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Warners pics cross $400 mil Imax gross

 

Published 4/24/2008 by By Etan Vlessing at Hollywood Reporter

Warner Bros. movies have crossed the $400 million mark at the Imax boxoffice.

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'Baby Mama' likely to top boxoffice

 

Published 4/24/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Universal hopes to laugh all the way to the bank. One week after bowing its R-rated comedy "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" with $17.7 million, Uni Friday unspools its PG-13 laugher "Baby Mama."

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Warners pics cross $400 mil Imax gross

 

Published 4/24/2008 by By Etan Vlessing at Hollywood Reporter

Warner Bros. movies have crossed the $400 million mark at the Imax boxoffice.

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'Baby Mama' likely to top boxoffice

 

Published 4/24/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Universal hopes to laugh all the way to the bank. One week after bowing its R-rated comedy "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" with $17.7 million, Uni Friday unspools its PG-13 laugher "Baby Mama."

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'Forbidden Kingdom' rules boxoffice

 

Published 4/20/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

"The Forbidden Kingdom," from Lionsgate and the Weinstein Co., traveled to the top of the domestic boxoffice during the weekend, bowing with an estimated $20.9 million. Universal's R-rated comedy "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" grabbed the frame's silver ...

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'Forbidden Kingdom' rules boxoffice

 

Published 4/20/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

"The Forbidden Kingdom," from Lionsgate and the Weinstein Co., traveled to the top of the domestic boxoffice during the weekend, bowing with an estimated $20.9 million. Universal's R-rated comedy "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" grabbed the frame's silver ...

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'Forbidden Kingdom' likely to top boxoffice

 

Published 4/17/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Martial arts fantasy "The Forbidden Kingdom" from Lionsgate and the Weinstein Co. looks likely to bow at No. 1 this weekend with up to $20 million.

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'Forbidden Kingdom' likely to top boxoffice

 

Published 4/17/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Martial arts fantasy "The Forbidden Kingdom" from Lionsgate and the Weinstein Co. looks likely to bow at No. 1 this weekend with up to $20 million.

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'Prom' king at the boxoffice

 

Published 4/13/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Sony's "Prom Night" bowed stylishly this weekend, with its estimated $22.7 million topping the domestic boxoffice and putting some bite back into the horror genre.

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'Prom' king at the boxoffice

 

Published 4/13/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Sony's "Prom Night" bowed stylishly this weekend, with its estimated $22.7 million topping the domestic boxoffice and putting some bite back into the horror genre.

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Final tally favors 'Nim's' over 'Leatherheads'

 

Published 4/7/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

After the dust cleared Monday from the weekend's boxoffice scrimmage, Universal's period football pic "Leatherheads" had been bumped down to No. 3, while Fox Walden's family fantasy "Nim's Island" floated up to the No. 2 position.

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French welcome Boon's 'Ch'tis' to land of No. 1

 

Published 4/7/2008 by By Rebecca Leffler at Hollywood Reporter

France has a new local boxoffice king. "Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis," Dany Boon's comedy of country manners, became Gaul's all-time ticket sales champ over the weekend, displacing previous record holder Gerard Oury's World War II-set comedy "La Grande ...

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Final tally favors 'Nim's' over 'Leatherheads'

 

Published 4/7/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

After the dust cleared Monday from the weekend's boxoffice scrimmage, Universal's period football pic "Leatherheads" had been bumped down to No. 3, while Fox Walden's family fantasy "Nim's Island" floated up to the No. 2 position.

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French welcome Boon's 'Ch'tis' to land of No. 1

 

Published 4/7/2008 by By Rebecca Leffler at Hollywood Reporter

France has a new local boxoffice king. "Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis," Dany Boon's comedy of country manners, became Gaul's all-time ticket sales champ over the weekend, displacing previous record holder Gerard Oury's World War II-set comedy "La Grande ...

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'21' trumps 'Leatherheads'

 

Published 4/6/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Universal's "Leatherheads," a period pigskin comedy toplined and directed by George Clooney, failed to convert pre-release projections into boxoffice glory and finished second this weekend to Sony's repeat champ "21."

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'21' trumps 'Leatherheads'

 

Published 4/6/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Universal's "Leatherheads," a period pigskin comedy toplined and directed by George Clooney, failed to convert pre-release projections into boxoffice glory and finished second this weekend to Sony's repeat champ "21."

