We all knew it was going to be huge but Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 2 broke every record in the book this weekend. Starting with the Thursday midnight grosses the final Harry Potter film broke the record previously set by The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Potter brought in a smashing $43 million [...]
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Box Office: GREEN LANTERN Kicks Off Friday With $21.6 Million
Defying less than stellar reviews, DC Comics and Warner Brothers should have a strong weekend performer with Green Lantern. Kicking off the weekend with $21.6 million (that includes the $3.4 million it made for Thursday midnights), the superhero film starring Ryan Reynolds should see a weekend total between $50-60 million. How do those numbers stack [...]
Box Office: MEGAMIND Captures Top Spot and DUE DATE Delivers
The holiday movie season has arrived! The first weekend of November typically brings the first big movies of the season as we witnessed Dreamworks’ Megamind take the top spot this weekend with $47.7 million in the bank. Megamind wasn’t the only big performer this weekend as the road trip comedy Due Date and Tyler Perrys [...]
Box Office: SAW 3D Takes Top Spot Over Halloween Weekend
What’s Halloween without yet another Saw movie opening in theaters? This time around Saw went 3D and for it’s seventh outing, the horror movie opened to a mild $22.5 million. That is better than Saw VI which last year debuted with a weak $14 million and went on to only gross $27.6 million. The Saw [...]
Box Office: Ben Affleck Runs THE TOWN to $23.8 Million
Four new major releases hit theaters this weekend. Director Ben Affleck’s The Town came out on top with $23.8 million. A very strong opening weekend for the Boston set crime thriller that stars Affleck along with Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, and Jon Hamm. Also opening strong is the teen comedy Easy A, starring Superbad’s Emma [...]
Box Office: Clooney’s ‘AMERICAN’ Tops Slow Holiday Weekend
The three day holiday weekend didn’t bring in too many moviegoers as the selection of films was less than spectacular. Labor Day weekend is typically a slower holiday weekend, but you know it is lackluster when the number one movie only grosses $13.1 million. Opening on Wednesday, George Clooney’s The American, a dramatic tale of [...]
Box Office: TAKERS and LAST EXORCISM Duke it Out for Top Spot
Summer is quickly coming to an end and the quality of movies is heading downhill just as fast. Labor Day is next weekend and that represents the official end of the summer movie season. Next weekend we will wrap up the summer with a box office report of the biggest films of summer 2010. For [...]
TOY STORY 3 Second Disney Film this Year to Cross $1 Billion Worldwide
With summer winding down next week Disney has came out as top dog in box office tickets for not only the summer but for all of 2010 so far. Toy Story 3 is this summers highest grossing movie (and the highest grossing movie of the year to date.) Disney and Pixar beat Marvel’s Iron Man [...]
Box Office: ‘DRAGON’ Slays Competition with $43.3 Million; HOT TUB TIME MACHINE Opens with $13.6 Million
Alice in Wonderland was finally defeated at the weekend box office by Dreamwork’s animated feature How to Train Your Dragon. Alice had dominated the top spot for three weeks making over $290 million and becoming the years highest grossing film thus far. The higher ticket prices for 3D features certainly helped Alice bank the cash [...]
Box Office: ALICE IN WONDERLAND No. 1 Again
For three weeks in a row Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland has dominated the box office charts. With another $34.5 million this weekend, Alice’s grand total stands at a whopping $226.8 million, making it the highest grossing film ever for director Tim Burton. Starring Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, and Helena Bonham Carter, Alice in Wonderland [...]
Box Office: Shutter Island Opens with $41 Million
The collaboration of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio is a success, yet again. Their new film, Shutter Island, opened to $41 million this weekend which is a record breaking opening for the Oscar winning director. Scorsese scored his biggest opening ever with Shutter Island, and this movie goes to show how successful the Scorsese DiCaprio [...]
Box Office: ‘Valentine’s Day’ Shatters Records at the Weekend Box Office with $66.8 Million
Love was in the air this weekend at movie theaters across the country as the ensemble romantic comedy Valentine’s Day was a smash hit grossing $66.8 million over the holiday weekend. Clearly those behind Valentine’s Day knew they had a very easy movie to market as Sunday was…..gasp! you guessed it, Valentine’s Day. It didn’t [...]
Box Office: Avatar Dethroned by Dear John
For seven weeks Avatar was the top dog at the box office. That was until Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried dropped a romance called Dear John into theaters and teen girls everywhere went to see it. For the last two months Avatar has had little competition at box office and has been the number one [...]
Avatar Sinks Titanic as Highest Grossing Film Ever
If your sick of hearing about how Avatar is breaking all these box office records, then this will probably be one of the last articles we run on the matter. That’s because Avatar has now broken the last big record it had yet to accomplish: highest grossing movie of all time. On Tuesday, Avatar topped [...]
Box Office: Avatar Hits 7 Weeks at Number 1; Crosses $2 Billion Worldwide
Continuing its reign of terror on the box office, Avatar has now made it seven weeks at number one. Grossing $31 million this past weekend, Avatar only dropped 10% from the previous weekend, and is now less than $7 million away from topping Titanic as the highest grossing film of all time. Even with competition [...]
Box Office: Avatar Now Highest Grossing Worldwide Film of All Time with $1.85 Billion
Following the success of James Cameron’s Avatar has become one of the most interesting stories in box office history. Most importantly because it will soon become the highest grossing film in history as it takes aim at Cameron’s other big film, Titanic. This weekend Avatar made it six straight weekends at number one and on [...]
Box Office: Avatar Crosses $500 Million in 5 Weeks; Book of Eli Opens Strong with $38 Million
Oh man is the box office on fire! James Cameron’s Avatar is showing no signs of slowing down as it has now crossed $500 million at the domestic box office. Avatar now stands only $28 million away from passing The Dark Knight (#2 all time) and less than $100 million from that other James Cameron [...]
Box Office: Avatar Crosses $1 Billion Worldwide
The 2009 box office ended on a high note as James Cameron’s Avatar crossed one billion dollars in worldwide box office sales. This means that Cameron is now the only director to have two movies cross one billion dollars with Avatar now joining the list that contains Cameron’s last film, 1997′s Titanic. While the worldwide [...]



