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For example, if a particular moviestock trades at "H$40.00", the market is predicting that the movie will gross US$40 million at the box office in the first four weekends of wide release. In 2007, players in the Hollywood Stock Exchange correctly predicted 32 of the 39 major-category Oscar nominees and seven out of eight top-category winners.
In the United States the idea of a futures trading in relation to the success of Hollywood films dates back at least to 1996, when Max Keiser and Michael R. Burns launched Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) as a web-based, multiplayer game in which players use simulated money to buy and sell "shares" of actors, directors, upcoming films, and film-related options. [2]
Just as movie theaters seemed to finally recover from the pandemic — and the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon augured a new age of bold studio filmmaking — here comes 2024 to (potentially) spoil ...
The cumulative summer box office topped $3.6 billion domestically, which the AP noted was a drop of about 10% from 2023’s $4 billion season that included the “Barbenheimer” box-office boom.
The first film, 2016’s “Trolls,” opened to $46 million domestically and generated $350 million at the global box office. It also landed an Oscar nomination for Timberlake’s earworm “Can ...
Global box office this year overtook 2020’s COVID-stricken total of $12 billion at the end of August. It is now forecast to reach $20.2 billion in 2021, according to analysis firm Gower Street ...
Chart of the North American box office gross of Avengers: Endgame against the four highest-grossing films in the market up to that time. In its domestic market of the US and Canada, Endgame set records for highest-grossing opening weekend and the fastest cumulative grosses through $650 million. It also set several single-day records and had the ...
At the start of 2020, Variety boldly predicted what the box office landscape that year was going to look like… before the world was upended by a pandemic. While several of those forecasts did ...