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movies/star-wars-the-force-awakens-shatters-box-office-records.html
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seismic-swarms-of-san-andreas-top-box-office/
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business/media/hollywood-rebounds-at-the-box-office.html
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immortals-leads-the-way-at-the-box-office/
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at the UK box office
UK
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skyfall-first-100m-uk-box-office
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/nov/09/
skyfall-biggest-seller-box-office
struggle
at the box office UK
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mission-impossible-8-dead-reckoning-tom-cruise
top American box office
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/
movies/captain-america-civil-war-tops-box-office.html
US box office record
UK
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the-avengers-us-box-office-record
break box office records
for R-Rated Film
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/15/
movies/deadpool-has-biggest-opening-on-record-in-north-america-
for-r-rated-film.html
smash box-office
records UK
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smash box office records
USA
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movies/black-panther-box-office-records.html
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movies/black-panther-african-american-fans.html
shatter box office records
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movies/star-wars-the-force-awakens-shatters-box-office-records.html
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smash
USA
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movies/awardsseason/07Scott.html
British film charts
UK
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skyfall-first-100m-uk-box-office
top the charts
for
three weekends in a row UK
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moviegoing
USA
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business/media/hollywood-rebounds-at-the-box-office.html
attendance
USA
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business/media/hollywood-rebounds-at-the-box-office.html
blockbuster
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jurassic-park-at-30-spielbergs-blockbuster-warning
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storytelling-has-become-the-art-of-world-building-
avatar-and-the-rise-of-the-paracosm
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movies/wonder-woman-review-gal-gadot.html
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426883093/rogue-nation-fulfills-the-mission-of-a-reliable-blockbuster-series
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/
business/as-hollywood-leans-on-blockbusters-the-flop-looms.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/
business/media/hollywood-rebounds-at-the-box-office.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/
movies/audiences-are-finding-diversity-at-summer-movies.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/13/
prometheus-spider-man-summer-blockbuster-preview
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/
movies/31roze.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/oct/27/
avatar-2-3-james-cameron
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/sep/19/
jon-hamm-mad-men-don-draper
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/nov/16/
2012-roland-emmerich
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global blockbuster
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/
business/media/black-panther-hollywood-diversity.html
blockbuster plot
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/aug/11/
bourne-legacy-jeremy-renner
crowdpleaser
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/feb/23/
oscars-results-slumdog-kate-winslet
gross UK
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gross £100m worldwide
top-grossing film
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/
business/media/hollywood-rebounds-at-the-box-office.html
2009's first Avatar
- the
highest-grossing film of all time USA
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hit
UK
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skyfall-first-100m-uk-box-office
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jun/30/
toy-story-3-pixar-animation
hit
USA
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/25/
american-snipe-weekend-box-office
sleeper hit
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/jan/20/
slumdog-millionaire-sleeper-hit
megahit
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/
business/media/hollywoods-summer-of-extremes-megahits-superflops-and-little-else.html
flop
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/11/
return-of-b-movie-why-big-budget-flops-good-for-cinema
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/dec/08/
nicole-kidman-angelina-jolie
flop USA
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nx-s1-5142468/joker-2-lady-gaga-joaquin-phoenix-box-office
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/22/
movies/ben-hur-is-latest-flop-for-paramount.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/
movies/06albeck.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/
movies/25eddie.html
box-office megaflop
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/18/
the-fall-guy-to-megalopolis-is-2024-the-year-of-the-box-office-megaflop
megaflop
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/
business/media/
hollywoods-summer-of-extremes-megahits-superflops-and-little-else.html
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With $72.7 Million, ‘New Moon’
Sets New Opening Day Record
November 21, 2009
Filed at 12:19 p.m. ET
The New York Times
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Vampires and werewolves have vanquished a dark knight.
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" took in $72.7 million in its first day to break
the single day domestic box office record previously held by "The Dark Knight,"
which had a $67.2 million opening day last year.
The Friday haul for the "Twilight" sequel includes a record $26.3 million from
midnight screenings alone.
If "New Moon" maintains its pace, it might have a shot at the all-time best
opening weekend record of $158.4 million, also held by "The Dark Knight."
"New Moon" continues the story of teen romance between a girl and a vampire
(Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson), with the sequel adding a love triangle
with a teen werewolf (Taylor Lautner).
