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Box Office: Basterds are Glourious for Tarantino
It’s hard to believe, but Quentin Tarantino’s biggest box office debut so far has been 2004′s “Kill Bill”, which opened with $25 million on its way to a $66 million domestic haul. Five years...
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Box Office: Alien Nation Part Deux Takes #1
If Bill Gates and company over at Microsoft are smart, they’ll look at what Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp managed with the $30 million dollar “District 9″ and immediately greenlight a “Halo” movie, complete...
Read More »Box Office: It’s Go for Joe, But Not Getaway
Proving that they don’t need no stinkin’ critics to review their movie, Paramount and Hasbro’s latest toyline movie invasion, “G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra” came up tops at the box office over the weekend...
Read More »Box Office: Funny Business is Good Business
Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow and their comedian pals scored at the box office — their debut film, the comedy-drama “Funny People” took the top spot with a $23.4 million debut, according to studio...
Read More »Box Office: Talking Guinea Pigs Take Down Harry Potter
Never underestimate the power of cuddly live-action talking guinea pigs. Jerry Bruckheimer didn’t, and after his “G-Forced” opened at #1 over the weekend (according to studio estimates), I think we can safely say that...
Read More »Box Office: Harry Potter and the Big Bag of Cash
Harry and his fellow wizards should have give the kids more time to miss them more often, if this week’s box office take for the film, the sixth in the franchise, is any indication....
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Box Office: Bruno Edges Out CG Critters, Robots
Interesting happenings at the box office over the weekend, as although Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Bruno” took the top spot as expected, it doesn’t appear as if the movie, which scored $30.4 million (according to...
Read More »Box Office: CG Robots vs. CG Critters = $42.5 Million Tie
Well this is a first: according to studio estimates (and I can’t stress that enough, studio estimates, which means they could and will probably change when actual numbers come in on Monday), the battle...
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Box Office: No Disguising it – Robots are Big Time
Charges of racist robots notwithstanding, Michael Bay blew up the box office in his usual manner — outrageously and excessively. Over a five-day span, Bay’s “Transformers” sequel took in a whopping $201.2 million according...
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Box Office: No Hangover for Sandra Bullock’s Proposal
Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds’ “The Proposal” is one of those romantic comedies where you can predict the plot points from act to act, and maybe that’s the point. The romcom easily overtook “The...
Read More »Box Office: Still Hung Over the Hangover
Who says you need A-list stars to front your movie? Throw in a couple of kinda-known names, a funny premise, Mike Tyson slugging people, and oh yeah, plenty of positive word of mouth, and...
Read More »Box Office: It’s Still Up at the Box Office
In its second week of release, Pixar’s latest CG animated movie “Up” continues to top the charts with another $44 million, but just barely. The bromance comedy “The Hangover” snuck into second place in...
Read More »Box Office: Up-Wards of $68.2 Million
Pixar’s “Up” proved a lot more popular than Sam Raimi’s return to low-budget horror, “Drag me to Hell”. The horror movie landed at second place in its debut weekend with $16.6 million. That wasn’t...
Read More »Box Office: Battle at the Terminator Museum
We didn’t bother to cover Ben Stiller’s “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” because, well, to be honest with you, we’re sometimes pretty lame, but we’re not that lame. But apparently a...
Read More »Box Office: Angels & Demons & Romulans
For a franchise that gets no respect in critical circles, it’s amazing how well Ron Howard and Tom Hanks’ Dan Brown movies have done in theaters. The first one, “The Da Vinci Code” broke...
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Box Office: Star Trek Beams to First Place with $76.5 Million
The studio had low-balled J.J. Abrams’ reboot of the sci-fi franchise at $50 million, which you have to take with a grain of salt, as studios usually lowball their big movies so they can...
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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...
Read More »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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