weekend box office
‘Paranormal Activity 4′ Scares Away The Box Office Competition
PA4 finished in first place at the Box Office by earning an estimated $30-million on its debut weekend.
Audiences ‘Taken’ With Neeson Thriller
The action-thriller sequel, starring Liam Neeson, earned an estimated $50 million and a strong first-place finish on its initial weekend.
‘House At The End Of The Street’ And ‘End of Watch’ Are Tops At The Box Office
New releases attempted to pump a little life into the recently dismal box office as the top spots went to movies making their debut.
‘Resident Evil’ Brings Box Office Back From Dead
The new horror-sci-fi action thriller, ‘Resident Evil: Retribution’, finished first by taking in $21 million in its first weekend.
‘The Possession’ Haunts Gloomy Box Office Weekend
Like the final weekend of summer, the first weekend of fall was soft at the box office, to say the least. The result was the first weekend in four years in which no movie earned as much as $10 million.
At The Box Office, Possession Is On Top
With Labor Day weekend marking the end of the summer movie season, traffic at the nation’s multiplexes was even slower than was traditionally expected.
‘Expendables 2′ Makes It 3 In A Row
With the summer movie season winding down on August’s fourth weekend, the box office was characteristically weak, as holdover films dominated the marketplace.
‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Above The Competition Again
The Dark Knight Rises, that is, the Batman-thriller sequel, took first place at the summer box office for the third straight weekend. It earned an estimated $36-million.
On A Hot Weekend, An Icy Box Office Leader
‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’, the fourth entry in the popular animated franchise, earned an estimated and impressive $46-million in its debut, giving it an uncontested first-place finish.
‘Spider-Man’ Catches Audiences In Its Web
The franchise reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man, with Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, which opened on Tuesday, finished first at the box office on its first weekend of release, earning an estimated $66 million and pushing its six-day total over the $140 million mark.
Cuddly, Raunchy Weekend At The Box Office
It was certainly a unique weekend at movie theaters, with a trash-talking teddy bear and male strippers lighting up the box office to the tune of nearly $100 million.
‘Brave’ All The Rave At The Weekend Box Office
Brave, the feminist fantasy set in medieval Scotland, earned an estimated $67-million in its debut for a runaway first-place finish.
Wild, Animated Weekend At The Box Office
The animated threequel, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, finished first at the box office, earning an estimated $60-million on its debut weekend.
Mirror, Mirror, Who’s The Fairest At the Box Office?
‘Snow White and the Huntsman’, the fairytale thriller starring Charlize Theron and Kristin Stewart, totaled an estimated $56 million on its debut weekend, earning it a first-place box office finish.
‘Avengers’ Tacks On Another $55 Million
The superheroes thriller finished in first place for a third straight weekend, earning another $55 million, bringing its cumulative total over the $450 million mark.
