Share Summer recently ended and with it finished the biggest season for the U.S. Box Office. This time period is generally considered to run between the first weekend of May and the end of Labor Day weekend. While this spans only a third of the year this summer season contributes close to half of the [...]

Share During 2008 and 2009 the domestic box office grew by double digits, outpacing the overall annual growth. This trend is likely to repeat this year as first quarter results passed $2.4 billion, 10.2% over last year and over a third bigger than where it was in 2006. dtsv.dtse_post_1907_permalink = ‘http://betweenthescreens.com/2010/03/q1-box-office-gets-bigger/’; dtsv.dtse_post_1907_title = ‘Q1 box [...]

Share James Cameron’s latest film Avatar has had yet another strong weekend at the box office, making $50.3 million and breaking the record for biggest four weekend gross, previously held by Cameron’s penultimate film Titanic. Despite having not such a spectacular opening weekend, Avatar has maintained dropped off less than most movies and has already [...]

Share Avatar, James Cameron’s new film, premiered to the public late last night. Since James Cameron’s last movie, Titanic, is currently the number one domestic grossing movie of all time, in the long term Avatar is expected to do well and a lot of articles are appearing that are trying to predict and compare its potential success. The Economist [...]