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All posts by Wes Lawson
Weekend Box Office: Hobbits and Hairdos
Christmas is almost upon us, and so the big movies are beginning to roll out in hopes of capturing that Christmas money. And to no one's surprise, considering that its director has released seven of his last eight movies on this weekend and six of them were in...
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Weekend Box Office: White “Exodus”
It was another fairly quiet December weekend at the box office, and another weekend when there was only a couple of major releases. The fact that one of these major releases was simultaneously appealing to the Christian crowd while upsetting anyone who has the...
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Weekend Box Office: Meh
The next few weekends are filled to the brim with big-budget Christmas movies and Oscar hopefuls, as is tradition in December, and that usually means that at least one weekend in early December is dead as dead can be. That was the case this weekend. With the o...
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Weekend Box Office: Avoiding Your Relatives At The Movies
It was a decent but not spectacular Thanksgiving weekend at the box office, with nothing really blowing away the competition gross-wise and none of the new releases doing insanely huge business. Although there were several new releases on the indie and mainstr...
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Weekend Box Office: Exactly What You Expected
Given that the previous two installments in the series racked up $840 million in the U.S. alone, each with $150 million opening weekends, and that there's plenty of Thanksgiving movies coming down the pike as the holiday approaches, no other major studio put a...
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Weekend Box Office: Dumb Winz
This mid-November weekend was crammed with new releases on both the wide and indie circuits, and there was stiff competition from last weekend's releases, but the weekend was won by a sequel to a 20-year-old comedy. Although it was on track to make $25 million...
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Weekend Box Office: Interstellar Heroes and Not Much Else
After the super-slow Halloween weekend, the November box office began in full force, with two hotly anticipated movies making all of the money and the rest of the movies in release not making much at all. The winner of the weekend by about $6 million was Disne...
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Weekend Box Office: The Calm Before The Storm
A Friday Halloween usually means a pretty slow weekend at the box office, what with everyone out in costume trick or treating and getting drunk. It's also a weird weekend in that horror movies that typically dominate October drop off hard once the spooky seaso...
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Weekend Box Office: Yeah, The Board Game Movie Won
Who would have thought that Hasbro would be one of the top players in the mainstream blockbuster movie game? As of 2014, only one of their movies has been a flop (Battleship), and this weekend's movie choice, Ouija, seemed like the most surefire flop, given th...
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Weekend Box Office: Sound and Fury
The October box office continues to chug along swimmingly, with most of the new releases doing very good business and the old releases still holding on strong. After two weeks in the number one slot, Gone Girl finally fell to number two, although it only fell ...
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