Box Office News

Oct
07 2012
A much needed boost last weekend set the marketplace up for a second solid weekend at the nation’s theaters as positive momentum returns to the box office. Liam Neeson returned as kick ass, take no prisoners mega-dad Bryan Mills who wreaked...
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Oct
06 2012
With a massive first day take of $18.6 million in 3,661 theaters Fox's Taken 2 starring Liam Neeson tops Friday's box office derby and a potential opening weekend in the near $50 million range! That's almost double the debut weekend of 2009's...
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Oct
04 2012
A much needed boost last weekend sets the marketplace up for a second solid weekend at the nation’s theaters as positive momentum returns to the box office. Liam Neeson returns as kick ass, take no prisoners mega-dad Bryan Mills who will wreak...
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Oct
04 2012

Lessons We Can Learn from the World's Busiest Actors

By: Hollywood.com Staff
11:06am EDT
Maybe there are fewer movie stars these days or maybe there are just fewer sure things in Hollywood now that the box office numbers are depressed, but it seems like a large number of actors are taking up a lion's share of the movie roles...
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Sep
30 2012
With the box office down for a solid month, the marketplace got a much needed boost with the debut of a couple of very strong newcomers from Sony Pictures: 1. Hotel Transylvania - $43.0 million 2. Looper - $21.2 million 3. End Of Watch - $8.0...
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Sep
29 2012
Sony Pictures Animation's Hotel Transylvania earned a very scary $11 million on Friday and is on track for a debut north of $38 million which would be a record opening weekend for the month of September beating 2002's Sweet Home Alabama and its $35...
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Sep
27 2012
With the box office down for a solid month, the marketplace will get a much needed boost with the debut of a couple of very strong newcomers from Sony Pictures. First up with an expected number one debut is Columbia Pictures Animation’s PG-rated...
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Sep
23 2012
It was a photo finish with End of Watch from Open Road Films in a dead heat for first place with Relativity's House at the End of the Street as Clint Eastwood's Trouble with the Curve from Warner Bros. takes third. The tie will be broken on Monday...
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Sep
17 2012
This weekend, the latest entry of the Resident Evil franchise, Retribution, followed in the footsteps of its predecessors to be the number one movie at the American box office with a solid $21 million gross. Many point to the series dedicated...
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Sep
16 2012
While kids and families are off chasing 3-D fish, adults can follow a different kind of beast in Sony's Resident Evil: Retribution, the fifth installment of the hugely successful Screen Gems franchise (with nearly $700 million in worldwide dollars)...
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Sep
13 2012
The Pixar brand is one of the most beloved in the world of movies — and with good reason. The films have earned over $7 billion in worldwide box office since the first Toy Story film was released in 1995. Now Disney presents Finding...
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Sep
09 2012
It was the lowest grossing overall weekend of the year (with an expected $65 million to $68 million for the ENTIRE weekend) and one of the lowest grossing weekends of the past 10 years. Clearly there was not a lot of momentum coming out of Labor...
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Sep
03 2012
The Dark Knight Rises has indeed risen. Just one day after The Avengers officially hit the $1.5 billion mark at the box office — thanks to a Labor Day re-release — the summer’s other big superhero tentpole, The Dark Knight Rises passed $1...
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