Even with an impressive number of billion-dollar blockbusters, the 2019 summer box office won’t be one for the record books. (Variety)
From the first weekend in May to Labor Day, a period that can account for as much as 40 percent of annual movie ticket sales, box office revenue in the U.S. and Canada is expected to total about $4.32 billion, a 2 percent decline from the same period last year, according to Comscore. (NYT)
Close to 50 percent of this summer’s ticket sales came from Disney-branded IP ($2.2 billion), and 18 percent from its Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame (which opened on April 26), leaving a slew of lower-to-mid-sized budgeted films gasping. (Deadline)
Gerard Butler’s Angel Has Fallen easily topped the Labor Day holiday weekend with $14.8 million at 3,336 locations in North America, for an 11-day total of nearly $44 million. (Variety)
Buoyed by four minutes of new footage—and recent headlines over the controversial Sony-Marvel Studios divorce—the rerelease of Spider-Man: Far From Home paid off at the Labor Day box office picnic. (THR / Heat Vision)