8 years ago
All posts by Wes Lawson
Weekend Box Office: Gone Again
The weekend brought a glut of new releases to the multiplexes and art theaters, but it was David Fincher's Gone Girl that remained on top for the second weekend in a row, grossing $26.8 million for a $78.2 million total. Great word of mouth and great reviews k...
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Weekend Box Office: Gone September Box Office Blues
The box office came out of the September doldrums in full force this weekend, with the top two movies powering the weekend to a 23 percent higher weekend than the same period last year, and the highest overall weekend ever for October. The number one movie was...
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Weekend Box Office: Star Power Still Exists
It seems like so long ago when A-list stars could open a movie all by themselves, all the way back there in the 1990's. And yet, a couple of those stars still survive and are still able to open movies on their name alone. One such star, Denzel Washington, had ...
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Weekend Box Office: Teen Lit Wins Again
Despite its omnipresence in movie theaters since the advent of Twilight and The Hunger Games, it's never really a sure thing to bring a young adult book franchise to the big screen. For every Hunger Games that does crazy good box office numbers, there's a Gold...
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Weekend Box Office: “No Good Deed” Finally Shakes Things Up
After many weekends of low box office numbers, an unchanging top 2 and little in the way of new releases anyone wanted to see, there was finally some movement at the box office this weekend. Despite riding into town sans critic's screenings (and the critics ga...
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Weekend Box Office: Zzzzzz……
September is always a slow month at the movies since it's one of the "dump" months, when kids are back in school, the summer weather is winding down, it's not quite time for horror movies and Oscar season, and studios are free to let loose with all the movies ...
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Weekend Box Office: End Of Summer Sameness
The summer movie season officially ended this past weekend as it usually does, with a crop of newcomers doing middling business and some early-August holdovers doing quite well. The unusual aspect of this weekend was twofold, and of course involved the late su...
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Weekend Box Office: Summer Repeats
As the curtain begins to draw on the summer movie season, old favorites are still topping the box office, and the new releases represent a mix of good and bad news. The top two slots remained exactly the same for the second weekend in a row; Teenage Mutant Nin...
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Weekend Box Office: “Turtles” All The Way Down
There is perhaps no better illustration of the difference between the Internet echo chamber and the whims of the actual public than the opening weekends of the two movies Michael Bay was involved with this summer. His fourth entry in the Transformers franchise...
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Weekend Box Office: The Biggest Movie In The “Galaxy”
Remember how earlier in the year, several movies like Lucy and Jupiter Rising ran from their late July/early August release dates, and how two weeks ago, there was an absolute glut of movies released on the same weekend? There was a reason for that. Marvel's G...
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