Jordan Blake
By the Numbers: Where Endgame Encore Actually Ranks Among Hollywood's Biggest Re-Releases
Avengers: Endgame Encore opened to $26 million, the third-best domestic re-release weekend ever, $800,000 ahead of last year's Revenge of the Sith. Here's the full ranked list, the ratio that makes Encore look weakest of all, and why a seven-year-old movie with four minutes of Doomsday footage is really a trailer you pay to see.
Jordan Blake
By the Numbers: Two of the Weekend's Top Eleven Were Reruns — Here's What Old Movies Actually Earn
Cars and Akira took $8.77 million out of theaters over the September 4-6 weekend, nearly 10% of the entire box office, while Lionsgate ran all five Hunger Games films in five nights and reported nothing at all. Let me show you what the re-release math actually looks like -- and why the ticket is really the trailer.