Top 5 Breakdown
- The Lego Batman Movie – £2,893,337 – £23,076,742
Holding #1 for a third weekend dropping 34.8% in its third weekend taking 11.6% less than The Lego Movie in its third weekend which took £3.26m and 13.9% less than its total box office £25.67m.
The first film to stay at number 1 since Rogue One in January with Logan out next week followed by Kong: Skull Island in two weeks’ time Beauty and the Beast and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 will probably be the next films to hold top for three weeks.
If The Lego Batman Movie continues to perform as it is will look to add about £5m to its box office ending with about £28m 18% less than The Lego Movie due in part by Sing opening two weeks earlier but in doing so both films have cannibalised each other’s audience.
Chris McKay who directed The Lego Batman Movie has talked about The Lego Movie 2 describing it as a big musical and space action movie. The first Lego Movie featured the Oscar-nominated song “Everything is Awesome” and The Lego Batman Movie featured the song “Friends Are Family”. The Lego Movie 2 is set for 8th February 2019 release with Ninjago opening 22nd September 2017.
Anti-LGBTQ groups described The Lego Batman Movie as pro-gay propaganda claiming the film is full of homosexual elements highlighting Bruce Wayne’s dual identity with Robin seeing Batman and Bruce Wayne as separate people he sees them as his two dads promoting gay adoption. While the relationship between Batman and the Joker is homoerotic.
- Fifty Shades Darker – £1,449,678 – £20,310,579
Down 56.3% in its third weekend; Fifty Shades Darker third weekend box office was 33% less than Fifty Shades of Grey which took £1.5m Vs £2.24m with its total its current total is also 33% less than Fifty Shades Darker £20.31 Vs £30.31m.
After three weeks Fifty Shades of Grey had taken 86.3% of its final box office if Fifty Shades Darker was to hold similarly would add another £2.78m to take £23.09m 42% less than Fifty Shades of Grey.
The UK was the biggest international territory for Fifty Shades of Grey but Germany has overtaken the UK to be the current biggest international for Fifty Shades Darker.
Fifty Shades of Grey as its sequel are performing close to the Twilight films for which the books were fan fiction of. While Fifty Shades Darker held far stronger in its second weekend compared with the original film and Twilight films its opening box office was almost half of those other openers while Fifty Shades Darker release date sandwiched in the middle of Valentine’s Day which split its box office over two weekends the pre-release hype for Fifty Shades of Grey brought it all to its opening weekend.
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| Film | Year | O W/E | 2nd WE | Drop | 2 W/E T | 3 w/e | drop | 3 total | %of BO | final BO | |||||||||||||
| Sex and the City | Ent | 2008 | £8.76 | £3.08 | 65% | £16.06 | £1.78 | 42% | £20.32 | 76.9% | £26.4 | ||||||||||||
| Twilight: New Moon | eOne | 2009 | £11.68 | £4.30 | 63% | £20.32 | £1.62 | 62% | £23.51 | 85.8% | £27.4 | ||||||||||||
| Sex and the City 2 | WB | 2010 | £6.14 | £2.47 | 60% | £13.65 | £1.48 | 40% | £17.41 | 80.6% | £21.6 | ||||||||||||
| Twilight: Eclipse | eOne | 2010 | £13.76 | £3.39 | 75% | £22.09 | £1.43 | 58% | £25.63 | 86.2% | £29.7 | ||||||||||||
| Twilight BD Part 1 | eOne | 2011 | £13.91 | £4.57 | 67% | £23.10 | £1.67 | 63% | £27.33 | 89.1% | £30.7 | ||||||||||||
| Twilight BD Part 2 | eOne | 2012 | £15.85 | £5.34 | 66% | £26.97 | £2.18 | 59% | £31.37 | 87.6% | £35.8 | ||||||||||||
| Fifty Shades of Grey | Univ | 2015 | £13.27 | £4.56 | 66% | £25.2 | £2.24 | 51% | £30.31 | 86.3% | £35.1 | ||||||||||||
| Fifty Shades Darker | Univ | 2017 | £7.56 | £3.44 | 44% | £16.71 | £1.5 | 56% | £20.31 | 86%* | £22.0* | ||||||||||||
Fifty Shades Darker is now the sixth highest grossing 18 film in the UK (behind Fifty Shades of Grey, The Wolf of Wall Street, Gone Girl, Hannibal and American Beauty) overtaking Legend, The Silence of the Lambs £17.1m and Seven £19.5m. As those two films were released 26 and 21 years ago, impossible to compare their box office as inflation increased box office would be £41.81m and £36.64; comparing admissions shows how ticket prices have affected box office The Silence of the Lambs admissions 5.64m average ticket prices in 1991 were £3.03; Seven admissions were 5.27m in 1996 when average ticket prices were £3.70; Fifty Shades Darker £20.31m admissions 2.74m average ticket are £7.41 admissions are 51% less than The Silence of the Lambs and 48% less than Seven.
