A movie’s performance at the box office gets plenty of attention. Some people were very impressed when “Avatar” became the most profitable movie in Hollywood history (and still is). Others...
The trade war with China has begun in earnest, and among the earliest and most well-covered victims of these tariffs is Mid-Continent Nail.
Action franchises such as the Avengers, Star Wars, and Jurassic World have driven cinephiles to the movie theaters for more than two decades. The biggest weekends in box-office history have been...
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will launch a TV set-top box at the International Consumer Electronics Show, according to a number of media reports. It will compete with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google...
It wasn’t until the 1975 release of “Jaws” that summer blockbusters existed as we understand them today. Produced for $12 million, “Jaws” spawned a cultural event in which buzz around...
It is hard to understand what is happening with the Chinese economy.  The central government says that GDP grew almost 7% in the fourth quarter. At the same time, it admits that 20 million migrant...
The "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" juggernaut keeps on rolling. It is likely to have a total U.S. box office take of over $300 million by the end of the weekend.
Warner Bros. took over the top spot in this past weekend’s U.S. box office sweepstakes with an estimated $19.1 million opening for “Focus.”
UPS cutting the one-price strategy as part of its offerings means higher prices for shippers, but almost certainly higher revenue and more controlled costs for UPS.
R rated films have been struggling at the box office. Despite making up the majority of films released each year, they bring in far less than films with the more family-friendly PG-13 rating: Between...
Box reported mixed fiscal third-quarter financial results after the markets closed on Wednesday.
Like nearly all top box office earners over the past two decades, the top-grossing film of the 21st century thus far is from a blockbuster franchise.
Jack in the Box reported better-than-expected fiscal second-quarter financial results after the markets closed on Wednesday.
If you want to produce a top-grossing film nowadays, make it animated and about superheroes, wizards, vampires, and pirates doing battle in the dystopian future in Middle Earth in a galaxy far, far...
A new animated movie from Disney was supposed to lead the box office for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. What happened?