Box Office Watch

3/1/24-3/3/24 - The Spice Flows for Dune 2 With Highest Opening of Year | Leadership Shakeups at Disney and Netflix | New Movie Dates Across Studios

2/16/24-2/19/24 - Bob Marley Flies High while Madame Web gets Tangled Up | Lunar New Year Recap | Paramount x Comcast and Sony x Disney | Mickey 17 New Date

2/9/24-2/11/24 - Lisa Frankenstein Fails to Raise Decades Worst Super Bowl Weekend from the Dead | Disney Earnings Announcements ft Moana 2 & Fantastic Four

2/2/24-2/4/24 - Argylle Blows Its Cover / Sundance Acquisitions / Lunar New Year Previews / Paramount Bidders / New Sports Streamer

1/26/24-1/28/24 - An Oscars Box Office Bump (Oh and Millers Girl?)

1/19/24-1/21/24 - A Quiet Week Post Oscars Nominations

1/12/24-1/14/24 - On Wednesday We Wear... Bees? + Jan-Apr Movie Rundown

1/5/24-1/7/24 - We Are So Back - Checking on 2023 Box Office Predictions and Making New Ones for 2024

11/10/23-11/12/23 - The Not so Marvelous Marvels, SAG AFTRA wins a deal and Hollywood back to work, WB vs Coyote vs Acme, Legend of Zelda Live Action

What did I miss? Catching up on Barbenheimer, Taylor Swift, SAG/WGA Strikes and more!

4/21-23 & 28-30/23 - WGA Strike! | Disney v DeSantis | CinemaCon Recap | Deadline's Most and Least Profitable Films | Super Mario Bros Hits 1B!

4/14/23-4/16/23 - Super Mario Bros Stays on Top while Pope Exorcists Defeats Renfield and Suzume Among New Releases | Beau is Afraid Tops $80k Per Theater Average

4/7/23-4/9/23 - Super Mario Bros speedruns to the top of the box office | The future of Video Game Adaptations | Air and Amazon | New Star Wars & Max Rebrand | SMB and D&D Reviews

3/31/23-4/2/23 - Is Dungeon and Dragon's Opening a Nat 20 or a Critical Fail? | His Only Son and the Power of Faith Based Fundraising | Apple's Oscars Dates

3/24/23-3/26/23 - John Wick 4 Shoots for Franchise Best Opening | Disney's Majors Problems | Suzume Takes China by Storm | John Wick 4 Review

3/17/23-3/19/23 - Shazam Fury of the Gods Fails to Spark Interest | Creed 3 becomes highest grossing Rocky film | EEAAO Oscar Bump | Apple To Spend 1B for Theatrical | Cocaine Bear Review

3/10/23-3/13/23 - Scream VI Scares Up Series Best Opening | 65 is a Jurassic Failure | Champions Stumbles with Marketing | New Movie Release Dates

3/3/23-3/6/23 - Creed III knocks out AntMan's tiny legs for number 1 | Demon Slayer and Operation Fortune Disappoint | So What's Up with Star Wars?

2/24/23-2/26/23 - Ant-Man has biggest MCU 2nd week shrinkage | Cocaine Bear Snorts up Success | Jesus Revolution Praises Success

2/17/23-2/19/23 - Ant-Man gets first 100M opener of the year | Avatar 2 beats Titanic for #3 highest grosser WW | Return to Seoul and Winnie the Pooh do decently limited | Quantumania Review

2/10/23-2/12/23 - Magic Mike Dances to Number 1 on Super Bowl Weekend | James Cameron blocks James Cameron from beating James Cameron | Disney Restructuring Ahead

2/3/23-2/5/23 - Knock at the Super Bowl ft BTS - 3 new openers in the top 5! | New Movie Dates | Boneheaded Decisions from AMC and Netflix and more

1/27/23-1/29/23 - Pathaan Dances Up a Surprise Win for Bollywood Films | Avatar #4 film of all time | EEAAO Leads the Oscars Bump | Full River Red Leads 1B Lunar New Year | DCU Announcements!

1/20/23-1/22/23 - Avatar has 6 consecutive weekends at #1, crosses 2B | Missing finds success | Lunar New Year numbers out of China led by Wandering Earth 2 and Full River Red

1/13/23-1/15/23 - Avatar passes No Way Home as A Man Called Otto expands and Plane takes off | Previewing Chinese Lunar New Year films | A Week by Week Breakdown of Jan-Apr movies

1/6/23-1/8/23 - Avatar Approaches $2B | M3GAN dances to $30M OW | A recap of 2022 Box Office | Making predictions for 2023

12/16-18/22 & 12/23-25/22 - Avatar Way of Water Surges Into Box Offices | Puss in Boots Wishes for Success | I Wanna Dance Stumbles | Babylon a Pile of Elephant Poop | Recapping 2022 Box Office Performance and Best/Worst Box Office News Stories

