Death on the Nile

This week’s report continues our look into early fall’s box office calendar, with preliminary outlooks for Kenneth Branagh’s third adaptation of an Agatha Christie/Hercule Poirot novel. A Haunting in Venice Disney / 20th Century Studios September 15, 2023 (WIDE) Opening...

Studios have frequently avoided the weekend after a major tentpole release in recent months, and that holds true in the wake of The Batman's second-best pandemic bow of $134 million.

Following a relatively slow Super Bowl frame, the North American box office picked back up again over the long President’s Day weekend with the release of Sony’s Uncharted, which easily won the weekend with an estimated $44.16M through Sunday and...

As it does every year, the Super Bowl depressed turnout at the North American box office this weekend despite a slew of new wide releases hitting theaters, including Disney/Fox’s Death on the Nile, Universal’s Marry Me and Briarcliff Entertainment’s Blacklight....

This week's report is a short one with no wide releases currently set for the March 11 frame, in large part because studios are avoiding as much spillover demand for March 4's The Batman as they possibly can.

Super Bowl weekend has historically meant a drastic slowdown of box office sales for domestic theaters, a trend that won't be reversed but could still be mitigated by a handful of new releases this year -- two of which will...

After December 2021 became the single highest grossing month at the domestic box office since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the trend sharply reversed. The would-be biggest title of January 2022, Morbius, got delayed at the last minute until April. During...

This week's return of the Long Range report looks four weeks out with an eye on major releases through Presidents' Day weekend. Based on early January trends and projections for the next month, it should be around that time frame...

The past week has seen more significant gaps created on the remaining 2020 release calendar as the industry continues to wait on theatrical re-opening plans from New York and, to a somewhat lesser extent, California.

The news on wide releases has come to a screeching halt again as studios remain apprehensive to support cinemas with more high profile releases, something that is impacting weekend outlooks for the foreseeable future.

If you've been keeping up with our previous updates, you're already very aware of numerous rescheduling moves from studios in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. This week, I'm diving into a few of the remaining question marks and...