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Misc (10 posts found)
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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Christmas is Ruined: Sony Pulls “The Interview ” From Christmas Release Date
One of the things I was most looking forward to this Christmas was going to the movies. The Interview was going to be one of the movies I saw that day, but Sony has just decided to pull the movie from its release date following several theater chains deciding ...
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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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Channing Tatum Won’t Stop, Plans to Co-Direct “Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock”
Channing Tatum is a fire you can't put out, and you don't want to either. He's so hot right now. It's weird to think that a few years ago I had no regard for the Chan-man, and here we are in 2014 and he's an actor that I'm a big fan of, and also one who may ge...
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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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You Can Relax, Universal Expects At Least 3 More “Fast & Furious” Films
Usually when a studio announces three more films of something, and especially when that means stretching a franchise to ten films, that's usually bad news. This isn't though. This is great news. Why? Because the Fast & Furious franchise is the most excitin...
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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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