Weekend estimates: jackass forever posts healthy $23.5 million

February 6th, 2022

jackass forever was the hot favorite to win going into the weekend, and it’ll win in some style, as it appears to have gained momentum as the weekend has progressed. On Friday morning our model predicted an $18.1-million opening weekend for the stunt-reality-comedy movie. Paramount projected a $20.7-million weekend on Saturday morning once they’d seen Friday’s numbers, and have now upped that to a projected $23.5 million this morning. While that’s not huge by the standards of the franchise (Jackass 3D opened with over $50 million back in 2010, for example), it’s a very respectable figure by pandemic standards, and a welcome increase in business for movie theaters that have lacked new content in recent weeks. Moonfall’s $10-million debut is more disappointing, but also a little ahead of where things looked based on its modest Thursday previews. More...

Weekend predictions: jackass forever headed for weekend win

February 4th, 2022

Barring a massive slump for the two new releases, Spider-Man: No Way Home will finally lose its box office crown for good this weekend, possibly slipping into third place behind both jackass forever and Moonfall. jackass is looking the easy weekend winner, based on its overall pedigree and respectable preview numbers on Thursday. More...

Weekend estimates: with no new competition Spider-Man makes it six out of seven domestically, passes $1 billion internationally

January 30th, 2022

Spider-Man: No Way Home will top the domestic box office chart for the sixth time this weekend, earning about $11 million, according to Sony’s Sunday-morning prediction. That will take it to $735.9 million in total, less than $25 million behind Avatar’s $760.5-million final domestic cume. That’s a landmark Spidey still has a good chance of hitting before its run is complete. One landmark it has hit this weekend is $1 billion internationally, becoming the 10th film to hit that mark all time, and the first ever for Sony. More...

Weekend predictions: Spider-Man heading for sixth weekend win

January 28th, 2022

With no new wide releases, this weekend at the box office will have an eerie familiarity to it. There’s a good chance that Ghostbusters: Afterlife will be back in the top 10 in its eleventh weekend in release. Licorice Pizza is almost certain to celebrate ten weeks in release with another top 10 finish. And standing over everything will be Spider-Man: No Way Home, which should break $10 million in its seventh week in theaters, and top the chart for the sixth time. Spidey should end the weekend with around $735 million domestically, putting it $25 million behind Avatar in the all-time race. More...

Moonfall trailer

January 26th, 2022

Roland Emmerich disaster movie starring Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, and John Bradley opens in theaters on February 4 ... Full Movie Details.

A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all—but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper, and conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman, believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone they love, only to find out that our Moon is not what we think it is. More...