66 percent to an estimated $6.1 million. The movie has now grossed $330.5 million, and will likely close just below $350 million. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 fell 62 percent to an estimated $5.55 million, which brings its total to $51.6 million. Meanwhile, DreamWorks Animation's Home (2015) made the Top Five for the sixth weekend in a row, earning $3.3 million for a new total of $158.1 million. Even with strong reviews and word-of-mouth, sci-fi thriller Ex Machina wasn't immune to the Avengers effect. The movie fell 58 percent to an estimated $2.2 million, which takes its total to $10.9 million. Far from the Madding Crowd opened to an estimated $172,000 from 10 locations, which translates to a so-so per-theater average of $17,200. The Fox Searchlight romance should expand throughout the month of May.
May 6, 201510 yr UK: Fox’s Far from the Madding Crowd narrowly edges out Universal’s Unfriended as the week’s highest new entry. DISNEY Having recorded the best-ever first seven days for Disney with $33.8m (£22.35m), Avengers: Age of Ultron continued its domination of the UK box office with a $13m (£8.6m) second weekend. Disney’s latest Marvel outing has now amassed a mighty $52.7m (£34.9m) as of Bank Holiday Monday [May 4]and will shortly overtake Iron Man 3’s $55.3m (£36.5m) result as the second highest grossing Marvel outing of all time. Avengers: Age of Ultron’s target is the $78.4m (£51.9m) performance of Marvel’s Avengers Assemble, which stood at $45.1m (£29.85m) at the end of its second weekend. Excluding Monday, Avengers: Age of Ultron had grossed $48.8m (£32.3m) at the same stage. Also for Disney, Cinderella has now waltzed to $29.6m (£19.6m) following a $1m (£673,751) sixth weekend. 2015 TOTALS Bolstered by the terrific run of Fast & Furious 7 and the record-breaking debut of Avengers: Age of Ultron, April saw takings of $172.7m (£114.1m) at the box office which is up 29.6% on April last year. Overall, January 1-April 30 saw takings of $633.4m (£418.8m), up 11.2% on the same period last year. FOX Far from the Madding Crowd was the week’s highest new entry with a $2.2m (£1.43m) bow from its 525 sites. Fox’s adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic novel added $602,000 (£397,984) on Monday to lift its gross to $2.8m (£1.8m) and looks well-set to prosper midweek due to its older-skewing audience. Also for Fox, Home rounded off this week’s top five with a $1.1m (£732,514) seventh weekend and an excellent running total of $33.5m (£22.1m). UNIVERSAL Matching its successful domestic bow, Unfriended logged into the UK box office with a strong $2m (£1.34m) debut from its 436 sites to chart third, enjoying the second strongest site average in the top ten in the process. Universal’s micro-budget horror is up to $2.6m (£1.7m) as of Monday and will hope that its healthy word-of-mouth and critical response will see it avoid the usual fast-burn nature of genre films at the box office. Also for Universal, Fast & Furious 7 held well in its sixth weekend with $1.7m (£1.1m) for a current running total of $55.8m (£36.87m). It will be overtaken by Avengers as the year’s highest grossing film, but still has an outside shot at £40m. EONE Two by Two floated to $853,000 (£564,000) from its 428 sites on its UK bow through eOne, rising to $1.2m (£785,000) as of Monday. Also for eOne, Child 44 posted a third weekend of $171,000 (£113,000) for $2m (£1.3m) to date, while The DUFF has reached $3m (£2m) after four weeks in play. ENTERTAINMENT Now in its fourth week of release, Entertainment’s Woman in Gold grossed an extra $356,000 (£235,668) over the four-day weekend to lift its tally to a solid $3.6m (£2.4m). PARAMOUNT The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water has now soaked up $11.9m (£7.85m) following a $307,000 (£203,000) sixth weekend through Paramount. METRODOME In its second weekend, Metrodome’s The Falling added $105,000 (£69,515) from its 55 sites and has now grossed $483,000 (£319,456) to date. CURZON FILM WORLD Force Majeure is edging towards to the £500k mark in the UK after taking a further $74,000 (£49,024) for $694,000 (£459,124) to date through Curzon Film World. Also for Curzon Film World, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence posted a minimal drop on its way to a $45,000 (£29,591) second weekend for $143,000 (£94,876) so far. VERTIGO FILMS Monsters: Dark Continent got off to a soft start with a UK debut of $53,000 (£35,024), including previews, from its 101 sites. Vertigo Films’ sequel is up to $66,000 (£43,790) as of Monday, still well short of the $527,000 (£348,577) bow from 164 sites of Monsters. UPCOMING RELEASES This week sees saturation releases for Entertainment’s The Age of Adaline, Paramount’s Top Five, Pinewood Pictures’ Spooks: The Greater Good (opens April 30) and eOne’s Big Game. Soda Pictures’ Phoenix receives a wide release, while Kaleidoscope’s A Funny Kind of Love, The Works’ Rosewater and StudioCanal’s Girlhood are among the films receiving a limited release.
