Box-Office
Box Office Weekend: Dracula Draws Little Blood
Despite heavy promotion and promises of epic adventure, Dracula Untold (estimated $23.5 million) took a back seat to more subtle fare as Gone Girl (estimated $26.8 million) took the first-place spot once more. Not to say Dracula Untold will be a failure…accounting for worldwide box office, it has achieved $86.1 million and already bested its $70 million budget…but it has proven unpopular with crit...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Gone Girl Takes Box Office With It
The box office continues to climb as two big names pull in the bucks, though critical acclaim is divided between them. The biggest draw (and biggest critical winner) is director David Fincher’s Gone Girl with an estimated $38 million. With a $61 million budget it has a ways to go, but it has gotten a good head start. But things might be looking even better for Annabelle. Though panned and not rele...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: The Equalizer Is Top Draw
Critical reaction may be mixed, but The Equalizer won over audiences handily as box office revenues continue to improve (even over the similar weekend from last year), the Denzel Washington-led thriller bringing in an estimated $35 million. With a budget of $55 million, the film is off to a good start; The Maze Runner, on the other hand, cleared a few hurdles to garner itself a mostly successful s...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Maze Runner Leads Upward Trend
When the box office hit a dull spot two weeks ago, it could be supposed that there was nowhere to go but up, and the latest crop of new releases helped in that department. While not all were critical darlings (Jason Bateman’s This is Where I Leave You being one of the more obvious ones), they still generated enough to make this an even bigger weekend than last. The Maze Runner made an excellent st...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: No Good Deed Leads to Good Returns
There might not be much breaking of box office records this weekend (well, except the Guardians of the Galaxy milestone), but returns are better this week than last, led by the critically panned No Good Deed. Starring Idris Elba as a mysterious stranger, the thriller raked in an estimated $24.5 million, already profiting against a $13.2 million budget. In second, Dolphin Tale 2 managed to be a win...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Guardians On Top of Weak Box Office
In a weekend where not even a new release can break into the top ten at the box office (to be fair, The Identical remains universally reviled for all but the most diehard bad movie buffs), Guardians of the Galaxy took the top spot yet again with a mere estimated $10.2 million. With nothing else making over $10 million (even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles made only an estimated $6.5 million), this we...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Guardians and Turtles Work Hardest Over Labor Day
With a four-day weekend afoot, things might have seemed a boon at the box office; however, besides low returns, it was a weak time for newcomers. Guardians of the Galaxy led easily with an estimated $22.2 million, remaining king of the summer (and of 2014 in domestic earnings), while Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles remains thoroughly critic-proof with an estimated $15.7 million adding to a strong $16...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Guardians Retake Lead and Summer Honors
It may have not been the most likely contender for the title, but Guardians of the Galaxy did the near impossible and dethroned Transformers: Age of Extinction for highest earning domestic release of the summer box office. With an estimated $17.6 million this weekend, it pulled ahead of both the Michael Bay directed robot smash fest as well as the Bay-produced mutant fest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turt...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Expendables Not Strong Enough
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles may not be the most critically well-received film currently in the top ten at the box office, but it is keeping its crowd the best, with a second week in the first-place spot. It earned an estimated $28.4 million, enough to keep back Guardians of the Galaxy, which picked up an estimated $24.7 million. However, Guardians of the Galaxy is the highest domestic earner on t...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Turtles Win Box Office, But Not Critics
Though he’s not the director of the film, the Michael Bay touch is still present in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the film earning the wrath of critics but still proving a strong draw at the box office with an estimated $65 million, making over half of its $120 million costs. Guardians of the Galaxy could not compete against those numbers in week two, with only an estimated $41.5 million, though i...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Guardians Protect Box Office
Marvel continues its 2014 box office hit parade with another big winner: Guardians of the Galaxy took the top spot for the comic book movie studio with an estimated $94 million and rave reviews. And while it is still a ways off domestically from its $170 million production costs, it nearly made that back in a single weekend counting its worldwide estimated totals. It smashed all other box office t...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Lucy at the Box Office with Diamonds
While critics may be saying relatively the same thing about these films, things are shaping up very differently at the box office for the two big releases this weekend. Lucy, getting slightly worse reviews than its competition Hercules, nevertheless took the first-place spot with $43.9 million – more than enough to be make money against its $40 million budget. Hercules took second with $29.8 milli...[Read More]