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Weekend Box Office: Guess Some People Sat Through ‘Resident Evil’

Drew Taylor — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:00:57 +0000

I may have walked out of ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife,’ but that doesn’t mean everybody did. It was the only major studio movie this weekend and it locked down 2,000 of the country’s 3,203 3-D screens. That’s more about math than any sort of groundswell of popular opinion. I’m betting that Sony went out of the...

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Weekend Box Office: Some People Went to the Theater After All

Drew Taylor — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:00:16 +0000

Despite a ridiculously tepid wave of new films this week, people actually showed up and went to the movies. Well, a few people did anyway. However, the weekend’s big X-factor, the re-issue of James Cameron’s multi-billion-dollar grossing ‘Avatar,’ failed to crack the Top 10. (It came in at #11.) This almost certainly is mainly due...

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Weekend Movies: There’s Also This Thing Called Reading

Drew Taylor — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:00:55 +0000

Good grief. Summer is coming to an end not with a bang, but with a whimper. The crop of big studio fare shuffling into theaters this weekend is barely enough to raise an eyebrow. There doesn’t seem to be all that much happening on the independent side of things, either. But there is an upside:...

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