May 6, 201510 yr Amazing for 'Avengers' all round. Am I disappointed it didn't beat the first ones opening weekend in the end? Yes. But the article is spot on. Still a great result for them <3
May 7, 201510 yr Really pleased for Far From The Madding Crowd, that's a great opening! Knew it would do a lot better than the likes of Suite Francaise, A Little Chaos etc. as there appeared to be more buzz / awareness around it and it looked a lot better quality-wise from the trailer. A really good movie.
May 11, 201510 yr US BOX OFFICE: Avengers: Age of Ultron didn't plummet from the sky like that Sokovian fiefdom in the film but, with its $77.2 million 2nd week outing, it did drop 59.6% from its opening take of $191 million. Surprising amounts of Monday-morning quarterbacking this last week noted that Ultron could have become the new #1 film for all-time weekend box office if it hadn't been up against several sporting events that siphoned off eyeballs. Even still the Disney/Marvel property has a lot to celebrate. Domestically it easily dominated the box office at the #1 position with a per theater take of $18K in 4,276 venues. That $77.2M is still the 2nd highest 2nd weekend gross, just ahead of the 2nd weekend of Fox's Avatar ($75.6 million), and is topped only by it predecessor, Marvel's The Avengers ($103.1 million). Ultron's domestic take to date ($313M) has also already surpassed the lifetime domestic cumes of Captain America ($177M), Thor ($181M), Thor: The Dark World ($206M) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($259M). Internationally Ultron is holding up impressively, hauling in $65M, crossing $562 million for an foreign cume, with a total worldwide take of $875.3M. It's also, as Disney will be quick to tell you, yet to open in Japan and the burgeoning behemoth that is China, which it does this coming Tuesday, further adding from foreign coffers. The film did fall further than other, recent Marvel films. Iron Man 3's second week, in the same 2nd week frame in May 2013, fell 58.4%. But, to put things in further perspective that 59.6% is nowhere near the drop the previous #1 weekend-record slot took, a film not in the Marvel Universe, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2. The finale to the wildly popular film series dropped a whopping 72% in its second weekend, going from an opening of $169 million to $47 million. Meanwhile the well-cut, funny trailer for New Line/MGM/Warner's Hot Pursuit couldn't outrun the negative reviews as the latest Reese Witherspoon vehicle counter-programmed itself to a pint-sized $13.3 million in 3,003 theaters for a per theater average just shy of $4,400K per. That figure is lower than analysts' $18M estimates for the film, a road comedy with Witherspoon (who also produced under her Pacific Standard banner) playing an uptight cop stuck protecting a drug informant's strong-willed wife, played by Sofia Vergara (of "Modern Family" fame). It's Witherspoon's first comedy since 2011's This Means War. That comedy, with its multiple endings shot-and-tested opened in a now-looking-pretty-good 5th place on Presidents' Day weekend in 2012 with $17.4 million (just for the three day comp). If it follows the same pattern as This Means War—not a guarantee, by any stretch of the imagination—it will end its run with a soft $35M. A C+ CinemaScore even calls that final tally into question. In holdover titles Ex Machina was up 56%, earning $3.5M in 2,004 theater for a $15.7M domestic cume. Age of Adaline had just a little work done, nipping and tucking just 10% off from last weekend for a $5.6M weekend and a domestic cume to date of $31.5. The D Train opened soft, making $469K in 1,000 venues, which might be a bit of a disapointment for IFC Films which acquired it in Sundance for $3M. It stars Jack Black as the organizer of his high school reunion who travels to L.A. to retrieve the big man on campus, played by James Marsden.
