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Weekend Box Office: “Noah” Rides Controversy To Success
Few things can be more helpful or detrimental to a film than controversy, and between the outrage of Christians, film fans who thought its director was selling out and Glenn Beck, Darren Aronofsky's Noah was certainly coming into theaters on a wave of it. Howe...
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Weekend Box Office: “Frankenstein” Tanks, Everything Else Holds
With small further expansions of Oscar nominees and only one major release otherwise, it was a quiet weekend at the box office, which will only get quieter next week with the Super Bowl approaching. The top 5 was almost identical to last week, with Ride Along ...
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Weekend Box Office: “Lone Survivor” Dominates
Ah, January, that magical time of year when the theater offerings are on the complete opposite spectrums of quality; the gradually expanding Oscar potentials that had limited December releases, and the movies the studios need to dump quietly into theaters to f...
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Weekend Box Office: ‘Frozen’ Closes Out Holiday Movie Season On Top
The Christmas/New Years holiday movie season drew to a close this weekend, with the kids going back to school and everyone returning to work tomorrow. Considering that there's an absolutely brutal cold front moving in to most of the upper part of the U.S. and ...
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Weekend Box Office: Hobbits and Hellurs
It was a slightly weaker weekend at the box office for two films on completely disparate sections of the American moviegoing populace. To begin, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second installment in the Hobbit franchise, was the obvious number 1 this ...
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Weekend Box Office: “Frozen” First Over “Fire,” “Furnace”
The overall box office fell quite a bit this weekend between the return to work post-Thanksgiving holiday, the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, the hold-off between the two holiday's major releases and the absolutely freezing temperatures that domin...
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Weekend Box Office: Odds In Catching Fire’s Favor
Given that its predecessor opened to $152 million and went on to gross $408 million in America alone, it's a shock to no one that The Hunger Games: Catching Fire claimed the top spot this weekend. It took $161.1 million over the three-day period, which is a sl...
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Box Office Reports: “Grandpa” Unseats “Gravity”
After three weeks in the top spot, Gravity lost its place to the indomitable Jackass franchise. Their latest offering, Bad Grandpa, racked up $32 million, showing that 11 years after the premiere of the original film, there is still a market for dirty jokes an...
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Box Office Reports: ‘Gravity’ holds, ‘Fifth Estate’ folds
On the strength of 3D/IMAX, incredible word of mouth and the fact that very little of note opened this weekend, Gravity took the top spot at the box office for the third weekend in a row with $31 million, a 28 percent drop from the previous weekend, bringing i...
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The New American Blockbuster Is Not So American
Laya Maheshwari examines how Hollywood blockbusters are now catering to international markets.
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