Year End Box Office Breakdown! What Was The Biggest Movie Of 2018? What Was the Biggest Flop? And More!

Suddenly Susan January 31, 2019 Box Office Breakdown, Suddenly Susan 1 Comment

It’s time for the year end box office break down! Let’s nail down the big winners and losers of last year. The Walt Disney Company (distributed as Buena Vista) was on top once again having five of the top ten 2018 domestic grossing movies on the list. See the full chart below:

1	Black Panther	BV	$700,059,566
2	Avengers: Infinity War	BV	$678,815,482
3	Incredibles 2	BV	$608,581,744
4	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	Uni.	$417,719,760
5	Deadpool 2	Fox	$318,491,426
6	Aquaman	WB	$306,576,848
7	Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch (2018)	Uni.	$270,085,325
8	Mission: Impossible – Fallout	Par.	$220,159,104
9	Ant-Man and the Wasp	BV	$216,648,740
10	Solo: A Star Wars Story	BV	$213,767,512

The top five Studios ranking for 2018:

1	Buena Vista	26.0%
2	Warner Bros.	16.3%
3	Universal	14.9%
4	Sony / Columbia	11.0%
5	20th Century Fox	9.1%

Now for the losers. The 10 lowest domestic grossing wide releases (pulled from the top 100 only) were:

90	Slender Man	SGem	$30,569,484
91	Holmes and Watson	Sony	$30,280,666
92	I, Tonya	Neon	$30,014,539
93	Hostiles	ENTMP	$29,819,114
94	Teen Titans Go! To The Movies	WB	$29,790,236
95	The Hate U Give	Fox	$29,719,483
96	Molly’s Game	STX	$28,780,744
97	Searching	SGem	$26,020,957
98	Winchester	LGF	$25,091,816
99	Strangers: Prey at Night	Aviron	$24,586,708
100	White Boy Rick	Studio 8	$24,011,188

A few of 2018’s biggest box office flops, comparing budget versus global gross were:

Robin Hood – Lionsgate

Production budget: $100 million
Global box office: $65 million

Mortal Engines – Universal

Production budget: $100 million
Global box office: $43 million

A Wrinkle in Time – Buena Vista

Production budget: $100 million
Global box office: $132 million

The Girl in the Spider’s Web – Sony

Production budget: $43 million
Global box office: $31 million

Happytime Murders – STX

Production budget: $40 million
Global box office: $27 million

The Darkest Minds – Fox

Production Budget – $34 million

Global Box Office – $41 million

There you have it – 2018 in a nutshell. 2019 appears to be off to a shaky start. We’ll see if Marvel Studios can pick up the pace with the release of Captain Marvel in March.

I hope you all had a wonderful movie going 2018!

Put your favorite or least favorite 2018 movie in the comments section. Often times the popular opinion far out weighs the financial one.