2018 At The Boxoffice (1 Viewer)

[benbess]

I was guessing that Overlord was at least a $70 million dollar movie, and maybe more. With a production budget of apparently only $38 million (all of which is up there on the screen) I think this one might break even.

Overlord
Domestic Total as of Nov. 11, 2018: $10,100,000 (Estimate)
Distributor: Paramount Release Date: November 9, 2018
Genre: Horror Runtime: 1 hrs. 49 min.
MPAA Rating: R Production Budget: $38 million
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $10,100,000 52.3%
+ Foreign: $9,200,000 47.7%
= Worldwide: $19,300,000

 

[benbess]

This beautiful traditionally animated film from Japan is one of my favorite movies of the year, but clearly it missed at the box office. Production budget isn't listed, but my guess is that it was at least a $30 million film, and maybe a lot more.

Mary and the Witch's Flower
Domestic Total Gross: $2,418,404
Distributor: GKIDS Release Date: January 18, 2018
Genre: Animation Runtime: 1 hrs. 42 min.
MPAA Rating: PG Production Budget: N/A
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $2,418,404 100.0%
+ Foreign: n/a 0.0%
= Worldwide: $2,418,404

 

[benbess]

Even with all the stars in this movie taking a pay cut, it doesn't seem like this one is going to break even. I liked it.

Bad Times At The El Royale
Domestic Total as of Nov. 8, 2018:$17,602,294
Distributor: Fox Release Date: October 12, 2018
Genre: Thriller Runtime: 2 hrs. 21 min.
MPAA Rating: R Production Budget: $32 million
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $17,602,294 60.3%
+ Foreign: $11,600,023 39.7%
= Worldwide: $29,202,317

 

[Jake Lipson]

This beautiful traditionally animated film from Japan is one of my favorite movies of the year, but clearly it missed at the box office. Production budget isn't listed, but my guess is that it was at least a $30 million film, and maybe a lot more.

I agree with you that the movie is great. But I actually think Gkids has plenty to be proud of with that film because it is by a wide margin the highest grosser they've ever had. Box Office Mojo isn't reporting foreign numbers for that movie, but that's where a lot of the monies for this film are going to come from; it's not a significant player for the U.S. and probably never would have been. I don't think it's fair to assess that it lost money based solely upon its U.S. results. I'm sure it did quite well in Japan at the very least.

 

[benbess]

Wow, this movie was an even bigger hit than I thought it was. Bradley Cooper's career as a director has been launched. Good movie!

A Star is Born (2018)
Domestic Total as of Nov. 11, 2018: $178,020,388 (Estimate)
Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: October 5, 2018
Genre: Music Drama Runtime: 2 hrs. 16 min.
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $178,020,388 55.1%
+ Foreign: $144,800,000 44.9%
= Worldwide: $322,820,388

 

[Jake Lipson]

And ASIB isn't done yet, not by a longshot.

I still think it will end its domestic run with a larger total than Venom.

 

[benbess]

I agree with you that the movie is great. But I actually think Gkids has plenty to be proud of with that film because it is by a wide margin the highest grosser they've ever had. Box Office Mojo isn't reporting foreign numbers for that movie, but that's where a lot of the monies for this film are going to come from; it's not a significant player for the U.S. and probably never would have been. I don't think it's fair to assess that it lost money based solely upon its U.S. results. I'm sure it did quite well in Japan at the very least.

I'm glad to hear this. Do you have any numbers for Japan?

 

[Jake Lipson]

No, I don't. But I assume it would naturally have been bigger there, since it is anime which is always a more niche thing in the U.S., but is a local Japanese thing.

Even the highest-grossing anime in the U.S. is only $85 million for the first Pokemon.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=anime.htm.

Although I love them and fully support what they do, Gkids is a niche studio specializing in niche animation, and for them to have crossed $2 million with Mary is quite an accomplishment. It should not be expected to gross anywhere near the same amount of money here that a U.S. animated film from one of the major studios was going to do.

 

[TravisR]

And ASIB isn't done yet, not by a longshot.

Plus, I'd imagine that it'll get a small re-release in January or February when it gets Oscar nominations.

 

[Malcolm R]

I'm glad to hear this. Do you have any numbers for Japan?

Just click the "Foreign" link you quoted above. For some reason the foreign totals are not summarizing on the main page, but the totals are available at the link. Looks like about $40m foreign, around $27m in Japan.

I think some of this year's bigger disappointments at the domestic box office include The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, First Man, Skyscraper, The Predator, Pacific Rim: Uprising, The Happytime Murders, Tomb Raider, and Hotel Artemis.

I still think it will end its domestic run with a larger total than Venom.

Domestic, perhaps, but worldwide Venom is far more popular, approaching $700m worldwide including a $111m debut in China this weekend. But ASIB has done very well, with over $322m worldwide.

 

[benbess]

Found worldwide numbers for Mary and the Witch's Flower—and it's pretty good: $42 million worldwide.

