Finally a movie has knocked Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland off it’s high horse. Dreamworks’ How to Train Your Dragon 3-D won the weekend bringing in $43 million dollars, way ahead of it’s competitors. Alice still pulled through in second, making $17.2 million dollars in it’s fourth week. The hilarious Hot Tub Time Machine, though […]
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Another Chart Topping Weekend For ‘Wonderland’
For the second week in a row, Alice in Wonderland blew away the box office competition to take the top spot. This weekend’s total was $62 million dollars at Sunday’s close, bringing it’s domestic earnings to around $208 million dollars. Pair that with international earnings, and Alice has raked in a whopping $428 million total! […]
Burton and Depp’s ‘Alice’ Wins the Weekend
As if there was to be any question what movie would win the weekend, Alice In Wonderland did not disappoint! It was the biggest opening for director Tim Burton ever, bringing in $116.3 million dollars from Thursday night to Sunday, and it also gave Disney the highest grossing 3-D opening ever, beating out Avatar. We’ve […]
Shutter Island Dominates Box Office
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Shutter Island dethroned the star studded film, Valentines Day, this past weekend to finish off with an opening weekend of $40.2 million dollars. This is the biggest opening yet for DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese, who have worked together four times in the past including 2006 Oscar winner, The Departed. Valentines Day held […]
2012’s Weekend On Top. Enjoy it. It was the last…
We’ve heard mixed reviews about this one! Mostly that the special effects were amazing but the story line was blah. Either way, the public spent their money on seeing 2012 this weekend! The new film depicting the end of the world brought in $23 million dollars on Friday sales alone and about $61 million for […]
Where The Wild Things Are Wins At the Box Office
The Spike Jonze-directed children’s book classic Where the Wild Things Are won big at the box office, bringing in an estimated $32.5 million on its opening weekend. Forty-seven percent of the audience was estimated to be adult viewers, showing that adult nostalgia is fueling a lot of ticket sales. Paranormal Activity wasn’t far behind it […]
Tarantino Takes the Box Office
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds took the top box office spot by a mile this weekend! The film brought in 36.7 million dollars, which dops District 9‘s opening last week of 36.4 District 9 still had a pretty good weekend, bringing in another 18 million in it’s second weekend. Did you all see IB?? What did […]
Sci-Fi Showdown at Box Office as District 9 Beats Time Traveler’s Wife
The Peter Jackson-produced aliens-live-among-us action flick District 9 opened at #1 this weekend with a $37 million haul. I want to see it, but I can’t see movies the weekend they open because I can’t sit in a crowded theater surrounded by cretins eating popcorn with their open mouths. And I can never see movies […]
Why So Happy Katherine Heigl??
Katherine Heigl gave us a 3rd place smile when we spotted her leaving her home on a recent trip to run some errands. Why would a third place smile be such a happy smile you ask? Because in this case, Heigl’s third place means her movie still raked in $27 million dollars during it’s opening […]
Hamsters Win the Weekend
Disney’s G-Force took down the all mighty Harry Potter film this weekend in a close race at the box office, and Katherine Heigl’s The Ugly Truth was not too far behind. The animated rat comedy took in $32 million with Harry bring in $30 for a second place finish. The Ugly Truth earned $27 million! […]
