Tag: boxoffice
China's THE WANDERING EARTH Just Became the Year's Biggest Global Hit
In just nine days, Chinese sci-fi film The Wandering Earth has made $420 million at the Chinese box office alone and will soon become the second film to reach three billion yuan within ten days of being released. This also...
Destroy All Monsters: Universal's Monster Movies Ate The Summer Of 2015
Earlier this month Universal took the record for the fastest studio to the $2 billion mark (domestically) in any given year. This isn't particularly surprising - Universal has ruled the roost since Furious 7 came out in April, with an...
Korean Box Office: British Invasion Shuts Out Local Films
Following the busy Lunar New Year holiday, admissions fell to 1.97 million over the weekend but the main victims were local films, which saw their market share plummet to 18.5%. In a surprise turn of events, it was the United...
Korean Box Office: Detectives and Spies Lead Lunar New Year Weekend
Business shot up 70% over last week, as 3.88 million holiday spectators flooded the theaters, however that figure was over a million lower than last year's Lunar New Year weekend. Granted it's not exactly as fair comparison as LNY itself...
Korean Box Office: DETECTIVE K 2 Opens Over Original
Some 2.25 million spectators shuffled into theaters during the weekend before the Lunar New Year holiday, which was better than last week but still far behind the comparable weekend last year, when Frozen and Miss Granny led the market. Local...
Korean Box Office: Soft Opening For C'EST SI BON Ahead Of Lunar New Year (2015 WK 6)
In the warm up to holidays, 1.81 million people visited theaters as a Korean film reclaimed the top of the charts. Local films were dominant with 62% of the market. Taking the top spot over the weekend was C'est si...
Korean Box Office: Heroes Top Fathers And Gangsters (2015 WK 5)
A Hollywood film topped the Korean box office for the first time in 2015 while a pair of local blockbusters battled for second place. Korean films did hold a combined advantage though with a 55% market share in a weekend...
Latin Beat: Trailer For Peruvian Horror LA ENTITAD, Plus Top 10 Highest-Grossing Mexican Movies
This week we hear from our correspondents in Mexico and Peru. First, Ernesto Zelaya Miñano follows up on a previous report on Peruvian horror movie La Entitad with a trailer that gives a much better idea of what the filmmakers...
Destroy All Monsters: The Human Race Can't Handle Its Imminent Demise, And Other Things I Learned From The Summer of 2014
Spoiler warning for several 2014 summer movies. Grosses were down, year-over-year, in the summer of 2014 at the domestic box office. Even the solid hits of the frame -- Maleficent with a sleeper breakaway; Guardians of the Galaxy, at the...
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THE ADMIRAL: ROARING CURRENTS Lays Waste to Korean Box Office Records
The Admiral: Roaring Currents has turned the Korean opening weekend record to rubble with 3.34 million admissions ($25.65 million) during its first weekend, which accounted for 65.7% of the marketplace. That represents a 41% increase over the former record, set...
Korean Box Office: MISS GRANNY, FROZEN Lead Korea's Biggest Weekend
It was a huge weekend for theaters during this year's Lunar New Year, the biggest in fact, with around five million tickets sold. This was above the 3.5 million recording during last year's Lunar Year frame and significantly above the...
I, FRANKENSTEIN Opens Big ... In Russia
By now you have may have heard that I, Frankenstein, the only new wide release opening this past weekend in the U.S., died an ignoble death at the box office. Its estimated earnings totaled just $8.3 million, leaving it in...
Spanish Box Office Falls In 2013
For most Spaniards, one piece of news at the end of 2013 didn't cause great uproar. That the country's film industry is further struggling economically hasn't led to mass demonstrations yet on the streets. There's plenty of other reasons for...
Korean Box Office: Jeon Do-yeon No Match for THE HOBBIT
Despite a major new local release, the Korean film industry was held at bay once again as the pairing of Jeon Do-yeon and Ko Soo wasn't enough to prevent the new Hobbit from taking first place. 2.24 million tickets were...
Korean Box Office: ABOUT TIME Tops Slow Weekend
A slow weekend for local releases saw just 26% of the 1.62 million admissions going to domestic product. Things were much rosier this time last year with 75% of 1.95 million admissions going to Korean films. Title Release Date...
Korean Box Office: Sci-fi AM 11:00 Clocks in Middling Debut
With 1.77 million admissions, business was still a little down from this time last year (when admission topped two million) due to a lack of strong new releases. Though with a 60% market share, local releases are still in...
Korean Box Office: FRIEND 2 Wins Again as THE HUNGER GAMES Fails to Catch Fire
Business was a bit slow this past weekend as all the holdovers suffered heavy falls and none of the new releases caught fire. 1.85 million tickets were bought over the frame, down almost 20% from last year. The market...
China Box Office: THOR: THE DARK WORLD Hammers The Competition
Marvel's latest superhero offering holds strong atop the Chinese charts for a second straight week, while the Stallone-Schwarenegger pair-up Escape Plan continues to show its box office muscle. Rank Title Origin 11/11 - 17/11 (US$M) Total (US$M) Screening days 1...
Korean Box Office: Gangster Sequel FRIEND 2 Posts Solid Debut
Compared with last year, business has been a little down recently but Korean films are as strong as ever as they commanded a 70% share over the past weekend with seven of the top ten films. 2.11 million tickets...
Norwegian Animation SOLAN AND LUDVIG Posts Second Best Opening In A Decade
A stop motion hedgehog and magpie own the box office in Norway this week, where Rasmus Sivertsen's Solan And Ludvig: Christmas In Pinchcliffe has posted Norway's second best opening weekend in a decade. How strong was it? If you include...