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Meari-to-majo-no-hana-(Japan)/South-Korea#tab=summary

 

[Jake Lipson]

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

For sure. I would also add A Wrinkle in Time as another one that did less than Disney wanted it to, limping to $100m domestic and probably losing money relative to its budget and marketing costs. Of course, Nutcracker isn't even going to come anywhere close to those numbers, but both are clearly in the miss column. However, Disney is as well-positioned to take those losses as any studio could be, due to the tremendous success they've had this year with the combination of Black Panther, Infinity War and Incredibles 2 being #1, #2 and #3 for the year with such enormous grosses that nothing from the remainder of the year is likely to challenge them.

It is interesting to note that Disney continues to have trouble with live-action when it's not something from their proven brands of the MCU, Star Wars, or a live-action remake of a popular animated film. (I'm excluding Solo from this because there's no point in putting further salt in that wound.)

 

[benbess]

This was another one of my favorite movies for this year, but yikes did it flop at the box office. Although they don't have the production budget numbers, it looked like at least a $40 million dollar movie. Rami Malek, who is so good on Bohemian Rhapsody, is also good here.

Papillon (2018)
Domestic Total Gross: $2,335,896
Distributor: Bleecker Street Release Date: August 24, 2018
Genre: Drama Runtime: 2 hrs. 16 min.
MPAA Rating: R Production Budget: N/A
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $2,335,896 51.7%
+ Foreign: $2,180,684 48.3%
= Worldwide: $4,516,580

 

[benbess]

The more I think about it the more I liked this movie, which as the title says is about a bookshop. It's sort of Greek tragedy story line, but it stayed with me more than some of the other movies of this year. It's possible they made this movie for as little as maybe $4 million, which might mean that it broke even....

The Bookshop
Domestic Total Gross: $1,588,150
Distributor: Greenwich Release Date: August 24, 2018
Genre: Drama Runtime: 1 hrs. 53 min.
MPAA Rating: PG Production Budget: N/A
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $1,588,150 15.2%
+ Foreign: $8,842,442 84.8%
= Worldwide: $10,430,592

 

[benbess]

My favorite horror movie this year was Winchester, which apparently was a big box office success relative to budget.

Budget $3.5 million[1]
Box office $41.3 million[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_(film)

 

[benbess]

Imho The Nun was a mediocre horror movie, but it was a massive hit....

The Nun
Domestic Total as of Nov. 8, 2018: $117,315,771
Distributor: Warner Bros. (New Line) Release Date: September 7, 2018
Genre: Horror Runtime: 1 hrs. 36 min.
MPAA Rating: R Production Budget: $22 million
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $117,315,771 32.2%
+ Foreign: $247,300,000 67.8%
= Worldwide: $364,615,771

 

[Malcolm R]

Beautiful Boy appears to be another disappointment in the making. Budget is listed at $19.3m and it's obviously not connecting with any mainstream audience, bringing in an anemic per-screen average in its first week of wide-ish release ($1800 per screen for the weekend across 776 screens, second worst average in the Top 13 films) and just over $5 million in gross to date.

Not sure what this means for any Oscar hopes, but it wouldn't seem to be good.

 

[benbess]

Beautiful Boy appears to be another disappointment in the making. Budget is listed at $19.3m and it's obviously not connecting with any mainstream audience, bringing in an anemic per-screen average in its first week of wide-ish release ($1800 per screen for the weekend across 776 screens, second worst average in the Top 13 films) and just over $5 million in gross to date.

Not sure what this means for any Oscar hopes, but it wouldn't seem to be good.

I would like to see this one, but it does sound rather depressing....

 

[Jake Lipson]

Not sure what this means for any Oscar hopes, but it wouldn't seem to be good.

We know the Academy will nominate small films whether they're hits at the box office or not, but I'd say the mixed critical response would be more damaging to awards hopes than the box office. A 69% on Rotten Tomatoes is not terrible, but it also doesn't indicate that critics are head-over-heels in love with it either, and the Academy is likely to find other films that they like more, such as A Star is Born, which has had a much more rapturous critical response.

 

[Wayne_j]

1 N Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald WB $62,200,000 - 4,163 - $14,941 $62,200,000 $200 1
2 1 Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018) Uni. $38,165,000 -43.5% 4,141 - $9,216 $126,544,280 $75 2
3 2 Bohemian Rhapsody Fox $15,700,000 -49.7% 3,810 -190 $4,121 $127,885,859 $52 3
4 N Instant Family Par. $14,700,000 - 3,286 - $4,474 $14,700,000 $48 1
5 N Widows Fox $12,300,000 - 2,803 - $4,388 $12,300,000 $42 1
6 4 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms BV $4,678,000 -53.6% 2,635 -1,131 $1,775 $43,870,690 $120 3
7 5 A Star is Born (2018) WB $4,350,000 -46.3% 2,010 -838 $2,164 $185,840,907 $36 7
8 3 Overlord Par. $3,850,000 -62.3% 2,859 - $1,347 $17,742,889 $38 2
9 6 The Girl in the Spider's Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story Sony $2,500,000 -68.0% 2,929 - $854 $13,290,523 $43 2
10 7 Nobody's Fool Par. $2,260,000 -65.9% 1,301 -1,167 $1,737 $28,887,618 $19 3