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 2009 could mark the first year that Hollywood breaks $10 billion in total U.S. Box Office sales. As of March 16, the total gross revenues are at $2.089 billion, 12.4% over the same point in 2008. If this pace is maintained, total U.S. Box Office will reach $10.771 billion by year end. A January [...]

Share This posting is the third part of a series focusing on 2008′s top 100 movies.The first posting presented the movies, as ranked by their total U.S. box office gross. The second posting investigated the link between their box office performance and critical reviews. This third posting will take a look at their production budgets [...]

Share This posting is the second part of a series focusing on 2008′s top 100 movies, ranked by total U.S. box office gross. As many of the top earners like The Dark Knight, Iron Man and Wall-E received favorable reviews I wanted to check out the link between a ‘quality’ movie and box office success. [...]

Share For some time now I’ve been compiling a ton of data for last year’s top movies. I was initially curious about comparing box office performance to critical reviews (more on that later), but during my research I also came across some other interesting trends. So, who are the ‘hits’ I studied? I decided to [...]