It took Transformers Revenge of the Fallen two weeks to become the highest grossing movie of the year. Despite generally negative reviews and reports that the film was rushed in its writing and post-production (Michael Bay left the Japan premiere early to finalize the last of the effect shots) it has since moved beyond the [...]
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EXCLUSIVE: Showest Screen Grab Confirms MEGATRON Return in Transformers 2… UPDATED
April 18, 2009 – 7:33 am
UPDATE – It appears the marketing department never really wanted this particular cat out of the bag. The entire trailer has been pulled from Michael Bay’s website and all the sites that used the Vimeo link are now being told that they were not authorized to embed the footage. In the meantime my guess is [...]
The Box Office For April 3rd-5th Makes Me Sad To Be An American
April 6, 2009 – 8:47 am
Week after week we hear about the morbid and all together depressing outlook on Wall Street. Yet week after week, the movie industry out-performs the money it made during the same time period the previous year. We can’t be completely surprised, after all the Great Depression was the first true explosion of money into the [...]
Box Office, March 20-22: Knowing, then I Love You Man, then Duplicity
March 23, 2009 – 12:51 pm
Knowing scored an easy win at the box office this weekend despite some bad reviews, banking $24.6 million. But the Paul Rudd/Jason Segel comedy pairing in I Love You, Man was no slouch either, making off with $17.8 million — just about on a par with Segel’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and negligibly lower than Rudd’s [...]
Weekend Box Office, Feb 20-22: ‘Madea’ Scores $41 Million
February 24, 2009 – 3:16 pm
Madea Goes to Jail — starring a character Tyler Perry is presumably trying to turn into the next Ernest — made off with $41 million at the North American box office this weekend, marking Perry’s biggest opener ever. His second-biggest, Madea’s Family Reunion, made $30 million in its opening weekend in 2006.
Last week’s champ, Friday [...]
Weekend Box Office, February 13-15: What is This, Summer?
February 16, 2009 – 7:39 pm
President’s Day weekend means more business on Sunday than usual, but even taking that into account, the box office was rocking this week — as it’s been rocking since the beginning of 2009. It’s like a second summer season, except there’s no superheroes and the movies are starring Liam Neeson and Jared Padalecki and Isla [...]
Weekend Box Office, Feb. 6-8: ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’, ‘Coraline’ Hit Big
February 10, 2009 – 3:44 pm
Women ruled the weekend as He’s Just Not That Into You and Coraline both scored powerful debuts. But almost everything did well — a whopping six films made over $10 million this weekend, proving that in a recession, people start to realize that going to the movies is a pretty cheap date. Last month was [...]
Box Office, Jan 30th – Feb 2nd: ‘Taken’ Surprises, ‘New in Town’ Struggles
February 2, 2009 – 6:14 pm
I don’t think anyone ever considered Liam Neeson to be an action hero, but after this weekend, they might. His action vehicle Taken grossed a terrific $24.6 million this weekend, proving that a male-driven movie could survive over Super Bowl weekend. A straightforward Jason-Bourne-as-a-dad plot and good reviews didn’t hurt.
The Uninvited, also new this weekend, [...]
Box Office January 23-25: Lycans Land at #2, Slumdog Soars
January 26, 2009 – 3:19 pm
Paul Blart: Mall Cop spent its second weekend in the #1 spot at the box office with $21.5 million, down only 32% from its first weekend. That edged out newcomer Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, which nonetheless managed a $20.7 million weekend despite losing the star of the franchise, Kate Beckinsale.
The only other new wide [...]
Box Office Jan. 16-19: Blart Cleans Up, but Everything Does Well
January 19, 2009 – 2:50 pm
Kevin James was the surprise winner at the box office this weekend with Paul Blart: Mall Cop, which scored an estimated $39 million over the four-day Martin Luther King Day weekend. The studio was smart to go with a PG rating as the film was able to tap into family audiences.
The even bigger surprise, though, [...]