WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: 2012 Is No Disaster At Theaters
Posted on Nov 15, 2009 @ 11:01AM - 1 comment
As expected, the disaster epic 2012 ruled the box office this weekend. The estimated tally is $65 million in ticket sales. A Christmas Carol wasn't even close for second position. The Jim Carrey holiday flick brought in $22.3 million. Third place went to George Clooney's wacky comedy, The Men Who Stare At Goats with $6.2 million. The weekend's real winner was Precious which continues to do spectacular numbers. It came in fourth with $6.1 million while playing at only 114 theaters. By comparison, it brought it just as much as Goats which was on 2453 screens! Michael Jackson's This Is It is still hanging on. It came in fifth with $5.1 million.
The rest of the top 10: The Fourth Kind - $4.7 million; Couples Retreat - $4.3 million; Paranormal Activity - $4.2 million; Law Abiding Citizen - $3.9 million; The Box - $3.2 million.
Precious Scores Big At Box Office
Posted on Nov 09, 2009 @ 05:15AM - Add a comment
The graphic new drama Precious made $1.8 million at the box office this past weekend -- and while that may not seem impressive, it is.
The film opened in limit release - playing in only 18 theaters across the country. That means on average, Precious earned a staggering $100,000 per theater.
Precious -- based on the acclaimed novel Push by Sapphire -- follows the heartbreaking story of an overweight teenage girl in Harlem who suffers horrifying abuse at the hands of her parents.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: A Christmas Carol Brings Cheer To Audiences
Posted on Nov 08, 2009 @ 03:20PM - 7 comments
Jim Carrey's multi-character performance in the animated A Christmas Carol was the winner at the box office this weekend, taking in an estimated $31 million in ticket sales. Michael Jackson's This Is It suffered an almost 40 percent fall-off from last weekend. It took in $14 million for second place. Opening in far fewer theaters, the wacky George Clooney comedy, The Men Who Stare At Goats, brought in a respectable $13.3 million for third place. The Fourth Kind took fourth place with $12.5 million.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Michael Jackson's This Is It Is Thrilling Audiences
Posted on Nov 01, 2009 @ 01:18PM - Add a comment
Michael Jackson can still sell tickets. The bio-concert film, Michael Jackson's This Is It, won the box office wars with an estimated $21.3 million in ticket sales. The figure is less than the producers had hoped for but they are more than making up for soft North American business with boffo numbers from the rest of the world, especially Japan.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Where The Wild Things Are Is Where The Audience Is Going
Posted on Oct 18, 2009 @ 03:15PM - 1 comment
As expected, Where the Wild Things Are is the run-away winner at the box office this weekend. It brought in an estimated $32.5 million. Law Abiding Citizen with Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler grossed a respectable $21.2 million for second place. But the real winner for this weekend and perhaps the whole of 2009 is the third place flick, Paranormal Activity. Shot in 2006 for a mere $15,000 with a hand-held camera, it increased its tally by $20.1 million as word of the thriller spreads and prints get into more theaters. Fourth place went to Vince Vaughn's Couples Retreat which earned $17.9 million. The Stepfather had fifth place with $12.3 million.
The rest of the top 10: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - $8.1 million; Zombieland - $7.8 million; Toy Story/Toy Story 2 (3D) - $3 million; Surrogates - $1.9 million; The Invention of Lying - $1.9 million.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Everybody Signed Up For Couples Retreat
Posted on Oct 11, 2009 @ 11:46AM - 1 comment
Couples Retreat won big at the box office this weekend despite generally weak reviews. Vince Vaughn co-wrote, produced and starred in the comedy, with Malin Akerman as his wife. It brought in an estimated $35.3 million in ticket sales.
Last weekend's winner, Zombieland, came in second, with $15 million. Now in its fourth week, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballsremains a family favorite. It finished third and added another $12 million to its tally. Toy Story/Toy Story 2 (3D) came in fourth earning $7.6 million. Paranormal Activity finished fifth with $7 million.
The rest of the top 10 were: Surrogates - $4.1 million; The Invention of Lying - $3.4 million; Whip It! - $2.8 million; Capitalism: A Love Story - $2.7 million, and Fame - $2.5 million.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Zombieland Is The Place To Be
Posted on Oct 04, 2009 @ 11:47AM - Add a comment
It's been a long time, if ever, that Woody Harrelson has opened a movie big but his comedic turn in Zombieland helped push the LOL horror flick to the number one spot on this weekend's box office report. It pulled in an estimated $25 million in ticket sales. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in still going strong. It came in second with $16.7 million.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: It's Still Shining On Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Posted on Sep 27, 2009 @ 10:32AM - 1 comment
The family-favorite animated frolic, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is number one at the box office for the second week in a row. It pulled in an estimated $24.6 million in ticket sales. The Bruce Willis sci-fi flick, Surrogates, limped into second place with $15 million.
Fame has no chance of achieving the popularity of the TV series that inspired it. The song-and-dance movie took in $10 million for third place. Matt Damon's The Informant! came in fourth with an estimated $6.9 million in box office receipts. Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself is still going strong and placed fifth this weekend with another $4.75 million in ticket sales.
The remainder of the top 10: Pandorum is dead-on arrival, taking in only $4.4 million its opening weekend. Love Happens: $4.3 million; Jennifer's Body: $3.5 million; 9: $2.8 million; and Inglorious Basterds: $2.7 million.
The Box Office Shines On Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Posted on Sep 20, 2009 @ 01:39PM - Add a comment
The animated adventure Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs was the break-out winner at the box office this weekend. Based on the popular children's book about food raining from the sky, it features Andy Samberg and Neil Patrick Harris as the voice talent. The pic pulled in an estimated $30,100,000 in ticket sales and demolished the competition along with several A-List Hollywood stars.
Tyler Perry Rules The Weekend Box Office
Posted on Sep 13, 2009 @ 04:42PM - 3 comments
Tyler Perry reigned supreme at the box office this weekend. I Can Do Bad All By Myself, which he directed and starred in along with Taraji P. Henson (Oscar-nominated for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) pulled in $24,030,000. It was a long way down to number two. That spot went to Tim Burton's animated action-adventure flick, 9, which took in $10,856,000. Brad Pitt's Inglorious Basterds was in third place. It is still performing better than expected and sold another $6,546,000 in tickets. All About Steve fell off almost 50 percent from last weekend, earning only $5,800,000. Fifth place went to The Final Destination with $5,500,000 in ticket sales.
The remainder of the top 10: Sorority Row - $$5,628,000; Whiteout -$5,100.000; District 9 - $3,600,000; Julie & Julia - $3,300,000; Gamer - $3,150,000.
Weekend Box Office: The Final Destination Is Still The Place To Be
Posted on Sep 06, 2009 @ 04:11PM - Add a comment
This is turning out to be one of the worst Labor Day weekends in recent years at the box office, but that turned out to be good news for The Final Destination. The numbers are in for Saturday and Sunday, and the horror flick held on to its number one spot from last weekend, even though it pulled it just $12,435,000 in ticket sales.
The Sandra Bullock-Bradley Cooper mess, All About Steve, which many reviewers are calling the worst movie of the year, came in second with $11,200,000.
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Brad Pitt's Inglorious Basterds came in third with an estimated $10,847,000 in ticket sales. The new Gerard Butler flick, Gamer, was fourth with $9,000,000. District9 came in fifth, dropping to just $7,000,000.
The rest of the top 10: Halloween II, $5,608,000; Julie & Julia, $5,200,000; G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, $5,100,000; The Time Traveler's Wife, $4,125,000; Extract, $4,187,000.
