Fury
Box Office Weekend: Mockingjay Has Biggest Opening of 2014
While it may be strange to think that The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 failed to live up to the financial openings of the previous two films, it did not stop it from being the biggest box office opening weekend of 2014. At an estimated $123 million, it trounced the big four Marvel entries of the year, the reboot of Godzilla, and even Transformers: Age of Extinction, though it has yet to relea...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: America Loves Dumb
Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels returned to the big screen 20 years later with Dumb and Dumber To, to most critics’ chagrin. Still, for such a late-coming sequel, it did remarkably well, its estimated opening of $38.1 million more than doubled the original film’s opening weekend (whether it comes close to topping Dumb and Dumber’s $127.2 million domestic gross, though, is the real test). It held tight...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Big Hero 6 Is the Big Hero at the Box Office
Two new releases gave a dipping box office just the push it needed as two critically acclaimed films, Big Hero 6 and Interstellar, came up with the numbers to pick up a lousy October (though not enough to make them domestically successful). Big Hero 6 made a splash with an estimated $56.2 million and Interstellar gained an estimated $50 million, though amazingly both were budgeted the same at a ma...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Nightcrawler Squeaks by Ouija
Box office revenue as a whole dropped to September-level numbers after a decent October, but the biggest surprise, perhaps, is that the new release Nightcrawler, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, just barely topped the winner of last week, Ouija, in numbers even an estimate is too close to call (with Nightcrawler a few thousand ahead in an estimated $10.9 million race). While Nightcrawler is getting rave ...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: No One Predicted Oujia Win
Critics did not like it. Audiences did not like it. And yet, thanks most likely to its status as one of the few spooky flicks to enjoy during the Halloween season, Ouija took the box office crown with an estimated $20 million. It was still not good news for an overall dipping box office trend, as second place went to the new (and much better received) John Wick. Keanu Reeves made good with an esti...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Fury Leads As Box Office Falters
While nowhere near the doldrums of the September box office, there has been a downward trend to weekend gross the past two weeks, so while Fury may have topped the box office with an estimated $23.5 million it does not have quite the lead Gone Girl (estimated $17.8 million) held when it debuted two weeks ago. In fact, despite the fact that the top three films, including The Book of Life (estimated...[Read More]