Category: Box Office

  • The Summer of Sequels: Or How to Stop Worrying
    and Accept the Greed

    Every year, box office pundits celebrate the arrival of summer. The biggest profits of the year are often posted during the summer months as teens and young adults are out of school and ready to spend their parents’ hard-earned money on frivolous entertainment. So why is this summer any different from past seasons? It isn’t.…

  • Box-Office Preview #3: Weekend of January 22-24, 2010

    Heading into the weekend, Avatar will attempt to become the first film since Titanic to remain at the top of the box-office for six consecutive weekends. Facing soft competition from three new releases, it should not be too difficult a task for it to manage. The toughest competition that Avatar will face this weekend will…

  • Box-Office Report #1: Weekend of January 15-18, 2010

    As expected, Avatar was king over Martin Luther King weekend, bringing in $54.4 million and pulling ahead of the $500 million mark, a milestone reached by only two other motion pictures in history, James Cameron’s own Titanic and 2008’s The Dark Knight. Not only did Avatar break $500 million this weekend, it reached it in…

  • Box-Office Preview #2: Weekend of January 15-18, 2010

    As we move into the first four-day holiday weekend of the New Year, two new movies and one Oscar hopeful going into wide release will try to suck away audiences from James Cameron’s mega-hit, Avatar. Sadly for them, they will all probably come up short. The film that has the best shot at dethroning Avatar…

  • Box-Office Preview #1: Weekend of January 8-10, 2010

    And so begins a new decade of film with the first three new releases of the 2010s: Daybreakers, Leap Year, and Youth in Revolt. Unfortunately, not one of them will be the first release of the new decade to reach the top spot at the box-office. In its first non-holiday weekend, James Cameron’s science fiction…

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