New titles at the specialty box office include Alex Gibney‘s Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, which Magnolia debuted day and date in 68 theaters and on VOD. The film is projected to gross $464,000-$500,000 for the long holiday weekend, putting its domestic total north of $17.2 million. Sundance hit Dope tried to use the weekend to up its gross, expanding from 11 theaters into more than 1,023 locations (AMC theaters offered a two-for-one ticket deal), but the move didn’t seem to pay off for Open Road Films. SXSW: 5 Revelations From 'Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine' In Mexico, it grossed $6 million in its first two weeks of play and is expected to pass up A la Mala to become the year’s top-grossing Mexican release to date. by Lionsgate and Televisa’s Pantelion label. The movie, earning a rare A+ CinemaScore, is being handled in the U.S. Terminator topped the foreign chart again with $11.5 million, edging out Hitman: Agent 47 ($11.4 million), pending numbers for Transporter Refueled.Īmong films making a more limited play in North America, versus a nationwide rollout, Mexican animated film Un Gallo Con Muchos Huevos ( A Rooster with Many Eggs) all but tied with The Man from U.N.C.L.E. It has yet to open in China, where fellow Paramount and Skydance release Terminator: Genisys has made big gains, grossing $108.8 at the Chinese box office and lifting its worldwide cume to $435.9 million.Īs with the domestic box office, the international marketplace was likewise quiet. While a success, Rogue Nation will have a hard time matching the last installment, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol ($694.7 million). Transporter Refueled, targeting younger males, is getting a wide berth in Imax theaters and premium format locations.įaith-Based 'War Room's' Director Talks Box Office Success and "Secular Critics" The last film in the Transporter franchise opened to $12.1 million in November 2008, while the second installment took in $20.1 million over Labor Day weekend in 2005.
Camille Delamarre directed the film based on a script by Bill Collage, Adam Cooper and EuropaCorp’s Luc Besson. In North America, the actioner is going out through RED, the joint distribution venture between EuropaCorp and Relativity Media (RED is not part of the Relativity bankruptcy proceedings). Insiders put the number at $10 million or more.Įd Skrein replaces Statham as the lead character Frank Martin in the fourth installment. Rentrak is reporting that it only took in $4 million, a poor showing, but EuropaCorp has yet to release official figures. 5 for the long holiday weekend, hopes to be a sizable player overseas, where it launched in 27 foreign markets this weekend.
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1 in Australia ($3.3 million), as well staying No. Overseas, the film grossed another $7.9 million from 13 markets this weekend, for an early foreign total of $18.1 million and global cume of $168.1 million. Through Monday, the N.W.A biopic has earned a massive $150 million domestically. Straight Outta Compton, which had ruled the box office for three consecutive weekends, grossed $8.6 million from 3,097 theaters for the three days and $11.1 million for the four, putting it squarely at No.
Another low point was Labor Day weekend, one of the worst in recent memory in terms of revenue. Other studios suffered big misses, however. Disney was the other big winner, and between them, the two studios accounted for 60 percent of all revenue. Universal soared, enjoying a record run capped by Compton. Summer 2015 was a volatile ride at the box office overall, despite being the second-best ever in terms of North American revenue, with an estimated $4.48 billion, according to Rentrak predictions.