Box Office News

Feb
12 2013
It would be difficult to find a more eclectic movie director than Steven Soderbergh. No question that the word “auteur” certainly applies to someone who has made a career out of creating a wide diversity of films spanning nearly all...
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Feb
10 2013
As it turns out, the massive winter storm that blanketed the Northeast with multiple feet of snow didn't keep audiences from heading to the theaters to check out the Jason Bateman/Melissa McCarthy comedy Identity Thief. The new release managed to...
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Feb
09 2013
The Northeast is blanketed in 10 of inches of snow — sounds like the perfect time to curl up in a blanket in front of the TV and catch up on your Netflix queue. Great for you (and the hot cocoa industry), but kind of a bummer for the movies...
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Feb
04 2013
Sylvester Stallone: The star of nearly 50 movies in a career spanning 4 decades, over $2 billion in domestic box office, nearly $4.5 billion worldwide and a personal rags to riches story that is the stuff of Hollywood legend. He is indelibly...
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Feb
03 2013
If you were betting on the Super Bowl this weekend, you fared well compared to the expectedly-slow box office weekend. As expected Warm Bodies went after the audiences that might not have put the pigskin palace on their to-do list, and from that...
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Jan
31 2013
It looks like the Super Bowl will be the odds on favorite to win the weekend as this traditionally slow box office period will be just that: slow. The best Super Bowl weekend ever ($127.7M total) was back in 2008 when female-driven Hannah...
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Jan
27 2013
As expected Paramount's Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, the ultra-violent update of the classic fairy tale, topped the box office for the weekend of Jan. 25. But unlike a certain evil witch's house, it wasn't exactly made of candy. It opened...
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Jan
24 2013
Paramount Pictures (in a co-production with MGM) brings to the big screen (in 3,372 theaters) an amped up version of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters in both 3-D and IMAX this weekend. The films stars The Hurt...
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Jan
21 2013
All eyes were on the box office this weekend and not just because Jessica Chastain was expected to take the top two spots on the chart. Another marquis name, “Governator” Arnold Schwarzenegger, was set to make his much-discussed return to...
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Jan
20 2013
Mama might have finished on top of the box office, but Jessica Chastain is the true winner of the week. Just days after winning a Golden Globe, Chastain raked in some serious green with her films Mama and Zero Dark Thirty, which finished in the...
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Jan
18 2013
This weekend pits stars against some very formidable competition: themselves! Impressively, Jessica Chastain and Russell Crowe will likely appear in four of the Top 10 films this weekend with the Golden Globe-winning Chastain facing the real...
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Jan
17 2013
Three newcomers hit theaters this Martin Luther King weekend as two action stars and couple of very scary little girls will try to dethrone reigning champ Zero Dark Thirty. Sony's Zero Dark Thirty has dominated the movie marketplace ever since...
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Jan
14 2013
This weekend, director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal’s riveting, true life manhunt drama Zero Dark Thirty topped the box office chart with $24 million. This is not a place “modern Iraq/Afghanistan war movies” in the post 9/11 world...
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