May 11, 201510 yr UK BOX OFFICE: Fox/Pinewood Pictures’ Spooks: The Greater Good is the week’s highest new entry with $1.6m (£1m) from 419 sites. DISNEY Avengers: Age of Ultron may have fallen 60% in its third weekend, but still comfortably managed to become the third film this year to record a hat-trick at the top of the chart and the year’s biggest release to date in the process. Disney’s latest Marvel outing smashed its way to a further $5.4m (£3.5m) to lift its mighty running total to $62.2m (£40.33m), overtaking Fast & Furious 7 as the year’s highest grossing film. However, it may now find its quest to surpass its predecessor’s $80m (£51.9m) UK result a bit trickier, given this week’s big drop and the arrival of two major titles this weekend in Pitch Perfect 2 and Mad Max: Fury Road. Marvel’s Avengers Assemble fell 49% in its third weekend and stood at $62.1m (£40.28m) at the same stage. Also for Disney, Cinderella became the third film to cross the £20m mark out of the distributor’s four 2015 releases. The live-action remake added $493,000 (£320,000) for $30.9m (£20.02m) to date. FOX The week’s highest new entry came in the form of Spooks: The Greater Good, a Pinewood Pictures release through Fox. Including previews of just over $21,000 (£13,500), the big screen outing for the BBC spy series shot to a UK bow of $1.6m (£1m) from its 419 sites. The result means that it is already director Bharat Nalluri’s best-ever UK performer, outgrossing Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day’s $785,000 (£508,717) result. Also for Fox, Far from the Madding Crowd fell 44% on its way to a $1.3m (£833,535) second weekend for $5.5m (£3.6m) to date. The adaptation enjoyed a healthy Mon-Thurs performance of $2m (£1.3m) during its first week. Home has now reached $35m (£22.6m) following a $617,000 (£399,277) eighth weekend of release. UNIVERSAL Falling around 50% in its second weekend, Universal’s cyber horror Unfriended logged into a further $1m (£661,741) for a ten-day tally of $4.3m (£2.8m). Also for Universal, deposed 2015 champion Fast & Furious 7 added $852,000 (£550,986) for a terrific $58.4m (£37.7m), and still has an outside shot of crossing £40m. ENTERTAINMENT Rounding off this week’s top five was Entertainment’s The Age of Adaline with a sturdy $884,000 (£570,386) opening from its 368 sites. Also for Entertainment, Woman in Gold has amassed $4m (£2.6m) after five weeks in play. EONE Big Game hunted down $819,000 (£531,660) on its UK debut from its 352 sites, including just over $92,000 (£60,000) in previews. eOne’s action outing is already director Jalmari Helander’s best UK result, but it’s worth noting that Rare Exports only played 31 sites at its widest. Also for eOne, Two by Two fell 49% in its second weekend to take an extra $446,000 (£289,236) for $1.8m (£1.2m) after ten days in play. STUDIOCANAL With previews of $36,000 (£23,524), StudioCanal’s Girlhood recorded a non-final UK bow of $103,000 (£66,427) from its 28 sites. The opening means that the film is already director Céline Sciamma’s best-ever UK performer, topping Water Lilies’ $87,000 (£55,897) result. PARAMOUNT Top Five failed to make much of an impact in the UK as it took just $97,000 (£63,000) from its 126 sites through Paramount. Also for Paramount, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water has now soaked up $12.3m (£7.99m). SODA PICTURES Released in 32 sites through Soda Pictures, Phoenix posted a UK bow of $59,000 (£38,033), including just under $3,100 (£2,000) in previews, to mark director Christian Petzold’s best-ever UK debut ahead of Barbara’s $39,000 (£25,321) from 12 sites. CURZON FILM WORLD For Curzon Film World, Force Majeure and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence have grossed $776,000 (£503,877) after five weeks and $184,000 (£119,311) after three weeks, respectively. METRODOME Now in its third week of release, Metrodome’s The Falling took an additional $25,000 (£16,414) for $561,000 (£362,849) to date. NEW WAVE FILMS Venice 2013 Grand Jury winner Stray Dogs grossed $1,900 (£1,222) from two shows at one site on its UK bow through New Wave Films. UPCOMING RELEASES This week sees saturation releases for Warner Bros’ Mad Max: Fury Road (opens May 14), Universal’s Pitch Perfect 2 and Lionsgate’s A Royal Night Out. Curzon Film World’s Clouds of Sils Maria, Metrodome’s The Tribe and Dogwoof’s Lambert and Stamp are among the films receiving a limited release.
