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All posts by Wes Lawson
Weekend Box Office: Luuuucyyyyyy!
A weak July ended with a relatively big bang; even though it was down 15 percent from the same frame last year, it was easily one of the bigger weekends of the month. Two star vehicles went head-to-head and the Scarlett Johansson-fronted Luc Besson action/sci-...
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Weekend Box Office: Apes and Anarchy
It was another fairly middling weekend at the box office, with overall receipts down 26 percent from this time last year, and down 30 percent overall for the month of July. It was also a fairly middling weekend for all the new releases, perhaps an inevitable c...
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Weekend Box Office: “Apes” Rise
After a lackluster Fourth of July at the movies, things were pretty much back to normal this weekend. The big winner was the latest in Fox's Ape franchise, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which took in $73 million over the three-day period. That's well above t...
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Weekend Box Office: “Transformers” Trounces “Tammy”
It was a fairly slow weekend at the box office, as it sometimes is on a weekend when everyone is off of school and work and there are outdoor barbecues and fireworks to attend to. This weekend was especially slow - indeed, the worst Independence Day weekend si...
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Weekend Box Office: Michael Bay-splosions Win Again
As we went into this weekend, and another Michael Bay Transformers movie was the only major release, and it arrived on a tidal wave of toxic reviews just as its predecessors did, some might have wondered if the franchise was out of gas; after all, how many 2.5...
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Weekend Box Office: “Man” Beats “Boys”
The World Cup was in full swing this weekend, and the studios took their chances with some smaller movies as counterprogramming for those of us who don't enjoy soccer. The big winner of the weekend was the apparently eagerly anticipated sequel for some, Think ...
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Weekend Box Office: “Jump Street” Beats “Dragon”
It's common for a summer weekend to bring more than one sequel, but less common for both sequels to be well-reviewed and make decent money at the box office, and that's just what happened this weekend. The big winner was the second outing for Jonah Hill and Ch...
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Weekend Box Office: “Stars” Rise, Star Falls
On a weekend where both the Stanley Cup and the NBA Finals happened to fall, it was probably inevitable that a movie not aimed at the typical teen boy audience was going to do well. Of course, it also helps to have a movie adapted from a hugely popular YA book...
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Weekend Box Office: Yes, Women Can Open Films
Proving yet again that the traditional Hollywood wisdom stating women don't go to the movies is BS, Disney's Angelina Jolie-starring take on the classic villain Maleficent racked up $70 million domestically and $100 million overseas for the weekend. That's the...
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Weekend Box Office: “X-Men” Opens Big, “Blended” Not So Much
Summer continues on strongly as Memorial Day, one of the bigger movie weekends of the year, marks the start of kids getting out of school and the real summer bucks rolling in. The latest installment in the X-Men franchise, Days of Future Past, claimed $90.7 mi...
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