Weekend Box Office

Weekend Box-Office: March 30-April 1, 2012

Posted 14 years ago

Everyone’s watching the Games! For the second week, Panem’s telegenic post-apocalyptic survivor Katniss Everdeen is the deathmatch winner as THE HUNGER GAMES tops the chart with another $61.1 million! That might be an almost 60% drop from its gargantuan $152M...

Weekend Box-Office: March 23-25, 2012

Posted 14 years ago

The Hunger Games has a feast! And the winner of the games and current box office champ — from District 12, the Girl on Fire, Katniss Everdeen! There was certainly an expectation that THE HUNGER GAMES could be the next...

Weekend Box-Office: March 16-18, 2012

Posted 14 years ago

Everybody jumps for 21 Jump Street! Updates of 80s material don’t always turn out for the best (witness the recent $25M summer opening for THE A-TEAM movie), and swapping out Johnny Depp with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum for a...

Weekend Box-Office: March 9-11, 2012

Posted 14 years ago

Sorry Mr. Carter, the Lorax still has it! An orange creature held more appeal than a red planet this weekend as Dr. Seuss’ tree-lover THE LORAX took the top prize with $39.1 million, holding Disney’s colossal sci-fi epic JOHN CARTER...

Weekend Box-Office: January 27-29, 2012

Posted 15 years ago

The Grey gets the green! A movie about people stranded in freezing weather may not seem like appealing escapism during the chilly month of January, but a chance to watch Liam Neeson battle voracious wolves in the Alaskan wilds was...

Weekend Box-Office: January 20-22, 2012

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Underworld: Awakening kills the competition! Kate Beckinsale was back in body-hugging leather this weekend, and she was packing enough ammo to slaughter all comers as UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING opened at the top of the box office. The fourth in the vampires-vs.-werewolves...

Weekend Box-Office: January 13-15, 2012

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Contraband grabs your dough! This weekend’s craving was clearly more for action than animation, and Mark Wahlberg was armed and ready for it — his R-rated bullet-riddled thriller CONTRABAND took the top with $24.1 million in its first weekend. As...

Weekend Box-Office: January 6-8, 2012

Posted 15 years ago

The Devil Inside frightens off Tom Cruise Shocker! The only new release of the weekend, the low-budget demonic possession faux documentary THE DEVIL INSIDE, scared up more than twice of what was expected: a whopping $34.5 million, one of the...

Weekend Box-Office: December 30, 2011-January 1, 2012

Posted 15 years ago

Mission still being accepted The New Year’s holiday didn’t take quite as big a chomp as the Christmas weekend did on the box office, and MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL once again reigned supreme at theaters with another $31.2M (over last...

Weekend Box-Office: November 11-13, 2011

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Immortals stabs competition in the face! Audiences were looking for some action this weekend, and Tarsem’s slick R-rated fantasy flick IMMORTALS was there to supply it. The movie opened to $32 million (far surpassing my own $20M guess) to easily...

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