The “R’s” have it as the Top four movies this week carry the Restricted rating as three Best Picture nominees grace the Top 5. Best Picture nominee Zero Dark Thirty has benefitted from the buildup of its platform release pattern since...
The "Oscar bump" — the coveted box office upswing resultant of a feature film's Academy Award nomination. Every January, the announcement of the year's Oscar nods gives you one final push to finally head to the theaters for that collection of...
Texas Chainsaw 3D was the surprise winner this weekend when it chopped up some very strong competitors including Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained and the holiday hit The Hobbit. This left many in Hollywood scratching their heads and even...
The weekend was expected to belong to Django or Bilbo, but that pesky Leatherface and his new crop of attractive victims cut them from the top spot at the box office when Texas Chainsaw 3D emerged the surprise winner. The Lionsgate feature scared...
As Warner Bros.' The Hobbit looks to make this its fourth weekend at the top of the box office chart, there will be some intense competition from the latest Tarantino blood-fest Django Unchained which topped the mid-week chart on Wednesday. A...
Hollywood is on the cusp of a record box office year with $10.8 billion expected (up 6% over last year’s $10.215 billion) and beating the previous record of $10.6 billion in 2009). Attendance will wind up at 1.36 billion tickets sold (also up 6%...
Sony Pictures announced today that Skyfall, the 23rd James Bond adventure, has surpassed $1 billion at the worldwide box office, it was jointly announced today by Jeff Blake, chairman of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution for Sony Pictures and...
The Hobbit is kind of like the Rodney Dangerfield of movies. No matter what it does, and no matter how successful it might be, it gets no respect. No respect, I tell ya!
Critics and analysts alike have been unkind to the big film about...
There was a giant Christmas present waiting for Hollywood under the box office tree as Universal’s acclaimed musical Les Miserables posted the second biggest single-day Christmas debut ever with $18.1 million! This is second only to the...
Tom Cruise: the very name conjures up immediate images of his many iconic roles: the young kid sliding across the floor in his underwear in Risky Business; the cocky fighter pilot Maverick in Top Gun; Vietnam vet Ron Kovic in Born on the...
While The Hobbit topped the box office for the second straight weekend with $36.7 million (for a total of $149.8 million), a host of newcomers fought over the leftovers this Christmas weekend.
Tom Cruise in the R-rated action drama Jack...
While The Hobbit will certainly top the box office for the second straight weekend with a gross in the $50 million range, a host of newcomers are going to fight over the leftovers this Christmas weekend.
Tom Cruise in the R-rated action...
Peter Jackson’s much awaited prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opened this past weekend to fanfare and high anticipation. Predictions for its opening weekend box office ranged wildly from a low of $75...
