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Box Office, Hollywood on March 7, 2010
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp’s trip down the rabbit hole drew huge crowds, as “Alice in the Wonderland” earned a whopping $116.3 million in its opening weekend — a record for a 3-D film. That total easily surpassed all other [...]
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Box Office, Hollywood on February 28, 2010
“Shutter Island” earned $22.2 million during the three days beginning Friday, taking its 10-day haul to $75.1 million, distributor Paramount Pictures said. Leonardo DiCaprio, who has collaborated previously with Scorsese, stars in the picture as a federal marshal stranded at [...]
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Box Office, Hollywood on February 21, 2010
The weekend’s only big new release and the latest from the director-star team of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, “Shutter Island” easily won the box office with a strong $40.1 million. The debut marks the largest for director and star, [...]
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Box Office, Hollywood on February 14, 2010
Gary Marshall’s all-star cast “Valentine’s Day” jumped from a super Friday haul of $14.5 million to a more impressive $18.4 million on Saturday. If current estimates hold, the rom com is looking at $52.4 million for the weekend and [...]
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Box Office on February 7, 2010
Finally, “Avatar” was defeated at the box office this weekend by “Dear John.” A sci-fi love story has given way to an earthbound romance at the weekend box office. “Dear John” debuted as the No. 1 movie with $32.4 million, [...]
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Box Office on January 31, 2010
“Avatar” continues to win the weekly box office race despite stronger competition from new releases. This week is the epic movie’s 7th consecutive win in North America — its theater run began in the middle of December last year. “Avatar” [...]
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Box Office on January 24, 2010
Avatar has sunk Titanic! — internationally at least. Because in the coming weeks, Titanic’s North American box office record set in 1997-1998 will most definitely sink too. In fact, executives at Fox, who produced the mega hit movie, are predicting [...]
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Box Office on January 18, 2010
A big win at last night’s Golden Globes 2010 for Best Drama Picture and Best Director definitely improves the chances of “Avatar” to become the box office champ of all time. And with the expected multi-nominations for the James Cameron [...]
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Box Office on January 10, 2010
“Avatar” flexed its muscle once again as it ruled the North American box office for a fourth weekend on Sunday, days after it soared up the worldwide rankings to become the second-biggest movie of all time behind another James Cameron [...]
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Box Office on January 3, 2010
“Avatar” kept its hold on the box-office crown for the third straight weekend, passing the $350 million mark in the US and Canada in the process. James Cameron’s 3-D extravaganza earned $68.3 million over New Year’s weekend, according to studio [...]
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Box Office on January 2, 2010
Another year, and another box office record for Hollywood movies. According to preliminary estimates from the six Hollywood major studios, total 2009 North America Box Office grossed almost $10 billion while Foreign Box Office — from all territories outside the [...]
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Box Office on December 27, 2009
A big year at the box office is ending with a bang, with a broad array of popular films combining for the biggest moviegoing weekend in recent history. Led by the 3-D epic “Avatar,” which was followed closely by “Sherlock Holmes” [...]
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Box Office on December 21, 2009
The mysterious world of Pandora is as beautiful as it is dangerous, and it’s that very combination that helped draw the masses to James Cameron’s “Avatar,” the director’s first feature film in over a decade.
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Box Office on December 15, 2009
Check out the Top 20 Hollywood movies that earned the least in 2009, considered box office bombs by the industry. Not everyone can be winners! While Transformers 2, Harry Potter 6, Twilight: New Moon and many other films made mega [...]
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Box Office on December 13, 2009
Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog” opened to $25 million, a relatively soft start that’s in line with the last two releases by its Burbank-based animation studio, “Bolt” and “Meet the Robinsons,” which were financial disappointments. The Disney musical is [...]
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Box Office on December 6, 2009
“The Blind Side,” the football drama starring Sandra Bullock, climbed to No. 1 at U.S. and Canadian theaters this weekend, bringing in $20.4 million in ticket sales for Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. After coming in second for two weekends, [...]
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Box Office on November 29, 2009
The Twilight Saga: New Moon” rose to the top of movie box office charts for the second straight week on Sunday with a three-day haul of $42.5 million on a record-breaking holiday weekend in North America, according to studio estimates. [...]
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Box Office on November 21, 2009
Good news Twilight fans! As expected, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” earned an estimated $72.7 million in receipts on its opening day, a box-office record, according to box office researchers Saturday. The sequel to “Twilight” bested the previous single-day record [...]
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Box Office on November 18, 2009
According to Fandango, the Twilight sequel has already become the top-selling pre-release title in the company’s 10-year history. New Moon has beat out Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, which is now the second fast selling pre-sale, [...]
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Box Office on November 15, 2009
It was the end of the world as we know it this weekend with Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic 2012 heating up an estimated $65 million from 3404 solar flares. Having destroyed half of civilization already in Independence Day and frozen the [...]