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Box Office: Is 'Star Trek Into Darkness' a Hit or a Miss?
5 days ago
On paper, 'Star Trek Into Darkness' looks like a smash. It earned a starship-load of money, debuted at No. 1, and dethroned two-week box office champ "Iron Man 3." And yet, box office analysts think it underperformed, falling far short of the $100 million premiere they'd expected.Are the pundits right? Were the "Star Trek" numbers less than stellar? Or do the analysts have a warped perspective? A
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Box Office: 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Misses $100M Domestic Mark on Opening Weekend
6 days ago
LOS ANGELES — "Star Trek: Into Darkness" has warped its way to a $70.6 million domestic launch from Friday to Sunday, though it's not setting any light-speed records with a debut that's lower than the studio's expectations.The latest voyage of the starship Enterprise fell short of its predecessor, 2009's "Star Trek," which opened with $75.2 million.
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Weekend Box Office: 'Great Gatsby' Nabs $51M, Gives 'Iron Man 3' a Run for Its Money
13 days ago
LOS ANGELES — Gatsby looks almost as great as a superhero at the weekend box office.Leonard DiCaprio's "The Great Gatsby" partied like it was the Roaring Twenties with a $51.1 million debut that made it a surprisingly strong runner-up to comic-book blockbuster "Iron Man 3."
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Box Office: Why Do Hollywood Blockbusters Like 'Iron Man 3' Open in the Rest of the World First?
18 days ago
If you saw "Iron Man 3" in a North American theater this weekend and didn't have its major plot twist spoiled for you, consider yourself lucky. After all, people in nearly every movie market around the world got to see the movie a week before you did.It's become increasingly common for Hollywood's would-be blockbusters to open all over the globe before they finally make it to our own shores. "Iro
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Weekend Box Office: 'Iron Man 3' Bigger Than Ever With $175.3M
20 days ago
LOS ANGELES — Iron Man reigns as the standard-bearer of Hollywood superheroes with a $175.3 million domestic opening weekend for his latest sequel and an overseas haul of a half-billion dollars in less than two weeks.According to studio estimates Sunday, "Iron Man 3" has raced to a worldwide total of $680.1 million. That includes $175.9 million in its second weekend overseas, where the film
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Weekend Box Office: 'Pain & Gain' Takes US, 'Iron Man 3' Rules World
27 days ago
LOS ANGELES — "Iron Man 3" is the heavy-lifter at theaters with a colossal overseas debut that overshadows a sleepy pre-summer weekend at the domestic box office.The superhero sequel starring Robert Downey Jr. got a head-start on its domestic launch next Friday with a $195.3 million opening in 42 overseas markets.
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Box Office: 'Oblivion,' Tom Cruise's Sci-Fi Epic, Opens With $38.2 Million
34 days ago
LOS ANGELES — Movie fans have slipped into "Oblivion" as the Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller leads Hollywood with a $38.2 million debut.That domestic haul comes on top of $33.7 million "Oblivion" added in overseas markets, where the film began rolling out a week earlier. Sunday estimates raised the film's overseas total to $112 million and its worldwide receipts to $150.2 million.
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Biggest Box Office Bombs: 15 Financial Flops
39 days ago
Have you finished filing your taxes? Did you make sure to write off all that you could in order to pay the lowest amount possible? Maybe you got to deduct that Goodwill donation and your student loan interest. How about a loss on a feature film that bombed at the box office? Have you got that?While movie studios don't do their taxes annually all at once, we can't help recalling on Tax Day the $20
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Box Office: How Did '42' Hit a Home Run?
40 days ago
Baseball may be the national pastime, but baseball movies generally don't do very well at the box office. Neither do movies with unknown stars, or thoughtful historical dramas for grown-ups (at least, not in April), or, for that matter, movies featuring Harrison Ford (at least, not lately). The new Jackie Robinson biopic "42" is all of these things, and yet it outperformed expectations in its cha
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Weekend Box Office: '42' Scores With $27.3M, 'Scary Movie 5' Disappoints
41 days ago
LOS ANGELES — Baseball has scored a rare hit in Hollywood as the Jackie Robinson tale "42" took in $27.3 million to claim the weekend box-office championship.The Warner Bros. film biography easily beat an established franchise in "Scary Movie 5." According to studio estimates Sunday, the Weinstein Co. sequel opened in second-place with $15.2 million, the smallest debut for the horror-comedy
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Paul McCartney announces 'Wings Over America' box set, 'Rockshow' film
45 days ago
A new documentary about a Wings tour in the 1970s will be released at cinemas.
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Evil Dead Is #1 Movie at U.S. Box Office
47 days ago
They may be dead, but they’re alive and well at the box office. We love our zombies! Evil Dead, the R-rated remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult classic has been sweeping the box office by storm since it opened on Friday. The gory flick has racked in an estimated $26 million, beating out last week’s G.I. Joe Retaliation, which scored $21.1 million, and The Croods which landed $
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