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Box Office: Wolverine Slashes to #1 with $87 million
Financially devastating leaked workprint? What’s that? Despite having an all but finished (sans special effects) copy of its workprint leaked onto the Internet a full month before it opened, Fox’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” was...
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Box Office: Moviegoers Obsessed, but Not with Fighting
Oh no she didn’t! Oh yes she did! Or actually, oh yes they did. It would appear American moviegoers just couldn’t resist the idea of watching two hot women fighting over a guy, because...
Read More »Box Office: Zac Efron Beats Russell Crowe, Buries Jason Statham
I don’t know who should be more embarrassed right now: Russell Crowe, whose critically well-received political thriller “State of Play” was beat out by Zac Efron’s been-there, done-that comedy “17 Again” in the two...
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Box Office: Hannah Montana Rules, Dragonball Flops
So does this mean when Hannah Montana (aka Miley Cyrus) and her buddies made fun of Asian people in a photograph a few weeks ago, it didn’t affect her popularity with the kids anyway?...
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Box Office: Fast & Furious Cruises to $30 Million on Friday ($72 Million Debut)
Industry experts were expecting a $45 million opening weekend for the fourth installment of the “Fast and Furious” franchise, but the film would seem to be on its way to crash through that expectation,...
Read More »Box Office: Monster Debut for Monsters vs. Aliens
With only a John Cena action movie and a horror film without any big names to stand against it, Dreamworks’ “Monsters vs. Aliens” easily took the box office crown over the weekend with a...
Read More »The Box Office Wants to Knowing
When a Nicolas Cage movie without the words “national” or “treasure” in the title opens in #1 at the box office, it’s a cause for celebration in the Cage household, because let’s face it,...
Read More »Watchmen Falls in its Second Week
$86 million and counting. That’s how much Zack Snyder’s “Watchmen” has made in two weeks of release. It’s not an entirely bad take for a movie. Unless, of course, you factor in the massive...
Read More »How Much Did We Spend Watching the Watchmen? About $55.7 Million
Short version: It did good, but not that good. Long version: Zack Snyder’s “Watchmen” opened strong with an uber Thursday midnight showing and Friday take, but fizzled a tad over the weekend, finishing up...
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Friday the 13th Remake Slashes Box Office Records
$42.4 million. That’s how much Platinum Dunes’ remake of “Friday the 13th” took in at the box office in its debut weekend. That’s more than any horror movie has opened in, like, ever. Hard...
Read More »Taken Abducts the Box Office
Liam Neeson is like a taller, older, less shaky cam version of Jason Bourne...
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Box Office: America Loves Their Fatties
He's the type of guy you wanna chew his bubblegum...
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Bond Has no Need of Solace at the Box Office
The bad guys sure didn’t like Bond when he was pissed off in “Quantum of Solace”, but moviegoers sure did. A lot. They flooded the theaters this weekend, making Bond’s latest outing “Quantum of...
Read More »Box Office Still Dark and Knighty
Four weeks later, and no one has managed to knock “The Dark Knight” off its #1 perch. The Christopher Nolan comic book movie retained the top spot for the fourth consecutive week with an...
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Box Office: Moviegoers Still Believe in The Dark Knight, Not so Much X-Files
There are good news and bad news for Warner Bros. regarding their movie, the Christopher Nolan film “The Dark Knight”. The bad news is that the film dropped over 52% in its second week...
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Box Office: The Dark Knight Weekend Take $155.3 million
Okay, so $155.3 million is about $45 million less than my grand prediction of $200 million or more, but it’s still a lot. It easily makes “The Dark Knight” the biggest opener in 2008,...
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Weekend Box Office: WALL-E First, Jolie Close
As expected by pretty much everyone who has heard of the name Pixar before, the animated company’s “WALL-E” met and exceeded expectations in its debut weekend, taking in an estimated $62.5 million, good enough...
Read More »Weekend Box Office: Smart Money Says No Love for Guru
The last time Mike Myers was actually on movie screens (and not just his voice), he was wearing a furry cat costume in 2003′s “The Cat in the Hat”, and after 5 years of...
Read More »Hulk Smash Box Office! Well, Kinda.
Hulk 2.0 took first place at the box office over the weekend with a solid $54 million in its opening week. Not bad, right? Well, not really. Despite how Marvel will try to spin...
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Indiana Jones Whips Up $151 million
Now you would think that being able to put enough butts in seats to rake in $56 million in just two days would be considered a major success, but not so much nowadays. While...
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