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The World Better Prepare for When I’m a Billionaire Through Sunday, Disney’s sequel The Rise of Skywalker earned $478.2M domestic and $511.4M overseas, for a $989.6M global total. Although it fell slightly short of the billion-dollar mark, it looks to cross...

This weekend, North American moviegoers veered from outright fantasy to historical reality, crowning Universal’s 1917 the box office champion over Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which fell out of the No. 1 spot for the first time. The Sam...

Saturday Update: Universal and filmmaker Sam Mendes have claimed the top spot at the domestic box office with 1917 as the Golden Globe-winning epic bowed to $13.97 million on Friday (including Thursday night previews), its first day of nationwide release.

Amid fears of competition from streaming and other media, worldwide box office revenues reached a new global record last year with $42.5B, Comscore reported Friday. Box office was down 4% domestically in 2019, finishing the year with $11.4 billion. It...

Total 2019 box office might have seen a dip since the heights of 2018, but with the likes of Avengers: Endgame, The Lion King, Joker, and Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker hitting big, there were still...

Who knows how the remaining 520 or so weekends will go at the box office, but the decade got off to a decent start. Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker posted a threepeat atop the box office with $34.5M....

As per usual on the first weekend of a new year, the North American box office was light on newcomers—only Sony’s remake of The Grudge debuted wide—and dominated by holdovers, a list that this time included Star Wars: The Rise...

Saturday Report: Disney again leads to kick off the new decade as Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker posted $11 million on Friday, climbing to $428.1 million domestically after 15 days. The trilogy finale is currently pacing 11.5 percent behind...

By Daniel Loria and Rebecca Pahle The biggest story of the decade at the domestic box office was the impact of Disney’s acquisition of Pixar (2006), Marvel Studios (2009), and Lucasfilm (2012). Nine of the decade’s ten highest grossing films...

Walt Disney Studios grossed a combined $13.1517 billion globally across its Disney and Fox film releases in 2019, the studio announced today. That number includes $4.3283 billion in North America and $8.8234 billion overseas. Among Disney titles alone, the studio...

Rise Falls Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker dropped -59.1% in its sophomore frame — still winning the box office by a lot, but falling short of essentially all weekend projections. Weekend projections had it earning around $82M to $96M. Instead, it...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker predictably continued its run as top dog at the box office in the final weekend of 2019, bringing in an estimated $72 million in its sophomore frame. Nonetheless, audiences enjoying their winter break spread...