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With only one major opener this weekend, there was no doubt as to which film would walk away in the #1 spot. Even so, I don’t think anyone expected it to pull in the numbers that it did.
With only one major opener this weekend, there was no doubt as to which film would walk away in the #1 spot. Even so, I don’t think anyone expected it to pull in the numbers that it did.
With only one nationwide release opening against a two-week-old animated flick, it was no question as to which would walk away the winner. Yet despite the better-than-expected win, the box office totals for this weekend were lower...
Despite some stiff competition, ‘The Lorax’ held off every other opener with a second #1 weekend at $39.1 million, which brings its ten-day total to $121.9 million. Too bad Dr. Seuss isn’t around to see everyone ...
If anyone had told me in advance that a heavy-handed animated flick about deforestation and evil greedy corporations would open to more than $70 million, I would have called them a fool. There’s no way that such a movie coul...
The televised broadcast of the Academy Awards ceremony usually takes a small bite out of box office earnings, but that wasn’t the case with this weekend’s top flick.
Last weekend’s box office forecast was blown out of the water by the supercharged openings of ‘The Vow‘, ‘Safe House‘ and ‘Journey 2‘, but this week’s supposedly clear winner closed ...
There’s no argument that Hollywood is on the decline in theater attendance and home entertainment sales. Numbers don’t lie. But what everyone is speculating about is the “Why?” behind this gradual drop, and...
Aside from that 3D ‘Menace’, every movie in the box office Top 5 this weekend blasted past expectations – one of them by more than $18 million!
Super Bowl weekend doesn’t usually result in big box office earnings, but this year proved otherwise. The top five movies pulled in an estimated $95.9 million, up 31% from the same period last year. Even more surprising is t...
This, the last weekend of January, turned out to be quite surprising. If you had told me in advance that an R-rated movie about a man punching-out a pack of wolves would be #1 at the box office, and that Katherine Heigl would outg...
Since Luke is out covering the Sundance Film Festival, seeing great movies and partying with celebrities as we speak, it looks like I’ll fill in on the box office update today. Long story short: We’re still stuck in th...
Some online sites that follow weekly box office totals are announcing the three-day actual weekend estimates, while others count this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a four-day weekend, and give four-day estimates that include Monday&...