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There was no doubt that G.I. Joe: Retaliation was going to be the major attraction at the box office this weekend, but Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor was no push-over as it continued the directors record of $20 million plus earning opening weekends.
G.I. Joe Retaliation banked an estimated $41.2 million for the three-day weekend, making it #2 for highest grossing Easter weekend, behind Clash Of The Titans’ $61 million. | Full Story
This weekend at the box office, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey takes the top spot, setting a new record for December. DreamWorks’ Rise of the Guardians remained in second, while Lincoln regains the third spot.
Christmas comes early for The Hobbit team, the film set the opening record by earning $84.8 million, surpassing Will Smith’s I Am Legend, which made $77.2 million when it opened during the same weekend five years ago. | Full Story
Brad Pitt’s Killing Them Softly had a soft opening nationwide this past weekend, earning a reserved F CinemaScore with viewers and landing at number seven on the box office chart. The film becomes only the eighth movie ever to receive the rare failing grade. Wow! Even though the film cost only $15 million to make, it opened to a mediocre $7 million, which is considered a disappointing number.
Killing Them Softly is based on hit-man Jackie Cogan(Pitt), who is paid to investigate a robbery at a mob poker game. | Full Story
The Possession, a Sam Raimi-produced horror movie, overperformed at the box office this weekend, setting the film up to capture one of the top Labor Day openings of all time.
The movie raked an estimated $17.7 million, making it the top grossing movie of the holiday. Lionsgate is expecting revenues to reach $21.3 million during the four-day opening. That would put The Possession just ahead of the movie with the second highest Labor Day opener of all time, Transporter 2 ($20.1 million). | Full Story
Based on Friday’s box office numbers it’s clear that Marvel’s The Avengers is stealing all the attention away from three box office newcomers. Today, it will become the highest grossing domestic release in Disney history.
Battleship is sinking with less than expected numbers, collecting only $9 million on Friday. The Peter Berg directed action film scored a “B” CinemaScore.
Lionsgate’s What To Expect When You’re Expecting didn’t fare any better, coming in 4th place with only $3.8 million, and projecting to make only $11 million for the weekend. | Full Story
The Avengers takes the box office’s #1 spot for another weekend, beating out the opening for Johnny Depp’s Dark Shadows. The superhero flick is on track to making $100 million for its second weekend out. On Friday alone, the film raked in another $29 million, plus another $21 million overseas – upping the overall cumulative haul to $853.4 million.
Dark Shadows, starring Johnny Depp, didn’t impress as much, making $9.7 million from 3,755 theaters on Friday. | Full Story
Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games remains on top of the box office for its third week in a row, grossing $33.5 million domestically, and even more in foreign markets, for a grand total of $460 million.
American Pie: Reunion set a record for the franchise landing the fourth installment at #2 for the weekend. Grossing $21 million domestically and coming in at number one in Russia, Norway, Australia and The Netherlands.
After a disappointing start, Warner Bros’ Wrath Of The Titans has picked up in the foreign market. | Full Story
Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games banked a major $155 million this weekend, making this the biggest success ever for the independent film company. The film was projected to be number one in every market globally. In North America the movie began with $68 million on Friday, then $51 million on Saturday, and finishing off Sunday with a decent $36 million.
This makes The Hunger Games the 3rd highest grossing three-day weekend opening in history, following The Dark Knight ($158 million) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. | Full Story
21 Jump Street opened to a strong first weekend. Friday night, the movie opened at $13M and topped the weekend off at $35M. Considering that most TV remakes are a hit or miss, this is an overall nice take for the first successful comedy of 2012.
Universal Pictures’ animated Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax fell to second place with $22.8 million, with a total gross of $158 million after three weekends.
John Carter’s overseas reception remains considerably kinder than the comparable $13.5 weekend tally and $53.2 million cumulative-to-date meted out in the U.S. | Full Story
With a lot of worry going into this movie weekend about its reported high cost for production, Disney’s movie John Carter was still be able to top Friday’s charts with an estimated $9.8 million.
However it is likely to lose the weekend to Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, which trailed with $9.6 million and has picked up some steam on Saturday. Critics projected that The Lorax would beat out John Carter and after Friday and Saturday’s reports The Lorax did just that. | Full Story
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