While being an 18 film the audience for Fifty Shades of Grey and its sequel can only be compared to Trainspotting and T2 Trainspotting as they are targeting teen 18s rather than older audiences. Along with most are over 10 years old when ticket prices when less than half they are now.
Biggest 18 films UK Box Office sorted by admissions shows how price has affected film’s box office performance over the last 27 years; Fatal Attraction is the 13th biggest 18 by box office but had almost 2 million more admissions than Fifty Shades of Grey but 56%less box office.
| Year | BO T | Av Y P | Adms | 2017 BO | ||
| Fatal Attraction | 1988 | £15.40 | £2.30 | 6.70 | £7.41 | £49.61 |
| The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | £17.10 | £3.03 | 5.64 | £7.41 | £41.82 |
| Seven | 1996 | £19.50 | £3.70 | 5.27 | £7.41 | £39.05 |
| Hannibal | 2001 | £21.50 | £4.14 | 5.19 | £7.41 | £38.48 |
| American Beauty | 2000 | £21.30 | £4.35 | 4.90 | £7.41 | £36.28 |
| Fifty Shades of Grey | 2015 | £35.10 | £7.21 | 4.87 | £7.41 | £36.07 |
| Basic Instinct | 1992 | £15.40 | £3.21 | 4.80 | £7.41 | £35.55 |
| Pulp Fiction | 1994 | £12.60 | £3.25 | 3.88 | £7.41 | £28.73 |
| The Wolf of Wall Street | 2014 | £22.60 | £6.72 | 3.36 | £7.41 | £24.92 |
| Trainspotting | 1996 | £12.40 | £3.70 | 3.35 | £7.41 | £24.83 |
| Gone Girl | 2014 | £22.50 | £6.72 | 3.35 | £7.41 | £24.81 |
| Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | 1998 | £11.70 | £4.03 | 2.90 | £7.41 | £21.51 |
| Bruno | 2009 | £15.70 | £5.44 | 2.89 | £7.41 | £21.39 |
| Snatch | 2000 | £12.40 | £4.35 | 2.85 | £7.41 | £21.12 |
| Fifty Shades Darker | 2017 | £20.30 | £7.41 | 2.74 | £7.41 | £20.30 |
| The Departed | 2006 | £12.80 | £4.87 | 2.63 | £7.41 | £19.48 |
| Legend | 2015 | £18.30 | £7.21 | 2.54 | £7.41 | £18.81 |
| Django Unchained | 2013 | £15.70 | £6.53 | 2.40 | £7.41 | £17.82 |
| T2 Trainspotting | 2017 | £16.10 | £7.41 | 2.17 | £7.41 | £16.10 |
| The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo | 2011 | £12.30 | £6.06 | 2.03 | £7.41 | £15.04 |
Overshadowed by many other events at the Oscars was Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson awkward moment showing have no chemistry presenting the Best Production Design award. Dakota tried to make a joke but just made everyone watching cringe.
- Sing – £1,476,148 – £26,553,860
Down 30.2% in its fifth weekend holding better than previous Illumination films as Sing is limited to weekend screenings while the fifth weekends of Despicable Me 2, Minions and The Secret Life of Pets were part of the school summer holidays.
