No, it’s not a sequel to the Roland Emmerich disaster movie, but the conservative doc “2016: Obama’s America” forecasts a future that’s nearly as bleak. Even without big explosions, the film, which was advertised nonstop on talk radio and cable news, grossed a stunning $6.2 million in its first weekend of wide release. That was […]
Hello and welcome back to Box Office Beat, the column in which I predict the upcoming weekend’s box office grosses. There are three new openers and a significant expansion, but we’ll be lucky if even one ascends to double-digit numbers. And that’s after last weekend’s four releases all proved underwhelming. It must be late August!
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This weekend’s box office returns for the major openers–“The Expendables 2,” “ParaNorman,” “Sparkle,” and “The Odd Life of Timothy Green”–were solid but not spectacular, certainly not the surprisingly strong numbers that “The Bourne Legacy” and “The Campaign” posted last weekend. The Sylvester Stallone/Arnold Schwarzenegger action ensemble pic predictably claimed the #1 slot, but it fell
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