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So, Uh, What Happened to the Scream 4 Audience This Week?
Blame in on “Rio” — the animated bird movie put an old-fashioned whuppin’ on Wes Craven’s fourth outing in the “Scream” franchise, easily besting the horror/comedy (at this point, the only way the “Scream”...
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Wimpy Kid Sucker Punches Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch
It looks like overwhelmingly negative word of mouth (or just overwhelmingly indifference beyond the Snyder fanbase) to Zack Snyder’s “Sucker Punch” didn’t do the film any favors. After taking Friday just barely over Fox’s...
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Battle: Los Angeles Takes Box Office with $36 Million
I’m been watching the box office returns for Jonathan Liebesman’s “Battle: Los Angeles” very carefully this week. It’s one of the first movies of 2011 that I’m hoping will launch a franchise (or at...
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Box Office: The Mechanic Doesn’t Quite Have the Rite Stuff
Holy priests versus hitmen — who ya got? Hindsight says “The Rite”, which took the top spot at the box office over the weekend, beating out fellow newcomer “The Mechanic” and edging out the...
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Box Office: Casual Sex is Still Popular with Moviegoers
Natalie Portman is on a roll. After starring in Darren Aronofsky’s award-winning (and probably career-defining) “Black Swan”, she’s now finding success with predictable romantic comedy tripe ala “No Strings Attached”, which took first place...
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Box Office: The Green Hornet Sees Lots of Green
Well slap me on the butt cheeks and call me Mustang Sally: Seth Rogen’s superhero movie “The Green Hornet” was number one at the box office. The film easily beat out its fellow new...
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Box Office: Fockers Show True Grit, Jack Black Not So Much
It’s currently the proud owner of an 11% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes among the nation’s leading critics and the trailers feature dick jokes that are at least 10 years stale, but that didn’t...
Read More »Toy Story 3 Tops Domestic and Worldwide Box Office for 2010
Despite mostly scathing reviews and overwhelming grumblings about its less than stellar post-3D conversion, Warner Bros.’ “Clash of the Titans” remake still managed to land at the 10 spot on the list of box...
Read More »Box Office: Tron Legacy Speeds Away with the Weekend
It wasn’t all that long ago that Joseph Kosinski’s “Tron: Legacy” was tracking so poorly among potential moviegoers that the studio was starting to get nervous. It was good news and bad news for...
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Box Office: More Movie Tourists Prefer Visiting Narnia
Angelina Jolie may have Johnny Depp beguiled, but it was the boys and girls and talking creatures of Narnia that drew in most of the visitors over the weekend, as “Voyage of the Dawn...
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Box Office: Harry Potter Gets Tangled, Black Swan Kills in Limited Release
Harry Potter is wizard of the box office no more. In its third week of release, the first of the franchise’s two-parter finale lost its crown to the surprising hit “Tangled”, which took the...
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Box Office: Harry Potter Won’t be Tangled, Faster Not Nearly Fast Enough
You can’t keep a kid and his best buds down, especially when they’re wielding magic wands. Such was the case at the box office, where the penultimate entry in the “Harry Potter” franchise continues...
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Box Office: Harry Potter and the Box Office Fortunes
Shocker! Well, not really. But in case you’ve been living under a rock, “Harry Potter” is about to close up shop, and the first of the final two movies opened this Friday. “Harry Potter...
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Box Office: Megamind Unstoppable Against Aliens and Rachel McAdams
Denzel Washington and Chris Pine may have the movie called “Unstoppable”, but it was Will Ferrell’s “Megamind” that proved unstoppable at the box office for the second week in a row. With another studio...
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Box Office: Megamind Delivers Over Due Date, Colored Girls
Will Ferrell was recently announced as Hollywood’s most “overpaid actor” in Forbes Magazine (meaning the money he makes for his investors is the lowest of all major Hollywood actors), but perhaps the box office...
Read More »Box Office: Horror Rules Halloween Weekend
Huh, I guess there’s a reason all these horror movies set their release dates during Halloween after all. And here I thought movie studios were run by morons. Not this time, anyway. Then again,...
Read More »Box Office: Spooky Ghosts Top Jackasses, Matt Damon
Call it two for two — the “Paranormal Activity” franchise rolls on, with the second installment opening in first place at the box office with a whopping $41.5 million. I guess you can say...
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Box Office: America is Full of Jackasses. In 3D.
It’s a new bag of jackass stunts by the same bunch of jackasses. Except this time it’s all in 3D! And that was apparently what all the kids were waiting for. An estimated $50...
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Box Office: Moviegoers Still Clicking Like for The Social Network
Don’t underestimate the power of social networking. Or, er, “The Social Network”, David Fincher’s fact-based “founding of Facebook” movie starring Jesse Eisenberg and future Spider-Man guy Andrew Garfield. Thanks weak competition, Fincher’s “Network” kept...
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Box Office: Audiences Let The Social Network In
For the second week in a roll, greed is good, but the social network was better. David Fincher’s founding of Facebook movie “The Social Network” topped the box office in its debut, according to...
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