Tag: Box Office
In the Battle of Lady Gaga Vs. Venom, Everyone Won
The internet, in the most optimistic view, was built to help us connect and learn together as a human race. Peace. Harmony. All that. Then, as we always do with technological advancements, we quickly just […]
Examination of a Box Office Bomb: Life Itself
You’ve seen Life Itself before. Well, actually, you probably haven’t. The tragedy porn drama from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman just suffered one of the worst opening weekends ($2.1m) for any movie debuting in […]
Here’s Every Movie to Have a Bigger Labor Day Weekend than Crazy Rich Asians. It’s a Pretty Small List.
The Sixth Sense and Halloween. That’s it. Those are the only two movies to beat the $28 million Crazy Rich Asians is estimated to have just made over this 4-day Labor Day weekend. Won’t someone […]
Ant-Man and the Wasp is Finally Hitting Key International Markets. How’s That Working Out So Far?
Every four years, the majority of the world – other than the U.S., of course – goes crazy over the World Cup, which lands smack dab in the middle of the summer and runs for […]
Why Do We Care So Much About Box Office?
I’m a guy. I’m in my 30s. I have a college degree. And I’m currently a member of a fantasy sports league. Such a cliche, right? According to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, the average […]
Box Office: Ant-Man and the Wasp, or, What It Looks Like When Marvel Studios Comes Back Down to Earth
Black Panther and Infinity War each soared into the rarified air of a domestic opening north of $200m. Ant-Man and the Wasp, however, just opened so low it might barely eclipse $200m across its entire […]
Box Office: Incredibles 2 Benefitted From Being the First New Animated Movie in 3 Months
Incredibles 2 broke all the box office records for an animated movie this weekend. You can read an exhaustive detailing of the various records here. Heck, Incredibles 2’s $180 domestic debut is objectively amazing for […]
Tell Me How to Feel About Ant-Man and the Wasp’s Low Box Office Tracking
Everything about Ant-Man is small, at least by Marvel Cinematic Universe standards. That goes for the budget ($130m), box office ($180m domestic/$519m worldwide), stakes (it’s a family friendly heist film about orchestrating a break-in to […]
Ocean’s 8 & The Ladies Getting Shit Done at the Box Office in 2018
Going through the various weekend box office reports just now, the following observation over at BoxOfficeMojo jumped out to me: Elsewhere in the top ten, STX’s Adrift dipped a disappointing 56.5% for a sixth place […]
Box Office: How Low Is Too Low for Solo: A Star Wars Story?
Let me be the first to say the following about Solo: A Star Wars Story’s box office: I’ve got a bad feeling about this. Ah, classic movie quote. [Leaves to check the rest of the […]
