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