Overseas

After finishing in first place three weekends in a row, Wonder Woman 1984 finally met its match with Open Road Films’ The Marksman, which debuted at No. 1 over MLK weekend with an estimated $3.22 million over the three-day period...

The global box office suffered a steep 71% decline in 2020, the largest year-over-year drop on record, stemming from the disastrous impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. ComScore is reporting a $12.2 billion tally in global ticket sales at cinemas worldwide...

On yet another weekend without any new wide openers, Wonder Woman 1984 easily retained the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office with an estimated $3 million, a drop of 45% from last weekend’s $5.5 million total. That represents...

With no new wide releases debuting over the New Year’s weekend, Wonder Woman 1984 easily retained the top spot at the box office with an estimated $5.5 million from 2,151 locations, representing a steep 67% drop from last weekend’s $16.7...

It took 19 years, but Japan has a new highest grossing movie ever: the animated Demon Slayer the Movie: Infinite Train. Over the weekend, the film from Toho and Aniplex reached 32.48 billion Yen earned in the country, equivalent to approximately...

Monday, January 4 update: Here are some key numbers, as Warner Bros.’ superhero sequel raises its overseas theatrical total to $89.7 million and global theatrical total to $118.1 million.  U.S.: $28.5 million. Domestically, the title opened on Christmas Day with a...

Amid the darkest days of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. to date, Wonder Woman 1984 easily conquered the North American box office with an estimated $16.7 million at roughy 2,100 locations, marking the highest debut gross at the domestic...

With the Christmas holiday fast approaching, two new wide releases – Sony’s video game adaptation Monster Hunter and Lionsgate’s Fatale – debuted in theaters this weekend, marking the first major Hollywood studio releases to hit multiplexes since Universal put out...

French exhibitors were dealt a blow this week when Prime Minister Jean Castex announced cinemas would be forced to stay closed through the holiday period. Cinemas across the country had been ordered to shutter on November 24 for a period...

With the exhibition landscape in 2020 marked by a slim and unpredictable film slate, teen romantic drama After We Collided has emerged as a rare success story—an American indie that’s found substantial success in overseas markets hurting for new films...

“Making hay while the sun shines” is how John Sullivan of cinema advisers The Big Picture characterizes the current state of theatrical exhibition in Saudi Arabia—a market that, bucking current worldwide cinema trends, is continuing to grow in the latter...

In operation since 1907, the Kino Pionier 1907 in Szczecin, Poland has been through wars, regime changes, the 1918 Spanish flu… and now, Covid-19. It has, to put it lightly, been a year of struggle for the theater. The initial...