BOX OFFICE STUNG — EXCEPT FOR THE GREEN HORNET<

The No. 1 film at the box office may have seen a fair amount of green over the weekend, but the rest of the pack did not. Overall revenue was down nearly 28 percent from the comparable four-day Martin Luther King Jr. holiday a year ago. Attendance was down 17 percent. Opening in first place […]

BOX OFFICE TAKES ANOTHER DIVE

Business at the box office remained as cold as the weather in most parts of the country over the weekend. The top ten films together failed to crack the $100-million mark as the box office plummeted more than 30 percent below the comparable weekend a year ago when Avatar was still going strong. The weekend […]

TRUE GRIT STARTS WEEKEND AT NO. 1

Paramount’s True Grit topped Friday’s box office with about $4.5 million, edging out Universal’s Little Fockers, with about $4.2 million. Season of the Witch got off the ground with $3.7 million to place third, followed by Disney’s Tron: Legacy with an estimated $2.7 million, and Sony Screen Gems’s Country Strong, which earned about $2.76 million. […]

WEAK WEEKEND PREDICTED — ESPECIALLY FOR STRONG

Box office analysts say that Country Strong, which opens wide this weekend, is not — strong, that is. But then, neither is Season of the Witch, which also debuts this weekend. In fact, some analysts are forecasting that True Grit may rise to the top spot in its third weekend, edging out Little Fockers, which […]