Summer is ending not with a bang, but with a thud, at least if when it comes to the movies. According to Wall Street Journal, box office sales dropped 2.8% from last year. Ticket sales totaled $4.28 billion.
Some of the box office movie hits for the summer are:
- “The Avengers” – $207.4 million opening weekend, $1.5 billion cumulative total
- “Expendables 2″
- “The Dark Knight Rises” – $433 million in domestic sales
Taken from IMDB.com, here is a complete list of the top-10 movies:
Meanwhile, “The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure,” – earned $448,000 over the holiday weekend, breaking the record for box office failure for a film opening on 2,000-2,500 screens. It cost approximately $60 million to make and market.
To trade the ups and down of box office successes, investors may look at the following companies:
1. Comcast Corporation (CMCSA, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Provides entertainment, information, and communications products and services in the United States and internationally. Market cap at $89.72B, most recent closing price at $33.53. The company owns Universal Pictures. “Ted” earned $215.9 million domestically so far.
2. Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (LGF, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Engages in the motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home entertainment, family entertainment, new channel platforms, and digital distribution activities. Market cap at $2.2B, most recent closing price at $15.22. Lions Gate released “The Possession” over the holiday weekend.
3. Time Warner Inc. (TWX, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Operates as a media and entertainment company in the United States and internationally. Market cap at $39.24B, most recent closing price at $41.35. Its Warner Brothers Picture divisions’ “Magic Mike” earned $113.2 million domestically to-date.
4. Walt Disney Co. (DIS, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Operates as an entertainment company worldwide. Market cap at $89.1B, most recent closing price at $49.66.
Related companies in the entertainment sector include:
5. DIRECTV, Inc. (DTV, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Provides digital television entertainment in the United States and Latin America. Market cap at $32.84B, most recent closing price at $52.30.
6. Dish Network Corp. (DISH, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Provides direct broadcast satellite (DBS) subscription television services in the United States. Market cap at $13.98B, most recent closing price at $31.02.
7. Netflix, Inc. (NFLX, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Provides subscription based Internet services for TV shows and movies in the United States and internationally. Market cap at $3.11B, most recent closing price at $55.93. Netflix dropped 6.35% recently after Amazon made a deal to add Epix content.
8. Amazon.com (AMZN, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Operates as an online retailer in North America and internationally. Market cap at $112.06B, most recent closing price at $247.88.
9. General Electric (GE, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Operates as a technology, service, and finance company worldwide. Market cap at $216.56B, most recent closing price at $20.51. GE owns NBC.
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