weekend box office

‘Hobbit’ Finale Defeats Competition

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies has officially arrived, and it’s left quite the impact on this week’s charts. With an estimated weekend total that pushes far past $55 million, the finale to the highly revered Hobbit trilogy has now made over $90 million dollars in the past five days. Though their numbers […]

Despite Mediocre Turnout, ‘Exodus’ Tops ‘Mockingjay’

With Christmas (and the swarm of major releases that come with it) looming in the immediate future, cineplexes across the country are collectively experiencing something of a calm before the storm. Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings overcame much more than a 28% rating to win over the weekend box office. After three solid weeks […]

Success Continues on for ‘Mockingjay’

For the third consecutive week, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, otherwise known as Mockingjay for short, has topped the charts. Partly in thanks to a quiet and sluggish post-Thanksgiving weekend, the film made an estimated $21.6 million dollars over the past three days. This would move the film’s domestic total up to $257 million, thus surpassing […]

‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1’ Continues To Dominate The Box Office

It should be a surprise to no one that the top grossing movie this week is The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1. The first of two installments for the final chapter of the trilogy has killed its competition two weeks in a row now. Last weekend it opened with an impressive $121,000,000 debut. This weekend […]

‘Mockingjay’ Crushes Weekend Competition

Should we really expect anything less from the global behemoth that The Hunger Games franchise has now become? The third installment of the series, Mockingjay — Part 1, premiered this weekend to $123 million dollars. They may be high, but in comparison to the $152+ million opening supplied by the 2012 Hunger Games film, these […]

‘Dumb and Dumber To’ Dominate the Weekend

Who needs a marketing budget when you have nostalgia? This weekend saw the return of Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels from a twenty year absence of working together to reprise the roles of Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne in Dumb and Dumber To. Though the film might be the subject of some lofty jabs in […]

‘Interstellar’ Falls Behind ‘Big Hero 6’

Temperatures across the country may be taking a plunge, but things sure are heating up at the box office, now that Oscar season is among us. In a battle of epic proportions, Disney’s Big Hero 6 and Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar faced off this weekend, with the former emerging on top, boasting an estimated $56 million […]

Sluggish Halloween Weekend Yields Favorable Results for ‘Nightcrawler’

Things were neck and neck this weekend between Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nightcrawler and Ouija, but when all was said and done, the newcomer emerged victorious, according to box office estimates. The box office win was earned by a hair, in this case, there were only about $10k separating the film from last week’s top dog. While there […]

‘Ouija’ Scores $20 Million Weekend

It’s no secret that there’s a definite hit and miss game to releasing micro-horror films. When a production tanks, more often than not, flukes are forgotten and never remembered again, but sometimes, the returns can be massive. This was exactly the case with Blumhouse Productions’ Ouija, which topped this weekend’s box office charts with a shocking $20 […]

‘Fury’ Runs Over ‘Gone Girl’ on the Path to the Top

Despite the fact that October tends to be relatively packed full of horror films, Brad Pitt’s return to the silver screen has been met with an enormous response. Thanks to the $23.5 million that it had made on its opening weekend, Fury has knocked Gone Girl from its chart-topping position. Sales aren’t the only thing going […]

‘Gone Girl’ and ‘Annabelle’ Have Killer Box Office Weekend

Cineplexes across the nation have been packed out this weekend thanks to the highly-anticipated arrival of Gone Girl and Annabelle. By a very narrow margin of one million dollars, the former of the two topped the charts with $38 million in weekend sales, according to studio estimates. These two films that have breaking well above […]

Denzel Washington Takes Box Office With ‘The Equalizer’

Denzel Washington’s been on a roll with his recent work, and The Equalizer‘s commercial success serves as a testament to that. According to estimates from Sony-Columbia pictures, the action-thriller is set to make $35 million dollars by the end of its debut weekend. The Boxtrolls came into theaters as well, and opened with around $17 […]