Box Office

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

"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…

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…

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…