CHURCHGOERS MAKE CHRISTIAN DRAMA COURAGEOUS NO. 1 ON DVD
January 26, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Churchgoers flocked to the video stores and DVD sales counters last week to make the Christian drama Courageous tops in sales. The movie, written and directed by Alex Kendrick, who also costarred, took in only $35 million in its theatrical release, but it only cost $2 million to produce. No. 2 on the Nielsen VideoScan […]
DOLPHIN TALE A SPLASH HIT IN SECOND WEEK
October 4, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Movies that rise to the top of the box office in their second week of release usually have some formidable word-of-mouth going for them, and, it would seem, such was the case with Dolphin Tale, which leaped ahead of The Lion King and Moneyball to lead the pack with $13.9 million, according to final figures […]
DOLPHIN TALE MAKES A BIG SPLASH AT BOX OFFICE
October 3, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Once again, box office pundits turned out to be all wet with their predictions of weekend ticket sales as Dolphin Tale, in its third week, came from behind and finished ahead of the pack with an estimated $14.2 million. The Brad Pitt baseball drama Moneyball produced the second-best score with about $12.5 million. And Lion […]
MOVIE REVIEWS: COURAGEOUS
October 2, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
The reason that Sony’s Affirm Films — the studio unit that distributes “faith based” movies — didn’t screen Courageous to critics may have had nothing to do with worries about how they might have reacted to its content. The movie, which cost just $2 million to produce and probably became profitable with a slim take […]
LION KING RETURNING FOR THIRD WEEKEND
September 30, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Given its unpredicted success over the past two weeks, Disney is keeping The Lion King 3D in theaters this weekend, where it could very well retain its throne as the box-office leader for the third weekend in a row. Originally, the studio had planned to give the 1994 movie a two-week revival, primarily to help […]
