Global Box Office

A natural drop in last weekend’s spectacular numbers for Fifty Shades of Grey wasn’t unexpected, but the fall-off was steeper than expected: minus 73%.  Commentators are claiming that the film based on the erotic thriller by E.

To say that Fifty Shades of Grey won the St. Valentine’s and President’s weekend box office contest would be a major understatement.

Sooner or later someone had to dislodge American Sniper from first place, and unlikely as it may seem, the film to accomplish this feat was The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, the second feature (the first one came out in 2004) based on the Nickelodeon animated television series. On its first weekend of domestic release, Spongebob ended up collecting $58 million, an amount considerably higher than what Paramount had anticipated.

Super Bowl weekend is traditionally a difficult one for the box office. And with a record 114.

Last weekend’s box office narrative, in the U. S.

Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper’s American Sniper hit the U. S.

Most of this weekend’s entertainment headlines have been squarely focused on Sunday’s Golden Globe awards, whose impact on the global box office will be felt in the coming weeks. Our current frame’s top domestic honors went to Fox Studios and Europacorp’s Taken 3, which finished first in the North American market with a $39.

2014 was not a good year for the box office, with revenues down more than 5 per cent and attendance at a 20 years low. Continuing Hollywood’s Christmas comeback, however, this weekend concluded the 2014 holiday season and rang in the New Year with a distinctly positive note.

Sony’s immensely controversial comedy about the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, The Interview, hasn’t just sparked a crisis as the studio tries to cope with the airing of a great number of embarrassing little secrets. It hasn’t just enraged the world’s most volatile nuclear nation, and it hasn’t just led to the introduction of a new round of sanctions against the DPRK.

Overall sales were incredible. Several films, both new releases and holdovers, had brilliant individual runs.