What is the shortest amount of time a film has taken to make $200 million? Well, with the release of The Avengers, the answer is three days. No other film even came close to the big budget comic book film this week, which has not only garnered rave reviews from critics, but enough box-office green to make it an absolute smash. Having made an estimated $200.3 million its opening weekend (making it ...[Read More]
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]
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]
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]