SUNDAY UPDATE, Refresh for latest…: Marvel/Disney’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps has come in with an estimated $218M global opening. While this is lower than where we saw it yesterday, it remains above the pre-weekend projection, both worldwide and in terms of international box office. The latter landed at $100M, the top end of our…
UPDATED SATURDAY AM: At a time when IP is a Holy Gail at the box office, and mass appealing auteur-driven fare a consistent gamble, kudos for Sony in their support and passion to re-energize a dormant cult British zombie franchise in 28 Years Later in Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later and Disney/Pixar in their relentless…
SUNDAY UPDATE, Refresh for latest…: Universal’s How to Train Your Dragon led the charge at the global and international box office this weekend as Hiccup and Toothless winged in with a $197.8M start worldwide. Of that, $114.1M (which includes previews) is from 81 overseas markets — a smidge lower than where we saw it landing…
Fifteen years and some change after Universal and DreamWorks launched the first of its three successful animated How to Train Your Dragon movies, their live-action remake, complete with CGI dragons, cruises along with a nice tailwind from 2010’s first adaptation of Cressida Cowell’s books, which earned an Oscar nomination for Animated Feature. While certain details…