With $72.7 Million, ‘New Moon’ Sets New Opening Day
Record,
NYT,
21.11.2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/21/
movies/AP-US-BoxOffice-NewMoon.html
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'Knowing' Tops at Box Office
With $24.8 Million
March 22, 2009
The New York Times
Filed at 2:44 p.m. ET
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Audiences knew what they wanted this weekend: Nicholas
Cage and the apocalypse.
Summit Entertainment's supernatural thriller ''Knowing,'' which stars Cage as an
astrophysics professor who figures out how to predict monumental catastrophes,
debuted as the No. 1 movie at the weekend box office with $24.8 million in
ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
''Knowing'' easily foiled ''I Love You, Man'' and ''Duplicity,'' the other films
opening in wide release. ''I Love You, Man'' was second with $18 million and
''Duplicity'' was third at $14.4 million.
The victory was another affirmation for Summit Entertainment, the small studio
behind the vampire saga ''Twilight,'' which opened last year with more than $69
million and went on sale Saturday on DVD after fans lined up at midnight.
Richie Fay, the studio's president of domestic distribution, said there are
several reasons for the studio's successes.
''We've got great creative talent at the studio, veterans on the marketing side
and I've got a few years under my belt on the distribution side,'' said Fay.
''It's the right people coming together at the right time. We're lean and mean,
but we pack a punch. We can deliver on all levels. With the DVD coming out so
well, we're obviously a fully functioning studio.''
The ''bromantic'' comedy ''I Love You, Man'' attracted equal numbers of men and
women, according to the studio. It stars Paul Rudd and Jason Segel
''I think the movie debuted at expectations,'' said Don Harris, Paramount's vice
president of distribution. ''We had the advantage of opening at the beginning of
college and high school spring break, so the audience for this film is going to
continue to be available. We think the movie will have good legs. There are no
other comedies coming out for the next couple of weekends, so that bodes well
for the film.''
The weekend's other major debut, Universal's romantic comedy ''Duplicity,'' was
written and directed by ''Michael Clayton'' director Tony Gilroy and stars Julia
Roberts and Clive Owen as romantically entangled former spies who scheme to
steal millions of dollars from their rival pharmaceutical companies.
''I liken 'Duplicity' to cinematic fine dining,'' said Paul Dergarabedian,
president of box office tracker Media By Numbers. ''I think 'Knowing' and 'I
Love You, Man' were more like fast food. They were fun and easy. 'Duplicity' was
just a little bit more of a challenging film for audiences. I think audiences
were looking for a different kind of escapism.''
Factoring in 2009's higher admission prices, the box office total was down 5
percent compared with last year, the second straight weekend of decline.
Dergarabedian doesn't believe the decline indicates the end of an otherwise
stellar year at the box office, however, saying next weekend's debut of
Dreamworks' ''Monsters vs. Aliens'' should be strong.
''Being only 12 weeks into the year, every weekend makes a huge difference,''
said Dergarabedian. ''We're still doing great this year, but it just shows you
that the business is extremely cyclical. I'm not ready to signal any kind of
doom and gloom just yet. We have 'Monsters vs. Aliens' opening Friday, and I
think that will get us back on track.''
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters,
according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday.
1. ''Knowing,'' $24.8 million.
2. ''I Love You, Man,'' $18 million.
3. ''Duplicity,'' $14.4 million.
4. ''Race to Witch Mountain,'' $13 million.
5. ''Watchmen,'' $6.7 million.
6. ''The Last House on the Left,'' $5.9 million.
7. ''Taken,'' $4.1 million.
8. ''Slumdog Millionaire,'' $2.7 million.
9. ''Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail,'' $2.5 million.
10. ''Coraline,'' $2.1 million.
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Universal, a unit of General Electric Co.; Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and
Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; DreamWorks, Paramount and
Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney's parent is The Walt
Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox
Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros., New
Line, Warner Independent and Picturehouse are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is
owned by a consortium of Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Sony
Corp., Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group;
Lionsgate is owned by Lionsgate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is owned by
Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.
'Knowing' Tops at Box Office With $24.8
Million,
NYT, 22.3.2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/22/
arts/AP-Box-Office.html - broken link
Batman Rules the Night,
and the Whole Weekend
July 21, 2008
The New York Times
By MICHAEL CIEPLY
LOS ANGELES — Fevered fans pushed “The Dark Knight,” the sixth of the Warner
Brothers series of “Batman” movies, to record three-day ticket sales of $155.3
million over the weekend, shoring up what so far had been a wobbly year at the
box office.
