INCEPTION: THE END COMES
October 5, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
On the weekend that Inception fell out of the top ten for the first time since it opened on July 16 (it ranked twelfth with $870,000 from 625 theaters, bringing its domestic gross to $288.37 million), Michael Caine, one of its stars, has seemingly revealed what the movie’s enigmatic ending really means. “Eventually I understood [...]
CHINA GIVES INCEPTION A STRONG RECEPTION
September 7, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Thanks to a strong opening in China, Warner Bros.’ Inception returned to the top of the overseas box office over the weekend, according to trade reports. The Hollywood Reporter said that the film had earned $13.6 million in China to help push its foreign total past the $400-million mark to $418.9 million. In all, the [...]
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE DOWN 7.2 PERCENT
August 10, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
One year ago, Paramount’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra opened with $54.7 million dollars to give the box office its first “up” weekend in a month. By contrast, Will Ferrell’s The Other Guys opened this past weekend with $35.5 million as the box office turned in its first “down” weekend in a month. Overall, [...]
THE OTHER GUYS GIVES INCEPTION A WAKE-UP CALL
August 9, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
The box office woke up laughing this weekend as the straight-up silliness of Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg in Sony’s The Other Guys out-performed the dream convolutions of Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception. According to studio estimates, The Other Guys came in at the high end of industry forecasts with about $35.6 million. The result no [...]
INCEPTION STILL HOT OVERSEAS
August 9, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Overseas, Inception continued to catch the imagination of moviegoers as it piled up an estimated $46.6 million in 58 countries to bring its foreign total to $250 million. In second place was Toy Story 3, which brought in another $29.4 million in 49 countries, putting its foreign gross to just under $500 million. In third [...]
WILL THE OTHER GUYS SHAKE UP INCEPTION
August 6, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
What do Will Ferrell and Edith Piaf have in common? They’re the only two who can interrupt Inception‘s dreamy run — at least so it appears to box-office analysts. They’re predicting that The Other Guys, in which Ferrell is teamed with Mark Wahlberg as mismatched cops, will open with about $25-30 million, while Inception, in [...]
DREAM ON: INCEPTION AT $193.3M IN 3RD WEEK
August 3, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Final box-office results for the weekend came in almost exactly the way the studios had estimated, with Christopher Nolan’s dreamweaving drama Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, topping the list in its third weekend with $27.5 million. In its debut, Dinner for Schmucks, starring Steve Carrell, was not far behind with $23.5 million. Two other newcomers, Charlie [...]
WHAT IF INCEPTION STARRED THE TOY STORY CHARACTERS?
Reminiscent of the Downfall spoofs in which Hitler appears to rant about everything from the delay in releasing the latest Harry Potter movie to the wait for an Apple iPad to, well, all of the spoofs “that ridicule me and make me look like a complete idiot,” new videos based on the trailer for Inception [...]
INSERTION OF SCHMUCKS DOESN’T SPOIL INCEPTION‘S DREAM
August 1, 2010 by admin · 2 Comments
In its third weekend, Warner Bros.’ Inception was dazed temporarily on Friday as Paramount’s Dinner for Schmucks edged it out at the box office, but it came around on Saturday and Sunday to remain the top film for the third weekend in a row with an estimated $27.5 million, down just 36 percent from the [...]
SCHMUCKS‘ INCEPTION BEATS INCEPTION
July 31, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Dinner for Schmucks edged out Inception at the box office on Friday. The comedy, produced by Universal, DreamWorks and Spyglass took in an estimated $8.4 million versus $8.2 million for the Warner Bros. dreamweaver. Sony/Columbia’s Salt was in third place with about $5.9 million, just ahead of the debut of Universal’s Charlie St. Cloud, which [...]