Box-Office
Weekend Box-Office: Avengers Sink Battleship
It is not quite Memorial Day yet, but the studios have released their big guns early, with Men in Black 3 remaining the only major May blockbuster to be released next weekend. However, it will still face stiff competition from The Avengers, which handily held onto the top spot with an estimated $55.1 million this weekend, and likely to be a major contender over the holiday weekend. However, it may...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Avengers on Top Again, Casts Long Shadow Over Johnny Depp and Dark Shadows
The Avengers stood quite tall once again this weekend…still losing quite a bit of revenue from last week, but when last week’s haul ended up being well over $200 million ($207.4 million to be exact), an estimated $103.2 million this week is quite the success story. It also is the fastest film to reach $350 million, earning over $373.1 million in domestic ticket sales. However, it did not beat the ...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Repeat Success Continues as Think Like a Man Keeps Ahead of the Newcomers
The box office got flooded with new releases (most likely to get a head start on The Avengers, coming out next weekend), but none were able to take down Think Like a Man, which comes in first for the second week in a row. With an estimated $18 million this weekend, the romantic comedy has blown past its mixed reviews to earn $60.9 million domestically. Comedy appears to be selling better than dram...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: The Hunger Games Not On Top for the First Time Ever!
Now, don’t let the title here mislead you…The Hunger Games is not out of the running just yet. Instead, the epic moneymaker settled for bronze in its fifth week in the box office with an estimated $14.5 million, about half of the take the #1 spot earned, Think Like a Man. The romantic comedy based on the book by comedian Steve Harvey made an estimated $33 million, winning out over the romantic dra...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: The Hunger Games Can’t Be Stopped…On Top for Four Straight Weeks!
Oscar Wilde wrote that life imitates art…that certainly seems to be the case, since The Hunger Games is bound and determined to destroy any and all competition. For four straight weeks it has remained the box office champ despite the typical decline of revenue, its estimated $21.5 million is still more than enough to hold off the debuts of the Farrelly Brothers’ The Three Stooges (estimated $17.1 ...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: The Hunger Games Certainly Not Starving After Record-Breaking Win
And they say no one reads anymore…well, people were certainly lining up to catch the big screen debut of The Hunger Games, based on the best-selling young adult novels. Even concerns about violent content weren’t enough to dissuade audiences and critics alike from giving it the best opening ever for a film that wasn’t a sequel or prequel to another film, with $152.5 million in domestic revenue (Ha...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: The Real Thing Gets Real Dollars – Act of Valor on Top
Box office receipts were down, way down from last week, but the big news is that the winner at the multiplex had no big name stars. Act of Valor, starring real U.S. Navy SEALs (and, reportedly, live ammunition during filming), earned an estimated $24.7 million and mixed reviews from critics. Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds came in second with an estimated $16 million and somewhat less positive reviews th...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Mark Wahlberg Smuggles in a Win for Contraband
It may not be the traditional holiday weekend, with few getting time off for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday as, say, Memorial Day…but for the three day take, the “one last job” crime film Contraband walked away the winner with an estimated $24.1 million. Though this is a definite drop in overall take from last week, perhaps it says something about the current crop of films that the next ...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: The Devil Inside Possesses Box Office, If Not Much Else
If reports are to be believed, many who bought tickets to see The Devil Inside may claim the Devil made them do it, as the film has scored poorly with critics and theatergoers alike. Nevertheless, that didn’t stop it from making a killing in its weekend debut, earning an estimated $34.5 million on a paltry $1 million budget. Things dropped off a bit for the second and third place films, Mission: I...[Read More]