By Warner’s estimate the film narrowly eclipsed opening-weekend ticket sales
last year of $151.1 million for Sony Pictures’ “Spider-Man 3,” the previous
record holder.
Including a solid $27.6 million for the musical “Mamma Mia!” from Universal
Pictures, the weekend’s Top 12 films took in about $249.6 million, according to
the box-office consultant Media by Numbers. That lifted the domestic box-office
total for the year to $5.36 billion.
That is still down about 1 percent from last year, and the number of
theatergoers is down 3.7 percent. But the weekend performance gave studios and
theater owners alike reason to take heart, as it proved that even a familiar
franchise like “Batman” can still bring surprises.
“It just took on a life of its own,” said Dan Fellman, Warner’s president for
theatrical distribution. “You never expect anything like this.”
Excitement around “The Dark Knight” began to build sharply weeks ago, much of it
fed by anticipation of the performance as the Joker by Heath Ledger, who died in
January.
Theaters began adding midnight and then early-morning screenings of the film as
fans scooped up advance tickets online. At sellout shows around the country,
audiences — including more than a few viewers who came made up to resemble Mr.
Ledger’s evil clown character — pushed Friday ticket sales to an estimated $66.4
million, including an extraordinary $18.5 million from the midnight showings.
That the film’s opening took on an event status that previous “Batman” movies
never quite achieved apparently owed something to its strong presence in Imax
format.
The film — directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale — was
filmed partly using Imax cameras and opened on nearly 100 Imax screens in the
United States. That meant a boost at the box office because Imax tickets cost an
average of $12.80, about 80 percent more than the overall average ticket price
of $7.08, as estimated by Media by Numbers.
Imax screenings contributed $6.2 million to the “Dark Knight” box office,
beating the previous Imax record, $4.7 million for “Spider-Man 3,” by more than
30 percent, said Greg Foster, the president of filmed entertainment for Imax.
The summer box office had been solid but not spectacular, with tickets for the
season up slightly at $2.76 billion, thanks to price inflation, and attendance
down about 2 percent. Films like “Iron Man” from Paramount Pictures and Marvel
Studios and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” from Paramount
and Lucasfilm have topped the $300 million mark.
But “Hancock,” an off-center superhero movie from Sony Pictures and the star
Will Smith, came up short of last year’s “Transformers” box office over the July
Fourth holiday, and several releases, including “Meet Dave” from Eddie Murphy
and 20th Century Fox, fell flat.
This weekend Fox suffered another embarrassment with the animated “Space
Chimps,” which took in just $7.4 million and placed seventh.
The box-office take for “Mamma Mia!,” starring Meryl Streep, was almost
identical to that on the equivalent weekend last year by “Hairspray,” a New Line
Cinema musical that took in $27.5 million in first-weekend sales and went on to
make $118.9 million.
Other top-performing films over the weekend included “Hancock,” with $14 million
(for a total of $191.5 million); “Journey to the Center of the Earth” from
Warner, with $11.9 million (a total of $43.1 million); “Hellboy II: The Golden
Army” from Universal, with $10 million ($56.4 million total); and “Wall-E” from
Walt Disney with $9.8 million ($182.5 million total).
For all the records the weekend’s performance also underscored how much harder
studios have been working for their hits in recent years. The 1989 “Batman,”
with a reported budget of $35 million, opened to about $40.5 million and went on
to take in more than $251 million at the domestic box office.
“The Dark Knight,” by contrast, has been reported to cost more than $180
million. Given the pattern of contemporary blockbusters, the film appears
unlikely to match the performance of “Batman,” whose domestic box office would
be on the order of $450 million if adjusted to reflect ticket-price inflation.
Today’s event films tend to open bigger, and disappear more quickly, than those
of the past. Thus, “Spider-Man 3” took in about 45 percent of its $336.5 million
in total sales on its opening weekend, and “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s
End” took in 37 percent of its $309.4 million on the first weekend last year.
“Batman,” by contrast, relied on the opening weekend for just 16 percent of
sales.
Mr. Fellman said he believed “The Dark Knight” would continue to outpace
“Spider-Man 3” in coming days, thanks to a midsummer run when school is out.
“Spider-Man 3” was released in early May and had to fight harder for midweek
business.
