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‘Dark Knight Rises’ Posts Third Straight B.O. Win


August 6, 2012 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image
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It was a three-peat for the final episode in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. The Dark Knight Rises topped the box office for the third straight weekend, taking in $36 million domestic for a to-date total gross estimated at $354 million. The international gross edged up slightly higher to a total [...]

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Weekend Audiences Fall Hard for ‘Snow White’


June 3, 2012 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image
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This beauty has bite: Snow White & the Huntsman exceeded expectations by earning $56 million to land atop the box office in its opening weekend. Universal’s VFX-heavy reimagined fairy tale stars Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth also opened to a $39 million international take for a $95 million [...]

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‘Cat in Paris’ Stakes Limited Release; ‘Snow’ Hunts Wide


May 31, 2012 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image
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A live-action Snow White makes a big push at the box office this weekend, while an Oscar-nominated animated feature from France gets a limited release. Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman, starring Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron, is by far the biggest release of the week. The live-action visual-effects spectacle [...]

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‘Men in Black 3' Debut Tops ‘Avengers’ Over Holiday Weekend


May 28, 2012 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image
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It took a vintage comic book movie franchise to topple the Avengers from its box office throne. Men in Black 3 — arriving a decade after the previous film in the series and originally adapted from an indie comic book for its 1997 movie debut — topped the weekend with [...]

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‘Titans,’ ‘Mirror Mirror’ No Match for ‘Hunger Games’


April 2, 2012 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image
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Perseus and Snow White were no match for Katniss Everdeen, as The Hunger Games held on to the top spot against the VFX-heavy sequel Wrath of the Titans and Tarsem’s Mirror Mirror. Lionsgate’s Hunger Games earned $61 million in its second weekend at the domestic box office, pushing its total [...]

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‘Lorax’ Tops Weak Opening for ‘John Carter’ at Box Office


March 12, 2012 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image
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Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Warlord of Mars was no match for Dr. Seuss. In a disappointing debut, Disney’s John Carter — adapting Burroughs’ seminal, century-old science-fiction tales — opened to a weak $30.6 million at the box office. Despite heavy hype and intense industry scrutiny of the picture and its hefty [...]

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‘Underworld,’ ‘Red Tails’ and ‘FMA’ Take on ‘Beauty’


January 19, 2012 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image
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A pair of visual-effects-heavy battle movies from completely different ends of the spectrum take on Mark Wahlberg’s Contraband and the 3D release of Beauty and the Beast at the box office this weekend. Sony’s Underworld: Awakening, the fourth film in the vampires vs. werewolves series, has the week’s biggest opening. [...]

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3D ‘Beauty’ Earns $18M in Box Office Debut


January 16, 2012 by Thomas J. McLean 1 Comment divider image
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The 3D version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast posted a solid opening weekend at the box office, earning an estimated $18.5 million and coming in second for the frame that ran through Sunday. The weekend’s top movie was Universal’s Contraband, an R-rated thriller starring Mark Wahlberg that grossed an [...]

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Weak ‘Puss’ Opening Disappoints DreamWorks Investors


October 31, 2011 by Thomas J. McLean 1 Comment divider image
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DreamWorks Animation’s Puss in Boots is tops at the box office, but that’s not translating into admiration on Wall Street. Shares in the company fell 8 percent on Monday on news of Puss in Boots‘ $34 million opening weekend, which was good enough to make it No. 1 at the [...]

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‘Puss’ Stomps to $34M Debut; ‘Tintin’ Impresses Overseas


by Thomas J. McLean 1 Comment divider image
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Two toons won the two different box office races this weekend, with DreamWorks Animation’s Puss in Boots topping the domestic rankings and breaking a Halloween weekend record, while The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn was the top film in the rest of the world. Puss in Boots [...]

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