WILL OLDER MOVIEGOERS TURN OUT FOR MARIGOLD HOTEL?

The only new film due to open opposite The Avengers this weekend is the comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which Fox Searchlight hopes will bring out older moviegoers the way Cocoon did nearly 30 years ago. Only 27 theaters will be screening the comedy, which stars such British acting veterans as Judi Dench, Maggie [...]

THEATER OWNERS: WHERE DID ALL THE PEOPLE GO?

There was a lot of room to spread out at many theaters over the weekend as the box office plunged by a third from the comparable weekend a year ago. According to box-office tracker Paul Dergarabedian, the top 12 films earned just $97.08 million versus $144.92 million a year ago. Not a single film cracked [...]

THINK LIKE A MAN SUPRISES AGAIN, REMAINS NO. 1 (Updated)

Box office forecasters may have learned to underestimate Sony’s Think Like a Man at their peril. For the second weekend in a row, the film eclipsed predictions, coming in at No. 1 with $18 million, according to studio estimates. The pundits turned out to have misfired on several fronts. Coming in second was the animated [...]

FOUR MOVIES TO MAKE MILD DEBUTS

The Five-Year Engagement, starring Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, is expected to debut on top of a soft weekend at the box office. Pundits are predicting it will earn $15-20 million — not much, but a lot more than three other newcomers are likely to earn, according to the experts. The Raven, a horror film [...]

AVENGERS OVERWHELMS OVERSEAS

If results in Australia are any indication, predictions that The Avengers will take over as the No. 1 film at the box office this year may be right on the mark. According to trade reports, the movie opened down-under on Wednesday with $6 million, exceeded only by the last Harry Potter movie, which took in [...]

THINK LIKE A MAN BECOMES PROFITABLE IN FIRST WEEKEND

Sony/Screen Gems’ Think Like a Man took in nearly twice what the studio thought it would and wound up clobbering the competition at the box office. Think amassed $33.6 million. Costing just $12 million to produce, the movie already is in profit territory. The Nicholas Sparks drama The Lucky One came in second with another [...]

SURVEY SEZ — NO. 1: THINK LIKE A MAN

Who wudda thunk Think wudda done it — open in first place with $33 million, that is? Certainly not Think Like a Man‘s studio, Sony, which thought it might wind up in the neighborhood of $17 million. Not industry forecasters, who had projected it to take in $15-20 million. Yet the movie, based on Family [...]

HARDLY ANY SLOWING FOR UNIVERSAL’S BATTLESHIP OVERSEAS

Overseas, Universal’s Battleship continued to steam full speed ahead of the competition, earning $58.4 million in its second weekend, to bring it total to $129.6 million. The film, based on a hit videogame from Hasbro, is opening in foreign territories weeks ahead of its domestic debut in order to avoid having to compete for attention [...]

3 MOVIES BASED ON BOOKS TO VIE AT BOX OFFICE

It’s an odd fact that some of the very people who are likely to rail against anyone including spoilers in online discussions of movies are also the ones to turn out in droves for movies based on popular books — and God help the director or screenwriter who deviates drastically from the original plot. This [...]

IMAX SETS WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE RECORD IN CHINA

The box office for last week’s opening of Titanic in China continues to grow with each new report. It was originally estimated that the film debuted with an impressive $58 million in ticket sales. That figure was revised on Monday to a sensational $67 million. Then on Tuesday, IMAX boosted that figure to a mind-blowing [...]

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