Box Office

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 […]

In March, Wild Hogs seemed like a great movie.
With all the best of lists, year end reviews, and award nominations, it’s easy to forget what’s most important to Hollywood: money. Keeping that in mind, here are the top grossing movies of the year (domestic box office only), courtesy of BoxofficeMojo:

Spider-Man 3, $336,530,303
Shrek 3, $321,012,359
Transformers, $319,071,806
Pirates […]

You’d smile too if you had an opening day like AvP: Requiem.
The true secret to a merry Christmas, it appears, is to get through opening the presents and eating fast enough to get out to the movies before family fights break out and it all ends in tears. And people went out to the movies […]

Trash-talking chipmunks promise to kick Will Smith’s ass next weekend.
Hollywood execs can rest a little easier tonight– Will Smith is here, he’s fighting vampires and people are happy to pay to see him work.
It’s been kind of a scary box office fall/winter for Hollywood execs. There haven’t really been any blockbusters. Big movies have been […]

You know it’s a fairy tale when a white gown stays clean in a manhole.
Weary shoppers and families thrown together in tense holiday proximity sought solace in Disney’s fairy tale Enchanted, resulting in, according to BoxOfficeMojo, a weekend total of $35,332,000 ($50,048,000 for the entire holiday stretch). But this princess in New York musical didn’t […]

It seems the popularity of British films is on the increase, at least in the UK itself. The latest figures to be released show that over a quarter of the UK’s 2007 box office takings has come from home-grown movies.
The UK Film Council figures show that for the first nine months of 2007, British films […]