Movie News: Box Office

Box Office Report: 'Hotel Transylvania' Wins Friday, Headed For Record $40 Mil Opening

feedproxy.google.com – "Looper" and musical comedy "Pitch Perfect" also score strong starts; education drama "Won't Back Down" flunks. 33 weeks 6 days ago via jetli

Box Office Report: Soft Weekend Ends With No Clear Winner Among Trio of Films

feedproxy.google.com – Jennifer Lawrence's "House at the End of the Street," Jake Gyllenhaal cop drama "End of Watch" and Clint Eastwood's "Trouble With the Curve" all earn in the range of $12.7 million to $13 million. 34 weeks 5 days ago via jackiechan

Soft Friday Box Office: Clint Eastwood's 'Trouble With The Curve' Disappoints; But 'End Of Watch' Strong Even If 'House' #1; Rebooted 'Dredd' Opens Just Dreadful

deadline.com – This is one of those weekends which can only be described as box office hell for Hollywood. Because no one can agree on which of the top two pics is #1. The info I’m getting is changing fast, and the film order will come down to late shows on the West Coast.

34 weeks 6 days ago via donnieyen

Box Office Report: Jennifer Lawrence, Clint Eastwood Lead Close Friday Race

feedproxy.google.com – Jake Gyllenhaal cop drama "End of Watch" is making gains on Lawrence's "House at the End of the Street" and Eastwood's "Trouble with the Curve." 34 weeks 6 days ago via brucelee

Foreign Box Office: 'Resident Evil: Retribution' Rules Overseas, Grossing $50 million in 65 Markets

feedproxy.google.com – "Madagascar 3" tops $400-million offshore mark; "Ted" poised to set overseas record for R-rated comedy. The foreign theatrical circuit shook off its late-summer box office bahs over the weekend thanks to a 65-market debut at 8,110 venues of the latest sequel in director-producer Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil franchise starring Milla Jovovich.

35 weeks 4 days ago via jackiechan

Box Office: 'The Master' rules as 'Resident Evil: Retribution' disappoints

hitfix.com – "The Master" set a limited release per screen record this weekend as "Resident Evil: Retribution" came in under expectations with just $21.1 million to claim the top spot.http://www.hitfix.com 35 weeks 4 days ago via jackiechan

Box Office Report: Scientology-Inspired 'The Master' Shatters Art House Records on Friday

feedproxy.google.com – Mila Jovovich starrer "Resident Evil: Retribution" tops Friday box office overall with $8.4 million; Disney's 3D rerelease of "The Lion King" debuts at No. 2 with $5.1 million. 35 weeks 6 days ago via brucelee

'Ted' To Pass 'The Hangover' Internationally

deadline.com – Seth MacFarlane’s R-rated comedy Ted starring Mark Wahlberg from Medisa Rights Capital by Monday will pass that other R-rated blockbuster The Hangover’s international lifetime total of $190+M. Filmmakers redubbed the pic not only by country but also by region which helped solve the problem that American comedy doesn’t always translate overseas.

35 weeks 6 days ago via jackiechan

Box Office Report: 'The Master' Opens to Sell-Out Shows in New York, Los Angeles

feedproxy.google.com – Paul Thomas Anderson's Scientology-inspired film stars Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams. 35 weeks 6 days ago via donnieyen

Box Office Report: 'Resident Evil: Retribution' Earns Pleasing $665,000 in Midnight Runs

feedproxy.google.com – The Milla Jovovich zombie pic is the fifth film in Screen Gems' successful franchise. 36 weeks 23 min ago via brucelee

Box office report: 'The Possession' leads the worst weekend in over a decade

insidemovies.ew.com – Lionsgate’s $14 million horror entry The Possession once again topped the chart with $9.5 million. The film, which earned a “B” CinemaScore grade last week, enjoyed a better than expected hold (it dropped 46 percent) — especially since its debut results were inflated by it bowing on a holiday weekend.

36 weeks 4 days ago via jetli

Specialty Box Office: Self-Released 'Detropia' Tops Newcomers; 'Lights,' 'Hello' Also Strong

fb.indiewire.com – While most of the film industry set up shop in Canada for the Toronto International Film Festival, a bunch of alums from the Sundance Film Festival made their way to theaters to varying results. Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's "Detropia," Ira Sachs' "Keep The Lights On," Todd Louiso's "Hello I Must Be Going," Leslye Headland's "Bachelorette" and So Yong Kim's "For Ellen" all hit theaters, with "Detropia," "Hello" and "Lights" finding the best results so far. 36 weeks 4 days ago via donnieyen

Friday Box Office – THE POSSESSION Holds with $2.8 Million on Dismal First Friday of Fall

collider.com – And you thought last weekend was weak. With Friday estimates in, it appears that no film will reach $10 million by Sunday – a box office calamity that has not been equaled since Bangkok Dangerous debuted at number one with just $7.7 million in September 2008. Unfortunately, this weekend’s new releases will fall short of even that sorry benchmark; leaving Lionsgate’s The Possession to hold down the top spot for a second week with a projected $9.3 million. 36 weeks 6 days ago via donnieyen