weekend box office

Weekend Box Office: “Brave” tops chart, “To Rome with Love” sizzles on specialty circuit

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If you read my Friday box office report, then you already knew that “Brave” would come in at #1, over tripling the gross of its nearest competitor (“Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted”). Thus, it should be of more interest to you that Woody Allen’s “To Rome with Love” grossed a bang-up $379,000 in its initial […]

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Weekend Box Office: “Madagascar 3” continues reign; openers don’t pick up from Friday

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After both “Rock of Ages” and “That’s My Boy” tanked at the box office on Friday, the big question was whether either could rebound over the weekend. The answer: a resounding no. Fortunes continued to be bad for the Tom Cruise and Adam Sandler led pics, which barely even managed the customary Saturday increases. Both

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Weekend Box Office: “Snow White” the fairest of the wide releases, “Moonrise” of the limited releases

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“Snow White and the Huntsman” reigned supreme at the box office this weekend, with nearly double the gross of its closest competitor, but you could have guessed that had you read our Friday report. The real news worth mentioning is that Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom,” after setting the per-theater-average record for a non-Disney release last

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Weekend Box Office: “Moonrise Kingdom” breaks PSA record, “Men in Black 3” tepidly tops chart

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“Men in Black 3” may have won the weekend, but its $70 million four-day take was not anywhere near what studio Sony was hoping for. Thus, the real box office story this weekend is “Moonrise Kingdom”, which managed to be the 14th biggest movie of the Memorial Day Holiday despite playing in just four theaters. Wes

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Weekend Box Office: Sub-headline? We don’t need no stinkin’ sub-headline

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The reason this piece doesn’t need a sub-headline is because you already knew that The Avengers took the #1 spot, zooming over everyone else ala Iron Man in the photo above. Let’s just get to the chart already. No. Title Weekend Per Theater Average Total 1 Marvel’s The Avengers $55.1M $12.958 $457.1M 2 Battleship $25.3M $6,856 $25.3M

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Weekend Box Office: Jack Black’s Bernie a bigger winner than all four wide releases

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Aside from the fact that Think Like a Man is now officially the year’s surprise hit, the box office for wide releases this weekend has been totally uninteresting, with openers The Five-Year Engagement, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Safe, and The Raven all performing worse than expected. Thus, if there’s a story to be told, it’s that the small

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Weekend Box Office: Think Like a Man #1, The Lucky One #2, The Hunger Games #3

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As Friday’s box office indicated it would be, this weekend was all about relationship movies — the comedy Think Like a Man coming in at a big #1 and the drama The Lucky One a solid #2. Interestingly, the former held up over Saturday and its projected Sunday much better than the latter (at least by studio

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