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'Leatherheads' could have right stuff

 

Published 4/3/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Friday's wide openers include Universal's George Clooney-Renee Zellweger starrer "Leatherheads," a 1920s football drama with a good shot at topping the weekend boxoffice rankings.

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'Leatherheads' could have right stuff

 

Published 4/3/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Friday's wide openers include Universal's George Clooney-Renee Zellweger starrer "Leatherheads," a 1920s football drama with a good shot at topping the weekend boxoffice rankings.

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'21' hits boxoffice jackpot

 

Published 3/30/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Sony's card-counting drama "21" shrugged off critics' brickbats to come up aces with an estimated $23.7 million opening atop the domestic boxoffice this weekend. Fox's "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" rung up $17.4 million over its third session to ...

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'21' hits boxoffice jackpot

 

Published 3/30/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Sony's card-counting drama "21" shrugged off critics' brickbats to come up aces with an estimated $23.7 million opening atop the domestic boxoffice this weekend. Fox's "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" rung up $17.4 million over its third session to ...

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'21' may beat 'Horton' at the boxoffice

 

Published 3/27/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Don't bet the house on "Horton." It would take an exceptional third-session hold by "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" for Fox's family comedy to three-peat atop the domestic boxoffice.

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'Who' tops boxoffice again

 

Published 3/23/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

"Horton" easily won the Easter boxoffice hunt. Fox's animated feature "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" repeated atop the domestic boxoffice this weekend, posting a modest 44% drop from opening grosses.

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'Horton' walking on eggshells

 

Published 3/21/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Easter isn't a so much a huge boxoffice weekend as it is one that typically requires careful slotting to get moviegoers hopping to local multiplexes.

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Carrey's 'Horton' tops boxoffice

 

Published 3/16/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Fox's animated feature "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" hit all its marks during the weekend, when the family comedy featuring the voice of Jim Carrey opened with an estimated $45.1 million to top the domestic boxoffice.

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'Horton' ready for a rampage

 

Published 3/14/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

"Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" will be big. The only question is how big. Most industry officials expect the CGI-animated family film to ring up $40 million or more.

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'10,000' tops boxoffice

 

Published 3/9/2008 by Associated Press at Hollywood Reporter

Moviegoers went hunting for their inner caveman as they sat in the dark for the prehistoric adventure "10,000 B.C.," which led the weekend boxoffice with $35.7 million.

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Film attendance down in Spain

 

Published 3/8/2008 by By Benjamin Jones at Hollywood Reporter

Turns out Spanish boxoffice figures aren't quite so glum as thought. Culture officials here have made a major revision to the 2007 film attendance figures first released two months ago, saying that only 5 million fewer tickets were sold last year, ...

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Woolly weekend at the b.o.

 

Published 3/7/2008 by By Gregg Kilday at Hollywood Reporter

In years past, Fox heated up the late-winter boxoffice with its animated "Ice Age" films, in which Ray Romano voiced Manny the Mammoth. This year, Warner Bros. is taking a different tack as it unleashes Roland Emmerich's "10,000 BC," pictured.

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$9.63 bil boxoffice for '07 breaks record

 

Published 3/6/2008 by By Gregg Kilday at Hollywood Reporter

UPDATED: It was up, up and away at the boxoffice in 2007. Boxoffice swelled at home and abroad -- but so did the costs of making and marketing movies, which grew at an even faster rate.

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'Semi-Pro' dribbles to top

 

Published 3/3/2008 by By Gregg Kilday at Hollywood Reporter

New Line Cinema, which got word last week that it is being absorbed into Warner Bros., would like to have gone out with a slam-dunk. But its new Will Ferrell comedy "Semi-Pro," though it claimed the top spot, scored just an estimated $15.3 million.

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'Semi-Pro' set for slam dunk

 

Published 2/29/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

"Semi-Pro" looks like it could be a full-on hit. New Line unspools its Will Ferrell basketball spoof in more than 3,000 theaters Friday, and prerelease tracking shows solid must-see interest.

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'Vantage Point' leads boxoffice

 

Published 2/25/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Sony action thriller "Vantage Point" took advantage of limp competition to open atop the domestic boxoffice with an estimated $24 million, easily outpointing its nearest rival.

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Oscar frame tough on openers

 

Published 2/22/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

This weekend boasts no fewer than four wide openers (three of which might struggle to gross more than single-digit millions): "Vantage Point," "Be Kind Rewind," "Witless Protection" and "Charlie Bartlett."