By week’s end, Mr. Fellman said, “The Dark Knight” will probably take in more
than the $205 million in total domestic ticket sales for its predecessor,
“Batman Begins,” in 2005.
Batman Rules the Night,
and the Whole Weekend, NYT, 21.7.2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/movies/21batm.html
'Dark Knight'
sets box office record
with $66.4M
19 July 2008
USA Today
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Batman's joust with the Joker has set another box office
record. Stoked by fan fever over the manic performance of the late Heath Ledger
as the Joker, The Dark Knight set a one-day box office record with $66.4 million
on opening day, Warner Bros. head of distribution Dan Fellman said Saturday.
The movie's Friday haul surpassed the previous record of $59.8 million set
last year by Spider-Man 3. The Dark Knight might break the opening-weekend
record of $151.1 million, also held by Spider-Man 3.
"I think they're in jeopardy," Fellman said of the Spider-Man 3 records.
The Dark Knight began with a record $18.5 million from midnight screenings,
topping the previous high of $16.9 million for Star Wars: Episode III — The
Revenge of the Sith.
The opening day grosses for The Dark Knight far exceeded the full weekend haul
of its predecessor, Batman Begins, which took in $48.7 million in its first
three days in 2005.
Reviews were excellent for director Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, but they
were stellar for his Dark Knight.
"We've really never seen anything like this," said Paul Dergarabedian, president
of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. "The death of a fine actor taken in his
prime, a legendary performance, and a movie that lives up to all the hype. That
all combined to create these record-breaking numbers."
Buzz had been high for the Batman sequel well before Ledger died of an
accidental prescription-drug overdose in January. Trailers last fall revealing
Ledger's demented Joker, with crooked clown makeup, turned up the heat even
more. The critical acclaim over his performance that built from advance
screenings left fans in a frenzy.
"It's a combination of things. Certainly, that's a great part of it, but I think
this movie's gross was partly because of the reviews it received and the
incredible buzz and word of mouth that preceded it with our early screenings,"
Fellman said. "And the success and quality of the last one, Batman Begins,
delivered by Chris Nolan just set the tone for the opening of this movie."
The Dark Knight reunites Christian Bale as Batman, the vigilante crime-fighter
tormented by personal tragedy, and co-stars Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and
Gary Oldman. Maggie Gyllenhaal also stars.
The film spins an epic crime duel as Ledger's Joker orchestrates a reign of
terror on the city of Gotham aimed to spread chaos and break down the restraint
that keeps Batman on the right side of the law.
While critics are taking the film seriously enough to suggest Ledger could be in
line for an Academy Award nomination, the action-packed movie also delivers as
pure summer movie escapism.
"If you're worried about mortgage payments and gas prices, when you're sitting
in The Dark Knight for two and a half hours, you're not thinking about any of
that stuff," Dergarabedian said.
'Dark Knight' sets box
office record with $66.4M, UT, 19.7.2008,
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'Evil' Zombies
Rule With $24 Million
September 24, 2007
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 11:13 a.m. ET
The New York Times
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The undead of ''Resident Evil'' still have plenty of life
in them.
''Resident Evil: Extinction,'' with Milla Jovovich again fighting flesh-hungry
zombies in the third installment based on the video game, opened as the No. 1
weekend flick with $24 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates
Sunday.
It was the best debut for the franchise, topping the $23 million debut of part
two, 2004's ''Resident Evil: Apocalypse.''
Sony Screen Gems hinted there could be more ''Resident Evil'' movies, though the
latest had been billed as the final one.
''Until the next,'' joked Rory Bruer, Sony's head of distribution. ''It
absolutely would not surprise me considering the success of the franchise that
they find a way to come up with another. It's a real possibility.''
Lionsgate's ''Good Luck Chuck,'' with Jessica Alba and Dane Cook in a romantic
comedy about a man jinxed at finding true love, debuted in second place with $14
million despite an almost universal thrashing by critics.
Universal's ''Sydney White,'' starring Amanda Bynes as a college freshman who
teams with frat house dorks in a fight against campus snobs, premiered at No. 6
with $5.3 million.
The previous weekend's top movie, the Warner Bros. drama ''The Brave One,'' fell
to No. 3 with $7.4 million, raising its total to $25.1 million.
Brad Pitt's ''The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'' and
Sean Penn's ''Into the Wild'' each opened strongly in limited release.