May 21, 201510 yr US TOP 10 Box office mojo now have a new article writer and you can go to the website to see how awfully written it is so until I find a new one I am just posting the top 10 :) Estimated top 10 North America May 15-17 2015 Film (Dist) / Est wkd gross / Est total to date 1 (-) Pitch Perfect 2 (Universal) Universal Pictures International $70.3m – 2 (-) Mad Max Fury Road (Warner Bros) Warner Bros Pictures International $44.4m – 3 (1) Avengers: Age Of Ultron (Buena Vista-Marvel Studios) Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International $38.8m $372m 4 (2) Hot Pursuit (Warner Bros) Warner Bros Pictures International $5.8m $23.5m 5 (5) Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (Columbia) Sony Pictures Releasing International $3.6m $62.9m 6 (4) Furious 7 (Universal) Universal Pictures International $3.6m $343.8m 7 (3) The Age Of Adaline (Lionsgate) Lakeshore International, Sierra/Affinity $3.2m $37m 8 (7) Home (Fox-DreamWorks Animation) Fox International $2.7m $165.6m 9 (6) Ex Machina (A24) Universal Pictures International $2.1m $19.6m 10 (15) Far From The Madding Crowd (Fox Searchlight) Pathé $1.3m $2.6m
May 21, 201510 yr UK Box Office Universal’s sequel out-sings Warner Bros’ revival to dethrone Avengers: Age of Ultron. UNIVERSAL Repeating its domestic success, Pitch Perfect 2 hit the high note at the UK box office with an excellent $7.8m (£5m) debut from 496 sites. Universal’s sequel recorded a superb site average of $15,815 (£10,081) across the weekend, a figure made all the more impressive as it achieved it without 3D or IMAX uptakes. It will shortly surpass Pitch Perfect’s final UK result of $10.5m (£6.7m) and looks set for a healthy extended run as counter-programming to what will become an increasingly blockbuster-heavy market. Overall, Pitch Perfect 2 achieved the sixth biggest opening of the year to date behind Avengers: Age of Ultron, Fifty Shades of Grey, Fast & Furious 7, Taken 3 and Home, but is the fifth biggest Fri-Sun result ahead of Home. Also for Universal, Unfriended scared up $393,000 (£250,378) for a solid $5.2m (£3.3m) after three weeks in play, while Fast & Furious 7 has now amassed $59.8m (£38.1m) after seven weeks. WARNER BROS It may have missed out on top spot, but Mad Max: Fury Road is off to a terrific start in the UK. Warner Bros’ critically acclaimed revival of the iconic character raced to $7.1m (£4.5m) from its 546 sites, including $1m (£638,000) in previews. It’s worth noting that its Fri-Sun tally of $6.1m (£3.9m) would also have seen it land in second. According to figures from Rentrak, Mad Max: Fury Road has already outgrossed the lifetime totals of Mad Max 2 ($3.9m/£2.5m) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome ($6.4m/£4.1m). Figures are unavailable for Mad Max. It also marks director George Miller’s best-ever UK bow, previously Happy Feet’s $5.8m (£3.7m) bow from 445 sites. The animation is also Miller’s highest grossing outing in the UK at $29.6m (£18.9m). DISNEY Hit by the duo of big-hitting arrivals, Avengers: Age of Ultron fell 53% on its way to a $2.6m (£1.66m) fourth weekend. Disney’s latest Marvel outing is now up to a mighty $67.7m (£43.24m) in its quest to surpass the $81.3m (£51.9m) result of Marvel’s Avengers Assemble, which stood at $70.4m (£45m) at the same stage in its run. Also for Disney, Cinderella has waltzed to $31.7m (£20.24m) after eight weeks in play. FOX Spooks: The Greater Good dropped two places to fourth as it fell 45% (excluding previews) on its way to a second weekend of $837,000 (£533,843). The Pinewood Pictures release, through Fox, is now up to $3.2m (£2.1m). Also for Fox, Far from the Madding Crowd rounded off this week’s top five with $622,000 (£396,414) for $7.4m (£4.7m) after three weeks in play, as Home reached $36m (£22.9m) with a $396,000 (£252,245) ninth weekend. Bombay Velvet grossed $146,000 (£93,214) from its 73 sites on its UK debut. LIONSGATE Following VE Day previews and an exclusive run at Odeon Leicester Square, Lionsgate’s A Royal Night Out expanded nationwide to take a soft $431,000 (£274,955) from its 333 sites for a running total of $494,000 (£315,246). That marks one of the lowest UK openings for director Julian Jarrold, behind Brideshead Revisited’s $589,000 (£375,270) from 256 sites. ENTERTAINMENT With a drop of over 50%, Entertainment’s The Age of Adaline added $303,000 (£193,494) for a ten-day tally of $1.7m (£1.1m). Also for Entertainment, Woman in Gold has grossed $4.2m (£2.7m) after six weeks in play. EONE Falling 44% in its third weekend, eOne’s Two by Two journeyed to a further $259,000 (£164,924) for $2.2m (£1.4m) to date. Also for eOne, Big Game dropped a hefty 71% (excluding previews) on its way to a $218,000 (£139,167) second weekend for $1.4m (£883,438). CURZON FILM WORLD Cannes 2014 Competition title Clouds of Sils Maria posted a non-final $86,000 (£54,749) UK debut, including previews, from its 30 sites through Curzon Film World. It narrowly missed out on being director Olivier Assayas’ best-ever UK opening, which remains the $91,000 (£58,229) bow from 23 sites of Summer Hours. STUDIOCANAL Falling 25% (excluding previews) in its second weekend, StudioCanal’s Girlhood took a non-final $53,000 (£33,957) for $211,000 (£134,764) to date. METRODOME Released in 17 sites through Metrodome, Cannes 2014 Critics’ Week title The Tribe posted a UK bow of $20,000 (£12,727), including previews. DOGWOOF Music documentary Lambert and Stamp recorded a UK debut of $12,000 (£7,527) from its 12 sites through Dogwoof. UPCOMING RELEASES This week sees saturation releases for Disney’s Tomorrowland: A World Beyond, Fox’s Poltergeist and Vertigo/Lionsgate’s The Moomins on the Riviera. Metrodome’s The New Girlfriend receives a wide release, while StudioCanal’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Metrodome’s Spring and Arrow Films’ Return to Sender are among the films receiving a limited release.
