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Star Wars Crosses $700 Million

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star-wars-force-awakens-official-posterStar Wars: The Force Awakens was the top of the box office for the third week in a row adding an estimated $88.3 million to its total. The film ends the year crossing the $700 million mark with $740.27 million to be the top grossing film domestically.

The film’s success made it the second largest January weekend of all time falling about $4.5 million short of the record back in 2009 when Avatar was in theaters. The Force Awakens will likely pass that film’s all time domestic record of $760.5 million this coming week. The film is also the fastest film to cross $700 million domestically, doing in 16 days what it took Avatar 72 to do. The Force Awakens currently is the sixth highest grossing film of all time, and it will likely move in to fourth in a day or two and in to third be the end of the week the latest.

For the rest of the weekend box office, Daddy’s Home was in second place earning $29 million, with The Hateful Eight coming in third as it increased its theater count. That film earned an estimated $16.2 million. Sisters came in fourth adding $12.58 million to its total after three weeks. Rounding out the top five, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip earned an estimated $11.8 million.

Here’s the totals to end the year.

Domestic

  1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – $740.27 million
  2. Jurassic World – $652.27 million
  3. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $459.01 million
  4. Inside Out – $356.46 million
  5. Furious 7 – $353.01 million

Worldwide

  1. Jurassic World – $1.6690 billion
  2. Furious 7 – $1.5150 billion
  3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – $1.5108 billion
  4. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $1.4050 billion
  5. Minions – $1.1573 billion

Comic Adaptations Domestic

  1. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $459.01 million
  2. Ant-Man – $180.20 million
  3. Kingsman: The Secret Service – $128.26 million
  4. The Peanuts Movie – $128.78 million
  5. Fantastic Four – $56.12 million
  6. Diary of a Teenage Girl – $1.48 million

Comic Adaptations Worldwide

  1. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $1.4050 billion
  2. Ant-Man – $519.25 million
  3. Kingsman: The Secret Service – $414.35 million
  4. The Peanuts Movie – $205.86 million
  5. Fantastic Four – $167.98 million
  6. Diary of a Teenage Girl – $1.48 million

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Crosses $1 Billion, Stays in First

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star-wars-force-awakens-official-posterThe records keep falling to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The film broke even more records this past weekend. The film cross the $1 billion mark worldwide in record time. The film earned an estimated $153.5 million this past weekend, the highest second weekend of all time. It beat the previous record holder, Jurassic World, by $46.9 million. The film has earned $544 million domestically and $546 million internationally for a total of $1.09 billion.

In just two weekends, the film is now the second highest grossing domestic release in 2015 and the fifth worldwide. Avatar holds the domestic record of $760.5 million, and it’s not a question “if” Star Wars will top that, but more likely “when” will it top that. The film is currently fifteenth in the all-time non-adjusted grosses. It would have to over double its earnings, and has yet to open in some key markets like China.

A whole bunch of other films opened up this weekend as well.

Daddy’s Home opened in second place earning an estimated $38.8 million, better than expectations. Joy opened in third with $17.5 million. Concussion, which takes on the NFL and football, opened in sixth with $11 million. The Point Break remake came in eighth earning an estimated $10.2 million. The Hateful Eight opened in limited released coming in eleventh and earning $4.5 million. Also opening in limited release, The Revenant earned an estimated $471,000 and came in 21st; Mr. Six earned $286,847 for 24th place; and 45 Years earned $69,300 for 29th place.

Here’s this year’s top earners so far:

Domestic

  1. Jurassic World – $652.27 million
  2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – $544.57 million
  3. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $459.01 million
  4. Inside Out – $356.46 million
  5. Furious 7 – $353.01 million

Worldwide

  1. Jurassic World – $1.6690 billion
  2. Furious 7 – $1.5150 billion
  3. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $1.4050 billion
  4. Minions – $1.1573 billion
  5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – $1.0906 billion

Comic Adaptations Domestic

  1. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $459.01 million
  2. Ant-Man – $180.20 million
  3. Kingsman: The Secret Service – $128.26 million
  4. The Peanuts Movie – $127.60 million
  5. Fantastic Four – $56.12 million
  6. Diary of a Teenage Girl – $1.48 million

Comic Adaptations Worldwide

  1. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $1.4050 billion
  2. Ant-Man – $518.63 million
  3. Kingsman: The Secret Service – $414.35 million
  4. The Peanuts Movie – $172.74 million
  5. Fantastic Four – $167.98 million
  6. Diary of a Teenage Girl – $1.48 million

Star Wars Dominates the Box Office, Chipmunks Squeak With Dud

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star-wars-force-awakens-official-posterIf you watched the new you might not know there were multiple movies opening this weekend. Star Wars: The Force Awakens dominated the box office shattering records, as was expected. The film earned an estimated $238 million domestically and $279 million internationally to give it a total of $517 million after less than a week.

