Friday, September 16, 2011 11:12AM - By Damon Houx
Can you feel the love tonight? After Contagion took the box office last weekend, you would think that September might have some moves. Normally a very slow month, this weekend proves how slow that is if The Lion King (in 3-D) manages to trump everything else. Then again, the hottest of the new titles is Drive - the Cannes Best director winner – that has also managed to get a little backlash. Those not as impressed note that the film doesn’t cure cancer. Surely that means that cancer is cured by the other films opening this weekend, I Don’t Know How She Does It and Straw Dogs. If so, expect their numbers to sure.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011 3:07PM - By Damon Houx
After a couple of weeks of super weak titles, Contagion is the first A-lister vehicle in quite some time. You’d think summer would be loaded with them, but you can’t really call The Help or Rise of the Planet of the Apes star vehicles. Then again, look at the business Larry Crowne did. That is to say – very little. Forty years ago, a film like this would be a huge event picture ala The Towering Inferno. Now it’s a borderline art film. So let’s talk box office, shall we?
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Thursday, August 25, 2011 3:33PM - By Damon Houx
It’s bad the battle for least embarassing, as three new releases are going to try (and most likely fail) to take the top spot from The Help, which won last weekend. This week brings Our Idiot Brother, Colombiana, and Don’t Be Afraid of the Darkto wide release, and – as it’s the end of the summer – they are all hoping that low competition and low expectations will help them to make modest profits. Columbiana stars Zoe Saldana and with it, she has the largest role for a female person of color this summer. Check out our predictions…
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Thursday, August 18, 2011 4:32PM - By Damon Houx
It’s the dog days of summer. This weekend four movies are coming out and – realistically – only one has a shot at taking the top slot. Last weekend saw Rise of the Planet of the Apes hold well enough to fend off The Help, but this weekend it’s more than likely that The Help will take the top slot. Conan the Barbarian, Fright Night, Spy Kids 4, and One Day are all going wide with only One Day not in 3-D. With Final Destination 5 underperforming, and an audience wary of 3-D (in general), we’ve seen studios beg off 3-D for some of their event films, but with international numbers of Pirates of the Carribean 4 propelling the film to an over billion dollar gross, you can’t count out the third dimension just yet.
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Thursday, August 11, 2011 4:18PM - By Damon Houx
Four new movies crowd this end of summer weekend. As TV and radio are bombarded with back to school ads, Final Destination 5, The Help, 30 Minutes or Less, and Glee the 3D Concert Movie hit the big screen. It’s a weekend that becomes a theater palette-cleanser, as the hangers-on’s that have still been playing on a couple of screens finally leave. This is bad news for films like Friends With Benefits, or The Change Up – even Cowboys and Aliens. If the goal was to have less competition from A-list titles, it’s hard to stem the tide of new products, and next week there’s also four wide releases. Check out our predictions…
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Thursday, May 12, 2011 11:31AM - By scottschachter
After last weekend solid debut, Thor will attempt to hold strong at number one while facing competition from what many are describing as the female Hangover with Bridesmaids, the horror thriller Priest, and box office hit Fast Five.
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Monday, May 2, 2011 10:00AM - By Laura Aguirre
Whoa! Is summer here already or what? This weekend was all kinds of success for the mega-blockbuster Fast Five — the fifth installment to Universal Pictures’ Fast and the Furious franchise. The street racing film sped to the top of the box office chart, grossing $83.6 million in North America. Not only is Fast Five the highest grossing film of 2011, but also the highest grossing film of its kind. Get ready for Fast and the Furious No. 6 ladies and gentlemen.
Be sure to check out how every other movie crashed (as we predicted) below…
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Sunday, April 24, 2011 10:30PM - By Laura Aguirre
It was a smooth flight for the animated birds of Rio this weekend. The family film stayed atop the box office during its second weekend, beating Tyler Perry‘s Madea’s Big Happy Family and the film adaptation of the New York Times’ best seller Water for Elephants. In just over a week, Rio has been able to gross a hefty $81.2 million, while Water for Elephants (the other Fox picture) grossed $17.5 million and came in at No. 3. Another box office success is Hop — despite its competition, this animated film is still gathering gold. This weekend it went over the $100 million mark.
Take a look at this weekend’s surprising numbers…
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011 9:46AM - By scottschachter
With the final results in, this weekend’s top box office winner was the Anthony Hopkins horror/thriller The Rite which came in at #1, while the Ashton Kutcher/Natalie Portman romantic comedy No String’s Attached held strong at#2 as both films came in right along with our predictions.
The rest of the top five saw a neck-to neck race as Jason Statham’s The Mechanic opened with double digit grosses ,Seth Rogan’s The Green Hornet held strong as both films entered at the # 3/4 spot respectively coming in a bit above our own predictions, while The King’s Speech surged past last weekend gross due to a theater expansion,but entered at the #5 spot coming a bit behind our own predictions.
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