![]() Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules, and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box-office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis and in 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. ![]() Battle’s numbers have slowed significantly in recent weeks, but it’s still the only movie worldwide that might break the billion-dollar mark this year-despite, or maybe because of, accusations that its action sequences of Chinese soldiers fighting Americans during a battle during the Korean War amount to little more than explosive political propaganda.Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. Which is also probably the point where we should note that neither of these films is going to come even remotely close to being the actual top performer on the planet in 2021 that honor is almost certainly going to go to Chinese nationalistic blockbuster The Battle At Lake Changjin, which has brought in $882 million since opening in the first week of October. F9, unsurprisingly, went all in on the Chinese audience the film made $203.8 million in the country, beating its U.S. If we were only looking at the U.S., the two movies would rank 4th ( F9) and 6th ( No Time To Die), trailing far behind Shang-Chi.īut No Time To Die spread out its international appeal, pulling in (per Box Office Mojo) $124 million in Bond’s native UK, $69 million in Germany, and $57.9 million in China. In addition to their love of doing very silly spy things with cars, both of these franchises have one major similarity: They do extremely well outside of the domestic box office. ![]() (It’s possible No Time To Die might get unseated by West Side Story or No Way Home before year’s end-it rarely pays to bet against either Steven Spielberg or Spider-Man-but those December releases will have a limited window to try to topple Cary Joji Fukunaga’s film.) This week saw an upset in that competition, as Deadline reports that Bond is set to pull ahead of Dom and the Family at last, becoming the most lucrative studio movie of the year to date. ![]() Here's What A Gas Station Fire Suppression System Actually Looks Like This Isn't a Relationship, This Is Someone to Bone For the Holidaysĭallas Stars coach benches rookie before homecoming game in front of friends and family How to Lock Your Secrets in the Notes App (and Why You Should) ![]() Rockstar Apologizes For Busted GTA Trilogy, Offers Free Games To Owners (Also weird: The fact that Marvel and Disney, which have dominated these conversations in pre-pandemic years, aren’t even in the race, with the studios’ top performer, Shang-Chi, sitting at a measly $431 million worldwide.) 2021 is going to go down as a very weird year for the Hollywood box office despite the slow, vaccine-powered recovery of the theater industry, ticket sales for even the biggest movies are still clocking in at a mere fraction of what they would have been in 2019.Ĭase in point: The fact that the battle for the most successful Hollywood movie of the year-currently being duked out between F9 and long-delayed James Bond installment No Time To Die-is being waged in the $700 millions, rather than the post-billion position the industry has grown accustomed to. ![]()
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