I won’t rehash all of the records crushed by the film, you can read those here. The big questions now, 1) How quickly will the film reach $1 billion; 2) Will it top Avatar as the top grossing domestic film; 3) Will it top Avatar as the top grossing film of all time not adjusted for inflation?

There were other films that opened this weekend!

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip came in second place and earned an estimated $14.4 million. That’s far less than the previous film’s debut of $23.2 million and continues a decline for the film series.

Sisters opened in third and brought in $13.4 million, about the same as This is 40 which also opened against a big film and both had similar reviews.

Two Bollywood films opened too. Diwale came in ninth earning $1.875 million and Bajirao Mastani came in tenth earning $1.66 million.

For films already playing, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 was fourth with an estimated $5.7 million, and Creed was fifth adding $5.1 million to its total.

Here’s this year’s top earners so far:

Domestic

  1. Jurassic World – $652.27 million
  2. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $459.01 million
  3. Inside Out – $356.46 million
  4. Furious 7 – $353.01 million
  5. Minions – $336.05 million

Worldwide

  1. Jurassic World – $1.6690 billion
  2. Furious 7 – $1.5150 billion
  3. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $1.4050 billion
  4. Minions – $1.1573 billion
  5. Inside Out – $851.6 million

Comic Adaptations Domestic

  1. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $459.01 million
  2. Ant-Man – $180.20 million
  3. Kingsman: The Secret Service – $128.26 million
  4. The Peanuts Movie – $126.32 million
  5. Fantastic Four – $56.12 million
  6. Diary of a Teenage Girl – $1.48 million

Comic Adaptations Worldwide

  1. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $1.4050 billion
  2. Ant-Man – $518.63 million
  3. Kingsman: The Secret Service – $414.35 million
  4. Fantastic Four – $167.98 million
  5. The Peanuts Movie – $145.27 million
  6. Diary of a Teenage Girl – $1.48 million

Mockingjay Part 2 Remains Number 1, In the Heart of the Sea S(t)inks

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mockingjaypostersmallFour weeks in the box office, and for weeks number one at the box office. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 remained in first place adding an estimated $11.3 million to its domestic total. The film has earned $244.49 million domestically and $564.59 million globally in its run so far. It will likely be bumped from first place this coming week as Star Wars: The Force Awakens debuts in theaters.

New film In the Heart of the Sea hit a stormy patch as the film earned an estimated $11 million, a disappointment. The film is rumored to have a budget around $100 million and needed to open around $30 million to be considered healthy.

The Big Short also debuted earning an estimated $720,000. The film opened in only 8 theaters which gives it a very health $90,000 per theater average.

For the rest of the top five for the weekend. The Good Dinosaur was in third with $10.5 million earning, Creed was fourth adding $10.12 million, and Krampus was fifth with $8.01 million.

Domestic

  1. Jurassic World – $652.27 million
  2. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $459.01 million
  3. Inside Out – $356.46 million
  4. Furious 7 – $353.01 million
  5. Minions – $335.97 million

Worldwide

  1. Jurassic World – $1.6690 billion
  2. Furious 7 – $1.5150 billion
  3. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $1.4050 billion
  4. Minions – $1.1572 billion
  5. Inside Out – $851.6 million

Comic Adaptations Domestic

  1. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $459.01 million
  2. Ant-Man – $180.16 million
  3. Kingsman: The Secret Service – $128.26 million
  4. The Peanuts Movie – $124.96 million
  5. Fantastic Four – $56.12 million
  6. Diary of a Teenage Girl – $1.48 million

Comic Adaptations Worldwide

  1. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $1.4050 billion
  2. Ant-Man – $518.59 million
  3. Kingsman: The Secret Service – $414.35 million
  4. Fantastic Four – $167.98 million
  5. The Peanuts Movie – $141.57 million
  6. Diary of a Teenage Girl – $1.48 million

Mockingjay Part 2 Stays in First for Third Week

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mockingjaypostersmallThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 was in first place this past weekend for the third week in a row. The film earned $18.6 million to bring its domestic total to $227.1 million.

The film fought off some competition that came close to toppling it. Krampus debuted and brought in an estimated $16 million. With a budget of $15 million, that’s a solid debut.

Other new films Chi-Raq and The Letters didn’t do as well. Chi-Raq was in 13th place earning an estimated $1.25 million and The Letters earned $802,000.

For the rest of the top five, Creed was in third earning an estimated $15.54 million, The Good Dinosaur was fourth at $15.51 million, and Spectre was fifth with $5.4 million.

