Box Office

US audiences liked “This Is It,” but worldwide audiences loooooooooved it. 
And the numbers (courtesy of Variety):
1. This Is It $21,300,000
2. Paranormal Activity $16,540,000
3. Law-Abiding Citizen $7,303,000
4. Couples Retreat $6,097,390
5. Saw VI $5,560,000
“This Is It” finished a solid number one in the US, but worldwide it took in a more impressive $101 million. Unsurprisingly, Sony is extending […]

“Critics? We don’t need no stinkin’ critics!” 
First, the numbers (courtesy of Variety):

GI Joe $56,200,000
Julie & Julia $20,100,000
G-Force $9,804,000
Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince $8,880,000
Funny People $7,865,920

“GI Joe’s” producers win the “Know Your Audience” award, Part A, for understanding that screening the movie for critics wouldn’t have any benefit for the film; to be honest, a raft of bad reviews […]

To suggest the new Star Trek movie is make-or-break for the franchise probably isn’t too far-fetched. With no television series to fall back on, it seems clear to me that if the J.J. Abrams-reboot had failed to set the world alight, the franchise may truly have been dead and buried. Thankfully, that seems not to […]

Anyone not currently living under a rock would have been well aware of a certain movie being released this weekend. Twilight, a movie based on the first book in a series by Stephenie Meyer has debuted in America, much to the relief and joy of teenage girls everywhere.
The books are huge, with many millions of […]

Titanic is currently the biggest grossing film of all time at the US box office. After a fabulously long run of being in the cinema for nine months, with 15 weeks at number one, the James Cameron directed film starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio made $600.8 million.
Now we have The Dark Knight, the new […]

Look who’s right behind you, Spartans…
Okay. December was filled with all those thoughtful, deep-thinking, awards grubbing type movies. Then there were big, expensive, star-powered action adventure movies like I Am Legend and National Treasure 2. You can’t go anywhere without being assaulted by some kind of presidential campaign news. The economy’s tanking. And this was […]

Freeman and Nicholson do their odd couple on one last party thing.
Now that everyone’s seen National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets and I Am Legend, audiences were left with The Bucket List as one of the weekend’s few new offerings.
The oh-those-crazy-seniors comedy appeared to have edged First Sunday for the number 1 slot, taking in […]

Ellen Page and Michael Cera congratulating each other about Juno’s box office silver medal.
As you know, box office accounting is as much an art than a science. The weekend estimates (and remember–that’s ESTIMATES) had I Am Legend just edging Juno, which was enough for Fox Searchlight to really push to get the actual numbers out. […]

Juno is getting bigger.
It’s not really big news that National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets had another winning weekend at the box office, earning another $20.2 million, or that I Am Legend also continued to roll, with a $16.3 million take. What IS news is that Juno, expanding to 1,925 theaters, sold $16.2 million worth […]

Dillon Freasier and Daniel Day-Lewis try to find one of the two theaters showing There Will Be Blood.
As you would expect, the moviegoing population held steady in its choices this weekend. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Natonal Treasure: Book of Secrets, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and I Am Legend took the top three spots. Numbers […]