Many people will not be surprised to hear that James Cameron’s Avatar has surpassed Titanic as the highest grossing movie of all time – worldwide. This past Sunday, Avatar was only $4.4 million behind the number one spot held by Titanic. Then on Monday, the film grossed nearly $20 million, moving it right into [...]
According to Box Office Mojo, James Cameron’s AVATAR had a strong opening day at $27 million dollars. The film opened on 7,000 screens at 3,452 sites. Of the theaters showing the film, 59% accounted for 3D presentations.
AVATAR is the story of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), an paraplegic ex-marine who has been requested [...]
Someone asked me the other day if I was going to give New Moon a good review. At the time I hadn’t seen it, and figured I would have to wait and see the finished product. It quickly dawned on me that what I was going to say would not matter. The series has such [...]
This weekend’s box office numbers tell us something that was no surprise to many. “Paranormal Activity” killed again in the box office – pun intended.
The movie, which cost a mere $15,000 to make, brought in $22 million dollars over the weekend – beating out new release “Saw VI.” The fifth sequel in [...]
Tyler Perry continued his string of success with his latest film, I Can Do Bad All By Myself over the weekend. The estimated gross of $24 million this weekend makes the film his third largest debut ever, behind Madea Goes to Jail and Madea’s Family Reunion which opened to $41 million and $30 million respectively. [...]
Final Destination 3D was the top earner over the Labor Day weekend, and even though the box office was up 40% the top earner only grossed $15.5 million. This weekend marks the second week in a row Final Destination has come in at the top spot, bringing its total to $50.6 million making on target [...]
Quentin Tarantino scored his biggest release every over the weekend with his WWII action film, Inglorious Basterds. The film took domestically an estimated $37.6 million beating his previous best Kill Bill Vol. 2 which had an opening of $25.1. Inglorious Basterds did well over the expectations for it’s weekend opening, which most pundits set at [...]
Weekend Box Office showed an improvement over last year in the same time frame jumping almost 15% led by the impressive weekend from the sci-fi thriller District 9.
District 9 which flew into theaters this weekend did sizeable business for a low budget sci-fi thriller. The film had an estimated gross of $37 million over the [...]
Well no surprises here, Judd Apatow’s new comedy Funny People topped the weekend box office charts with an estimated gross of $23.4 million. The R-rated comedy finished within expectations of the studio, but at the low end of most advance estimates. While it is the top picture of the weekend, things aren’t perfect. This marks [...]
Time magazine has published an interesting article about the correlation between Twitter, and the success a movie has during its initial days at the box office. Richard Corliss states in the article that Twitter can “make or break a film within 24 hours,” and in the case of BRUNO, it may have cost the [...]
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