Over the years, Will Smith has become the king of the summer blockbuster. But with The Karate Kid making bank at the box office, it looks like there might be a fresh prince in town….
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City Island Manages to Hit $5 Million in Limited Release
In a world where the art house cinema always seems to be a few steps away from extinction, independent film success stories give us hope. We just got a press release announcing that City Island,…
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Box Office Beat: Shrek Remains King
Even the release of four new movies weren’t enough to budge the big, green ogre from his throne this weekend. Audiences continued to be entertained by the fourth installment in the Shrek series, with Shrek…
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The Box Office Beat: Shrek Slays Again
Memorial Day Weekend saw two new, highly anticipated films arrive at the box office, both of which failed to reach expectations and delivered an overall weak holiday performance. Shrek Forever After continued to reign king,…
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Box Office: ‘Shrek’ Still #1, ‘Sex’ and ‘Persia’ Battle for #2
Shrek Forever After wasn’t expected to take #1 in the face of Sex and the City 2 and Prince of Persia, but it did, making $43.4 million over the three-day weekend and an estimated $55.7…
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Optimus Prime Obliderates the Box Office July 1st-5th
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…
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EXCLUSIVE: Showest Screen Grab Confirms MEGATRON Return in Transformers 2… UPDATED
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…
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The Box Office For April 3rd-5th Makes Me Sad To Be An American
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…
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Box Office, March 20-22: Knowing, then I Love You Man, then Duplicity
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…
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Weekend Box Office, Feb 20-22: ‘Madea’ Scores $41 Million
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…
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