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Iron Man 3 Aiming For $170 Million Opening Weekend

May 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Iron Man 3 Aiming For $170 Million Opening Weekend

The summer blockbuster season officially kicked off with the release of Iron Man 3 on Friday, and at the rate the film is performing, it could be the second highest three-day weekend opening ever.

On Friday, Iron Man 3 debuted to a hefty $68.31 million making it the eighth biggest opening day ever. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Part 2, and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse are the only films to do better in that category. | Full Story

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’42′ Smashes Record, While ‘Scary Movie 5′ Hardly Spooks Anyone

April 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Chadwick Boseman’s 42 easily takes this weekend box office title, while Scary Movie 5 proves that not all films are worth the money it takes to make it.

The Jackie Robinson biopic made history opening to an estimate $9.1 million on Friday then jumping up to $11.1 million on Saturday. After the three day weekend and all the ticket sales have been tallied, the film will easily make over $27 million. After that feat, 42 will have the best opening weekend for a baseball movie ever made in history. | Full Story

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Box Office Numbers Say ‘The Croods’ Took Down ‘Olympus Has Fallen’

March 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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The box office numbers are in and there was an upset!

Olympus Has Fallen, the only action film out this weekend, was a favorite to take the top spot at the box office.  However, Dreamwork’s animated adventure, The Croods pulled an upset to overcome the the live action movie that was stock piled with heavy hitters such as Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Erin Eckhart and Angela Bassit.

The Croods took first place with an estimated $11.6 million showing in 4,046 theaters nationwide. | Full Story

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‘Identity Thief’ Beats ‘Snitch’ For Top Box Office Spot

February 25, 2013 by 1 Comment
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The Rock, starring in his crime thriller Snitch didn’t prove solid to take over the box office this weekend. Well, actually, it was on top at first but succumb to Universal’s comedy Identity Thief as it regained the top spot.

Identity Thief was propelled back to number one with a $14.1 million bump Saturday. That now brings the films total gross to a hefty $93.7 million in only three weeks. So far, Identity Thief is the highest grossing film of 2013, just beating out Django Unchained. | Full Story

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‘Texas Chainsaw 3D’ Leads The Box Office; ‘Django Unchained’ Not Far Behind

January 6, 2013 by 1 Comment
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The weekend isn’t over yet, but some numbers are in for this weekends box office and Texas Chainsaw 3D was pretty impressive by taking the top spot, beating out Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, which wasn’t too far behind.

Texas Chainsaw 3D earned $23 million over the weekend, that’s well above the $18.5 million the prequel made in 2006. The increase is the result of higher ticket prices and the addition of the very popular R&B singer Trey Songs, who plays Ryan. | Full Story

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‘Les Miserables’ Takes First Spot, ‘Django Unchained’ A Close Second

December 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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It’s a long way from the final weekend box office numbers, but box office reports for the two highly publicized Christmas day openers were great.

Les Miserables, debuting in 2,808 theaters, quickly claimed the top spot reflected by Fandango’s and MovieTickets predictions of huge sales online. The film became the #1 advance ticket-seller among all Christmas Day releases, surpassing previous record-holder Sherlock Holmes, in 2009. Les Miserables was expected around $10 million for its opening weekend but trumped that number by earning $15-$20 million instead. | Full Story

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‘Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2′ Opens To An Impressive $71.2 Million

November 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 kicked off its opening weekend in over 3,000 theaters, which were obviously packed with long lines because the movie claimed impressive numbers in the box office. While it didn’t set any Twilight records, it still managed to make it on the all time top list.

The Summit Entertainment finale to the adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s supernatural vampire/wolf series, earned an estimated $71.2M from Thursday to Saturday morning. | Full Story

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Box Office Report: ‘Hotel Transylvania’ Has Monster Start

September 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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After a month of awful performance in the box office, a well needed boost came from films Hotel Transylvania, Looper and Pitch Perfect.

Hotel Transylvania debuted to an estimated $11 million on Friday, which means it could do over $40 million for the weekend. Sony Pictures’ prediction is a little more conservative at $38 million, however, it turns out that Hotel Transylvania is out to a monster start and is on track to beat the record for all time openings in the month of September. | Full Story

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Weekend Box Office Report: ‘The Bourne Legacy’ Is #1

August 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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The Dark Knight Rises falls to the third spot after three weeks at the top.

Taking the top box office spot this week is Universal’s The Bourne Legacy, which is no big surprise. The studio expects it to make $42.2 million this weekend, which it’s perfectly on track to make. The film, staring Jeremy Renner, who picks up where former lead Matt Damon left off, is showing in 3,746 theaters. | Full Story

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‘Total Recall’ Flops Big Time…..

August 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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The Dark Knight Rises easily took the top spot in the domestic box office for the third straight weekend. The film is down only 41%…earning an estimated $36 million.

Two new films hit the market this weekend, Total Recall and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days. One of the movies was supposed to be real competitive with The Dark Knight Rises. Despite being heavily marketed, the Sci-Fi action thriller Total Recall, proved to be no match for the caped vigilante. | Full Story

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