Here’s this year’s top five films domestically and worldwide so far as well as how “comic book movies” have done:

Domestic

  1. Jurassic World – $652.2 million
  2. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $459.01 million
  3. Inside Out – $356.43 million
  4. Furious 7 – $352.79 million
  5. Minions – $335.87 million

Worldwide

  1. Jurassic World – $1.6689 billion
  2. Furious 7 – $1.5148 billion
  3. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $1.4050 billion
  4. Minions – $1.1571 billion
  5. Inside Out – $851.6 million

Comic Adaptations Domestic

  1. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $459.01 million
  2. Ant-Man – $180.09 million
  3. Kingsman: The Secret Service – $128.26 million
  4. The Peanuts Movie – $121.44 million
  5. Fantastic Four – $56.12 million
  6. Diary of a Teenage Girl – $1.48 million

Comic Adaptations Worldwide

 

  1. Avengers: Age of Ultron – $1.4050 billion
  2. Ant-Man – $518.52 million
  3. Kingsman: The Secret Service – $414.35 million
  4. Fantastic Four – $167.98 million
  5. The Peanuts Movie – $134.67 million
  6. Diary of a Teenage Girl – $1.48 million

 

Around the Tubes

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The weekend is almost here! What’s everyone doing? Is anyone going to see Fantastic Four?

While you contemplate that, here’s some news and reviews you might have missed in our roundup from around the web.

Around the Tubes

The Verge – Designing the ultimate Batmobile for Batman: Arkham Knight – This is a pretty cool read.

NPR – On Screen, ‘Diary Of A Teenage Girl’ Packs The Punch Of A Good Graphic Novel – Best comic adaptation of the year?

 

Around the Tubes Reviews

The Outhousers – Adam.3 #1

CBR – Doctor Who: Four Doctors #1

ICv2 – The Eternal Warrior: Days of Steel

Talking Comics – Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl #1

Talking Comics – Secret Wars #5

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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Rasputin07_CoverWednesdays are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in!

We’re bringing back something we haven’t done for a while, what the team thinks. Our contributors are choosing up to five books each week and why they’re choosing the books.

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this Wednesday.

Brett

Southern Bastards #10 (Image Comics) – One of the, if not the, best comic out there right now. It’s usually a slow burn, but each issue has more character insights than many comics have in a year. This Southern noir is fantastic on every level.

Captain Canuck #3 (Chapter House Publishing) – Some times you want your heroes to lose the gritty aspect, and just be heroes. This series gets back to that courtesy of some talented Canadian creators. Fun action, that’s entertaining and loses the cynicism of today’s superhero comics.

Invisible Republic #5 (Image Comics) – An amazing series that definitely doesn’t get the attention it deserves. It involves a reporter digging into the revolutionaries that took over a planet, and digs up a bit of dirt. An amazing focus on history being used as propaganda.

Princeless: Be Yourself #2 (Action Lab Entertainment) – The new series hasn’t missed a beat and continues the fun fantasy adventure with a bit of girl power mixed in.

Rasputin #7 (Image Comics) – The first arc focusing on the historical figure was interesting. Flash forward 100 years, and not only is he alive, he’s also advising a Presidential candidate. Now you have my undivided attention.

 

Edward

Top Pick: Hacktivist Vol. 2 #1 (BOOM! Studios) –  The second series dealing with the group of hackers follows on the plot from the first series, and tries to answer some unresolved questions.

Batgirl Annual #3 (DC Comics) – Kind of a catch-all for Batgirl, as she faces off against Helena Bertinelli, a former Batgirl (from No Man’s Land) and Dick Grayson (her pre-new 52 romantic interest).  Throw in a visit to Gotham Academy and this sounds pretty fun.

He-Man: Eternity War #8 (DC Comics) – There has been no missteps in this entire series as the creative team has pushed the envelope of what defines the core group of characters.  This is not your childhood’s He-Man.

Jem and the Holograms #5 (IDW Publishing) – This series has been nothing but fun since its launch.  It doesn’t look likely to stop any time soon either.  One can only hope that the suggested food fight from the cover gets realized inside.

Lazarus #18 (Image Comics) – Lazarus goes to Duluth to win the war, as different plot lines begin to intersect.

 

Elana

Top Pick: Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight: Trade Paperback Vol 3: Slay Ride and Blood Lagoon (Dark Horse) – “Books like ‘Grindhouse’ were the reason the Comics Code was invented.” – creator Alex De Campi.

That’s a promise and a warning. De Campi absolutely delivers on grindhouse cinema gratification in comic book form– even better, it comes from a frankly female perspective on the genre. This series is messed up in all the RIGHT ways.

Each trade contains self-contained story arcs so you can pick up volume 3 even if you’ve never read the series before. In Volume 3 my entirely fictional girlfriend, Deputy Garcia is back with her motorcycle and eyepatch. I can’t wait!

Series creator Alex de Campi is our podcast guest next week!

