Tag: warnerbros
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Beetlejuice 2 Spooks Up $111 Million Debut, Resurrecting Warner Bros’ Box Office
This weekend Tim Burton and Warner Brothers’ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opened to a spectacular $111 million. This is currently the third best opening of the year behind Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine, and the second biggest opening ever for September, right behind Warner Brothers’ own It (2017). This is a huge rebound for Warner…
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Bad Boys Ride or Die Blazes Past Expectations with $57 Million Opening Weekend, + Five reasons to be optimistic this summer
I was tempted to give this story the headline, “Will Smith Slaps The Box Office Into Overdrive”, but it seemed like such low-hanging fruit. The last time I wrote in this blog it was last summer, as Barbenheimer was saving the summer box office, which brought the 2023 box office to unprecedented heights post-COVID. Now…
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Everybody Wins: Toys, Turtles, Sharks, and Bombs create a Box Office Bonanza this weekend, why?
Four turtles, a shark, some dolls, and an atomic bomb walk into a theater…. box office success ensues. While Barbie is still queen bee at the box office for the third weekend in a row, there’s a fierce battle for second place this weekend, which is great to see for the industry. Teenage Mutant Ninja…
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Tom Cruise’s latest Mission Impossible opens to $79 million – but why didn’t it open bigger at the box office?
The last time I wrote in this blog, it was last year, as Top Gun Maverick was soaring past $700 million in the U.S. I asked the question then, “Can Tom Cruise be stopped?”, and, well, the answer to that question might exist sooner than I thought. Tom Cruise’s latest Mission Impossible film opened with…
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DC Films Leadership – James Gunn and Peter Safran now CEOS – how did this happen, and what could this mean?
James Gunn had a very great day yesterday, showing that getting FIRED from Disney 4 years ago, ironically, led to the best possible career jump he could have ever had.
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Studios Winners and Losers: Before and After COVID
With no new blockbuster releases planned for the next few weeks, I thought it would be fun to take a moment to breakdown how the box office is so far for 2022, and to compare the 4 major studios (Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros and Disney). So let’s compare their performances from 2019 (the last “normal”…
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