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The box office from 2008 was just a bit better than ‘07
Monday, January 05, 2009
Now that the holidays are over, the post-mortem for 2008’s box office is also being offered. The clear winner last year was Warner Bros. who had the runaway success of The Dark Knight behind them. With global ticket sales of $997 million dollars, Dark Knight didn’t just prove to be the biggest superhero movie of all-time, it also became the second highest-grossing film ever. Thanks to the Batman movie as well as Sex in the City and Four Christmases, WB enjoyed revenue of $1.77 billion dollars, the biggest haul of cash ever for a movie studio. Continue reading…
Posted at 11:13AM by Patrick
Twilight sequel slots release date
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Summit Entertainment isn’t waiting any time getting the ball moving on its sequel to Twilight, New Moon. The studio has announced that it will release New Moon on November 20, 2008 — the highly coveted American Thanksgiving weekend. Can Summit carve a second slice of box office dinner and dominate that weekend as they did last month? Will the Twilight phenom grow in the interim like the Harry Potter film franchise did or will it fizzle out before then? Continue reading…
Posted at 11:02AM by Patrick
Dark Knight going back to theaters in January
Friday, December 05, 2008
Standing with less than $3 million and change left in ticket sales for it to cross the coveted billion dollar mark in box office, Warner Bros. has announced that it will re-release The Dark Knight theatrically come January 23. “We wanted to provide one more opportunity for moviegoers to experience it on the big screen as it was meant to be seen,” said Dan Fellman, the president of WB’s domestic distribution. Continue reading…
Posted at 10:39AM by Patrick
Four Christmases defeats Twilight
Monday, December 01, 2008
The results are in and Twilight got defeated at the box office this past weekend by Four Christmases, the Vince Vaughn-Reese Witherspoon comedy. While Twilight didn’t perform like I thought it could, it still managed to come in third spot with a gross of $26.3 million, down 62% from its opening weekend performance. Four Christmases netted $31.6 mil followed by Disney’s animated family flick Bolt which took in $26.6 mil. Continue reading…
Posted at 11:04AM by Patrick
Twilight to dominate Thanksgiving box office?
Friday, November 28, 2008
Three new major releases arrived in theaters this week: Fox’s romantic epic Australia, Lionsgate’s third Transporter movie and New Line’s seasonal comedy Four Christmases. Surprisingly, not a single analyst wants to hazard a guess whether any of these three will defeat Twilightat the box office. Early reviews for Baz Lurhmann’s Australia have been mixed-to-negative; the Transporter series has never done major biz so no one pegs it as a serious threat; and Four Christmases probably stands the best chance of the three to land in top spot…but will it be able to gross more than Twilight in its second weekend? Continue reading…
Posted at 10:44AM by Patrick
Twilight is #1 at the box office
Monday, November 24, 2008
…much to no one’s surprise but the big news is how much Summit’s emo vamp romance made. It beat Quantum of Solace’s opening which was $69 million. How much? Try $70.5 mil. Twilight took in more than $20K per screening over the weekend, pushing it far ahead of the weekend’s number two movie, Quantum of Solace, which added $27.4 m in its second weekend of release. Continue reading…
Posted at 10:04AM by Patrick
Twilight nets $7 million in midnight showings
Friday, November 21, 2008
…so says this morning’s edition of Variety. There were around 600 midnight showings ofTwilight early this morning/late last night, and if the early figures hold up that’ll mean that the first showing of Twilight easily beat the $2.5 million advance screening box office that Sex in the City drew this past May. Variety is comparing Twilight to SITC, wrongly I think, but that’s their choice. Continue reading…
Posted at 11:10AM by Patrick
Twilight fans already lining up
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
And there it is: photographic evidence that people have begun to line up for Twilight. And they started doing it this past Sunday night. That’s right, as I write these words the Twilight line-up in L.A. has been holding strong for at least 36 hours. According to Deadline Hollywood Daily, there were about 25 people (and as Nikki Finke points out, mostly female) when the line-up began on Sunday night. There is currently about 300 waiting in that same line right now. Continue reading…
Posted at 1:17PM by Patrick
Twilight selling out early
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
According to THR Twilight tickets are selling out quickly:
Online ticketers Fandango and MovieTickets said Monday that the Summit Entertainment film has sold out hundreds of performances four days before its Friday opening in about 3,400 locations. Fandango has sold out almost 700 shows — including 500 or so midnight Thursday screenings — and MovieTickets counted more than 400 sellouts of various showtimes.
“Twilight” accounted for more than 85% of presales in recent days, the ticketers said.
Even if Twilight opens well will it be able to beat out last week’s fave Quantum of Solace? Also opening this week, in more theaters with a broader fan base, is the 3D animated Bolt. I have a funny feeling all of the tweenie-boppers and their moms will be happy with the performance of the little vampire film that could come Monday morning.
Posted at 9:15AM by Mike
The Dark Knight is tops again
Monday, August 11, 2008
In a feat that hasn’t been matched since New Line Cinema’s release of Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King‘ in 2003 the latest Batman film, The Dark Knight reigns supreme at the box office for the fourth week in a row. The weekend saw the film take in another $26,117,030 bringing the total U.S. box office since it opened to an amazing $441,628,497 putting the film third in all-time grosses behind only Star Wars at number two, a goal still attainable by The Dark Knight at $461 million, and Titanic at number one with $600 million.
Global grosses are even more impressive for The Dark Knight at a whopping $704,728,497 (and no I haven’t written that wrong).
Also of note was the opening of the Seth Rogen stoner flick, ‘Pineapple Express‘ capturing the number two spot for the weekend at a respectable $23,245,025.
Posted at 11:12PM by admin