Batgirl Annual #3 (DC Comics) – Cameron Stewart and Brenden Fletcher art by Bengal, David Lafuente, Mingjue Helen Chen, Ming Doyle…. Look at that list of awesome writers and artists! Not only do we get Babs catching up with Dick Grayson but we also see her meet with Batwoman and the Gotham Academy kids! These are all of my favorite things in one place! It is a standalone story you can read even if you aren’t reading the new Batgirl series. But after reading this I’m sure you’ll want to.

Phoebe Gloeckner: Diary of a Teenage Girl (North Atlantic Books) – Considered one of the best graphic novels of last decade it’s probably time that you (and I) finally read it! Plus there’s a movie of it coming out soon and you don’t want to be called a “poser”, right? The book is a combination of prose and illustration reads like autobiography. The press release calls it “a dark story of sex and drugs in the life of a 1970s teenage girl.” You should read Sean T Collins review because I can’t do it justice till I read the book.

1602 Witch Hunter Angela #2 (Marvel) – This is the funniest series in Secret Wars and the prettiest too. Last issue we met Shakespeare, Marlowe and King James (Logan Howlett aka Wolverine) and other Faustians (aka people with superpowers). This issue Angela and Sera will meet “Ye Olde Guardians of the Galaxy.”

 

Mr. H

Top Pick: Thors #2 (Marvel Comics) – The case is heating up as the murder mystery of the Gods continues. Blood, Hammers, and Justice shalt be served!

Daredevil #17 (Marvel Comics) – The last days of The Man Without Fear? Could be. This creative team has been white hot so I know Matt is in good hands, but I want to see the payoff.

Red Sonja Vol.2 #17 (Dynamite Entertainment) – Red hot chick swinging a sword, as usual all over this one. The 1973 one shot gave me a rejuvenation for this title. Hope the momentum doesn’t wane.

Superman #42 (DC Comics) – I am actually enjoying the prelude to the “Truth” storyline a lot more than the actual crossover. I’m interested to see just what it was that made Lois out Clark’s ID to the world? This intrepid reporter needs some answers. By Rao, I need them now!

TMNT Ongoing #48 (IDW Publishing) – The Stockman Swarm, The Shredder and Karai all move in for the kill. How could this not be good?

 

Paul

Top Pick: Thors #2 (Marvel) – the first issue of this story was fantastic; a crime story following the ‘police’ of Battleworld, the Thors.  Law and Order meets Asgardian officers, working on the orders of Lord Doom to keep the peace, and the foundation of Battleworld, in one piece.  Excited for what happens next.

Top Pick: X-Men ’92 #2 (Marvel) – the first issue totally brought me back to Saturday mornings, watching Marvel’s merry mutants as most of us remember them, complete with colourful costumes and Wolverine and Cyclops sniping at each other.  I am looking forward to see more from Cassandra Nova and what her rehabilitation facility for mutants is really all about.

1602 Witch Hunter Angela #2 (Marvel) – This was a very interesting first issue, following Angela hunting ‘witchbreed’, which turns out to be mutants.  The second issue puts Angela on the path to see dire omens not come to pass, and also introduces use to “Ye olde Guardians of the Galaxy”.  Looking forward to this.

S.H.I.E.L.D. #8 (Marvel) – I am a huge fan of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. tv show, and just as big a fan of the comic book treatment of the show.  It’s fun to see the tv agents paired up with various heroes from the Marvel universe an work together to solve the problem of the issue.  This issue has Agent May and Mockingbird setting out to kick some ass….sign me up!

 

Steven Attewell

Batgirl #42 (DC Comics) – despite not being remotely in the target demographic for this book, I’ve been enjoying the hell out of this series’ exploration of fame and identity.

Conan the Avenger #16 (Dark Horse) – Dark Horse’s Conan run has been one of the most consistently enjoyable comics for me in recent years (with the exception of that odd bit where Belit went to Cimmeria), so if given an option I’ll always pick one up.

Copperhead #9 (Image Comics) – Read the first trade of this unusual space-western/single-mom comic and really enjoyed the strange little world that Jay Faerber and Scott Godlewski have thrown together, so I’ll keep following this story.

Rasputin #7 (Image Comics) – A really strange little gem, this series posits a revisionist history of the infamous Russian mystic in which Grigori Rasputin’s powers not only are quite real and extend to genuine resurrection and clairvoyancy, but he’s also secretly a prince in communion with the forces of Russian folklore.

Southern Bastards #10 (Image Comics) – having really enjoyed Scalped, I eagerly anticipated Jason Aaron’s new series. Took me a while to get into the first trade – something about the way Jason Latour draws mouths threw me off until I got used to it – but the second trade’s revelation of Coach Boss’ backstory was mesmerizing and made this a must-read for me.