Alice in Wonderland, starring 19-year-old Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp, continued to do great at the box office this weekend; it made $62 million for a new total of over $200 million in only ten days. Remember Me, the new movie starring Robert Pattinson, debuted in fourth place (under Green Zone and She’s Out of My [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 7, 2010
Alice in Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp and 20-year-old Mia Wasikowska, opened this weekend and did amazing at the box office: an estimated $116 million. That’s the biggest March opening ever, and the biggest opening ever for a 3D movie. Further down the top 10 list, Percy Jackson made another $5 million and Valentine’s Day jumped past a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 17, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSqbqH16qE0 So as Twilight fans are still discussing the whole one movie versus two movie thing, another possible switch for Breaking Dawn is causing a big-time stir. It just got rumored around Hollywood that the final flick might be in 3D. Now maybe at a first thought, it sounds exciting and cool and maybe you’re actually [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 18, 2010
Among new movies this weekend, nothing could remove Avatar from #1, but everything did pretty well. The Lovely Bones, which has been a big hit with teen girls (in one poll, 70% of the audience under 18 gave the movie an “A”) made $17 million. It’s based on the bestselling book by Alice Sebold and stars [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 11, 2010
We haven’t talked about how The Twilight Saga: New Moon is doing in theaters lately, but it’s still there, in over a thousand nationwide, still plugging along thanks to repeat business from fans. Like most other films, it saw bump over the long holiday break. The weekend before Christmas it made $4.4 million, then dropped to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Last week, The Twilight Saga: New Moon passed this summer’s Star Trek to officially become the fifth highest-grossing movie of the year in the U.S. If you count international grosses, it’s also surpassed its #4 competitor, the huge comedy hit The Hangover. Of course, New Moon is far from done. It’s at $268 million in the U.S. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 26, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V37qD47r4BU New Moon opened with a 142.8-million-dollar domestic opening – impressive box office results, by any standards. In fact, it’s been all over the news how this Twilight follow-up had such fanatical fans as well as cultlike appeal, that it just must have set records. But now industry insiders are speaking out to clear up the confusion. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 19, 2009
Hollywood Reporter has released an article that has initial box office numbers from the limited screenings overseas in markets such as Australia, France, Italy and Spain. And by the looks of it, New Moon is off to a great start. A few number s reported by the Hollywood Reporter article include “in Australia, the movie took [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 18, 2009
I’ve been colloquially saying for the past few days that I think The Twilight Saga: New Moon could make $100 million or more in its opening weekend. But I didn’t know that those were the “official” predictions until now. From the Hollywood blog Deadline.com: Of course Summit Entertainment is lowering expectations, privately saying that the Twilight [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 24, 2009
The Vampire’s Assistant, which features teen star Josh Hutcherson and is based on the very popular Cirque du Freak novels, isn’t doing very well this weekend at the box office — it’s set to make only around $7 million by the end of Sunday. (By contrast, Twilight made $70 million in its opening weekend.) So despite [...]
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