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Weekend Box Office: “Ice Age 4” opens OK, “Ted” holds well

“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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Friday Box Office: Fourth “Ice Age” fails to match up to predecessors

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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Weekend Box Office: “Amazing Spider-Man” soars above competition, “Moonrise” and “To Rome” crack top 10

“The Amazing Spider-Man” was number 1 at the box office this weekend, with $65m Friday through Saturday and $140m since its Tuesday opening. But you knew that would be the case. The real winners of the weekend were Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom” and Woody Allen’s “To Rome With Love,” both in modestly wide bows of

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Friday Box Office: “Amazing Spider-Man” slings to victory

As expected, “The Amazing Spider-Man” came in at #1 on Friday, continuing to do healthy business after a robust Tuesday opening. The movie is not quite performing up to par with previous superhero phenomenons (Sam Raimi’s original “Spider-Man” trilogy included), but it’s doing fine business. It may prove to be the latest “3-D killer,” however,

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