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All posts by Wes Lawson
Weekend Box Office: “Lego” Three-Peats, Bests Volcanoes And Costners
It was a typical February weekend, with just about everything performing not great and a couple films taking huge hits. The winner for the third weekend in a row was The Lego Movie, which took $31.4 million to bring it to $183 million total. It was the largest...
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Weekend Box Office: “Lego” Tops Remakes, There Was Much Rejoicing
It was a double holiday weekend, with President's Day on Monday and Valentine's Day on Friday, and a weekend where three remakes of 80's movies were vying for the top spot in the market. The box office certainly reflected the former, with family films and roma...
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Weekend Box Office: “Lego Movie” Knocks Out “Ride Along”
It was a surprisingly strong weekend at the box office, with people venturing out after two weekends of lackluster titles and Super Bowl parties. The big winner of the weekend was The Lego Movie, which rode both universally great reviews and a lack of family f...
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Weekend Box Office: ‘Ride Along’ Three-Peats On Slow Weekend
The Super Bowl weekend is typically one of the slowest weekends of the year at the box office, with everyone staying home to watch the game and only a couple of token counterprogramming releases put out for people who don't want to watch the game (typically ai...
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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: “Ride Along” Rides Away
In a weekend crowded with new releases and expansions of the Oscar nominees, along with a Monday holiday, there were plenty of winners and few losers at the box office. The big winner was the Ice Cube/Kevin Hart comedy Ride Along, blew past its $28 million pre...
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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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SXSW Announces “Veronica Mars,” Jon Favreau Premieres
South by Southwest, Austin's premiere film festival and conference that, in some ways, has eclipsed Sundance as the place to see a lot of the upcoming independent features and go to workshops/seminars with a lot of the movers and shakers in entertainment media...
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Birthday Wishes: The One True God, Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage, born 1964, is 50 today.
Academy Award-winning actor, star of plenty of great films, star of more crappy films than dozens of actors combined, Internet legend, an endless source of memes... there's very little that can be said about Mr. Cage th...
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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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