AwardsWatch - it: chapter two

DOWNTON ABBEY (Focus Features / Jaap Buitendijk)

‘Downton’ takes the crown in a well-saturated weekend; ‘Hustlers’ keeps popping bottles

Jonathan Boehle September 22, 2019

While tracking had the weekend box office set for a near-photo finish between the new openers and two holdovers, Downton Abbey won the weekend rather handedly, in... Read More

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Michelle Dockery stars as Lady Mary Talbot and Matthew Goode as Henry Talbot in DOWNTON ABBEY, a Focus Features release.
Credit: Jaap Buitendijk / Focus Features

Box Office Preview and Predictions: Beauty should beat brawn as ‘Downton Abbey’ looks at a lavish opening against ‘Rambo’

Jonathan Boehle September 19, 2019

With three new, well-hyped wide releases and two sizable holdovers, this weekend we appear to be in for one of the wilder box office races... Read More

Box Office Estimates: ‘Hustlers’ makes it rain with $33M, ‘The Goldfinch’ goes extinct

Jonathan Boehle September 15, 2019

‘Hustlers’ delivers one of the year’s best non-franchise openings at weekend box office and the top debut from STX Entertainment While IT: Chapter Two held onto the... Read More

Box Office Preview and Predictions: ‘Hustlers’ aims for record opening for JLo, STX

Jonathan Boehle September 12, 2019

Early September weekends are traditionally a no-man’s-land for breakout openers, unless you’re delivering relatively cheap thrills (the IT and Resident Evil movies, Screen Gems thrillers like The Perfect Guy and No Good... Read More

Box Office Estimates – IT: Chapter Two opens to $91M, second only to first chapter among September, horror openers

Jonathan Boehle September 8, 2019

IT: Chapter Two opened this weekend to an estimated $91 million in its opening weekend, a massive start that would be shocking and record-breaking on several... Read More

(L-r) JAMES McAVOY as Bill Denbrough, JAMES RANSONE as Eddie Kaspbrak, JESSICA CHASTAIN as Beverly Marsh, BILL HADER as Richie Tozier, ISAIAH MUSTAFA as Mike Hanlon, and JAY RYAN as Ben Hascomb in New Line Cinema’s horror thriller "IT CHAPTER TWO,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (Photo: Brooke Palmer)

Box Office Preview and Predictions (Sep 6-8) – ‘IT: Chapter Two’ aims to float to another record opening

Jonathan Boehle September 5, 2019

Two Septembers ago, IT shattered all previous conceptions of how well a horror film and a September release could perform at the box office with its record... Read More