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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 Miserables - $145 million - 8 Oscar nominations
Argo - $126 million - 7 Oscar nominations
Life of Pi - $109 million (but half a…
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 how the contenders have stacked up so far - in terms of international box office, really the big story is Life of…
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 towards that as we speak. Box office for "adult fare" has been off the charts this year and IS THE STORY…
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 highest opener on Christmas, behind Sherlock Holmes and the highest grossing opener for a musical ever. …
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 predictions and it's not easy to find estimates for the weeklong haul. Nikki Finke is down sick (get well…
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 Oscar contenders so far. Still to come, Les Miserables, Zero Dark Thirty and Django Unchained. The Hobbit broke box…
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 domestic films this year out of the major studios have all been good. Four movies upcoming with all probably be,…
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 "out there in the world" are talking about. Why, because it delivers in so many different ways. It doesn't hurt…
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 biggest opening of all time. Deadline digs into the marketing strategy:
What made Lionsgate’s promotional…
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 contenders, or might be contenders, or who could be contenders are faring in this Oscar season. The Girl with the…
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 of summer.
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 million for the 4-Day Holiday Weekend and a total of $122 mil in one month.
There's a pre-order page already…
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 $43.5 million from midnight screenings, a healthy head-start on what's shaping up to be a $180 million weekend in the…
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 worldwide box-office earnings. It's now the 8th film in history to gross over $1 Billion and the second…
Tree of Life: Uniquely Visionary – No Refunds!
"Comprehension is not a prerequisite of cooperation." ~ The Matrix
From the Avon Theatre in Stamford, Connecticut, via @NextProjection on Twitter.
Don't let your mouth write checks your ass can't cash
Don't take your ass to movies your…
$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 identical sum of 37.3 mil in 2009. Some may say, sure, but District 9 was rightly famous for the…
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 end of the 1970's when the American New Wave suffered a backlash, studios pulled the plug on rebel…
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 UK it is as big as Avatar was last year. It is hitting big not just with the Brits but over here as well.…
Best Picture Box-Office Update
Adding up the weekend box-office estimates for the top Best Picture contenders, we find True Grit vaulting into 3rd place with a long trail ahead yet to ride. (Run, Little Blackie, run!) Wasn't expecting too many surprises when I drew up…
True Grit gallops toward $100 mil
Friday's box-office numbers for True Grit tipped it into the #1 spot, and Deadline says the final tally for New Year's Weekend has the Coen brothers' biggest opener nearly tied for the top spot with Fockers 3.¬† Perhaps the most…