This weekend was the weakest for the domestic box office in recent memory, with the supernatural horror film “The Possession” topping the chart for a second weekend in a row despite not cracking $10 million. The new openers all tanked — the multi-narrative non-romance “The Words” made just $4.8 million and the Bruce Willis-Henry Cavill […]
Weekend Box Office: “The Possession” once again tops very weak crop Read More »
There is very little to say about the four-day holiday weekend box office, which saw two openers do relatively well, but not remarkably–“The Possession” with $21.3m and “Lawless” with $13.0m–and nearly every holdover play to expectation. The one exception was the conservative documentary “2016: Obama’s America,” which grossed a surprisingly strong $7.1m, signaling that viewers
Labor Day Weekend Box Office: “The Possession” tops down frame Read More »
Hello and welcome back to Box Office Beat, the column in which I predict the upcoming weekend’s box office grosses. With each passing week in August, this piece has become progressively less exciting to write because the movies are total non-events. Only the surprise success of the conservative documentary “2016: Obama’s America” was able to
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