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Weekend Briefing: 'Machete,' 'American' Hack Into Labor Day... (read more...) The summer movie season is poised for a typically quiet close this Labor Day weekend. Three pictures enter the nationwide fray: Going the Distance strikes over 3,300 screens at 3,030 locations, The American hits approximately 3,200 screens at 2,823 locations, and Machete slashes onto around 3,400 screens at 2,670 locations.
The American opened on Wednesday to $1.67 million and made another $1.47 million on Thursday, topping both days. While that may seem ho-hum, it actually was solid fo...
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Seven-Day Summary: Gap Widens Between 'Takers' and 'Exorcism'... (read more...) While Takers eked out a weekend victory over The Last Exorcism, it played to substantially larger crowds throughout the week, widening the gap. The Expendables and Eat Pray Love settled for third and fourth place on typical declines, The Other Guys rounded out the Top Five for the second week in a row, and Avatar: Special Edition was largely ignored. Overall box office was off around five percent from last year, when The Final Destination had a series-best $35.1 million start.Takers earned ...
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Around-the-World Roundup: 'Expendables,' 'Airbender' Hold Steady... (read more...) While the numbers remain somewhat inconclusive, The Expendables appears to have held off The Last Airbender to retain the number one spot at the foreign box office over the weekend. Inception, Salt and The Karate Kid continued their strong runs, while Toy Story 3 passed $1 billion and Shrek Forever After gained further ground on its predecessors.
The Expendables earned an estimated $21 million over the weekend, which included around $4 million from China, $2 million from the United King...
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MPAA Ratings: 'Let Me In,' 'Hereafter' & More... (read more...) The Motion Picture Association of America's Classification and Ratings Administration released their weekly ratings bulletin this morning, which included ratings for Let Me In, Hereafter, Love and Other Drugs and a handful of late-year Sony Pictures Classics movies.
Horror remake Let Me In received an R rating for "strong bloody horror violence, language and a brief sexual situation." Let the Right One In was also rated R and has thus far grossed over $11 million worldwide. Fe...
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Box Office Mojo - Current Box Office Results (visit site) |
Weekend Box Office: August 27-29, 2010 (read more...) Takers tops the box office with $20.5 million
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Daily Box Office: Thursday, September 2, 2010 (read more...) The American tops Thursday's box office with $1.5 million
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