Share During 2008 and 2009 the domestic box office grew by double digits, outpacing the overall annual growth. This trend is likely to repeat this year as first quarter results passed $2.4 billion, 10.2% over last year and over a third bigger than where it was in 2006. dtsv.dtse_post_1907_permalink = ‘http://betweenthescreens.com/2010/03/q1-box-office-gets-bigger/’; dtsv.dtse_post_1907_title = ‘Q1 box [...]

Share James Cameron’s latest film Avatar has had yet another strong weekend at the box office, making $50.3 million and breaking the record for biggest four weekend gross, previously held by Cameron’s penultimate film Titanic. Despite having not such a spectacular opening weekend, Avatar has maintained dropped off less than most movies and has already [...]

Share The second installment of the “Twilight Saga,” New Moon, had an extremely successful opening last weekend, grossing $142,839,137 domestically, which is the the third highest weekend opening of all time. Unfortunately, the following weekend the movie made substantially less substantially less, only $42,870,031, a drop of over 70% which is much greater than what [...]

Share The summer ended today and it seems to have been a mediocre season for Hollywood. The total U.S. box office gross between Memorial Day and Labor Day was $4.3 billion, which is 1.4% less than 2008 but 4% above 2007 per Variety. At the beginning of the summer the box office was 24% above last [...]

Share This weekend Quentin Tarantino’s new movie Inglorious Basterds opened up in the U.S., making $38.1 million over the weekend, giving it the glorious distinction of highest-grossing opening for a movie released in the second half of August. This opening is also the highest of any Tarantino movie, both on an overall and per-theater basis, [...]

Share This week The Hangover became the all time top R-Rated comedy in terms of domestic box office. It also currently ranked as the #57 domestic grossing movie of all time. This is a big achievement, since comedies don’t normally attract large audiences. Perhaps moviegoers simply prefer to pay $10 to see an big-budget action [...]

Share Two weeks ago I noted how the U.S. domestic box office has been outperforming on a year-to-date basis (YTD). Figures through mid July tally ticket sales at $5.9 billion, up 15% YTD. Looking at the cumulative ticket sales a large growth occurred during the first part of the year. Up through the first “third” of [...]

Share As I mentioned in a March posting, 2009 is certainly looking like a banner year for Hollywood. The domestic box office continues to perform strongly, indicating that it will make more than $10 billion this year. So far the U.S. box office has made $5.47 billion, about 11% more compared to the same point in [...]

Share After looking at the top money makers for Memorial Day weekend I got curious about how much more money is made on holiday weekends. After all so many high profile movies are released on holiday weekends; they must make significantly more money than the average weekend. I complied the total weekend grosses posted at [...]

Share This past Memorial Day weekend was surprising in more ways than one. Although the total U.S. box office take, at $221.8 million was slightly higher than last year’s $219.4 million, the top movie, Night At the Museum: Batle of the Smithsonian, had a total gross of $70 million, much lower than last year’s winner, [...]