CATEGORY: Box Office News
Greek Weak; Shrek Continues His Reign
by Erika Olson | June 7th, 2010 | Filed under: Box Office News, CATEGORY: Box Office NewsI guess Aldous Snow doesn’t have as many fans as I thought he did. In a disappointing weekend at the box office — ticket sales were down more than 25% from this time last year when The Hangover crew was partying in Vegas — not one of the four new releases managed to take the [...]
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Dragon Delivers Swift Kick in the You-Know-Where to Kick-Ass
by Erika Olson | April 19th, 2010 | Filed under: Box Office News, CATEGORY: Box Office NewsAlas, despite all of its fanboy hype and creative marketing, Kick-Ass failed to live up to its name in the battle for box-office dollars. Even amidst stellar reviews and positive audience reactions in theater exit polls, the subversive superhero flick couldn’t capture the oh-so-coveted “#1 Movie in America” title. There’s a slight chance that could [...]
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It’s a Box-Office Tie!*
by Locke Peterseim | April 12th, 2010 | Filed under: Box Office News, CATEGORY: Box Office News(*For Now… UPDATE: Clash Holds Off Date Night FTW!) In a tightly contested race for the title “Most Tolerably Above-Mediocre Movie of the Week,” Date Night and Clash of the Titans are neck and neck down the home stretch. Date Night is technically out in front by a nose with an estimated $27.1 million from its opening [...]
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Perseus Defeats the Kraken, and the Competition
by Erika Olson | April 5th, 2010 | Filed under: Box Office News, CATEGORY: Box Office NewsThe gods are surely pleased with mankind this weekend — the Clash of the Titans remake managed to haul in $61.4 million despite its lack of an awesome golden mechanical owl and grumblings about its post-production 3D conversion. That’s the best-ever Easter opening (beating out, ahem, Scary Movie 4… so I guess the competition wasn’t [...]
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Shutter Island‘s Cop Out-Crazies the Box-Office Competition
by Locke Peterseim | March 1st, 2010 | Filed under: CATEGORY: Box Office NewsBoom. You see that? Yeah, that's right, I worked the top three film's titles into the headline via cheesy wordplay. This is what happens when I write up the box-office report late at night… Yes, Martin Scorsese's thriller Shutter Island, starring Leo DiCaprio, stayed atop the box office for a second week. The R-rated period [...]
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