By the Numbers: How Miranda Priestly Out-Demoed Mortal Kombat II and a Michael Jackson Biopic in the Same Weekend
Three films cleared $36 million domestically the weekend of May 8-10, and the 20-year-old comedy sequel beat them both. The −44% drop is doing all the work — and the demographic data shows exactly why none of the new entrants laid a glove on Miranda Priestly.
By the Numbers: The Sheep Detectives Just Cleared a Bar Hugh Jackman Hadn't Hit in 11 Years
The numbers tell a story the marketing didn't. The Sheep Detectives projects a $14.9M domestic opening weekend — Hugh Jackman's biggest non-Marvel debut since Pan in 2015 — landing on a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score from 128 critics, his career-highest ever. Pre-release tracking topped out at $15M low-end. The film cleared it. Here's what that data actually means.
The Mummy Made 79% of Its Money in Three Days. Here's What That Number Actually Means.
Lee Cronin's The Mummy made 79.1% of its current domestic gross in its opening weekend. By Wednesday — Day 6 — it had earned $17.09M total, with weekdays adding just $3.57M combined. That's the most front-loaded R-rated horror opening of recent memory, and it tells us exactly where Universal's monster reboot wave is heading next: nowhere good.