Penn went behind the camera for his fourth directing effort on ''Into the
Wild,'' which took in $206,596 at four theaters for a whopping average of
$51,649 a cinema, compared with $8,487 in 2,828 theaters for ''Resident Evil:
Extinction.''
''Into the Wild,'' released by Paramount Vantage, stars Emile Hirsch in the
real-life story of Christopher McCandless, whose two-year odyssey of
self-exploration across North America ended tragically in Alaska.
Pitt stars as the legendary outlaw in the Warner Bros. saga ''Assassination of
Jesse James,'' which took in $144,000 in five theaters, averaging $28,800. The
film chronicles the last year of James' life as he lapses into paranoia over
betrayal by cohorts, among them young admirer Ford, played by Casey Affleck.
''Into the Wild'' expands to more theaters beginning Friday, and ''Assassination
of Jesse James'' begins wider release Oct. 5.
Focus Features' ''Eastern Promises,'' with Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts in a
drama set among Russian mobsters in London, expanded from a handful of theaters
into nationwide release, coming in at No. 5 with $5.7 million.
The top five movies all had R ratings, unusual in a movie market generally
dominated by PG-13 flicks.
''The Rs have it this weekend,'' said Paul Dergarabedian, president of
box-office tracker Media By Numbers. ''That makes sense in this fall season,
when grittier, more intense films are released.''
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters,
according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday.
1. ''Resident Evil: Extinction,'' $24 million.
2. ''Good Luck Chuck,'' $14 million.
3. ''The Brave One,'' $7.4 million.
4. ''3:10 to Yuma,'' $6.35 million.
5. ''Eastern Promises,'' $5.7 million.
6. ''Sydney White,'' $5.3 million.
7. ''Mr. Woodcock,'' $5 million.
8. ''Superbad,'' $3.1 million.
9. ''The Bourne Ultimatum,'' $2.8 million.
10. ''Dragon Wars,'' $2.5 million.
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Universal Pictures and Focus Features are owned by NBC Universal, a joint
venture of General Electric Co. and Vivendi Universal; Sony Pictures, Sony
Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; DreamWorks,
Paramount and Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney's parent is
The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century
Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.; Warner
Bros., New Line, Warner Independent and Picturehouse are units of Time Warner
Inc.; MGM is owned by a consortium of Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific
Group, Sony Corp., Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle
Group; Lionsgate is owned by Lionsgate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is owned
by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.
`Evil' Zombies Rule With
$24 Million, NYT, 24.9.2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Box-Office.html
'Disturbia' Earns $9.1M
As Spidey Looms
April 30, 2007
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 7:46 a.m. ET
The New York Times
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Movie-goers continued to keep their eyes on the Peeping
Tom thriller ''Disturbia,'' which fended off a weak batch of newcomers to remain
No. 1 for the third straight weekend with $9.1 million.
The movie business seemed to be on hold in anticipation of a huge summer that
begins this week with Sony's ''Spider-Man 3.'' The top-12 movies took in an
anemic $62.9 million, down 30 percent from the same weekend last year, when
''RV'' was the No. 1 movie with $16.4 million.
DreamWorks and Paramount's ''Disturbia,'' starring Shia LaBeouf as a house-bound
teen whose surveillance of neighbors uncovers a killer, raised its total to
$52.2 million after three weekends, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Disney's supernatural thriller ''The Invisible'' turned in the best performance
among the weekend's ho-hum debuts, taking in $7.6 million to open at No. 2. The
movie centers on a teen trying to solve his own murder while trapped in a nether
zone between life and death.
Paramount's ''Next,'' starring Nicolas Cage as a man whose ability to see into
the future is exploited by federal agents trying to stop a terrorist nuclear
attack, premiered at No. 3 with $7.2 million.
Lionsgate's ''The Condemned,'' with wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin as one of
10 Death Row inmates dropped on an island to fight to the death for an Internet
reality show, debuted in ninth-place with $4 million.
Yari Film Group's comedy ''Kickin' It Old Skool,'' starring Jamie Kennedy as a
man who wakes from a 20-year coma and tries to revive his break-dancing career,
opened at No. 11 with $2.8 million.
Though movie attendance is up 1.2 percent so far this year compared to last,
Hollywood has been in a lull in recent weeks as a huge crop of summer films
looms, including Friday's premiere of ''Spider-Man 3,'' followed closely by
DreamWorks Animation's ''Shrek the Third'' and Disney's ''Pirates of the
Caribbean: At World's End.''