After five weeks, previous Illumination films box office
| OWE | 2w/e | 3 w/e | 4 w/e | 5th WE | 5th T | total | |||
| The Secret Life of Pets | 24 Jun 2016 | £9.58 | £4.72 | £3.62m | £2.05m | £1.21m | £28.0 | £36.43m | 76.85% |
| Minions | 26 Jun 2015 | £11.55 | £.3.7 | £4.14m | £2.70m | £2.26m | £37.09 | £47.25m | 78.49% |
| Despicable Me 2 | 28 Jun 2013 | £14.78 | £3.9 | £2.25m | £1.85m | £2.08m | £34.67 | £47.4m | 73.14% |
| Despicable Me | 15 Oct 2010 | £3.66 | £2.58 | £2.58m | £1.17m | £1.08m | £18.17 | £21.2m | 85.70% |
- John Wick: Chapter 2 – £1,146,520 – £4,443,479
Down 48.4% in its second weekend has already taken double of the first film but will likely drop heavily this weekend with the arrival of Logan opening on Wednesday.
At 2016 CinemaCon Keanu Reeves hunted there will be more sequels planned after the strong performance of the sequel Chapter 3 will surely be announced very soon.
- Hidden Figures – £986,288 – £3,348,278
Down only 18% in its second weekend (31.9% including previews) due to strong word of mouth; while being many people’s favourite Oscar nominee failed to win any Oscars disappointed many. Of the three Oscar nominees that opened two weeks ago, Hidden Figures held far stronger but both Fences and Moonlight won Oscars which will see increased in their box offices over the coming week.
Before the La La Land/Moonlight Best Picture cock-up, Hidden Figures was generating the most buzz on social media with over 80,000 mentions for the film during the awards ceremony. The high point was when NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson came on the stage alongside Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson and Janelle Monae. While failing to win an Oscar Hidden Figures was the people’s favourite film of the year.
Hidden Figures will shortly overtake the total box office of The Help which took £3.86m in October 2011; after opening with £896,387 October 28th 2011 dropped 40% in its second weekend taking £537,633 and £2.12m and £378,521 in its third weekend down 30% taking £3.04m
While The Help, was a surprise sleeper hit in the US opening in August 2011 with $26.1m taking $169.7m failed to match its success in the UK but while The Help starring now Oscar winning Actress Emma Stone but then she was best known for her breakthrough role Jules in Superbad (£6.29m September 2007). Her follow-up films Zombieland (£3m October 2009), Easy A (£773,795 October 2010) and Crazy, Stupid, Love (£3.3m September 2009) had similar performance in the UK
Octavia Spencer won Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Help in 2012 Viola Davis also nominated for The Help as Best Actress won the same award for Fences on Sunday.
Hidden Figures will find itself dropping the charts this weekend with the renewed interest in Oscar winners Fences and Moonlight which will expand this weekend and Viceroy’s House opening on Friday.
Also, released
Moonlight – Altitude – £391,504 added 96 screens in its second weekend taking £1.26m will expand into 80 more screens this weekend after winning three Oscars on Sunday including M. Night Shyamalan twist ending Oscar will likely see an increase box office of about 70% taking about £666k. Moonlight had additional screenings on Monday seeing its box office increase by 121% from last Monday.
Was watching the Oscars on Monday morning as soon as La La Land was read out turned off the TV and went to bed only to find out a couple of hours later M. Night Shyamalan twist ending.
Fences – Paramount -£349,147 added 211 screens (from 148 screens to 359) still dropped 7.7% in its second weekend has taken £1.15m; Viola Davis Best Supporting Actress Oscar could see a slight increase of box office over the next week but probably not enough for it to chart into top 10 due to such a crowded marketplace.
La La Land is likely to see a similar increase of up to 50% (£670,000+) after winning six Oscars not winning Best Picture. Dropped 32% in its seventh weekend has taken £29.19m will cross £30m barrier by next weekend.
The internet answered why so few people came to Mia’s show as she sent out bulk email failing to bcc which would be probably seen as spam by most email servers especially with the email subject line “Mia Dolan – Performance of One Woman Show” as no one she was inviting would have any clue who Mia Dolan was. The reason why Sebastian failed to call or to say he was going to be late has yet to be explained.
