![]() ![]() It's no longer a surprise when a movie like Booksmart, Late Night or Long Shot plays to empty theaters as their targeted demographic sits home with Netflix and complains that Hollywood doesn't make any movies for adults. Whether the initiative, which involves in-theater promotion and an unofficial pledge to keep such movies in theaters long enough for folks to check them out, will move the needle in this Netflix/VOD era remains to be seen.īut kudos to them for trying, because, to quote everyone's favorite moment from First Reformed, somebody's gotta do something! I've gotten damn tired over the last three years explaining over how and why seemingly every smaller studio programmer-type release has stumbled on a near-weekly basis. That's a new program from the theater chain hoping to boost theatrical business for non-tentpole/non-blockbuster flicks. The film was the first beneficiary of AMC Artisan. ![]() Richard Curtis movies tend to make around 75% of their money overseas, so the domestic figure may just be gravy. ![]() That's not a mind-blower, but in this theatrical environment, it counts as a solid win for Universal. This PG-13 musical romance may leg out for those too old for Aladdin but too young (or prudish) for Rocketman.Īt a glance, the $26 million-budgeted jukebox melodrama, with which I'll have to catch up on Monday (I'm writing this from a hotel lobby), should earn a decent $16.4 million weekend. The Danny Boyle-directed and Richard Curtis-penned dramedy, about a young songwriter (Himesh Patel) who wakes up in a world where everyone else has forgotten The Beatles, may have positioned itself as an adult movie in a summer of kid flicks. In unusually positive news, Universal and Working Title's Yesterday earned a surprising $6 million on Friday. led with an impressive $7.9 million, followed by France ($4.1 million), Germany ($3.8 million) and Spain ($1.5 million).'Yesterday' Universal and Working Title Films Box Office: Conjuring 2 Scares Up 3.4 Million Thursday. ( Annabelle rounded out the top five.) Turtles took in a hearty $20 million from 33 territories for a foreign total of $185.4 million and a global haul of $375 million. Annabelle Comes Home (2019) The Conjuring Annabelle, Lorraine Warren, Mckenna Grace. 4 internationally behind Guardians, Dracula Untold and Gone Girl. Thanks to a late rollout in Europe, Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came in No. ( Dracula Untold fell 58 percent in its second weekend domestically.) Its global cume is $136.4 million. ![]() 2 overseas, earning $22.5 million from 58 markets for a foreign total of $95.7 million, more than double its early North American take of 40.7 million. Universal and Legendary’s origins pic Dracula Untold came in No. David Fincher’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel Gone Girl topped the weekend box office with an estimated 38 million, just a bit ahead of the horror film Annabelle, which earned an estimated 37.2 million. 3 Marvel title of all time behind The Avengers ($1.5 billion) and Iron Man 3 ($1.2 billion). Read more ‘Annabelle’ Director John Leonetti Talks About Shooting on a Haunted Setīetter yet, Guardians became the No. The quirky superhero tentpole, still playing in China and a smattering of other territories, took in $23.1 million to jump the $400 million mark internationally for a worldwide total of $732.6 million. Instead, the crown went to Disney’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Still, it was neither of those films, nor Dracula Untold, that topped the weekend box-office chart offshore. Annabelle, costing just $6.5 million to make, earned another $19.2 million internationally for the weekend. New Line and Warner Bros.’ horror prequel Annabelle likewise remains a strong global player, finishing Sunday with an impressive $166.1 million in total ticket sales, including $95 million overseas. leads overall with $23.2 million - it has surprised in many Asian markets. Read more David Fincher Cast Ben Affleck in ‘Gone Girl’ After Googling His Smileįor the weekend, Gone Girl took in $20.2 million from 58 markets overseas for a foreign total of $94.7 million and a global total of $201.6 million. While the 20th Century Fox and New Regency film is doing best in Europe - the U.K. ![]()
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