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Weekend Box Office: 'Great Gatsby' Nabs $51M, Gives 'Iron Man 3' a Run for Its Money
6 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?
11 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
13 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
20 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
27 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
32 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?
33 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
34 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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Evil Dead Is #1 Movie at U.S. Box Office
40 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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Weekend Box Office: 'Evil Dead' Scares Up $26M, 'Jurassic Park' Far From Extinct
41 days ago
LOS ANGELES -- Resurrected demons and resurrected dinosaurs are helping to put some life back into the weekend box office.Sunday studio estimates put the demonic horror remake "Evil Dead" at No. 1 with a $26 million debut.
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Weekend Box Office: 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation ' Takes No. 1 With $41M
48 days ago
LOS ANGELES — After a nine-month delay, "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" deployed to the top spot at the box office.The action film starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Bruce Willis and Channing Tatum marched into the No. 1 position at the weekend box office, earning $41.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Box Office: 'The Croods' Scores Big With $44.1 Million Opening
55 days ago
LOS ANGELES -- The caveman comedy "The Croods" left an indelible mark on the wall, opening at No. 1 with an estimated $44.7 million.The 3-D adventure from DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox features a voice cast including Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone and Catherine Keener. They play a prehistoric family encountering danger and strange new creatures when they're forced to find a new cave.
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