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Weekend Box Office: “Dark Knight Rises” easily retains crown as openers flop

Danny Baldwin / July 29, 2012

Posting better-than-expected Saturday and projected Sunday figures in light of its epic 76.3 percent Friday-over-Friday fall, “The Dark Knight Rises” easily retained the #1 spot at the box office this weekend, ending up with $64.1m. That’s not enough to bring it to a $300m domestic cume just yet, but Monday should get the movie over […]

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Friday Box Office: “The Watch” and “Step Up: Revolutions” among summer’s biggest bombs

Danny Baldwin / July 28, 2012

Despite the general feeling among prognosticators that “The Dark Knight Rises” could suffer a less-than-standard second-weekend drop due to the fearful, Aurora-related feelings that plagued the multiplex during its first weekend, the Batman finale ended up falling even more than the genre norm. At this point, it’s safe to say that there is no way

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Box Office Beat: Weekend of July 27

Danny Baldwin / July 27, 2012

In the wake of an horrendous massacre that rendered any attempt to predict the box office not only futile, but completely inconsequential, the most compelling box office question-related this weekend is: “Will Aurora have long-term effects on moviegoing?” While many were not deterred by the tragedy and still went out to see “The Dark Knight

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