“Ice Age: Continental Drift” opened to $46m in the top slot at the box office this weekend, a solid-but-unimpressive figure that puts it well below this summer’s prior kiddie tent-poles, “Madagascar 3: Escape to Africa” and “Brave.” Whether or not the animated film ends up regarded as a domestic success or failure will largely depend on […]
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Despite a stunning start overseas, “Ice Age: Continental Drift” could not live up to the box office standard set by its predecessors on Friday, opening to an OK-but-unimpressive $16.5m. That’s barely more than the original’s $13.5m, but keep in mind that the original opened in March, when kids were in school for Friday matinees. But
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Hello and welcome back to Box Office Beat, the column in which I hopelessly predict the upcoming weekend’s box office grosses. We’ve been apart for too long — because of the fact that last week’s major releases (“The Amazing Spider-Man” and “Katy Perry: Part of Me”) opened prior to Friday, I figured that you could
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