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Box Office – Hope Among the Ruins
I was surprised to see how well Mud has been doing at the box office. Amid the tent-pole productions, the smaller films aren’t...
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$51M for Gatsby
Talk about top-heavy box-office. The Great Gatsby has collected $51 million on its opening weekend, coming in 2nd after Iron Man 3 wi...
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Box Office Check-in – Six Best Picture Nominees Over $100 million
Lincoln – $176 million – 12 Oscar nominations Django Unchained – $156 million – 5 Oscar nominations Les Miser...
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Box Office Check-in
As we head into the Directors Guild this Saturday and this race comes to a sputtering close, it’s time to take another look at ...
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Oscar and the Hundred Million Dollar Baby
For the first time in, like, forever most of the Oscar frontrunners for Best Picture have either made $100 million or are barreling t...
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Les Mis Sets Box Office Record, Zero Dark Thirty HUGE, Lincoln hits $120 mil
Wowzer for all three of these box office stories. The first, Les Miserables hits $18 mil for its opening. That makes it the second hi...
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10 highest-grossing Christmas movies ever
Since Christmas falls on Tuesday this year, the usual sources of box-office savvy have been more cautious with forthcoming weekend pr...
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Box Office Check-In, Lincoln Takes the Lead of the Oscar Contenders
This past weekend Lincoln increased its theater count and as a result passed Argo to become 2012’s highest grossing of the Osca...
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Argo Passes $100 Million, Lincoln Makes $85 million in 4 Weeks
The Oscar best picture race has lit up the box office this season, something that hardly ever happens. The reason is that the domesti...
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Weekend Box Office – Word of Mouth Drives Argo to #1, Cloud Atlas Hanging In
Argo isn’t just a Best Picture frontrunner amid the Oscar pundit circles; it is that rare word of mouth film that people “...
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The Hunger Games pulls in $155M; $214M worldwide.
The Hunger Games opening weekend tally adds up to $155M domestic + $58.7M international for a total of $213.7M worldwide. Third bigge...
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A Quick Look at Box Office
As we head into the Producers Guild tomorrow, it’s a good time to look at how our contenders, or those we think will be contend...
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Top-ranked films of 2011: box-office & critics chart
Ziyad Abul Hawa has done another spectacular job crunching the numbers to rank the year’s top movies up through the final weeks...
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The Help reigns #1 at box-office for 3rd week
DreamWorks/Disney holds tight to the #1 spot at the box-office as The Help cleans up for the 3rd week in a row. An estimated $18 mill...
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Deathly Hallows 2 sets midnight record of $43.5M
Shame the Harry Potter series is ending just when it’s beginning to catch on. Deadline is reporting an astonishing haul of $43....
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides passes $1B
Yesterday someone somewhere bought a ticket for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and pushed it past the $1 Billion mark in...
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Tree of Life: Uniquely Visionary – No Refunds!
“Comprehension is not a prerequisite of cooperation.” ~ The Matrix From the Avon Theatre in Stamford, Connecticut, via @N...
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$37 mil weekend for Super 8
Super 8 ticked up above most estimates to earn $37 million its opening weekend. Deadline notes that District 9 pulled in a nearly ide...
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Weak 'Film Pulse' sad symptom of blockbuster mentality
Very Small Array charts a steady 50-year decline in the quality of films moviegoers want to see most. Steepest nosedive occurs at the...
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The King’s Speech, True Grit and Black Swan – Box Office Stories of 2010
The King’s Speech is making a boatload of cash at the box office. According to Pete Hammond, the film is so gangbusters in the ...