World Box Office

China, greeting 2021 as the world’s number one film market, ushered in the New Year with even more impressive numbers to bolster that reputation on the first day of 2021. Chinese box office figures for January 1 stood at $92 million, a record haul for that holiday date.

Gal Gadot and director Patty Jenkins will return for a third and final installment of  the Wonder Woman trilogy, WarnerMedia announced along with the Christmas domestic box office weekend earnings of Wonder Woman 1984. The Wonder Woman sequel’s take of $16.

It may be too early but the first wave of the international rollout of Wonder Woman 1984, starring Gal Gadot,  indicates that so far, it’s not beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the box office. Director Patty Jenkins’ eagerly anticipated Wonder Woman sequel, also starring Pedro Pascal, Kristen Wiig and Chris Pine, took in an estimated $38.

With The Croods: A New Age still lording it over the box office amid no wide releases, the bigger news was overseas. In China, Monster Hunter, director Paul W.

The Croods: A New Age continued its reign this past weekend but the box office news that’s still creating shock waves in Hollywood and the global film market is WarnerMedia’s groundbreaking decision to release its entire slate of 2021 movies on HBO Max and theaters at the same time. Several days after the media and entertainment conglomerate announced that all of its films next year, including Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix 4, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs.

While The Croods: A New Age did its best to animate the pandemic box office doldrums with an estimated $9. 71 million earnings from Friday to Friday, the estimated $14.

The 4th of July has always brought big-time fun for Americans and big money for Hollywood. This year the USA, more so than the rest of the world, finds itself mired in an uncertain battle with the deadly Coronavirus.

Once again, the coronavirus extended its lethal tentacles into the box office in the US and pretty much in every other market. It did it in ways significantly more dramatic than in the past few weeks, as the number of countries in a complete lockdown and where movie theaters were ordered to close their doors has increased: besides China, Italy, and South Korea, Spain, France are also closed for a total of 32 international markets.

Disney and Pixar’s youthful fantasy flick Onward was the top finisher in this weekend’s exciting box office race. It opened wide in the US at 4,310 locations and took in a relatively healthy $40 million from its showings over the three-day Friday through Sunday period.

Blumhouse and Universal shrugged off the coronavirus and opened their horror remake The Invisible Man to $29. 0 million.