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Monday Update: The Nun II came in above its original Sunday estimate, $8.5M vs. $8.4M, while Expend4bles came in lower, $8.0M vs. $8.3M. While the two films were originally only 1.2% apart, a margin that Boxoffice PRO originally labelled “too close...

Monday Update: The Nun II barely beat out A Haunting in Venice for the top spot, $14.5M to $14.2M. Both films came in slightly below their original Sunday estimates: Nun at $14.5M instead of $14.7M, Haunting at $14.2M instead of $14.5M. Nun...

The Nun II Warner Bros. horror sequel opened with $32.6M in first place, though that’s -39% below 2018’s The Nun: $53.8M. However, It’s above the openings for the last three films in the extended Conjuring / Annabelle / Nun cinematic...

National Cinema Day With National Cinema Day on Sunday, the second such annual celebration of moviegoing in the U.S., all tickets at participating locations were $4. That includes premium formats like IMAX and 3D. As a result, Sunday was the...

Blue Beetle Warner Bros.’ superhero movie debuted in first place with $25.4M, a first place opening but lower than every other recent DC Extended Universe films: -15% below March’s Shazam!: Fury of the Gods – $30.1M -23% below February 2020’s...

Barbie Warner Bros.’ comedy declines only -36% to $33.7M, spending its fourth frame in first place, and marking the first film to spend four frames at #1 since The Super Mario Bros. in April. All time, Barbie has now earned...

Barbie Warner Bros.’ comedy declines -43% in its third frame with $53.0M, three-peating in first place. All time, It’s now earned the: #20 opening weekend: $162.0M #7 sophomore weekend: $93.0M #11 third weekend: $53.0M With $459.3M total through 17 days,...

Here’s how much money the two major holdovers, Barbie and Oppenheimer, are still making: this was a “top 50” box office weekend of all time, even though the biggest new release opened under $25M. Marcus Theatres, the fifth-largest circuit in...

Horror has been a bright spot on on the cinematic landscape over the last few years, with many films—some even originally destined for streaming—making it big at the box office. No horror film released in 2023 has yet reached the...

A Historic Weekend Monday Update, with actuals: Domestically, Warner Bros. increased its Barbie estimate from $155.0M to an $162.0M actual, while Universal enlarged its Oppenheimer estimate from $80.5M to an $82.4M actual. Warner Bros. also bolstered its Barbie estimates from...

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One After debuting midweek on Wednesday, Paramount’s action sequel led the box with with a $56.2M opening weekend and a $80.0M five-day total. Its five-day total is +3% ahead of the prior Mission: Impossible...

Saturday Update: Paramount reports this morning that Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One earned $16.55 million on Friday, bringing the three-day domestic haul to $40.35 million. The studio's projected three-day weekend (Friday through Sunday) is $54.2 million, for an...