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Box Office Quarterly Review

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We’re a quarter of the way through 2023… and inching our way towards already being a third of the way through the year. As we head into Easter weekend with “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” doing incredible business (probably close to $150 million by Monday night) and “AIR” bringing-in adults (to the tune of close […]
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Disney Played Summer Game Almost Perfectly

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This summer, many studios decided to finally release some of their big (and smaller) movies that had been stored in the vault for at least a year due to COVID. Paramount hit it big with “A Quiet Place: Part II” but struggled with “Snake Eyes”, and “Paw Patrol: The Movie” is falling in between. Universal’s […]
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Looks Like ‘Luca’ Could Hit Theater Average High

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The third Friday in June once again belongs to the release of a Pixar movie. However, it won’t be your typical, gigantic, 4,000-theater release. Only one cinema in North America will play “Luca” starting Friday: Disney’s famous El Capitan Theatre. If you’re not in Hollywood, you’ll have to watch the film at home on Disney+. […]
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Believe in the Theatrical Experience Again

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This is the summer of the theatrical comeback. As long as things still look good – and studios are still comfortable releasing these films between now and Labor Day – the box office should be sensational. It will all kick off on Thursday May 27th with Paramount’s “A Quiet Place: Part II” and Disney’s “Cruella”. […]
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When Animated Movies Open Back to Back

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Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon” had one of the bigger opening weekends of the past eight months ($8.6 million), but it didn’t come close to what WB’s “Tom & Jerry” did the week before ($14.1M). Both movies are going after the same audience: families. This may be a case of families that JUST saw […]
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We’re in ‘A New Age’ for Movie Theaters

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When the COVID-19 shutdown happened in March, Universal was one of the first major studios to make headlines for a shift in the release plan for a major movie. They, along with DreamWorks Animation, decided to put “Trolls World Tour” on Video on Demand in April instead of waiting until most movie theaters *might* be […]
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Disney Re-Releases Keeping Box Office Afloat

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Since late September, Disney has re-released a movie a week in theaters. The studio is making it a 10th in a row this week with the re-issue of 2013’s blockbuster “Frozen”. Here’s how the re-releases have performed at the box office to date: Sept. 25: “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) Number of Weekends: 4 Opening […]
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Box Office Hits of the In-Between Time

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Audiences are now returning to indoor movie theaters in much of the country. So let’s take a moment to celebrate the Drive-Ins and recognize the films and studios that led the box office during the unconventional “in-between” time period from the middle of March to the middle of August: “TROLLS: WORLD TOUR” The DreamWorks Animation […]
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