Box Office News

Apr
04 2013
The month long countdown to the official start of the summer movie season on May 3rd with the opening of the much-anticipated Iron Man 3 starts this weekend with two newcomers.   This weekend we give the edge to the re-boot of Sony's Evil Dead...
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Apr
02 2013
$3.35 billion in worldwide box office, some of the biggest opening weekend's in movie history and one of the most successful movie franchises of all-time!  No, we are not talking about Stephenie Meyer's The Host. The anticipated big screen...
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Mar
31 2013
Paramount's  G.I. Joe: Retaliation tops Easter weekend with a solid $41.2 million domestically for the weekend and $51.7 million since its Thursday debut.  IMAX at almost $5 million domestically for the weekend & a little over $7 million...
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Mar
28 2013
In a sudden reversal of fortune for the action movie genre, it looks like Paramount's  G.I. Joe: Retaliation will do for the genre what Olympus Has Fallen did last weekend: draw moviegoers in big numbers.  After a string of flops aimed at the...
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Mar
24 2013
As expected, The Croods bashed the competition — with a blunt club, most likely — at the box office this weekend. The family-friendly animated film, which stars voicework by Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, and Cloris Leachman, raked...
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Mar
21 2013
Dreamworks animation and Twentieth Century Fox go positively prehistoric with the PG-rated The Croods, featuring the voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds and Cloris Leachman.  A solid opening weekend of $40 million will put this story...
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Mar
18 2013
The hot ticket at SXSW last week was the bikinis and guns comedy/drama Spring Breakers. The seemingly irresistible combination of Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine in bikinis along with a gun-toting James Franco also...
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Mar
17 2013
  March's blockbuster hit Oz the Great and Powerful proved that audiences are still willing to believe in magic — that enchantment and whimsy are dazzling feats we're all happy to rush to the theaters to witness. But unfortunately for Warner...
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Mar
10 2013
James Franco has whipped up some box office magic. His new Disney movie, Oz the Great and Powerful — also starring Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams, and Rachel Weisz — reeled in some incredible numbers this weekend. Disney is reporting that the...
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Mar
09 2013
Taking in $24,113,000 in 3,912 theaters (according to official Disney estimates), Oz the Great and Powerful is off to a solid start and should give the industry its first $70 million plus weekend debut of 2013.  The Friday number looks very...
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Mar
07 2013
We need a hit and we need it now. With year-to-date box office revenues down as much as 15% (depending on how it's calculated on the calendar), the industry has been searching for the secret formula to get us back on the yellow brick road of...
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Mar
05 2013
The Hobbit may be small in stature, but he sure knows how to pull down some solid box office numbers!  Crossing the $300 million mark in North America this past weekend put The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey over the top as it joins the very...
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Mar
03 2013
  It was a fairytale story at the box office this weekend as the big budget flick Jack the Giant Slayer fee fye foe fummed into theaters and easily defeated its cinematic competition. Bryan Singer’s darker take of the classic tale proved to be...
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