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All posts by Wes Lawson
Weekend Box Office: Obligatory “‘Godzilla’ Roars” Headline
After last summer's decidedly mixed domestic performance for Guillermo del Toro's kaiju big battle movie Pacific Rim, it was understandable that box office prognosticators were a little skeptical that Gareth Edwards' American Godzilla reboot would connect. But...
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Weekend Box Office: “Neighbors” Beats Spidey
Just about every weekend during the summer season brings a new number one to the box office charts, which is expected given that studios are putting out big movies every weekend, and this week was no different. As a breather in=n between the big-budget crazine...
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Weekend Box Office: Spidey Starts Summer
The first weekend of May means the kickoff of the summer movie season, and usually a superhero movie kicks things off (last year brought Iron Man 3 and the year before was The Avengers). This year brought us the fifth cinematic outing for Spider-Man and the se...
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Weekend Box Office: The Women Beat The Captain
In the final weekend before the summer movie season starts, it seemed likely that the three-in-a-row champion Captain America: The Winter Soldier was going to win yet again, since the new releases were the usual collection of end-of-spring leftovers. And yet t...
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Weekend Box Office: Superheroes, Birds, Heaven Win
The Easter weekend has come and gone, and with it are three days of time with families which can either mean lower or higher box office than normal for mid-April. In this case, it was a fairly low-grossing weekend for the top 10, and only one of this week's ne...
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Weekend Box Office: “Captain” Wins Again, “Rio” A Close Second
Based on the box office this weekend, there were only two movies in release - so it goes as the summer movie season approaches. Despite the fact that the animated sequel Rio 2 opened in first place on Friday, it slipped into second place for Saturday and Sunda...
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Weekend Box Office: “Captain,” Of Course
Whenever a new Marvel movie comes out, there's not much else to talk about at the box office, as no one wants to open a movie against it and the Marvel movie plays on so many screens that it's inevitable that it claims the top prize. And so it was this weekend...
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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: Teen Lit, Muppets and Jesus
The weekend saw the release of the latest young-adult literature juggernaut to be filmed for its presumably large teen fanbase, and considering how many of those types of films have come out in recent years, it says something that this one did well, Yes, Diver...
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Weekend Box Office: “Empire” Rises
With the start of March and the advent of warm weather, theaters have moved out of the Oscar pushes and the January/February dump months and on to bigger and better things - the spring movie season is officially underway. It started off this week with a long-a...
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