Lone Survivor News
Weekend Box Office Report: 'Ride Along' Remains King of the Hill
4:43 PM 2/2/2014 by Logan Falk
Even on a Superbowl weekend, where thousands of people opt to stay home and watch the fabled game, the reigning champ of the last few weekends, Ride Along, managed a third weekend perched comfortably atop the charts, pushing aside the meager new releases.
‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ Hits $100M; $225M Worldwide; ‘Lone Survivor’ Next To Pass $100M; ‘Frozen’ Skates Past $350M
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The Wolf of Wall Street crossed the $100M mark last night as the Oscar nominated film continues its ride into the middle of Awards season. Added to its international cume, the Martin Scorsese romp has taken in $225M worldwide to date at the box office. The question, at the end of the day, however, is will it be profitable?
7 years 10 weeks ago via brucelee
Weekend Box Office Report: 'Ride Along' Continues to Cruise in First
8:07 PM 1/26/2014 by Logan Falk
With two weeks of largely unimpressive, unsuccessful new releases, it’s unsurprising that last week’s Ride Along managed to top the charts once again, burying this weekend’s new release under several layers of holdover films.
Weekend Box Office Report: 'Ride Along' Tops Charts…Somehow
7:40 PM 1/19/2014 by Logan Falk
On Friday, it looked like it was going to be a normal weekend—several unremarkably-rated releases entered theaters, with equally unremarkable projected earnings for the weekend; odds were that Lone Survivor would take the highest earnings, and the other releases would populate the higher regions of the charts. This was not the case, as the most unassuming release, Ride Along, took in the highest earnings.
Weekend Box Office Report: 'Lone Survivor' Steals First
6:45 PM 1/12/2014 by Logan Falk
This weekend was a blowout for one of our new releases, which earned well beyond its projected range, and worked its way to the top of the charts as a result.
Lone Survivor, the cathartic war film based on a true story, pulled in $38.5 million over the weekend—a good $20 million more than its predicted gross.
New in Theaters: 'The Legend of Hercules,' 'Lone Survivor,' 'Her'
6:56 PM 1/10/2014 by Logan Falk
This is an interesting weekend for new releases—while it’s not unusual to get a batch that are very different in terms of genre, audience, and even quality (it’s no fun to get just one moviegoer demographic to spend money over the weekend, after all), this group seems to span the whole spectrum:
'Lone Survivor' Producers Have Cocaine Convictions, Russian Ties, Movie Losses
thewrap.com –
The producers of “Lone Survivor” Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian are convicted cocaine dealers and have ties to Russian oil and an alleged contract murder, according to an investigation by the L.A. Weekly. Hollywood financiers Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian (at left, Chase, with actor Gerard Butler and Martirosian) carry separate convictions for cocaine trafficking from 1993 and that’s hardly the most colorful – not to say sinister – part of their backgrounds, according to the article by L.A.
7 years 14 weeks ago via brucelee
Mark Wahlberg's 'Lone Survivor' Faced Skepticism on Financing Side
variety.com –
With Universal opening “Lone Survivor”on Christmas in two U.S. theaters, several financiers behind the Afghanistan war tale find themselves amazed that they were able to raise the funds last year at Cannes. “We knew that getting presales from the Europeans that this was not going to be easy,” recalls Stephan Martirosyan, CFO of Envision Entertainment...
7 years 15 weeks ago via donnieyen
'Lone Survivor' Director Peter Berg Talks Beards, 'Battleship' And What's Going On With The 'Friday Night Lights' Movie
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Peter Berg is a manly director. After shepherding such testosterone-soaked films as "Very Bad Things," "The Rundown," "Friday Night Lights," and "Battleship," the director has set his sights on bringing his passion project to the big screen, in spectacularly violent fashion. "Lone Survivor" is based on Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell's nonfiction account of how his elite unit was ambushed and fell, in the rocky mountains of Afghanistan.
7 years 16 weeks ago via jackiechan