May 21, 201510 yr Wait, Mad Max has the same director as HAPPY FEET? :lol: It was never an animated classic compared to the likes of the Pixar releases, Madagascar, Ice Age etc. in my opinion :P
May 21, 201510 yr Wait, Mad Max has the same director as HAPPY FEET? :lol: It was never an animated classic compared to the likes of the Pixar releases, Madagascar, Ice Age etc. in my opinion :P Happy feet (and it sequel) are both two of my favourite movies ever and classics for me :kink: (though I know I'm in the minority on that opinion :lol:) It feels so weird they have the same director though :lol:
May 27, 201510 yr US Box Office: Estimated top five North America May 22-24 | 22-25 2015 Film (Dist) / Est wkd gross / Est total to date 1 (-) Tomorrowland (Buena Vista) Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International $32.1m | $41.7m 2 (1) Pitch Perfect 2 (Universal) Universal Pictures International $30.3m/$117.8m | $38.5m/$126m 3 (2) Mad Max Fury Road (Warner Bros) Warner Bros Pictures International $23.8m/$87.3m | $32.1m/$95.6m 4 (-) Poltergeist (Fox) Fox International $23m | $26.5m 5 (3) Avengers: Age Of Ultron (Buena Vista-Marvel Studios) Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International $20.8m/$404m | $27.8m/$411m
May 27, 201510 yr UK BOX OFFICE: Disney’s Tomorrowland: A World Beyond is the week’s highest new entry, narrowly edging out Fox’s Poltergeist. UNIVERSAL Having surpassed its predecessor after just five days of release, Pitch Perfect 2 again held off Mad Max: Fury Road to retain top spot at the UK box office. Universal’s sequel added $4.11m (£2.66m) over Fri-Sun and, including Bank Holiday Monday [May 25], is up to $16.3m (£10.58m). It will likely continue to pull in the crowds over this half term week, and could be on the cusp of £15m by this weekend. Also for Universal, Fast & Furious 7 took a further $160,000 (£103,812) for a superb $59.2m (£38.4m) to date, while Unfriended will soon log out of the chart but has grossed a solid $5.4m (£3.5m). WARNER BROS Narrowly behind Pitch Perfect 2, Mad Max: Fury Road continued its strong start with a $4.07m (£2.64m) second weekend. Warner Bros’ critically acclaimed revival of the iconic action hero is up to $16.2m (£10.54m) as of Monday, making it director George Miller’s second highest grossing film in the UK behind only Happy Feet ($29.1m/£18.9m). DISNEY Tomorrowland: A World Beyond was unable to repeat its chart-topping domestic bow, but was the week’s highest new entry in third. Disney’s adventure landed with $2.28m (£1.48m) from its 544 sites, marking one of the lowest debuts for director Brad Bird who’s had success with The Incredibles ($15m/£9.8m from 494) and Ratatouille ($6.8m/£4.4m from 503) in the UK. Tomorrowland is up to $3.2m (£2.07m) as of Monday, and will hope to receive a boost from half term. Also for Disney, Avengers: Age of Ultron rounded off this week’s top five with a $1.6m (£1.1m) fifth weekend and has now shot to $69.9m (£45.4m). FOX Tucked in just behind Tomorrowland was Fox’s Poltergeist as it scared up $2.25m (£1.46m) from its 433 sites on its UK bow. That compares favourably to recent horror remakes, with the likes of Evil Dead, My Bloody Valentine 3D, Piranha 3D and Nightmare on Elm Street all posting debuts around £1.3m-£1.4m. As of Monday, Poltergeist stood at $2.8m (£1.8m). Also for Fox, Spooks: The Greater Good added $457,000 (£296,455) over the weekend and now stands at $4.3m (£2.8m), while Far from the Madding Crowd has reached $8.4m (£5.4m) after four weeks in play. Home has amassed $35.9m (£23.3m), taking it past Shark Tale ($35.5m/£23.1m) in terms of DreamWorks Animation outings in the UK. EONE For eOne, Two by Two journeyed to a further $199,000 (£129,000) for $2.5m (£1.6m) to date, while Big Game hit the $1.5m (£1m) mark in its third week in play. LIONSGATE In its second weekend, Lionsgate’s A Royal Night Out took $163,000 (£106,152) over Fri-Sun and is now up to $1.1m (£734,758). Also for Lionsgate, Moomins on the Riviera failed to make an impact on its UK debut as it grossed just $121,000 (£78,590) from its 377 sites. METRODOME The New Girlfriend posted a UK debut of $146,000 (£94,838), including previews, from its 44 sites through Metrodome. In terms of director François Ozon’s outings in the UK, that’s ahead of Young and Beautiful’s $80,000 (£51,613) from 34 sites, but behind both Potiche ($311,000/£201,858 from 32) and In the House ($308,000/£199,594 from 82). Also for Metrodome, Spring grossed $5,100 (£3,335), including previews, from its one-site release. CURZON FILM WORLD Clouds of Sils Maria is up to $213,000 (£138,325) in the UK after a $59,000 (£37,967) second weekend through Curzon Film World. STUDIOCANAL Released in 25 sites through StudioCanal, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night bit into $46,000 (£29,703) over its opening weekend, rising to $64,000 (£41,679) as of Monday. Also for StudioCanal, Girlhood has grossed $284,000 (£184,840) after three weeks in play. UPCOMING RELEASES This week sees saturation releases for Warner Bros’ San Andreas, eOne’s Danny Collins and StudioCanal’s Man Up. Universal’s Search Party, Icon’s The Dead Lands, Curzon Film World’s Timbuktu and Soda Pictures’ The Goob are among the films receiving limited releases.