Weekend box office increases after Oscar Best Picture win
| Spotlight | 2016 | £332,556 | +70% |
| Birdman | 2015 | £132,445 | +149% |
| 12 Years A Slave | 2014 | £368,857 | +4% |
| Argo | 2013 | £408,903 | +72% |
| The Artist | 2012 | £469,369 | +33% |
| The King’s Speech | 2011 | £1,076,381 | -11% |
| The Hurt Locker | 2010 | n/a | n/a |
| Slumdog Millionaire | 2009 | £1,676,508 | +7% |
| No Country for Old Men | 2008 | £294,022 | +22% |
| The Departed | 2007 | n/a | n/a |
| Crash | 2006 | n/a | n/a |
| Million Dollar Baby | 2005 | £311,859 | +420% |
| LOTR: Return of the King | 2004 | £343,852 | +10% |
| Chicago | 2003 | £241,864 | +43% |
Also, opened
Within – Warner Bros – £8,364 from 18 screens – sat on the shelf for almost two years given a token theatrical release before finding a home on home entertainment.
Other box office news
This weekend’s top 10 box office took £11,310,197 down 37.4% from last weekend £18,070,709;
Weekend admissions 1,526,342 down 41.3% from last week 2,600,599
Weekend was up 20.4% from last year (£9,392,604) Grimsby £1,920,592, The Forest £444,784, Secret in their Eyes £116,023 opened
Up 38.6% from 2015: (£8,157,377): Chappie £996,518, Still Alice £401,396 and Unfinished Business £391,844 opened.
Next weekend in 2016: (£9,088,613) London Has Fallen £3,197,88, Hail Caesar! £1,504,629, The Other Side of the Door £250,345, Truth £26,000 opened.
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Cinema Exhibitors Association average ticket price of £7.41 for 2016 up only 2.77% from 2015 despite a 7.3% increase from 2014. If the same % was used 2016 average be £7.74.
Adding a couple of extra columns for the chart using screens a film is playing on have screen average in pounds and people if that figure is then divided between performances would mean there were on average 66 people per showing if the screens were 200 seaters would mean only a 33% capacity.
UK Box Office Top 10
US Box office
Since premiering at Sundance Film Festival last month Get Out has been generated positive reviews and strong buzz receiving 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes heralded as the “film we need now”. going into the weekend was tracking in the high teens opening with $30.5m; received A- CinemaScore which should see it hold strongly similar to Split in its second weekend despite the arrival of Logan.
The Lego Batman Movie dropped to second taking $19m down 41.8% taking $133m 27% down from The Lego Movie after three weeks which took $31.3m total of $183.1m. After receiving very positive reviews its performance must be a little disappointing ending with about $172m 33% less than The Lego Movie.
John Wick: Chapter 2 dropped 44% in its third weekend taking $9m and $74m total getting close to double the original film. Has taken $51m internationally which is already over the originals $45.7m total with several key territories still to open which will mean there will almost certainly be another John Wick film in the next couple of years.
The Great Wall and Fifty Shades Darker dropped 52.9% and 62% in their second and third weekend; Fifty Shades Darker has taken $103m 30% less than $147.3m Fifty Shades of Grey after three weeks will see it end with about $115m 22% less than the first film. As with the first film the sequel has performed far better internationally taking $328.3m to date Fifty Shades of Grey took $571m.
Despite not winning any Oscars the people’s favourite Oscar nominee Hidden Figures took $5.88m in its tenth weekend with a total of $152m internationally has taken $30m is similar to the US/international split of The Help took $169.7m (78.3%) in the US and $36.9m (21.7%) internationally.
After 10 weeks on release The Help had taken 8.4% more $164.9m Vs $152m but taking 20% more $1.18m Vs $5.88m over its weekend. If Hidden Figures continues being 20% ahead of The Help it should take close to $175m would be about 5% more than The Help (but of course ticket prices are up almost 9% since 2011). Hidden Figures will in the next couple of weeks become Kevin Costner’s second biggest film in the US moving ahead of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. (but of course, ticket prices are over 100% more than they were in 1991.
US Box Office Top 10
Opened March 3rd
Opening UK
- Logan – 20th Century Fox
The tenth installment in the X-Men film series and the third and final Wolverine solo film following 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine and 2013’s The Wolverine starring Hugh Jackman; the film is inspired by Old Man Logan by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven.
Starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant and Dafne Keen and directed by James Mangold who also directed 2013’s The Wolverine
Received world premiere at Berlin Film Festival receiving very positive reviews from critics many say could be the first comic-book film to receive a Best Picture nomination but same was said for Deadpool this year and Vin Diesel said similar in 2015 Furious 7 would be nominated for Best Picture and JJ Abrams has recently said that Mark Hamill should win Best Actor for star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Logan is the first comic-book movie of the year and the first since Doctor Strange over 120 days ago, with six more being released between March and November (Ghost in the Shell, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Thor Ragnarok and Justice League) but Logan is of course, different to the younger audience
But will positive reviews expand its audience from comic-book fans and being a much more grown up violent western than comic-book movie will the fans of the softer tone of the Marvel films be as interested as the diehard comic-book fans who see Logan as last year’s Deadpool as how they want comic-book films to be. The recent The Lego Batman Movie received widespread positive reviews heralding it as the best DC movie but didn’t seem to crossover across from family to comic-book fans.
On October 20th 2016 20th Century Fox released a 90-second teaser trailer along with a red band international trailer which Empire Magazine voted as the best trailer of 2016
Continuing the partnership between 20th Century Fox and Manchester United (previously with Deadpool, X-Men Apocalypse and Independence Day 2) Wayne Rooney features in a video ‘Heroes Become Legends’ retweeted more than 2.2k times in the first 24 hours.
After critics saw the film the running time was increased by three minutes which started rumours of a post-credit scene that could set up Deadpool 2 or the next X-Men movie but in a Twitter conversation with James Mangold he said there is not a post credit scene.
| OWE | 2nd w/e | Total | |||
| X-Men | 18 August 2000 | £4.74m | 31.85% | £2.02m | £14.89m |
| X2 | 1 May 2003 | £7.03m | 34.29% | £3.07m | £20.50m |
| X- Men Last Stand | 25 May 2006 | £7.09m | 37.19% | £2.31m | £19.06m |
| X-Men: Origins Wolverine | 29 Apr 2009 | £6.65m | 41.15% | £2.22m | £16.16m |
| X-Men First Class | 1 June 2011 | £4.75m | 31.94% | £2.40m | £14.87m |
| The Wolverine | 25 July 2013 | £4.69m | 34.86% | £1.80m | £13.45m |
| X-Men: Days of Future Past | 22 May 2014 | £9.14m | 33.89% | £3.51m | £27.01m |
| X-Men: Apocalypse | 18 May 2016 | £7.33m | 40.12% | £2.54m | £18.27m |
Logan opens on Wednesday at 22.23 having a five-day opening weekend should see Logan have the biggest live action opening of the year £8m+ that is until Beauty and the Beast opens in two weeks’ time.
But the big question is how it will hold in its second weekend against Kong: Skull Island, if Logan drops similar to other X-Men movies in its second weekend will likely take about £3.5m with Kong: Skull Island having a similar opening to 2014’s Godzilla £6.5m.
- Fist Fight – Warner
Comedy starring Ice Cube, Charlie Day, Christina Hendricks, Dennis Haysbert and Tracy Morgan directed by Richie Keen.
But Ice Cube and Charlie Day aren’t leading actors yet both had success as co-stars Ice Cube in 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, Ride Along and its sequel and Charlie Day has had success in supporting roles Horrible Bosses and Pacific Rim.
These types of low budget comedies rarely find an audience in the UK, Barbershop: The Next Cut opened in June 2016 £91,502 and Keanu in July 2016 with £13,736.
- Trespass Against Us – Lionsgate
Crime drama starring Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Sean Harris, Rory Kinnear, and Killian Scott and directed by Adam Smith; premiered at Toronto International Film Festival receiving mixed reviews. Had a very limited release in US opening in 20 screens taking only $1,620.
- Viceroy’s House – Pathe
Historical drama starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, and Michael Gambon and directed by Gurinder Chadha; had world premiere at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival receiving mixed reviews and had UK premiere on 21st February.
Opening in US
- Logan – 20th Century Fox
After starring in X-Men films for the last 17 years Logan was announced as Hugh Jackman’s final Wolverine having starred in eight previous films. During Logan’s promotional tour Patrick Stewart also announced Logan will likely be his final X-Men film.
But Logan is a very different X-Men film being much darker and violent but has also received very positive reviews. Currently, has a 95% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Two weeks before Logan was due for release it was tracking to open with $55-60m which would be close to his last solo film 2013’s The Wolverine (also directed by James Mangold) opening with $53m receiving mixed reviews but 37% less than 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. While the violent western style of Logan has comic-book fans giddy with excitement as Deadpool did last year but will the fans of family-friendly comic-book fans be so excited? Being a very different comic-book movie that many describe more as a western will this open the audience away from comic-book fans or will the violence put off many who have grown up with the lighter tone of the Marvel movies?
