Box office update: 'Rio' tops Friday with $10.2 mil, 'Scream 4' underwhelms...
Each time Hollywood appears ready to break out of its 2011 slump, it doesn’t. Many in the industry were predicting this week’s Rio and Scream 4 to really shake up the box office, but while the former...
View ArticleHarry Potter is already a smash — and it hasn’t even opened yet
Some $25 million in advance ticket sales. Over 5,000 showings of the bloody thing (literally) already sold out. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” is already an opening weekend phenomenon....
View Article'Cars 2' on Track to Become Pixar’s Worst Box Office Performance Since 1998
Poor Mater and McQueen: After a 35% Rotten Tomatoes score gave Cars 2 the unhappy distinction of becoming the worst-reviewed Pixar movie of all time, it is now tracking to earn Pixar’s lowest domestic...
View ArticleSummer Movie Attendance Continues to Erode
Hollywood has now experienced four consecutive summers of falling attendance, a cause for alarm for both studios and theater chains.
View ArticleThe Hit Phenomenon?: Japanese Scientists Create Model To Predict Box-Office...
Japanese scientists have divined a mathematical model for what they call “The Hit Phenomenon.” By calculating the advertising budget of a film before it’s released, along with the amount of time a...
View ArticleBox office report: 'The Possession' leads the worst weekend in over a decade
Lionsgate’s $14 million horror entry The Possession once again topped the chart with $9.5 million. The film, which earned a “B” CinemaScore grade last week, enjoyed a better than expected hold (it...
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Universal Celebrates Centennial with Best-Ever Box Office Tally
The overall box office results might be mired in one of the worst end-of-summer slumps in years, but for at least one studio, 2012 has been a year to remember -- for all the right reasons.read more
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Jackie Chan Bashes Hong Kong; Gets Rewarded by China with Box Office Record...
Jackie Chan used to be the most beloved actor in Hong Kong, his birth place. It was almost a yearly ritual for the Hong Kong people to bring their entire family to watch his latest action comedy during...
View ArticleWhy 'Mud' Is the Best Southern Film in Years
With grosses approaching $20 million and still going strong, the breakout box-office success of Jeff Nichols'"Mud" seems to have surprised many people. But reading The Wrap's report that the film "has...
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"Ip Man 3" Distributor Suspected of Box Office Fraud, Parent Company Loses...
“Ip Man 3” opened huge in China last weekend, grossing $72M -- the biggest opening ever for a martial arts film (as its distributor proclaimed). Shows were sold out in theaters across the middle...
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