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Donnie Yen’s Flash Point Scores Big in China
Mainland China can’t handle Chris Tucker’s big mouth and Jackie Chan’s, um, aging action comedian via “Rush Hour 3″, but they have plenty of room for Donnie Yen and his latest crime actioner, “Flash...
Read More »The Bourne Ultimatum Assassinates the Competition
Holy mother of God. “The Bourne Ultimatum” didn’t just take the top spot at the U.S. box office over the weekend, but it ASSASSINATED its closest competition by taking in a whopping $70.2 million...
Read More »D-War is a Hit at the Korean Box Office
Well call me Aunt Sally and slap me silly. Looks like my anticipated bombing of Hyung-rae Shim’s much-anticipated, long-delayed, and high-priced “D-War” (or as it’ll become known in the States, “Dragon Wars”) has proven...
Read More »Yellow Simpsons Collect Green Bucks at the Box Office
Well color me yellow with shock! The first weekend of “The Simpsons” opened to rave reviews (88% positive at Rotten Tomatoes) and did likewise at the box office, pulling in a very impressive $71...
Read More »America Loves Faux Gay Comedies, Harry Potter
Despite just brutal reviews from the mainstream press, Adam Sandler and Kevin James’ “I Now Pronounced You Chuck and Larry” took #1 at the box office over the weekend, scamming $34.8 million from the...
Read More »In Not Really Unexpected News: Harry Spellbounds the Box Office
To no one’s surprised, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, the fifth installment in the seven installment series, took an impressive $77.4 million in its debut to lead the weekend box office....
Read More »Transformers Crushes Competition with $67 Million
Another week, another group of feckless movies gets crushed under the heels of the mighty transformin’ robots. Industry estimates has Michael Bay’s “Transformers” (read our review here) raking in $67 million over the weekend,...
Read More »Transformers Clean Up in First Full Day of Release
To absolutely no one’s surprise, especially geeks like myself, The Bay’s “Transformers” cleaned up in its first full day of release (Tuesday) with an estimated $27.4 million in box office receipts. Add in the...
Read More »Evan Almighty Tops Weak U.S. Box Office
I’m really not sure why everyone expected so much from the Steve Carrell comedy “Evan Almighty”, the sorta sequel to the Jim Carrey laugher “Bruce Almighty”, about an Everyman who is given Godlike powers...
Read More »Fantastic Four 2 Surfs to Top of Box Office
The most interesting thing about news that the “Fantastic Four” sequel topped the weekend box office isn’t that it did so, but how many variations people can write the headline saying so, and NOT...
Read More »U.S. Box Office Report: June 3rd, 2007
Johnny Depp and those scurvy pirates prove too tough to take down, scoring another $43.2 million over the weekend. Meanwhile, Judd Apatow’s romantic comedy “Knocked Up” surprised just about everyone by taking second place...
Read More »In Not Really Unexpected News: Pirates 3 Takes the Box office
If you didn’t expect this to happen, you really shouldn’t be allowed to drive a car, because your decision making ability is horribly impaired. To no one’s surprise, “Pirates at the Caribbean: At World’s...
Read More »In Not Really Unexpected News: Shrek the Third Cleans up at the Box office
To absolutely no one’s surprise, “Shrek the Third”, the third entry in the popular animated series about a green ogre and his wiseass, well, ass (voiced by Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy, respectively), broke...
Read More »U.S. Box Office Report: May 13, 2007
“Spider-Man 3″ takes a heavy drop (over 60% from its first week) but still manages to pull in a whopping $60 million in its second week of release, easily taking the top spot over...
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