With $54.1 million in box office receipts, Seth MacFarlane’s R-rated teddy bear comedy, “Ted,” won the weekend by a wide margin. Clearly, far more than MacFarlane’s “Family Guy” following showed up, as the movie coasted to the biggest opening for an R-rated comedy ever. If “Ted” manages to have the legs of past summer comedies […]
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Hello and welcome back to Box Office Beat, the column in which I predict the upcoming weekend’s box office grosses. After a series of botched predictions, I truly recovered last weekend, coming within 10 percent of the actuals for openers “Brave” and “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” Let’s hope I can repeat that success this weekend.
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Tom Cruise looks set to go from sucking blood to killing blood suckers. It has been announced that Cruise is set to star in Universal Pictures’ Van Helsing reboot. The last incarnation of that character was in Stephen Sommers’ 2004 film Van Helsing, which starred Hugh Jackman as Count Dracula’s nemesis. Cruise famously played a
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