LATEST STAR TREK DUE TO STAR AT BOX OFFICE

After having lived long — a half century since it was conceived — Star Trek is due to prosper like never before at the box office this weekend. J.J. Abrams’s latest account of the voyage of the starship Enterprise, first chronicled by Gene Roddenberry in a 1964 pilot starring the late Jeffrey Hunter, is expected [...]

WARHOL’S MARILYN MONROE FETCHES MORE THAN ANY OF HER MOVIES

Andy Warhol’s 1962 pop-art multiple images of Marilyn Monroe sold for $38.2 million on Thursday. The original silk screen grid, titled “Four Marilyns,” had been expected to fetch about $30 million. The New York Times reported that it was purchased by Victoria Gelfand, a director at the Gagosian Gallery, at the Park Avenue salesroom of [...]

STAR TREK INTO THEATERS TONIGHT

Star Trek Into Darkness opens on 3,760 screens tonight (Thursday) after a Wednesday preview on 336 IMAX screens only, where it grossed an estimated $2 million. (The IMAX version features about a half hour of footage that was shot with 70mm IMAX cameras, although some moviegoers are making a ruckus online that many new IMAX [...]

GATSBY SHINES IN SECOND-PLACE FINISH

Rarely has a second-place finisher at the box office received as much attention as The Great Gatsby has this week. Final box office figures put its domestic total at $50.1 million, well above the $35-40 million that analysts had predicted it would earn. Entertainment Weekly pointed out that it was the third best opening weekend [...]

GATSBY GREAT; IRON MAN GREATER (Updated)

The Great Gatsby raked in an estimated $51.1 million over the weekend, bowling over analysts’ predictions of $35-40 million. But it was not enough to displace Iron Man 3 as the No. 1 film at the box office. The Disney/Marvel “threequel” collected another $72.4 million in its second weekend, nearly half of it on Saturday. [...]

GATSBY TAKES ON IRON MAN

Online ticket sellers Fandango may be reporting that The Great Gatsby is driving 65 percent of its weekend ticket sales, but box-office forecasters figure that it won’t come close to unseating Iron Man 3 from the No. 1 position when all sales are counted. Iron Man 3 opened with $174.1 million last weekend, making it [...]

IRON MAN 3 ERUPTS WITH $175.3 MILLION (Updated)

Iron Man seemed to be made of gold this weekend as the third installment of the Marvel franchise debuted with an estimated near-record of $175.3 million. That figure fell short of the record $207.4-million debut of last year’s The Avengers, but it easily took over second place on the all-time box office charts, sending the [...]

IS HOLLYWOOD SPENDING ITSELF INTO DISASTER?

Hollywood is preparing to release some 22 big-budget movies this summer versus 15 a year ago and 12-15 during the previous three summers, the Wall Street Journal observed today (Friday), noting that the release schedule poses considerable risks, especially given the fact that during seven weekends two big-budget films will be opening against each other. [...]

HOW SUPER WILL IRON MAN 3 BE AT WEEKEND BOX OFFICE?

Iron Man 3 opens in North America this weekend after already taking in $308 million overseas. With that kind of momentum, analysts say, the Disney/Marvel sequel could very well take in close to $200 million domestically and may even beat the $207 million benchmark set by The Avengers over the same weekend a year ago. [...]

BLAHS AT DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE; HURRAHS OVERSEAS

The domestic box office remained sluggish over the weekend, with the top film, Pain and Gain, pulling in $20 million — at the low end of most analysts’ predictions — while the Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller Oblivion dropped by a little more than half in its second week to $17.4 million. Moviegoers left the comedy [...]

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