The Bad Guys

Follow-Up Visit Disney and Marvel Studios’ superhero sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness easily maintained first place but with a sharp -67% decline to $61.0M. A few stats and comparison to put that drop in context: Last frame,...

Disney and Marvel Studios’ superhero sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness earned an impressive $185 million domestic and $450 million global debut this weekend. That domestic opening is: 11th place all-time, behind 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron ($191.2M)...

From Bad to First Heading into last weekend, Universal / DreamWorks’ animated The Bad Guys was projected to come in somewhere around third place with about $15M. Instead, it beat most expectations by debuting in first place with $23.9M. With...

After a welcome over-performance last weekend, Universal and DreamWorks Animation's The Bad Guys will likely keep its box office crown for another frame before summer moviegoing ramps up in May.

Not a Bad Start Heading into this weekend, Universal / DreamWorks’ animated The Bad Guys was projected to come in somewhere around third place with about $15 million. Instead, it beats most expectations by debuting in first place with an...

Following a string of star-driven and franchise pics anchoring late March and early April, the penultimate weekend of spring movie season will see three films test the theatrical market as low-to-mid profile content in a moviegoer landscape still working out...

Let’s Get Ready to Dumble Warner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore underwhelmed at the box office with an estimated $43 million opening. That’s by far a new low for the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts franchises, although it’s...

This week's update is on the short side as the long range report looks at the release of Memory on the final weekend of April, plus other key updates.

It will arguably be the first “normal” month at this year’s box office. December 2021 was packed with the likes of Spider-Man: No Way Home, West Side Story, Sing 2, and The Matrix Resurrections. But then the Omicron variant hit in late December,...

The penultimate frame of April comes into view this week as we take an early glance at the box office outlook for Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys, alongside Lionsgate’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. In addition, notable...

This week's report continues our look ahead to April, easily the most prolific month of 2022 so far in terms of major releases.

Universal, along with Warner Bros. and Disney, is among the major studios who have distributed the most films theatrically during the Covid-19 pandemic—a position it’s likely to maintain moving into 2021 and 2022.  That’s thanks to Universal’s unprecedented deals for...