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Posts Tagged ‘box office’
Sunday, August 26th, 2012
I guess the easiest way for a mediocre movie to have moderate success at the weekend box office is to be released at a time when there’s little to no competition. The last couple of weekends in August and the first couple in September are traditionally some of the weakest of the year, so it’s [...]
Tags: box office, The Bourne Legacy, The Dark Knight Rises, the expendables 2, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, August 12th, 2012
It looks like Universal’s decision to push back THE BOURNE LEGACY one week to avoid going head to head with TOTAL RECALL and competing with THE DARK KNIGHT RISES at the weekend box office was a good call after all. I’m also guessing the execs at Sony wished they would have pushed back TOTAL RECALL [...]
Tags: box office, The Bourne Legacy, The Campaign, The Dark Knight Rises, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, August 5th, 2012
A few months ago, Sony decided to push back TOTAL RECALL one week in order to avoid getting destroyed by THE DARK KNIGHT RISES at the weekend box office. At the time, I think everyone thought it was a smart move, even if they figured the remake had no chance of dethroning the third Batman [...]
Tags: box office, The Dark Knight Rises, The Watch, total recall, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, June 17th, 2012
I’ve read a lot of mixed reviews for ROCK OF AGES (read our ROCK OF AGES movie review), but the general consensus is that Tom Cruise was great, even if the film didn’t always work. But that’s not going to stop people from blaming the film’s struggle at the weekend box office on Mr. Cruise. [...]
Tags: box office, Madagascar 3, movie news, prometheus, Rock of Ages, That's My Boy, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, June 10th, 2012
Predicting the outcome at the weekend box office is tough, but the one constant is that an animated sequel, no matter how bad, will always do well. I’d like to throw a couple of grenades on MADAGASCAR 3, especially after suffering through the second one, but from all accounts, the third one was much, much [...]
Tags: box office, Madagascar 3, movie news, prometheus, snow white and the huntsman, the avengers, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, June 3rd, 2012
I guess the battle of the Snow White films turned out to be much ado about nothing after all. SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN dominated the weekend box office, hauling in over $56 million. To put it in perspective, the other Snow White film, which was released almost exactly two months ago, managed to take [...]
Tags: box office, Men In Black III, movie news, the avengers, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, May 27th, 2012
After all the drama surrounding the production of MEN IN BLACK III, from Will Smith’s NYC bus incident to the fact they started filming without 75% of the script completed, it turns out that the film was actually pretty decent. Apparently, America thought so as well since MIBIII took the weekend box office, stealing the [...]
Tags: box office, Men In Black III, movie news, the avengers, the dictator, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, May 20th, 2012
Like we all expected, BATTLESHIP (read our BATTLESHIP movie review) tanked at the weekend box office, not even able to take in half of what THE AVENGERS was able to make in it’s third weekend. Apparently, the scores of people that correctly predicted a TRANSFORMERS rip-off with the name of a popular board game would [...]
Tags: box office, movie news, the avengers, the dictator, Weekend Box Office, What To Expect When You're Expecting
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Sunday, May 13th, 2012
It’s been another fantastic outing at the weekend box office for Joss Whedon’s superhero film THE AVENGERS as it still holds the #1 place at the box office, easily holding back the biggest challenger, DARK SHADOWS. We all know THE AVENGERS is huge, and we knew that before this weekend even hit. But I’ve never [...]
Tags: box office, dark shadows, movie news, the avengers, Think Like A Man
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Sunday, May 6th, 2012
We all knew it was going to be big. Back when the first Iron Man film hit theaters, the seed was planted for THE AVENGERS film. But we all had to be patient and wait for standalone movies of Captain America and Thor to make it to the big screen before we could see all [...]
Tags: box office, movie news, the avengers, Think Like A Man, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, April 29th, 2012
This can only be described as another surprising result at the weekend box office. After THINK LIKE A MAN dominated last weekend, most of us thought for sure that life would get back to normal and one of the new films opening this weekend would wind up taking the number one spot. What makes it [...]
Tags: box office, movie news, the five-year engagement, The Raven, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
Well, I never saw this one coming. The little advertised THINK LIKE A MAN pulled in a whopping $33 million at the weekend box office, which was more than enough to make it the #1 movie of the weekend. For those keeping records at home, this means that Jerry Ferrara (Turtle, from ‘Entourage’) now has/had [...]