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'Jumper' lands atop boxoffice

 

Published 2/18/2008 by Reuters at Hollywood Reporter

"Jumper" led the boxoffice this weekend, bringing in $27.2 million. Fellow Valentine's releases "Step Up 2 the Streets" and "The Spiderwick Chronicles" rounded out the top three.

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Cupid brings early bows

 

Published 2/14/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

There are four wide openers set for this weekend, and all are set to unspool on Valentine's Day. That's a first-ever bunch of boxoffice debutants bowing a day early on the heart-tugging holiday, which often draws distributor affections during the ...

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'Fool's Gold' tops boxoffice

 

Published 2/10/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Warner Bros.' Kate Hudson-Matthew McConaughey starrer "Fool's Gold" struck it rich this weekend, staking an estimated $22 million bow atop the domestic boxoffice.

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'Gold' may be a solid investment

 

Published 2/7/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

A week after 3-D phenom "Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert" rode a tween tsunami to a No. 1 bow, three more conventional wide openers will attempt to keep the winter boxoffice hot.

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'Hannah' a growing girl

 

Published 2/5/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

"Hannah" had an even bigger weekend than Disney projected.

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'Hannah' is top banana

 

Published 2/4/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

With an estimated $29 million opening from just 683 venues, Disney's "Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert" proved to be every bit the magnificent tweens magnet that eager 3-D exhibitors had anticipated.

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Chow's 'CJ7' debut still hot despite snow

 

Published 2/2/2008 by By Karen Chu at Hollywood Reporter

Despite the worst snowstorm in half a century, Stephen Chow's "CJ7" raked in 28 million yuan ($3.9 million) in China over its first day and a half and earned HK$3 million ($385,000) in Hong Kong on Thursday, setting nonholiday opening boxoffice records.

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The tweens shall meet

 

Published 2/1/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

For many films, this weekend will play like a two-day frame because of Sunday's Super Bowl -- which could carry a little gal named Hannah Montana to boxoffice glory.

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'Spartans' conquer 'Rambo'

 

Published 1/28/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Lionsgate's "Rambo" proved neither dynamite nor dud during the weekend with an estimated $18.2 million opening, yet the Sylvester Stallone starrer lost the battle for the domestic boxoffice in an $18.7 million sneak attack by the Fox comedy "Meet the ...

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A vet takes on the beast

 

Published 1/25/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Hefty holdovers will be joined by a bevy of wide openers this weekend. Lionsgate's "Rambo," above, will draw heavily among older males. If it plays more broadly it could challenge "Cloverfield" for the weekend crown.

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'Cloverfield' bow is big

 

Published 1/21/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Paramount's modestly budgeted and stealthily marketed monster film "Cloverfield" opened monstrously indeed, with an estimated $41 million over its first three days, blowing away the weekend record for the long Martin Luther King holiday frame.

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Wedding bash vs. monster mash

 

Published 1/18/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

The pre-Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend is a biggie for moviegoing, and distributors sometimes will throw the occasional sharp elbow if it helps stake claim to prime holiday real estate.

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Supersized pics fuel Imax to $145 mil b.o.

 

Published 1/17/2008 by By Etan Vlessing at Hollywood Reporter

Imax Corp. on Wednesday said it generated $145 million in boxoffice receipts in 2007 for supersized Hollywood releases, up 56% from a year-earlier take of $93 million.

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No hole in this boxoffice 'Bucket'

 

Published 1/14/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

Warner Bros.' Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman starrer "The Bucket List" finished at the top of the domestic boxoffice heap in its first weekend in wide release, grossing an estimated $19.5 million.

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Plenty of life left in 'Bucket List'

 

Published 1/11/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

This weekend will be a busy one for those changing movie marquees, but it is an open question whether moviegoers will make it a busy one for the ticket takers.

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 Cage's 'Treasure' digs up more gold

 

Published 1/6/2008 by Associated Press at Hollywood Reporter

Disney's "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" was the No. 1 box office draw for the third straight weekend with $20.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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'Call' rings in new year as lone wide opener

 

Published 1/4/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter

The big holiday films will have to contend with just one major opener elbowing its way into the mix during the first boxoffice weekend of 2008, with Warner Bros. bowing "One Missed Call" in about 2,240 theaters.

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