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If teenagers could vote, Hillary Clinton would have that demo locked down by a landslide – at least according to the 2016 Teen Choice Awards, held tonight at The Forum in Los Angeles and broadcast live on Fox where the Democratic candidate for President won the Choice President prize (she obviously wasn’t on hand to…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

Lionsgate’s stock is down 5.7% in initial postmarket trading,  to what would be a new 52-week low, after the studio reported fiscal Q3 earnings that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. Part of the problem: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2‘s $650 million global box office was down from Mockingjay 1, despite…

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 has just hit another box office target. After grossing $1.4 million domestically yesterday for a cume to date of $257.1M, it just crossed the $600M mark at the worldwide box office. Internationally, the fourth and last installment in the Hunger Games franchise grossed an estimated…

4TH UPDATE, TUESDAY AM WRITETHRU: In a comparatively soft frame, international box office was down about 32% versus last week across the Top 10 studio titles. That’s due to a convergence of holdovers that are deeper into their runs, or taking a staggered release approach — and new arrivals that were never expected to…

4TH/5TH UPDATE, Sunday AM/Monday: With actuals. During one of the hardest weekends of the year to open a movie, Universal did so with Legendary’s holiday horror comedy Krampus earning $16.3M in second place, which is better than the $10M-$13M that the town and Uni were expecting. Tack on $3.3M and you have a global…

Don’t expect any favors from the weekend box office. The period following the Thanksgiving day Wednesday-Sunday stretch is notoriously one of the lowest-grossing periods of the year as moviegoers get into the holiday swing with more shopping, parties and activities. Last year at this time, total ticket sales per…

Will Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens be a Scrooge, hoarding all the available screens and B.O. dollars from the competition in the coming weeks? With the Thanksgiving theatrical business expanding by 11% in this year’s frame compared to 2014 with $181.8 million — thanks to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, T…

UPDATED FIGURES, 4:15 PM PT Monday: There's a lot this weekend that's reminiscent of last year's comparable frame, which again has a Hunger Games movie atop the heap, and a space sci-fi epic coming in at No. 2 across the globe. And yet, there are shifts to watch. The Martian seemed to have a strong China debut all but…

6TH UPDATE, Sunday 10:30 AM Final: It was a great Thanksgiving indeed at the box office. Total weekend ticket sales as of this morning are being estimated at +12% over last year with $183.1M, which would make it the fourth best FSS post Turkey frame after 2013 ($208M), 2012 ($207.8M) and 2009 ($186.3M). Even though The…

Moviegoers beat the holiday rush at the box office last night, shelling out $1.4M to MGM/New Line’s Creed which Warner Bros. is distributing. The studio is calling this an industry record for Tuesday night previews during Thankgiving week. The previous Tuesday night champs during Turkey week were Frozen at $1.2M and Ho…

FINAL UPDATE: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 came in with slightly lower international numbers at $144.5M versus the Sunday projection of $146M. While that’s nothing to sniff at for a day-and-date offshore opening, there are some factors at work here which saw it miss the much higher tally that many had…