The Chinese box office continues to be a lucrative market for Hollywood, with Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Minions enjoying a massive reception upon their releases. Elswhere, Adam Sandler’s Pixels earns good returns in Japan… Tom Cruise-starrer Rogue Nation started with a record-breaking day on its opening last week, with $18.5 million grossed on […]
Minions becomes second-biggest animated movie of all time
It’s been a great year for Universal at the box office, with three of its films – Jurassic World, Furious 7 and Minions – all breaking $1 billion worldwide, and helping the studio to post the highest-grossing year in history with $5.53 billion and counting. Well, Universal now has another reason to celebrate as its […]
Straight Outta Compton goes straight to the top of the UK box office
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 28th August to Sunday 30th August 2015… Having proven a smash hit over in the States, the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton took first place at the UK box office this past weekend, with the F. Gary Gray-directed film pulling in an opening […]
Looking Back on the Summer Blockbusters of 2015
Matthew Lee takes a look back at the summer blockbusters of 2015… Last year, Forbes reported that last summer’s box office was down by a whopping $1.223 billion. Hollywood executives were undoubtedly shitting themselves. This was significantly more problematic considering last year’s summer held a number great critical surprises; Guardians of the Galaxy was a […]
Universal becomes first studio to have three billion-dollar films in a single year as Minions hits the milestone
It’s been a fantastic year for Universal Pictures at the box office; having already pulled in the record highest-grossing year for a studio, it has now become the first to have three films hit a billion dollars worldwide in a single year, with Minions hitting the milestone today. The Despicable Me spinoff has pulled in […]
Pixels tops the UK box office thanks to four extra days of previews
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 16th August to Sunday 18th August 2015… Adam Sandler’s sci-fi comedy Pixels topped the UK box office chart with £2,660,772 from its opening “weekend”, which happens to include four days of previews, which accounted for £1.33 million of that figure. If it wasn’t […]
Jurassic World passes $1.6 billion worldwide
It’s been a great year for Universal, with two of their movies passing the $1 billion mark (Jurassic World and Furious 7) and their animated outing Minions set to pass the billion dollar mark in the next couple of weeks. And one of those billion dollar movies is still making a lot of bank. Now in its […]
Fantastic Four tops the UK box office chart
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 7th August to Sunday 9th August 2015… It may have failed to dethrone Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation in the States, but 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four has had a modicum of good new here in the UK, with the reboot shaking off […]
Minions passes $900 million at the box office
Those little yellow creatures are having an absolute blast at the box office at the moment, as Minions sails past the $900 million mark to become the 7th biggest animated movie of all-time. The movie added another $7 million from the weekend to push its domestic total to $302, and it has made another $609 […]
Universal sets record highest-grossing year for a studio
2015 has certainly been an incredible year at the box office for Universal Pictures, spearheaded by the likes of Fast & Furious 7 and Jurassic World. In just seven months, Universal has pulled in $5.53 billion around the globe, setting an industry record the the highest-grossing year for a studio, which was previously held by […]
