Weekend Report: Game Over for “Pixels”, “Southpaw” Blindsides “Paper Towns”

In a fairly surprising turn of events, boxing drama Southpaw managed to surpass expectations and wind up ahead of much hyped YA adaptation Paper Towns, which disappointed with only 1/4th of what The Fault in Our Stars made last summer. Southpaw opened to $16M this weekend, a decent step up from the low teens which it was expected to …

Saturday Update: “Pixels”, “Paper Towns” Disappoint, “Southpaw” Surprises

Three films opened this weekend, two of which disappointed. Pixels took in just $9.2M on Friday for a weekend of around $25M, which was lower than even the most pessimistic of expectations. The real surprise, though, was how poorly Paper Towns performed, taking in just $6.3M on Friday. It's followng a similar track of The Fault in Our …

Weekend Report: “Ant-Man” Takes Lowest MCU Debut Yet, “Trainwreck” Solid

Proving that Marvel fans will, in fact, show up to pretty much anything, Ant-Man took first place with a decent $58M. That's a bit lower than the $65M that tracking had it at, but a difference like that is nothing too worrying. That's a fine debut, and shows how strong the brand is right now. Even …

Saturday Update: “Ant-Man” Set for Solid First Place, “Trainwreck” Tops Expectations

Putting pretty much any qualms of missing first place to rest, Ant-Man took a solid $22M from its Friday debut, with a fairly significant $6.4M of that coming from Thursday night. That's a good-not-great start for the latest Marvel film, setting it for a debut in the mid $50M's. Granted, the fact that a film based …

Friday Update: “Ant-Man” Solid yet Unspectacular, “Trainwreck” Anything But

Marvel is reporting that Ant-Man took in $6.4M from Thursday night grosses. If we compare other Marvel films, Avengers Age of Ultron made up a whopping 14% of its weekend from Thursday grosses, and Guardians of the Galaxy made 11%. If it plays like Guardians, it will end up with around $58M for the weekend. However, if it plays like Age of Ultron (less …

Weekend Forecast: Will Marvel Box Office Shrink with “Ant-Man” this Weekend?

After several years of fairly consistent $80M+ debuts, the Marvel universe is set to come back down to earth this weekend with a noticeably lower debut for this weekends Ant-Man, which is set to open with around $50M-$60M this weekend. So will Ant-Man "bomb" this weekend like so many doomsayers of the box office are already questioning? No, …

July 2015 Box Office Preview

July of 2015 will likely feature some of the biggest films of the year, as it typically does. The month starts out slow over fourth of July weekend but will heat up in the coming weeks, with such films as Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (featured above), Minions, and Marvel's newest film Ant-Man. How will these films stack up? Let's …