Tags: box office, Jerry Ferrara, movie news, Think Like A Man, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, April 15th, 2012
Make that four weekends in a row for THE HUNGER GAMES, which once again managed to hold back seriously week competition for another win at the weekend box office. This time the biggest challenger to THE HUNGER GAMES throne was THE THREE STOOGES, which took in an impressive $17 million, about $4 million shy of [...]
Tags: box office, Jennifer Lawrence, movie news, the hunger games
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
THE HUNGER GAMES is steamrolling past $300 million at the box office. In only its third week, the insanely popular film has grossed more than $302 million and although it’s of course slowing down, it managed $33.5 million in its third weekend, so $400 million is right around the corner. How excited do you think [...]
Tags: box office, Jennifer Lawrence, Movie Release, New Movie Releases, the hunger games
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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
I doubt no one is shocked that a sequel to a film no one really liked and a corny re-telling of a fairytale everyone has heard weren’t able to dethrone what might have been the biggest movie event of the year in THE HUNGER GAMES, but the phenomenon continued to roll on this weekend as [...]
Tags: box office, Jennifer Lawrence, Movie Release, New Movie Releases, the hunger games
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Sunday, March 25th, 2012
There was never a question as to whether or not THE HUNGER GAMES was going to be successful, the question was just how successful it was going to be. Perhaps it was the severe over-hyping from the media or maybe we as movie fans just expect too much from movies these days, but it seems [...]
Tags: box office, Jennifer Lawrence, Movie Release, New Movie Releases, the hunger games
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Sunday, March 18th, 2012
Defying all odds and expectations, 21 JUMP STREET managed to haul in over $35 million at the weekend box office, making it the number one movie in America. The pet project from Jonah Hill got great early buzz from a slew of trailers, but most of us were curious to see how America would react [...]
Tags: 21 jump street, box office, Jonah Hill, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases
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Sunday, March 11th, 2012
There’s a small part of me that almost feels bad for Disney’s $250 million debacle that is JOHN CARTER. Before the film even hit theaters, analysts and naysayers were hailing it as the biggest bomb of 2012 (although I think that will belong to BATTLESHIP). So the movie didn’t stand much of a chance at [...]
Tags: box office, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases
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Sunday, March 4th, 2012
The fact that DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX is set to take in over $70 million should be no surprise to anyone. The film’s crazy box office haul has nothing to do with how good/bad of a movie it is, but everything to do with the timing of its release. This is the longest dry spell [...]
Tags: box office, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases
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Sunday, February 26th, 2012
When I first learned that Relativity was going to be making a movie featuring and starring real Navy Seals, I thought for sure it would either flop at the box office or bypass it completely and go straight to Blu-ray. But that shows what I know because the film finished in first place this past [...]
Tags: box office, Jennifer Aniston, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases
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Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Another weekend in 2012, another tight box office race. Continuing with the strong showing last weekend, THE VOW looks like the movie to beat this weekend after taking in nearly $30 million, which is incredible for a movie in its second week this early in the year. There were a few new movies this weekend [...]
Tags: box office, Channing Tatum, chris pine, movie news, Movie Releases, New Movie Releases, Nicolas Cage, tom hardy
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Sunday, February 12th, 2012
In a race that’s still too early to call, the overly sappy romantic film starring Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams, THE VOW, is going toe to toe with the Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington action film SAFE HOUSE. I think most people would find that to be expected, but what’s not expected is that each [...]
Tags: box office, Channing Tatum, denzel washington, george lucas, movie news, movie remakes, New Movie Releases, Rachel McAdams, ryan reynolds
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Sunday, February 5th, 2012
I don’t think anyone would have predicted that Daniel Radcliffe’s first post-Harry Potter film, THE WOMAN IN BLACK, would pull in over $20 million at the box office on its first weekend. I think it would be funny that if from now on, whenever someone ask Daniel Radcliffe what he’s done, he only responds with [...]
Tags: box office, daniel radcliffe, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases
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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
It looks like Liam Neeson has once again proven himself a force to be reckoned with when it comes to action movies. His survival, man against beast film THE GREY opened in first place this weekend with close to $18 million. I guess there’s a slight chance that the execs at Lionsgate might be disappointed [...]
Tags: box office, Katherine Heigl, Liam Neeson, movie news, New Movie Releases
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
When I think of long lasting movie franchises, Underworld is definitely not one that comes to mind. But now that the fourth film in the franchise has come out and done pretty decent with $25 million at the weekend box office, I guess we’ll have to give the franchise some respect. With that kind of [...]
Tags: box office, george lucas, Kate Beckinsale, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases, Steven Soderbergh
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Sunday, January 15th, 2012
Well, if there was ever any question which Disney film would stand the test of time, I guess now it’s answered. When Disney released THE LION KING 3D back in September, it managed to gross $30 million its opening weekend on its way to pulling in over $94 million during its domestic re-release. So of [...]
Tags: box office, Mark Wahlberg, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases
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Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Traditionally, the only time a horror film surprises at the weekend box office is around Halloween. And then, the experts just point to the fact that it’s Halloween and then it’s really no surprise at all. So needless to say, most of us that follow the box office news are a little shocked to see [...]
Tags: box office, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases
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Sunday, January 1st, 2012
Since there were no wide releases this weekend, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL remained atop the box office for the second weekend in a row. The box office success is nice, but what’s most impressive about MI4 is that critics all around seem to love it as well (it even made our list of the [...]
Tags: box office, movie news, New Movie Releases, robert downey jr., Tom Cruise
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Friday, December 30th, 2011
This is actually meant to be a news story, but I can already feel an editorial coming on. But before I jump on the reasons why the box office totals in 2011 are the lowest they’ve been in 16 years, let me give you the details. In 2011, 1.28 billion people went to the movies, [...]
Tags: box office, movie news
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Sunday, December 25th, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant I feel a little vindication after MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL took the big Christmas weekend box office. After a hard few years of defending Tom Cruise, I feel that the rest of America has finally been reminded of what I knew all along; Tom Cruise is one of the few [...]
Tags: box office, movie news, New Movie Releases, steven spielberg, Tom Cruise
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Sunday, December 11th, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant Hollywood executives still seem to be puzzled by the lackluster box office takes the past several months, but the average moviegoer knows that as long as Hollywood keeps churning out drivel like NEW YEAR’S EVE, the box office numbers are going to be disappointing. But even though it was a shameless [...]
Tags: 2011 Movies, box office, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases, robert downey jr.
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Sunday, December 4th, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant Traditionally, whenever there’s a weekend where no major studio film opens up, the films from the previous weekend remain in the same order. Since nothing premiered this weekend, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 retained the #1 spot for the third weekend in a row. THE MUPPETS came in a [...]
Tags: box office, Jason Segel, Kristen Stewart, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases, Robert Pattinson
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Sunday, November 27th, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant Well, the news for the Thanksgiving weekend box office ended up being worse than we originally thought. As Wednesday wrapped up, it looked like THE MUPPETS was going to pull in over $50 million and maybe make a run at finishing in first place. But as the holiday progressed, THE MUPPETS [...]
Tags: box office, Jason Segel, Kristen Stewart, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases, Robert Pattinson
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Friday, November 18th, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant All of the Twilight films have been critical failures, but is it just me, or is THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 receiving some even harsher reviews than its predecessors? Of course, critical success and box office success usually don’t have any correlation and it’s true again with the case [...]
Tags: 2011 Movies, bill condon, box office, Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart, movie news, movie trailers, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
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Sunday, November 13th, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant For a lot of us, IMMORTALS was a dry run for Henry Cavill to see how he’ll do donning the cape in the Superman reboot, MAN OF STEEL. Although $32 million isn’t going to shatter any records, these days a $30+ million opening isn’t too shabby. This weekend, it was enough [...]
Tags: Adam Sandler, box office, Henry Cavill, Leonardo DiCaprio, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases
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Sunday, November 6th, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant When the snow storm hit last weekend, there were those that felt the movie that got hurt the worst was Dreamworks Animation’s Shrek spinoff PUSS IN BOOTS. The movie only brought in $34 million last weekend, but this weekend it brought in $33 million, which is barely a 3% drop. Normal [...]
Tags: ben stiller, box office, Bret Ratner, eddie murphy, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases
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Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant Cartoons always do well. But I’m actually a little surprised that Dreamworks Animation’s Shrek spinoff PUSS IN BOOTS didn’t do even better than the $33 million it looks like it’s going to finish with. I thought the previews for the film were great and as the sequels progressed, Puss was the [...]
Tags: Amanda Seyfried, Antonio Banderas, box office, johnny depp, justin timberlake, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant I don’t pretend to understand the fascination with the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY franchise, so I’m not going to attempt to explain how the third film in the series about hidden cameras catching ghosts/spirits can make $55 million in a weekend. I’m going to assume it’s because it had zero competition from other [...]
Tags: 2011 Movies, box office, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases, new movies
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant This has been a bizzarro-world weekend for some of us that have seen the FOOTLOOSE remake and then read some of the other reviews around the net from people that actually liked it. It has most of the Flix66 team here dumbfounded as to how a virtual shot for shot remake [...]
Tags: box office, Julianne Hough, Kenny Wormald, movie news
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Sunday, October 9th, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant Hugh Jackman’s boxing robot film REAL STEEL ran away with the weekend box office, bringing in close to $30 million. The film has received mixed reviews, but most seem pleased with the “fun” of the film, but disappointed in the rest of it. In second place was George Clooney’s THE IDES [...]
Tags: 2011 Movies, box office, george clooney, Hugh Jackman, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases, Ryan Gosling
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant For most of this weekend, MONEYBALL was on pace to take the box office, but it just couldn’t beat out the wholesomeness of DOLPHIN TALE. But the good news is that life is back to normal and THE LION KING 3D fell to number 3. I still think it’s ridiculous that [...]
Tags: 2011 Movies, Anna Faris, box office, Chris Evans, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, movie news, New Movie Releases, Sth Rogen
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Sunday, September 25th, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant Seriously, America? Last week you made THE LION KING 3D the #1 movie in America with a whopping $29 million and then you go back and make it the #1 movie again with another $22 million. Unbelievable. Everyone is fully aware that you can go to Wal-mart and buy this movie…right? [...]
Tags: 2011 Movies, box office, Jason Statham, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases, Seth Rogen, Taylor Lautner
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Sunday, September 11th, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant Early box office numbers indicate that this weekend will be the worst financially performing weekend of the year at the box office. Yes, even worse than the weekend that Hurricane Irene kept half the East Coast inside on Saturday and Sunday. What makes this more confusing is that this weekend didn’t [...]
Tags: 2011 Movies, box office, Matt Damon, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases, tom hardy
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Sunday, September 4th, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant Who would have thought that a little movie about race relations in the South would be #1 at the box office for three weekends in a row? That’s exactly what THE HELP has done, this time beating out all the newcomers at the box office. THE DEBT, APOLLO 18 and SHARK [...]
Tags: 2011 Movies, box office, Emma Stone, movie news, Movie Releases, New Movie Releases
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Sunday, August 28th, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant If you live on the East Coast, then chances are good you’ve been impacted somehow by Hurricane Irene. Well, movie theaters are not immune to the weather and theaters in NYC, Boston, D.C. and many other cities along the coast closed down on Saturday and Sunday, leading to the worst movie-going [...]
Tags: 2011 Movies, box office, guillermo del toro, Katie Holmes, Movie Releases, New Movie Releases, Paul Rudd, Zoe Saldana
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Sunday, August 21st, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant What a strange weekend at the box office. First, it looks like last week’s #2 film, THE HELP, is going to be snagging the top spot this weekend, while RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES falls to #2. From there, we get a string of new releases, all of which [...]
Tags: box office, Jason Momoa, movie news, New Movie Releases, Paul Rudd
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Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant The last few weekends of the summer are always filled with movies the studios like, but don’t necessarily think will actually do well. This weekend had a very eclectic mix of movies, ranging from the feel-good Southern drama THE HELP to the TV phenomenon turned shameless money-grabbing movie GLEE: THE 3D [...]
Tags: 2011 Movies, box office, movie news, Movie Release, New Movie Releases
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