Weekend Box Office

Weekend Box-Office: August 17-19, 2012

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Sly and the gang hit #1 with #2! Sylvester Stallone and his macho men of mayhem returned to theaters with copious explosions and gratuitous carnage, putting THE EXPENDABLES 2 in the top spot with $28.7 million. Despite some additional action-star...

Weekend Box-Office: August 10-12, 2012

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Bourne for glory! This weekend, audiences were eager to find out if Jeremy Renner would be an acceptable successor to Matt Damon (or they just got bamboozled by the film’s title), putting THE BOURNE LEGACY at the top of the...

Weekend Box-Office: August 3-5, 2012

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And still The Dark Knight Rises! Batman is triumphant at the box office for his third straight weekend as THE DARK KNIGHT RISES again takes the #1 spot with another $36.4 million. The Olympics still seem to be biting into...

Weekend Box-Office: July 27-29, 2012

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The Dark Knight Rises again! After the Colorado tragedy on its opening weekend, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES more recently had to contend with filmmaker Danny Boyle’s Olympics spectacle and the start of the games. But our favorite nocturnal crimefighter did...

Weekend Box-Office: June 15-17, 2012

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Madagascar 3 is still the king of the jungle! For its second weekend in theaters, MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED faced a pair of high-profile challengers, but Ben Stiller’s lion and his animal buddies were more than hungry enough to...

Weekend Box-Office: June 8-10, 2012

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Animals eat aliens! For genre fans, Ridley Scott’s psuedo-prequel PROMETHEUS was certainly one of the summer’s most anticipated offerings. But it’s difficult to compete with CG creatures in an established series, as MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED proved by taking...

Weekend Box-Office: June 1-3, 2012

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Snow White is the fairest! Sometimes fairy tales do come true, so if Kristen Stewart wished for a success beyond the TWILIGHT series, it seems she got it with SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN. Commercial director Rupert Sanders’ grim vision...

Weekend Box-Office: May 25-28, 2012

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Men in Black are (modestly) back! (NOTE: Box office estimates are for 4-day holiday weekend) After a decade since their last planet-saving mission, eerily ageless megastar Will Smith and a seemingly unenthusiastic Tommy Lee Jones reunited for MEN IN BLACK...

Weekend Box-Office: May 18-20, 2012

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Battleship behind Avengers! As the SHIELD helicarrier again takes Marvel’s heroes (including Scarlett’s backside there) from the ocean into the clouds, the costly new board game adaptation BATTLESHIP is taking on water. For the third week in a row, THE...

Weekend Box-Office: April 6-8, 2012

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Still got the Hunger for cash! As many Americans celebrate Easter by consuming chocolate objects, marshmallow critters and cooked animal parts, Katniss Everdeen spent the weekend slaughtering her way to the top of the box office for the third week...

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