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Friday Update: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows bowed to an estimated $2.0 million on Thursday night domestically. That figure marks a 56.5 percent drop from the 2014 predecessor’s $4.6 million Thursday night launch, which opened in early August. As...

Over the Memorial Day weekend, Fox’s X-Men: Apocalypse opened with $79.81 million, enough to lead the box office by more than double its nearest competitor but down from its prequel, 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass took...

Fox’s X-Men: Apocalypse led the Memorial Day weekend box office with an estimated $65.0 million three-day start, although that represented a noticeable decline from its prequel’s opening two years ago. The superhero movie starring Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, and Oscar Isaac opened with...

Saturday Update: Fox reports this morning that X-Men: Apocalypse scored an estimated opening day of $26.4 million on Friday, including Thursday night’s $8.2 million start. As expected, the sequel proved noticeably more front-loaded to its early shows as the film came in 26...

Friday Update: Fox reports this morning that X-Men: Apocalypse scored $8.2 million from opening night shows on Thursday. That’s a healthy start for the anticipated sequel, coming in just ahead of Days of Future Past‘s $8.1 million on the same Memorial Weekend two years...

Sony’s The Angry Birds Movie premiered atop the weekend box office with $38.15 million, down from its $39.00 million weekend estimate on Sunday. Disney’s Captain America: Civil War dropped from first place the past two weekends to second place with $32.93 million, down from its estimated...

Sony’s The Angry Birds Movie has nothing to be angry about after making an estimated $39.0 million this weekend, providing the first true animated hit of the summer. The video game adaptation, featuring an all-star voice cast including Jason Sudeikis and Josh Gad, took first place,...

Saturday Update: Sony reports this morning that The Angry Birds Movie soared to an estimated $11.0 million opening day on Friday. That’s a strong start for the popular video game adaptation, landing within the realm of Rio 2‘s $12.0 million first day back in...

Friday Morning Update: X-Men: Apocalypse repeated atop the leaderboard this past week with just shy of 200,000 tweets. Hardly a surprise seeing as though this was the week before its release but still reassuring all the same. As always, the best comparison here should...

The official press release from Fandango: LOS ANGELES – May 19, 2016 – Sony’s “The Angry Birds Movie” has been catapulted by moviegoers to the top of Fandango’sFanticipation movie buzz indicator, flying high with 87 out of 100 points and leading Fandango’s weekend...

With weekend actuals in, Disney’s Captain America: Civil War was up slightly from Sunday’s studio estimate, commanding a box office lead of $72,637,142. The weekend’s two new releases were slightly down from their Sunday estimates, with Sony’s Money Monster making $14,788,157 and High Top Releasing’s The Darkness...

Captain America: Civil War held on to lead the box office a second straight weekend with an estimated $72.56 million in 4,226 theaters. The blockbuster superhero sequel starring Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., and Scarlett Johansson earned the eighth-highest second weekend of all time,...