The 2020 box office keeps chugging along with positive results, despite a lackluster $120 million box office total for this weekend, which will likely place in the bottom third for this year’s results. But there’s continued evidence of real strength in the market.
Grosses were up about around 16% from the same weekend last year, typically a dead zone between a big-release holiday weekend and the Super Bowl, when studios don’t want their top films facing that on their second weekend. If box office stays on track, the market could sustain the promise of a better than expected year.
Wide openers “The Gentlemen” (Stx) and “The Turning” (Universal) were a decided improvement over the two duds opening last year (the quickly forgotten “The Kid Would Be King” and “Serenity”).
But the holdover heroes are led by repeating #1 “Bad Boys for Life.” It’s not unusual for older titles to perform...
Grosses were up about around 16% from the same weekend last year, typically a dead zone between a big-release holiday weekend and the Super Bowl, when studios don’t want their top films facing that on their second weekend. If box office stays on track, the market could sustain the promise of a better than expected year.
Wide openers “The Gentlemen” (Stx) and “The Turning” (Universal) were a decided improvement over the two duds opening last year (the quickly forgotten “The Kid Would Be King” and “Serenity”).
But the holdover heroes are led by repeating #1 “Bad Boys for Life.” It’s not unusual for older titles to perform...
- 1/26/2020
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
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