The summer box office is up 10.6 percent from last year’s record-low season, according to comScore, and year-to-date ticket sales are up 8 percent. The late-summer success of “Mission: Impossible” - which has made $124.5 million thus far along with $205 million internationally - is helping solidify a comeback summer for Hollywood. While China provides no reason for the films it doesn’t select for its theaters, government sensors have recently been blocking images of Winnie-the-Pooh after bloggers began using him to parody Chinese president Xi Jinping. Taff confirmed that “Christopher Robin” has been denied a release in China, locking the release out from the world’s second largest film market. “We’re happy with where it’s at and we think it’s got some runway being one of the only family options going forward.” “It’s one of our smaller films and it’s really focused on character and emotion,” said Taff. While reviews were mixed, audiences gave it an “A″ CinemaScore.Ĭathleen Taff, head of distribution for Disney, said there’s room for non-tentpole releases in the Disney slate. Made for an estimated $75 million, Marc Forster’s “Christopher Robin” stars Ewan McGregor as a grown-up Christopher Robin reunited with the beloved characters of the Hundred Acre Wood: Pooh, Tigger, Piglet and the rest (who are rendered digitally but convincingly felt-like). As a reminder that “Christopher Robin” was a minor release for Disney, “Black Panther” on Sunday became the third film to ever cross $700 million domestically, a feat only previously accomplished by “Avatar” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” In a year where the studio has already notched three $1 billion films worldwide (“Black Panther,” ″Avengers: Infinity War” and, as of this week, “Incredibles 2”), the more modest Winnie-the-Pooh live-action revival opened with a relatively ho-hum $25 million.
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