June 2, 201510 yr US BOX OFFICE Confirmed top 10 North America May 29-31 2015 Film (Dist) / Conf wkd gross / Conf total to date 1 (-) San Andreas (Warner Bros) Warner Bros Pictures International $54.6m – 2 (2) Pitch Perfect 2 (Universal) Universal Pictures International $14.8m $147.5m 3 (1) Tomorrowland (Buena Vista) Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International $14.3m $63.7m 4 (3) Mad Max Fury Road (Warner Bros) Warner Bros Pictures International $14.2m $116.5m 5 (5) Avengers: Age Of Ultron (Buena Vista-Marvel Studios) Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International $11.4m $427.6m 6 (-) Aloha (Columbia Pictures) Fox International $9.7m – 7 (4) Poltergeist (Fox) Fox International $8.1m $38.5m 8 (7) Far From The Madding Crowd (Fox Searchlight) Pathé $1.5m $8.4m 9 (6) Hot Pursuit (Warner Bros) Warner Bros Pictures International $1.4m $32.4m 10 (10) Home (Fox-DreamWorks Animation) Fox International $1.3m $170.5m
June 2, 201510 yr UK BOX OFFICE Warner Bros’ disaster thriller achieves director Brad Peyton’s best-ever UK bow. WARNER BROS Replicating its chart-topping domestic success, San Andreas cracked Pitch Perfect 2’s chance of a hat-trick at the top of the UK box office. Warner Bros’ disaster thriller scored a strong $7.1m (£4.63m) debut from its 506 sites, including $1.1m (£739,000) in previews. It’s worth noting that its $5.9m (£3.89m) Fri-Sun tally would have also seen San Andreas comfortably debut in first. The debut marks director Brad Peyton’s best-ever UK bow and will soon see San Andreas become his highest grossing outing, currently Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’s $10.7m (£7m) result. San Andreas has also already outgrossed the entire run of stablemate disaster film Into the Storm, which whipped up $4.3m (£2.8m) last year, but couldn’t quite match the $9.9m (£6.5m) bow of 2012, which arguably benefitted from a more well-known director in Roland Emmerich. Also for Warner Bros, Mad Max: Fury Road continued its great UK run with a $2.7m (£1.75m) third weekend for $20.9m (£13.72m) to date. UNIVERSAL It may have been knocked off the top spot, but Pitch Perfect 2 continued to shine with a $2.8m (£1.87m) third weekend. Universal’s sequel is now up to a healthy $22.1m (£14.5m) and still has an outside chance of £20m. Also for Universal, Fast & Furious 7 has reached $58.6m (£38.5m), while Search Party went missing on its UK bow after grossing just $27,000 (£17,876) from its 106 sites. DISNEY Tomorrowland: A World Beyond dropped to fourth with a $1.6m (£1.04m) second weekend after a slim drop of 27%. Disney’s adventure is now up to $6.2m (£4.11m) after ten days in play and has at least avoiding being director Brad Bird’s lowest ever UK performer having passed the $3.5m (£2.3m) result of The Iron Giant. Also for Disney, Avengers: Age of Ultron fell just 17% in its sixth weekend as it took an extra $1.3m (£883,000) for $71.7m (£47.14m) to date. FOX Poltergeist fell 48% on its way to a $1.1m (£734,867) second weekend as it dropped to sixth. Fox’s horror remake is up to $5.1m (£3.36m), which compares favourably to the final tallies of recent horror remakes (albeit not in 3D) Evil Dead ($5.2m/£3.42m) and Nightmare on Elm Street ($5.3m/£3.5m). Also for Fox, Home was boosted by the half term and increased 90% with a $695,000 (£456,794) for a superb $36.6m (£24.1m) after 11 weeks in play. Far from the Madding Crowd and Pinewood Pictures’ Spooks: The Greater Good have amassed $8.7m (£5.7m) and $4.7m (£3.07m), respectively. STUDIOCANAL Man Up charted seventh with a somewhat disappointing $804,000 (£528,652) from its 357 sites, with three still to report. StudioCanal’s rom-com failed to come close to the $2.2m (£1.45m) debut of fellow homegrown rom-com I Give It a Year from slightly more sites at 396. It will hope that good word-of-mouth can sustain it in the weeks ahead. Also for StudioCanal, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night bit into a further $37,000 (£24,449) for $163,000 (£107,448) to date. EONE Like Home, eOne’s Two by Two was also boosted by the school holidays as it rose 77% on its way to a $400,000 (£263,000) fifth weekend, meaning the animation has now sailed to $3.1m (£2.06m). Also for eOne, Danny Collins launched with a soft $343,000 (£225,000) from its 353 sites and will hope to be better received by the midweek audiences. ALTITUDE FILM DISTRIBUTION / PICTUREHOUSE ENTERTAINMENT The Connection started its UK run with $128,000 (£83,586), including $2,700 (£1,754) in previews, from its 54 sites through Altitude Film Distribution and Picturehouse Entertainment. LIONSGATE It may have had an underwhelmig start, but Lionsgate’s Moomins on the Riviera managed to post a minimal drop in its second weekend as it took $118,000 (£77,480) for a ten-day tally of $447,000 (£293,954). Also for Lionsgate, A Royal Night Out is up to $1.3m (£858,156) after three weeks in play. CURZON FILM WORLD Oscar nominee Timbuktu recorded a UK debut of $113,000 (£74,109), including $13,000 (£8,662) in previews, from its 32 sites through Curzon Film World. Also for Curzon Film World, Clouds of Sils Maria has grossed $257,000 (£169,131) after three weeks in play. METRODOME In its second weekend, Metrodome’s The New Girlfriend added $49,000 (£31,962) from its 40 sites for $279,000 (£183,634) to date. In terms of director François Ozon’s outings in the UK, it has now overtaken Young and Beautiful, but won’t catch either Potiche or In the House. SODA PICTURES Guy Myhill’s debut feature The Goob posted a UK bow of $13,000 (£8,435), including $2,000 (£1,291) in previews, through Soda Pictures. VERTIGO FILMS Released in six sites through Vertigo Films, Sword of Vengeance sliced its way to $3,700 (£2,423) on its UK debut. UPCOMING RELEASES This week sees saturation releases for Fox’s Spy, eOne’s Insidious Chapter 3 and Lionsgate’s Survivor. Munro Films’ Four Corners and Eros’ Dil Dhadakne Do both receive wide releases, while Metrodome’s Electric Boogaloo: The Wild Untold Story of Cannon Films and StudioCanal’s Black Coal Thin Ice are among the films receiving a limited release. Curzon Film World’s Queen and Country is released in London ahead of a nationwide expansion from June 12.
June 2, 201510 yr Great start for San Andreas imo! I was expecting a very solid but not spectacular result so almost £4m excluding previews is impressive. Makes the debut of Tomorrowland from the week before look even more disappointing, but at least that held up well. The article calls the number for Man Up disappointing but tbh that's about where I'd have imagined it.
June 2, 201510 yr That's Amazing news about San Andreas. It's quite an epic film so it's great to see. It surpassed it's budget after its first worldwide weekend yass. I would love a sequel but I have no idea what they could do. Great news about Pitch Perfect 2! It was a great film!
