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 …
Many agreed that the box office numbers for “Ted” and “Magic Mike” would be big, but nobody anticipated that they would be this big. Between those two movies, plus “Madea’s Witness Protection,” there were just as many sell-outs at megaplexes last night (if not more) than there will be when “The Amazing Spider-Man” opens on Tuesday. …
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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. …
