The first big holiday film of the season arrived this weekend to the tune of $30 million. The Jim Carrey Robert Zemeckis collaboration about the classic Charles Dicken’s tale took top honors at the weekend box office. The 3D animated movie made $30 million Friday – Sunday which was a solid debut, however it was [...]
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Box Office Report: Funny People Takes the Top Spot with $23.4 Million
Adam Sandler usually opens a movie in the $30 – $40 million range, but this time around he still took the number one spot, yet with a lower opening weekend. Funny People, which stars Sandler, along with Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann was the top draw at the weekend box office bringing in $23.4 million [...]
Box Office Report: Transformers and Ice Age Tie Holiday Weekend
This doesn’t happen too often. For the July 4th holiday weekend two new films entered the race against Optimus Prime and Co. and who finished on top? Oddly enough it was Transformers 2 and Ice Age 3 which both grossed $42.5 million over the three day weekend. Come tomorrow morning, one movie will push the [...]
Box Office Report: Transformers 2 Hits $201 Million in 5 Days
After five days of release Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen became the second film in history to make $2oo million in five days. Of course, the first film being last summers The Dark Knight which made $203 million in the same amount of time. These numbers are so close that we won’t know the exact [...]
Box Office: Transformers 2 Preparing to Break Records
Summer blockbuster season is now in full swing with the release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The sequel to the 2007 hit film opened last night to $16 million in ticket sales for midnight showings across the country. Midnight shows were selling out at a record pace in both regular and IMAX screens. Some [...]
Box Office Report: The Proposal is a Hit for Bullock and Reynolds
I just finished watching The Proposal and was pleasantly surprised. The film is your standard romantic comedy, but the casting of Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds is what brought in such a big audience. $34.1 million worth of an audience to be exact. The romantic comedy was the number one film this weekend marking the [...]
Box Office Report: ‘Hangover’ Delivers for a Second Weekend; UP Stays Close Behind
For the second weekend in a row The Hangover has taken audiences on the ultimate drunken bender. The Vegas bachelor party comedy dropped only 25% in its second week of release bringing in another $33.4 million. This puts the sleeper hit of the summer at $105 million and counting. At this rate, The Hangover will [...]
Box Office Report: Up Holds off Hangover
For the second weekend in a row, Pixar’s latest animated adventure Up, was number one at the box office with another $44.2 million in the bank. This is the first movie this summer to be number one for more than one week. Up has now grossed $137 million in just two weeks of release. Two [...]
Box Office Report: Pixar Does it Again With ‘Up’
The final numbers are here for Up and as expected the film went up, up, and away at the box office this weekend. Coming in with a strong first place finish, the tenth movie by Pixar animation studios grossed a whopping $ 68.1 million over the three day weekend. Up is third biggest opening for [...]
Box Office Report: Ben Stiller ‘Terminates’ Christian Bale Over 4 Day Weekend
With two big box office competitors this weekend only one could come out on top. In one corner was Ben Stiller who was returning with his family friendly sequel to 2006′s Night at the Museum. In the other corner was Christian Bale, who coming off a stint of bad press, is leading the Terminator reboot, [...]
Box Office: Terminator vs. Night at the Museum
This holiday weekend there is something for everyone to see. The adults will be flocking to the fourth installment in the Terminator franchise. The kids will be hitting up Ben Stiller’s sequel to Night at the Museum, and the teenagers may check out the Wayans’ Brothers comedy Dance Flick. Obviously the competition this weekend is [...]
Box Office Report: Angels & Demons Barely Conquers Star Trek
What a huge summer it is shaping up to be! Week one saw Wolverine hit $85 million opening weekend. Week two witnessed the rebirth of the Star Trek franchise with $79 million in its’ first weekend. Now The Da Vinci Code sequel Angels & Demons hit theaters this past Friday with an expected gross of [...]
Box Office Update: Star Trek Exceeds Estimates – Banks $79.2 Million Weekend
As if the initial estimate of $72 million wasn’t exceeding expectations, we have even more money to add to that total. Reports are now coming in stating that J.J Abrams’ Star Trek grossed a whopping $79.2 million over the weekend. Most predictions placed the sci-fi reboot in the mid to high $60 million range. For [...]
Box Office Report: Star Trek Reboot Soars to $72.6 Million Opening
Live long and prosper? Looks like J.J Abrams’ new Star Trek movie is set to do just that. With an opening weekend of $72.6 million (with Thursday night showings you can tack $4 million more to that number) the Star Trek reboot opened bigger than any Star Trek film in history. To put it in [...]
Box Office Report: Wolverine Starts Summer Off With $87 Million Weekend
Whoever thought that the leaked version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine was going to hurt it’s box office gross can eat their words. Summer is officially here and Wolverine has started the season off with a bang. From Friday to Sunday, Wolverine grossed an estimated $87 million. This was right around most predictions (including mine which [...]
Box Office Report: Obsessed Kills Competition With $28.5 Million Weekend
The weekend before summer is typically one of the slower weekend of the year for movie theaters. Most studio release their films which they have had shelved for some time in a last ditch effort to release them before the summer movies hit. This weekend saw four new wide releases which included Beyonce’s thriller Obsessed, [...]
Box Office Report: Zac Efron’s 17 Again is #1
By Jeff Olson April 19, 2009 Source: BoxOfficeMojo Zac Efron proved he doesn’t need High School Musical to bring in an audience at the box office. His new teen comedy 17 Again was king of the weekend box office raking in an estimated $24.1 million. By opening a movie with a number this high, Efron [...]
Box Office Report: Hannah Montana Speeds Past Fast and Furious
By Jeff Olson April 12, 2009 Source: BoxOfficeMojo Vin Diesel couldn’t make it a second straight weekend at the top of the box office. The Fast and Furious sequel was trumped by Disney’s family film Hannah Montana The Movie. The Easter weekend was good to Hannah Montana which raked in $34 million in it’s first [...]
Fast and Furious Drives to $30 Million Opening Day
By Jeff Olson April 4, 2009 Source: BoxOfficeMojo Who would have guessed that a movie franchise which most thought had gone to the junkyard would be on it’s way to having the biggest opening of any movie this year? Fast and Furious (it dropped the “the” from the title for the fourth movie) had a [...]
Box Office Report: Nicolas Cage’s Knowing Wins Weekend
By Jeff Olson March 22, 2009 Source: Box Office Mojo This weekend’s box office saw three new challengers; and while all three films pulled in some good money, only one could be top dog. The sci-fi thriller Knowing took the top this weekend pulling in an estimated $24.8 million it it’s first three days. This [...]