As so often with films today’s 20th Century Fox screened footage of Logan at 2017 Showcase Preview event in New York in December to journalists who had a very positive reaction to the first 40 minutes they saw. (which also include footage of War of the Planet of the Apes and Alien Covenant).
Last summer 20th Century Fox launched X-Men Apocalypse with a fan event two weeks ahead of its US release receiving mixed reviews. Do believe much of the negativity was due to coming soon after Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice and Captain America: Civil War and having a similar plot to those two which made Apocalypse seem far worse that it was. X-Men: Apocalypse took a third less than previous X-Men: Days of Future Past suffered because it was the third comic-book movie released in just over 60 days and with similar plots audiences were bored.
Logan as Deadpool last year is the first comic-book movie of the year delivering something refreshing to comic-book fan weary of the other comic-book movies. While many heralded Doctor Strange as a success being the biggest original Marvel film since Iron Man it was the fourteenth of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the audience for all of them should be similar as they continue the storyline. Doctor Strange took 43% less than Captain America: Civil War which opened six months earlier.
Last year 20th Century Fox had massive success with Deadpool but then disappointment with X-Men Apocalypse and Logan being Hugh Jackman’s final Wolverine film there are big questions over what is next for 20th Century Fox X-Men franchise as they have no plans to team up with Marvel as Sony have done with Spider-Man cameo in Captain America: Civil War last year and stars in Spiderman: Homecoming this summer. Upcoming Deadpool 2 is expected for 2018 along with a rumoured new X-Men Movie called Supernova set in 1990s set to start filming later this year possibly directed by
Upcoming Deadpool 2 is expected for 2018 along with a rumoured new X-Men Movie called Supernova set in 1990s set to start filming later this year possibly directed by long-time X-Men producer Simon Kinberg and long in development Gambit starring Channing Tatum is expected to start shooting next year and as Marvel/Disney and DC Comics 20th Century Fox are developing X-Men TV series.
| OWE | 2nd w/e | |||||
| X-Men | 14 July 2000 | $54.47m | 34.63% | $23.46m | -56.9% | $157.29m |
| X2 | 1 May 2003 | $85.55m | 34.29% | $40.03m | -53.2% | $214.92m |
| X- Men Last Stand | 25 May 2006 | $102.75m | 37.19% | $34.01m | -66.9% | $234.36m |
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine | 29 Apr 2009 | $85.05m | 47.29% | $26.40m | -69.0% | $179.83m |
| X-Men First Class | 1 June 2011 | $55.10m | 37.63% | $24.12m | -56.2% | $146.40m |
| The Wolverine | 25 July 2013 | $53.11m | 40.06% | $21.32m | -59.9% | $132.55m |
| X-Men: Days of Future Past | 22 May 2014 | $90.82m | 38.82% | $32.55m | -64.2% | $233.92m |
| X-Men: Apocalypse | 18 May 2016 | $65.76m | 42.30% | $22.82m | -65.3% | $155.44m |
- The Shack – Lionsgate
Faith-based drama starring Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, and Graham Greene and directed by Stuart Hazeldine.
Faith-based films in recent years have been lucrative at the US box office last year with Risen and Miracles from Heaven taking $36.88m and $61.7m with 2014’s Heaven is for Real the most successful faith-based film in recent years opening with $22.5m taking $91.44m.
- Before I Fall – Open Road
Drama starring Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, Logan Miller, Kian Lawley, Jennifer Beals, Diego Boneta, and Elena Kampouris and directed by Ry Russo-Young; received its premiere at Sundance Film Festival.
In 2010 Fox 2000 Pictures acquired film rights to novel Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. In 2011 the script was listed on the Black List of best unproduced screenplays but wasn’t until 2015 when the film started production as an independently produced film and in May 2016 Open Road Films acquired US rights.
- Table 19 – Fox Searchlight
Quirky comedy starring Anna Kendrick, Craig Robinson, June Squibb, Lisa Kudrow, Stephen Merchant, Wyatt Russell and Tony Revolori and directed by Jeffrey Blitz and co-written with Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass.