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Posts Tagged ‘Weekend Box Office’
Sunday, May 12th, 2013
You can say a lot of things about THE GREAT GATSBY (click the link to read our review), but I’d hardly call a summer movie with Leonardo DiCaprio and a Jay-Z soundtrack “experimental”. Analysts were worried that audiences wouldn’t show up to the Baz Luhrmann directed film because of the clash of the 1920′s setting [...]
Tags: iron man 3, the great gatsby, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, May 5th, 2013
We all knew IRON MAN 3 would do well at the weekend box office, so the only question was just how well would it do. While some speculated it could bring in Avengers type money, I was less optimistic. Obviously, the success of the first two Iron Man films as well as the record breaking [...]
Tags: 42, iron man 3, pain and gain, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, April 28th, 2013
It seems everyone complains about Michael Bay’s Transformers movies, but in Bay’s defense, every time he tries to venture away from movies about stuff blowing up, it turns out to be a bit of a box office disappointment. You can add PAIN & GAIN to that list as it looks like the film might not [...]
Tags: 42, oblivion, pain and gain, the big wedding, the croods, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, April 21st, 2013
Even though OBLIVION (click the link to read our review) didn’t have any competition at the weekend box office, I was a little concerned how Tom Cruise’s return to science-fiction would fare with the general public. As it turns out, the general public likes Tom Cruise and science fiction to the tune of more than [...]
Tags: 42, oblivion, the croods, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, April 14th, 2013
Although 42 has definitely overperformed at the weekend box office, the bigger news is how poorly SCARY MOVIE 5 has one. True, the franchise was dead a long time ago, but how soon we forge that SCARY MOVIE 4 raked in over $40 million (5 is barely pushing $15 million) on its opening weekend and [...]
Tags: 42, evil dead, scary movie 5, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, April 7th, 2013
Congratulations America; you just gave around $25 million to a remake of a 32 year old film and another $20 million to a 3D conversion of a 20 year old film, making them #1 and #4 at the weekend box office. If you paid to see the EVIL DEAD remake or JURASSIC PARK 3D, then [...]
Tags: evil dead, GI Joe Retaliation, Jurassic Park 3D, the croods, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, March 31st, 2013
G.I. JOE: RISE OF COBRA opened to $54 million when it debuted back in August, 2009, so in most regards, the $40 million that its sequel, G.I. JOE: RETALIATION is bringing in at the weekend box office is a little bit of a disappointment. The first film went on to make over $150 million and [...]
Tags: GI Joe Retaliation, the croods, Tyler Perry's Temptation, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, March 24th, 2013
Once again, an animated kids movie shows why you should never bet against them at the weekend box office as THE CROODS (click the link to read our review) took the top spot. I don’t feel like I heard much about it, but I heard nothing but good things about it and our reviewer liked [...]
Tags: Admission, olympus has fallen, the croods, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, March 17th, 2013
It seems some box office pundits are confused by the surprisingly poor performance of THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE (click the movie title to read our review) at the weekend box office. But ask any casual movie goer or any critic and the only surprise would be that the film finished as high as it did. [...]
Tags: oz the great and powerful, the call, the incredible burt wonderstone, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, March 10th, 2013
Some analysts around Hollywood were worried that OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL was going to be this year’s “JOHN CARTER” for Disney. Working with an insanely huge budget estimated between $215 and $225 million, the film has an uphill battle to make back that kind of money. But with international grosses and Blu-ray sales generating [...]
Tags: dead man down, jack the giant slayer, oz the great and powerful, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, March 3rd, 2013
It should come as no surprise that the big budget fairy tale film, JACK THE GIANT SLAYER, didn’t fare so well at the weekend box office. It seemed to be forgotten by everyone involved, including director Bryan Singer, who spent most of the weeks leading up to the film’s release talking about his X-Men sequel [...]
Tags: 21 and over, identity thief, jack the giant slayer, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, February 24th, 2013
Oscar weekend is the time when people want to sit around and talk about movies, but no one actually wants to watch movies. So it’s a perfect time to release a Dwayne Johnson led action movie that’s not a sequel to an already established franchise. Unfortunately for The Rock, his latest film, SNITCH, didn’t fare [...]
Tags: A Good Day To Die Hard, identity thief, snitch, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, February 17th, 2013
Predictably, A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD did well at the weekend box office, but not spectacular. But with around $30 million over the four day holiday weekend, I got to thinking; how does it stack up to the previous four Die Hard movies. Well, the first four opening weekend grosses, in order, are: $7m, [...]
Tags: A Good Day To Die Hard, Safe Haven, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, February 10th, 2013
Analysts were nervous about how the horrible winter storm was going to impact the weekend box office and even though moviegoing was down this weekend, I’m not sure you could blame it on the storm. Audiences did go out and see the new Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy comedy, IDENTITY THIEF, to the tune of [...]
Tags: identity thief, side effects, warm bodies, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2013
Every weekend in January and February is a bad weekend for movies, but possibly the worst weekend is Super Bowl weekend. Unless you have a film that brilliantly counter-markets football fans, you can basically count out Sunday of your weekend box office total. I wouldn’t say the zombie romantic comedy WARM BODIES is perfect counter-marketing, [...]
Tags: bullet to the head, mama, warm bodies, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, January 27th, 2013
There’s just something depressing about the weekend box office towards the end of January. This is where movies go to die, so when a movie like HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS is #1 at the box office, it’s almost insulting. But the film didn’t have much competition since the other new movies that opened up [...]
Tags: hansel & gretel: witch hunters, Movie 43, parker, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, January 20th, 2013
It’s not often that an actress finds herself starring in the #1 and #2 movies in the same weekend, but that’s exactly what Jessica Chastain has done at the weekend box office. Her new horror film, MAMA and her Oscar hopeful ZERO DARK THIRTY both beat out perennial box office heavyweights Mark Wahlberg and Arnold [...]
Tags: broken city, mama, the last stand, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, January 13th, 2013
America has been waiting to see what all the fuss and controversy is about with ZERO DARK THIRTY (click the link to read our review) and now they finally got to see it for themselves. Kathryn Bigelow’s film did pretty well, taking in around $25 million in it’s first go at the weekend box office. [...]
Tags: gangster squad, les miserables, Weekend Box Office, Zero Dark Thirty
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Sunday, January 6th, 2013
The exciting Christmas releases are well behind us now and all we have left are movies that studios have no confidence in or Oscar hopefuls getting their wide release. Taking the top spot at the weekend box office is the slasher-horror film TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D, marking this about the thousandth time we’ve seen an incarnation [...]
Tags: django unchained, les miserables, texas chainsaw 3d, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, December 30th, 2012
Despite strong showings on Christmas day from both LES MISERABLES and DJANGO UNCHAINED, it looks like THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (click the links to read our reviews) is going to finish atop the weekend box office yet again. The race is really for second place and right now, Quentin Tarantino’s DJANGO UNCHAINED has a [...]
Tags: django unchained, les miserables, the hobbit, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2012
After a few slow weeks at the weekend box office, things picked up last weekend when THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (click the title links to read our reviews on the films)hit theaters and the film continued strong, beating out all newcomers. It looks like Tom Cruise’s JACK REACHER will flirt with $20 million for [...]
Tags: jack reacher, the hobbit, This is 40, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, December 16th, 2012
Despite receiving mostly negative to neutral reviews from critics (read our own review for THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY), audiences came out in droves to see Peter Jackson’s big screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkein’s classic novel. Not only did the bad reviews not hurt the film’s performance, but the first of the trilogy managed to [...]
Tags: skyfall, the hobbit, twilight, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2012
Brad Pitt may be one of the most recognizable movie stars on the planet, but his fame and success rarely equals big numbers at the weekend box office. Although KILLING THEM SOFTLY isn’t the kind of movie that appeals to everyone, most box office predictors expected more than a bottom five showing. I’m not sure [...]
Tags: killing them softly, skyfall, the collection, twilight, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, November 25th, 2012
Although this Thanksgiving saw many newcomers to the weekend box office, it was three holdovers that stole the show, making the biggest Thanksgiving weekend in history. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 continued it’s money-making haul, pushing its total to well over $225 million since its release. Maybe more impressive than that is the [...]
Tags: life of pi, skyfall, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, November 18th, 2012
It’s not often that a movie opens up to around $135 million and people say they’re disappointed, but that’s exactly what’s going on today after THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 wasn’t able to beat Part 1 at the weekend box office. To put it in perspective, Part 1 finished the weekend with around [...]
Tags: lincoln, skyfall, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, November 11th, 2012
Although people will continue to argue who did the best job playing James Bond, the debate as to which James Bond film is the most successful has been settled. It looks like SKYFALL will flirt with $90 million at the weekend box office, (if you include Thursday’s total) making it the biggest James Bond film [...]
Tags: movie news, skyfall, Weekend Box Office, wreck-it ralph
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Sunday, November 4th, 2012
Although most critics seemed to agree that Disney’s WRECK-IT RALPH was high on good ideas but lacked in execution, it didn’t stop the kiddos from coming out in droves to see it, making it the number one movie at the weekend box office. Kids movies always do well and although it had to compete against [...]
Tags: flight, the man with the iron fists, Weekend Box Office, wreck-it ralph
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Sunday, October 28th, 2012
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a movie in its third week reclaim the top spot at the weekend box office, and definitely not a sophisticated drama, but that’s exactly what Ben Affleck’s ARGO is on pace to accomplish. The film has managed to retain its audience since it’s initial release and that should [...]
Tags: argo, cloud atlas, silent hill revelation 3D, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, October 21st, 2012
I sometimes feel like a movie’s success at the weekend box office gives executives the misguided interpretation that they’ve made a good film. Such is the case with PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4, which is clearly the worst reviewed film of the franchise that hasn’t had a good review since the original. But on the other hand, [...]
Tags: alex cross, argo, Paranormal activity 4, Taken 2, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, October 14th, 2012
It’s October, which means any and every horror movie released between now and Halloween is going to do well at the weekend box office. So the fact that SINISTER is pushing the $20 million mark should come as no surprise. What might be a little surprising is that Ben Affleck’s ARGO is close to hitting [...]
Tags: argo, here comes the boom, sinister, Taken 2, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, October 7th, 2012
There’s just something about Liam Neeson when he’s angry that makes people excited. We got our first taste of that in TAKEN back in 2008 and so making a sequel was a no-brainer for the sequel. There wasn’t much doubt the film would do well at the weekend box office, but flirting with $50 million [...]
Tags: frankenweenie, hotel transylvania, Taken 2, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, September 30th, 2012
It’s probably a good day to be an executive at Sony Pictures today. Their films finished in first and second place at the weekend box office and both of them did surprisingly well. First up, Adam Sandler’s 3D animated film HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA looks like it will beat the all time September box office opening by [...]
Tags: end of watch, hotel transylvania, looper, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, September 16th, 2012
The Resident Evil movies are simplistic, unoriginal, have very little in terms of plot and character development and they seem to go absolutely nowhere. That said, I still follow the series and find them to be at least a little enjoyable despite their numerous flaws. It seems America agrees with me as the fifth film [...]
Tags: Finding Nemo 3D, Resident Evil Retribution, The Possession, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, September 9th, 2012
You can’t read too much into the poor showings of every new film at the weekend box office. September is usually a rough box office month and most of the films released at this time are films the studios don’t know what to do with. THE WORDS is a good example; it has a big [...]
Tags: Cold Light of Day, The Possession, the words, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2012
I really thought that the Weinstein’s decision to move the release date of LAWLESS to follow THE DARK KNIGHT RISES would have paid off more at the weekend box office. Tom Hardy seems to have been the topic of conversation ever since his turn as Bane, but apparently, people still aren’t following him to the [...]
Tags: lawless, the expendables 2, The Possession, Weekend Box Office
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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 19th, 2012
I don’t think you can write a story about THE EXPENDABLES 2 without doing a few jokes about old guys, but even the most jaded of fans have to admit it’s cool to see all of your favorite action heroes together on the big screen, lighting up the weekend box office, even if little things [...]
Tags: 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, July 29th, 2012
Just a few short weeks ago, Hollywood was speculating how many records THE DARK KNIGHT RISES was going to break at the weekend box office and by how much. Now, with a slew of negative to neutral reviews (with a ton of positive reviews as well, it should be noted) and the tragedy in Colorado, [...]
Tags: Step Up Revolution, The Dark Knight Rises, The Watch, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
Despite the tragedy in Colorado, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (click the link to read our review) managed to set the highest 2D opening at the weekend box office. Even with around $163 million in three days, most analysts and experts agree that the shooting in Aurora did, in fact, have a negative impact on the [...]
Tags: Ice Age 4, movie news, the amazing spider-man, The Dark Knight Rises, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, July 15th, 2012
Continuing with the proven theory that all summer animated sequels do well, ICE AGE 4: CONTINENTAL DRIFT took the top spot at the weekend box office, beating out last week’s winner, THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. I’m not sure what it is with the Ice Age films, but kids seem to love them. Personally, I think of [...]
Tags: Ice Age 4, magic mike, movie news, Ted, the amazing spider-man, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, July 8th, 2012
I can only imagine the executives at Sony breathing a deep sigh of relief today as their Spider-Man reboot, THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN not only did well during the 4th of July holiday, but also did pretty well at the weekend box office. Not there was too much doubt; slapping the name “Spider-Man” on just about [...]
Tags: brave, magic mike, movie news, Ted, the amazing spider-man, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, July 1st, 2012
I’m trying to think of the last time R-rated films finished in first and second place at the weekend box office, in the summer. I’m drawing a blank, but that’s exactly what TED and MAGIC MIKE managed to do this weekend. These two movies owe just about all of their success to the great marketing [...]
Tags: brave, magic mike, movie news, Ted, Weekend Box Office
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Sunday, June 24th, 2012
BRAVE was supposed to be the first Pixar film to open to a disappointing weekend box office, but in typical Pixar fashion, the film managed to exceed expectations. Naysayers were concerned that the choice of having a female heroine in a foreign country would be a deterrent to American audiences, but it seems America is [...]
Tags: brave, movie news, prometheus, Rock of Ages, 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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