Another record for Star Wars: The Force Awakens has seen the end of the previous Tuesday high, but The Force will have to be monumentally strong with this one if it'll see the end of Wednesday and Twilight: Eclipse's $68.5 million. Still, another major record has already been obliterated. On Tuesday, The Force Awakens took in another [...]
Now you can add another record to the growing list of them being set by Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And this time, it's one that's stood for over a decade. On Monday, Episode VII hauled in over $40 million to set a new Monday standard, crushing the benchmark that stood since 2004 when Spider-Man [...]
(UPDATED Monday December 21st, 2015) With the start of a new trilogy, the 7th installment of the Star Wars saga also completes another trilogy - of box office records. According to final official Monday receipts, Star Wars: The Force Awakens overwhelmed the multiplex galaxy with $248 million over its first three days, hauling in the biggest opening weekend domestic gross of all [...]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has set an all-new opening day box office record with $120.5 million generated on Friday, according to Saturday estimates. It becomes the first film to make over $100 million in a single day, annihilating the previous opening day record holder Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows: Part 2 which pulled in $91 million when it [...]
The Star Wars franchise has awoken to the first of what are likely to be several box office records to come. Final estimates show that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has opened to $57 million on Thursday evening, setting a U.S. record for Thursday night. It easily tops the previous Thursday night record of $43.5 million set over four years ago by Harry Potter and the [...]
There's a first time for everything. After 20 years of feature film animation and 16 entries in that time, The Good Dinosaur is likely to become the first release by Pixar Animation Studios to not make a profit and, instead, lose money for the industry titan. Despite a solid 76% fresh score at Rotten Tomatoes and an "A" rating from [...]
In a sudden move, Steve Jobs just got yanked from 2,000 screens across the country. It was the exclamation point on the most underwhelming first phase of an Oscar season in quite some time. Talk about not living up to the hype. While most of the season's early Oscar-contenders have been well-reviewed and, therefore, met expectations regarding caliber [...]
As Variety reports, first day ticket sales for STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS are eclipsing the previous benchmark "eight times over". This comes on the tail of online trailer watching that reached 112 million views within its first 24 hours.
Pixar Outdoes Itself: ‘Good Dinosaur’ Outpacing Megahit ‘Inside Out' (Variety) Industry pundits have been largely skeptical about the box office prospects for Pixar's The Good Dinosaur, which opens Thanksgiving weekend. Along with a troubled production history, many have questioned the timing of its release coming so soon after such a gigantic hit like Inside Out. The thinking is [...]
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