''I think people are just absolutely ready for a big summer movie,'' said Rory
Bruer, head of distribution for Sony. ''You can see by the box office over the
last few weekends, they're ready, and it's been a long time coming. I do
anticipate it's going to be an incredible weekend for us.''
''Spider-Man'' took in $114.8 million in its first weekend in 2002, a three-day
opening that remained an all-time high until ''Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead
Man's Chest'' set a new record last summer with $132 million.
In 2004, ''Spider-Man 2'' opened on a Wednesday before a long four-day Fourth of
July weekend and took in a record $180.1 million in its first six days.
''This was an incredibly slow weekend. To have a top movie come in under $10
million just shows how the marketplace is in a holding pattern,'' said Paul
Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. ''It'll all be
made up next weekend with `Spider-Man 3.'''
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters,
according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday.
1. ''Disturbia,'' $9.1 million.
2. ''The Invisible,'' $7.6 million.
3. ''Next,'' $7.2 million.
4. ''Fracture,'' $7.1 million.
5. ''Blades of Glory,'' $5.2 million.
6. ''Meet the Robinsons,'' $4.84 million.
7. ''Hot Fuzz,'' $4.8 million.
8. ''Vacancy,'' $4.2 million.
9. ''The Condemned,'' $4 million.
10. ''Are We Done Yet?'', $3.4 million.
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Universal Pictures and Focus Features are owned by NBC Universal, a joint
venture of General Electric Co. and Vivendi Universal; Sony Pictures, Sony
Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; DreamWorks,
Paramount and Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney's parent is
The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century
Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.; Warner
Bros., New Line, Warner Independent and Picturehouse are units of Time Warner
Inc.; MGM is owned by a consortium of Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific
Group, Sony Corp., Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle
Group; Lionsgate is owned by Lionsgate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is owned
by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.
'Disturbia' Earns $9.1M
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Stiller, Smith
Achieve Box Office Milestones
January 1, 2007
Filed at 2:29 p.m. ET
By REUTERS
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ben Stiller led the
North American box office for a second weekend with ``Night at the Museum,''
while Will Smith began 2007 on a good note as he logged his tenth $100 million
movie.
According to studio estimates issued on Monday, ``Night at the Museum'' earned
$46.7 million during the four days beginning on December 29. After 11 days, the
family comedy has earned $125.8 million.
Stiller plays a security guard at a museum where the exhibits -- such as
dinosaurs and Roman armies -- come to life at night. The family comedy, released
by News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox, is based on a 32-page illustrated book by
Milan Trenc.
Smith's former chart-topper ``The Pursuit of Happyness'' followed at No. 2 for a
second weekend with $24.7 million. After three weekends, its total stands at
$103.7 million. The acclaimed rags-to-riches tale was released by Sony Corp.'s
Columbia Pictures, which has handled five of Smith's $100 million movies.
``Dreamgirls,'' a musical loosely based on the story of Motown hitmakers the
Supremes, jumped four places to No. 3 with a four-day sum of $18.7 million. The
total for the Paramount Pictures film stands at $41.6 million after just eight
days in national release.
The movie widened to 852 theaters on Christmas day after a week of special
engagements in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. It will expand to about
1,800 theaters on January 12, three days before the Golden Globe Awards where it
will compete for five trophies.Paramount's family movie ``Charlotte's Web'' rose
one place to No. 4 with $15.1 million. The adaptation of the E.B. White barnyard
tale has earned $55.9 million after three weekends. Paramount is a unit of
Viacom Inc.
``The Good Shepherd,'' a spy drama directed by Robert De Niro, slipped one place
to No. 5 with $14.3 million. The film, which stars Matt Damon and Angelina
Jolie, has earned $38.3 million after two weeks. It was released by Universal
Pictures, a unit of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal.
Rounding out the top-10 were Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ``Rocky Balboa'' with $13.7
million, Fox's ``Eragon'' with $10.6 million, the Warner Bros. Pictures pair of
``We Are Marshall'' with $10.2 million and ``Happy Feet'' with $9.7 million, and
Columbia's ``The Holiday'' with $8.5 million. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is closely
held; Warner Bros. is a unit of Time Warner Inc.
Stiller, Smith Achieve Box Office Milestones,
R,
1.1.2007,
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