All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1531
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Austin's a Power-house at US box office
Chart-topping Austin Powers in Goldmember recorded a career-high $71.5m opening for its star Mike Myers over the weekend, becoming the biggest ever comedy and July opening, the fifth highest opening of all time and best ever opening for studio New Line, according to estimates released today. Despite this impressive figure ...
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MIIB storms Germany with $11.2m, scores $26m weekend
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI)'s Men In Black II (MIIB) continued its impressive international run with an $11.2m opening weekend in Germany on 1,166 prints, according to studio estimates released today. When figures are confirmed this week it should establish MIIB as the sixth highest opener of all time ...
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Stuart Little 2 is big, but still disappointing, in lacklustre movie weekend
Columbia's latest box office victory was a small one. Family sequel Stuart Little 2 opened at the top of the charts over the weekend with a so-so $15.6m take, according to studio estimates released yesterday. That beat DreamWorks' adult drama Road To Perdition by a mere $0.3m.It was an uncharacteristically ...
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CTFDI scores $17.4m with MIIB, breaks all-time record with Spider-man
Men In Black II (MIIB) took an estimated $17.4m at the international box office over the weekend as Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International rolled out its sci-fi romp to 12 territories bringing its running total to $34.7m. With an unconfirmed best-ever opening in South Korea for a non-Korean language picture ...
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Scooby is Warner's second biggest all-time UK opening
Scooby-Doo continued to snap up the international competition for Warner Bros over the weekend, opening in the UK with $8.1m (£5.2m) from 474 screens, according to studio estimates released today (Sunday). If the figure is confirmed tomorrow it will be Warner's second highest UK opening behind Harry Potter And The ...
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Perdition hits big, but can't gun down Men In Black
Men In Black II (MIIB) clung on to top spot at the North American box officeover the weekend with an estimated $25m gross, although a spectacular opening for Road To Perdition on half the number of screens came close to dethroning it. The Columbia Pictures sci-fi sequel averaged $6,923 ...
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Men In Black II takes $11.7m in first five international territories
In its first international roll-out weekend Columbia's Men in Black II scored a combined gross of $11.7m from Australia, Japan, Russia, New Zealand and Columbia, averaging $10,400 from 1,129 screens. In Japan MIBII took $5.3m - coincidentally the same amount Men in Black grossed when the original came out in ...
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Independence Day record tumbles to MIBII
Five years after Men in Black took the world by stormmoviegoers clearly still have a taste for alien-zapping, wise-cracking,sharp-dressed secret agents as Men in Black II squashed the competition to set a record five-day haul for the July 4holiday weekend of $90m, according to studio estimates released today. TheColumbia picture ...
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Scooby-Doo takes $1m in three Asian territories
Scooby-Doo complemented its memorable bow in the US over the weekend by storming to the top of the box office in three Asian territories with a combined gross of $955,000 from Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, according to estimates released yesterday (June 17). In the first international roll-outs for the Warners ...
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Scooby-Doo attracts more than just the pesky kids
The live action adventures of a dog and his chums bit a large chunk out of this weekend's box office as Scooby-Doo opened top of the charts for Warner Brothers on $56.4m, according to industry estimates. Adapted from the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon series of the Seventies, the movie version features ...
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Divine Secrets comes second to Sum Of All Fears
The Sum of All Fears held on to top spot over the weekend with an estimated $18.7m gross that sees the Paramount thriller sitting pretty on a ten-day total of $61.8m. The new Warner Brothers comedy-drama Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood took second place on $16.4m, while those ...
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The Sum Of All Fears takes US box office by storm
Paramount's spy thriller The Sum of All Fears exceeded expectations and shot to the top of the charts over the weekend, overthrowing Star Wars: Episode II, with an estimated $31.2m gross. Clones was shunted to second spot on $20.7m, bringing its cumulative total to $232m after 18 days. Spider-Man slipped ...
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New releases open well as the blockbusters re-write Memorial Day records
Memorial Day weekend saw more box-office records tumble, with Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones holding on to top spot with a $62.1m four-day haul, according to studio estimates. George Lucas's fifth Star Wars instalment has now grossed $202.5m in 12 days becoming the second fastest movie ...
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Attack Of The Clones enjoys $116.3m US four-day opening
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones unleashed The Force over the weekend, zapping the competition and storming to the top of the charts with an estimated four-day gross of $116.3m. George Lucas's fifth Star Wars instalment becomes the second fastest picture to pass $100m behind Columbia's Spider-Man ...
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Spider-Man swings past $200m in record time
Displaying the kind of gravity-defying antics one would expect from Spider-Man, Columbia's smash hit held on to top spot with a weekend gross of $72m, racing past $200m on Saturday in a record nine days. This weekend's $72m haul - the highest second-weekend gross ever - is the fourth highest ...
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Columbia sets Spider-Man 2 for May 7,2004
One day after it scored a breathtaking $114.8m opening weekend with Spider-Man in North America, Columbia Pictures has announced that Spider-Man 2 is already dated for release on May 7, 2004. The film will go into production early next year. While the storyline will remain a closely guarded secret, the ...
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Spider-Man makes history: $114m in three days annihilates all-time record
The all-time box office opening record was obliterated over the weekend as Spider-Man from Columbia Pictures took an estimated $114m, becoming the first movie to pass the magical $100m mark in its opening weekend. It beat the previous record-holder Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone by an astonishing $24m.Naturally it ...
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Spider-man spins web of records in 17 territories
Spider-Man's historic US opening was mirrored by some record international bows over the weekend, with $13.3m from 700 prints in 17 territories across Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Columbia's comic book adaptation, which was directed by Sam Raimi and stars Tobey Maguire as the web-slinging superhero, scored ...
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About A Boy a smash in the UK with $5.4m opening
Universal's comedy-drama About A Boy went straight to the top of the UK charts with a muscular $5.4m opening this weekend, the third biggest of the year in the UK after Monsters Inc and Ocean's Eleven. The Nick Hornby adaptation, which was co-produced by StudioCanal, Working Title and Robert De ...
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Angelina doesn't come close to The Scorpion King
The Scorpion King held its sting and top place in the domestic charts with weekend takings of $17.6m, according to studio estimates released today. Universal's spin-off from The Mummy stars The Rock in his first action lead and has taken $60.8m in its first ten days.Total weekend grosses rose for ...