12/9/22-12/11/22 - Calm Before Avatar Releases | The Whale Takes Highest PTA of the Year | Avatar Chinese Presales | Henry Cavill Out as Superman

12/2/22-12/4/22 - Violent Night Delivers A Solid Opening | China Reopens Theaters Ahead of Avatar | New Future of DCU Without Wonder Woman

11/25/22-11/27/22 - Strange World and Devotion Flop Over Thanksgiving Weekend | Glass Onion Teases Us with Stellar One Week Run | China Just Wants To Watch Movies | Glass Onion & Disney+ Review (Muppets Rankings)

11/18/22-11/20/22 - Bob Chapek Out, Bob Iger In at Disney | The Menu and The Chosen Serve Up She Said | Bones & All and EO in Limited | Avatar confirms China release | Thanksgiving Film Previews

11/11/22-11/13/22 - Wakanda Forever Sets New November Opening Weekend Record | The Fabelmans Third Best Limited Opening | Suzume Tops Japan | Blum & Wan to Merge Horror Companies

11/4/22-11/6/22 - A Quiet Weekend Before Black Panther as Black Adams beat expectations and One Piece Red Takes Sail | Banshees Expands | New Paramount Movie Dates | One Piece Red Review

10/28/22-10/30/22 - Tricks and Treats for Black Adam, Ticket to Ride, and Prey for the Devil among other Horror films | Armageddon Time Opens Limited | Banshess of Inisherin Review

10/21/22-10/23/22 - An Upending of DC's Power Hierarchy - James Gunn and Peter Safran Take the Lead | Black Adam and Ticket to Paradise top charts | Halloween Ends Sent to the Grave | Banshees of Inisherin 2nd Best PTA this Year | One Piece Top 10 in Japan | Decision to Leave Review

10/14/22-10/16/22 - Spooky Season is in Full Swing with Halloween Ends and Smile topping the Charts | Decision To Leave and Till top Limited Releases | New Oscar Movie dates & Black Adam to China?

10/7/22-10/9/22 - Smile has a Scary Good Second Weekend Drop | Lyle Lyle Crocodile and Amsterdam Whiff | TAR and Triangle of Sadness Lead Limited Launches | New MCU and Dune 2 Movie Dates

9/30/22-102/22 - Smile Grins At the Top of the Box Office | Did Straight People Kill Bros? (No) | MCU Movie News (Deadpool, Blade and Armor Wars) | Cineplex Turns the Tables on Cineworld

9/23/22-9/25/22 - Don't Worry Darling, You'll Still Open #1 | Avatar Re-Release Rules Premium Large Format Screens

9/16/22-9/18/22 - Woman King, Pearl and See How We Run Kick Off Fall Movie Season | New Movie Dates from WB, Sony and Disney | What I've Been Watching Catch Up

9/9/22-9/11/22 + Catchup - We're Back! Dragon Ball Super Opens #1 | Top Gun Maverick Beats Black Panther | D23 |+ National Cinema Day | Regal Bankruptcy | New WB Woes | Rest of 2022 Film Predictions

8/5-7/22 & 8/12-14/22: Bullet Train Chugs Along | Easter Sunday Disappoints (and Why) | Warner Bros Batgirl Fallout | Disney New Streaming King | One Piece Red | MiM v Katips | Easter Sunday / Prey / Inu-Oh Reviews

7/22/22-7/24/22: DC League of Super Pets In the Dog House | Is there Too Much Marvel | Why was the 90M Batgirl Movie Cancelled? | How Much will Easter Sunday Open to? | Mean Girl and A Cinderella Story Review

7/22/22-7/24/22: Marvel rules SDCC with Phase 5-6 reveal | Nope is a Yup Topping the Charts | Tomb Raider Rights Up for Grabs

7/15/22-7/17/22: Thor 4 Feels Sore with 2nd worst MCU drop | Where the Crawdads Sing On Tune with Women | Paws of Fury Flames Out

7/8/22-7/10/22: Thor Love and Thunder Crashes Into the Box Office, but Will This Storm Pass Sooner than Later? | Thor Love and Thunder and Mad God Review

7/1/22-7/3/22: Minions Breaks July 4th Holiday Opening Records Supported by GentleMinions TIkTok Meme

6/24/22-6/26/22: Top Gun Maverick hits Altitude of 1 Billion Dollar with more to go | Elvis and The Black Phone overperform while Lightyear Falls (without style) | Marcell the Shell Charms Limited Release | New Movie Release Dates | Marcell the Shell Review

6/17/22-6/19/22: Lightyear Fails to Take off while Top Gun and Jurassic World Rules Fathers Day

6/10/22-6/12/22: Jurassic World Dominion Stomps To 145M DOM (and brings China back from Extinction) | Top Gun Crosses 400M WW | Lightyear Banned in Middle East