June 10, 201510 yr US BOX OFFICE: Confirmed top 10 North America June 5-7 2015 Film (Dist) / Conf wkd gross / Conf total to date 1 (-) Spy (Fox) Fox International $29.1m – 2 (1) San Andreas (Warner Bros) Warner Bros Pictures International $25.8m $98.5m 3 (-) Insidious: Chapter 3 (Focus) Sony Pictures Releasing International $22.7m – 4 (-) Entourage (Warner Bros-New Line) Warner Bros Pictures International $10.3m $17.7m 5 (4) Mad Max Fury Road (Warner Bros) Warner Bros Pictures International $7.8m $130.7m 6 (2) Pitch Perfect 2 (Universal) Universal Pictures International $7.6m $160.9m 7 (3) Tomorrowland (Buena Vista) Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International $7.2m $76.4m 8 (5) Avengers: Age Of Ultron (Buena Vista-Marvel Studios) Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International $6.3m $438.2m 9 (6) Aloha (Columbia Pictures) Fox International $3.2m $16.3m 10 (7) Poltergeist (Fox) Fox International $2.7m $44.3m
June 10, 201510 yr UK BOX OFFICE: Good weather leads to soft market, down 29% on previous weekend, with holdovers suffering big drops. FOX Defying the sunshine, Spy made it a domestic and UK chart-topping double as it dethroned San Andreas. Fox’s action comedy shot to $4m (£2.6m) from its 532 sites, including around $305,000 (£200,000) in previews. It’s worth noting that Spy’s $3.6m (£2.4m) Fri-Sun tally would have also seen it land top spot. In terms of director Paul Feig’s outings in the UK, Spy opened behind Bridesmaids’ $5.4m (£3.5m) from 485 sites, but did surpass The Heat’s $3.8m (£2.5m) from 440 sites and included $1.4m (£910,146) in previews. The arrival of Jurassic World this week means Spy’s stay in number one will be brief, but it could still prosper as counter-programming thanks to its strong reviews and word-of-mouth. Also for Fox, Secret Cinema’s latest production of The Empire Strikes Back opened its doors on Thursday [June 4]and, with Sunday takings still to report, grossed $351,000 (£230,400). Assuming that Sunday is likely to match Friday and Saturday’s gross of around $134,000 (£88,000), The Empire Strikes Back will have an overall debut of almost $487,000 (£320,000). Secret Cinema’s Back to the Future run grossed a total of $5.3m (£3.5m) and with The Empire Strikes Back running to Sept 27, it’s likely to surpass that. Poltergeist and Home have taken $5.9m (£3.9m) and $36.9m (£24.2m), respectively. WARNER BROS Dropping just over 50% (excluding previews), San Andreas posted a $2.7m (£1.8m) second weekend as it charted second. Warner Bros’ disaster thriller has now amassed $12.7m (£8.3m) and, as expected, is director Brad Peyton’s best-ever UK performer ahead of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Also for Warner Bros, Mad Max: Fury Road crossed the £15m mark with a $1.2m (£803,000) fourth weekend. The critically acclaimed return of the iconic character has taken $23.7m (£15.6m) to date. UNIVERSAL Pitch Perfect 2 rounded off this week’s top five with a $1.1m (£749,519) fourth weekend. Universal’s sequel is now up to an excellent $24.5m (£16.1m). EONE Insidious Chapter 3 landed in third as it scared up $2.1m (£1.4m) from its 436 sites on its UK bow. eOne’s horror threequel was second in the market on Friday [June 5] ahead of San Andreas. Overall, the debut ranks behind Insidious Chapter 2’s $4.4m (£2.9m) from 414 sites and is on par with Insidious, which also took $2.1m (£1.4m) albeit from only 325 sites. Both films capped just above $10.7m (£7m) in the UK, and Insidious Chapter 3 will be hoping to at least match that. Also for eOne, Two by Two has journeyed to $3.4m (£2.2m), while Danny Collins fell over 60% in its second weekend and has grossed $715,000 (£469,266) after ten days in play. DISNEY Now into its seventh week of release, Disney’s Avengers: Age of Ultron added an extra $520,000 (£341,000) for $72.9m (£47.8m), an excellent run even if it won’t reach Marvel’s Avengers Assemble’s $79.2m (£51.9m) result. Also for Disney, Tomorrowland: A World Beyond fell a hefty 70% on its way to $474,000 (£311,000) for $7.3m (£4.8m) after three weeks in play, while Cinderella has now waltzed to $31.8m (£20.9m). STUDIOCANAL Dropping almost 70%, StudioCanal’s Man Up posted a non-final second weekend of $215,000 (£141,170) for a ten-day tally of $1.55m (£1.02m). LIONSGATE James McTeigue’s Survivor landed with a soft $198,000 (£130,302) from its 179 sites through Lionsgate. That marks the director’s lowest-ever UK opening, although it’s worth noting that the film also received his smallest release, site-wise. Also for Lionsgate, Moomins on the Riviera has grossed $482,000 (£316,376) after three weeks in play. ALTITUDE FILM DISTRIBUTION / PICTUREHOUSE ENTERTAINMENT Falling just over 50% (excluding previews) in its second weekend, Altitude Film Distribution & Picturehouse Entertainment’s The Connection took a non-final $62,000 (£40,372) from its 57 sites for $262,000 (£171,598) to date. CURZON FILM WORLD Currently playing in 41 sites, Curzon Film World’s Timbuktu grossed $62,000 (£40,348) for $252,000 (£164,997) after its second weekend in play. EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT Listen Up Philip posted a UK bow of $29,000 (£19,013), including $682 (£447) in previews, from its 24 sites through Eureka Entertainment. METRODOME François Ozon’s The New Girlfriend has grossed $321,000 (£210,760) after three weeks in play through Metrodome. SODA PICTURES Released in 22 sites through Soda Pictures, Shooting for Socrates recorded a UK debut of $6,000 (£3,968), including previews. UPCOMING RELEASES This week sees saturation releases for Universal’s Jurassic World (opens June 11) and Picturehouse Entertainment & National Theatre’s London Road. Dogwoof’s The Look of Silence, Park Circus’ re-release of The Misfits and New Wave’s West are among the films receiving a limited release.
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