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By Mark Hodge (doddleNEWS) Star Wars: The Force Awakens is rewriting the history books and is set to ease past Avatar's domestic box office haul this week, if not today (Monday, January 4, 2016). Episode VII, directed by JJ Abrams, has already smashed the North America totals of Titanic ($659 … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Remember hearing that Quentin Tarantino was upset that Disney was able to bump his 70 mm roadshow presentation of The Hateful Eight out of the Arclight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, in favor of Star Wars: The Force Awakens? Well, that was the least of the … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) Most movies released in October 2015 will likely be remembered less for what they were about, and more for their box office take. In a word, a disaster. If you want to use two words, may I suggest "stupendous disaster?" October closed out its final weekend … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) When you follow films as closely as I do, you start seeing some writing on the wall. So far, 2015 is a great year for most major studios at the box office, with films like Furious 7, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Jurassic World pulling in big business. This past … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) A few years back, sitting next to his closest cinematic friend George Lucas, director Steven Spielberg predicted a dire future for mid-level movies, as more studios spend huge amounts of money on making and marketing movies. The director of Bridge of Spies has also … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) Everyone expect the Colin Trevorrow-directed Jurassic World to do well in theaters, but I don't think anyone expected it to do this well! The film just crossed $1 billion at the global box office in a record 13 days, beating the previous record holder, Furious 7, … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) Jurassic World was a huge hit at the box office this weekend, and a great movie to boot. The Colin Trevorrow-directed film earned a monstrous $524.4 million worldwide this weekend, which broke domestic, international, and global opening weekend records. Half a … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) $100 million dollars. Remember when that was a successful run of a blockbuster summer film? Not anymore. Because now $100 million weekends for epic tent-poles are more or less the norm ... unless you're film is stuck with a January release window. But American Sniper, … [Read more...]
Lowest Level box office since 1995 By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) With 2015 looking to be the biggest box office in modern memory due to blockbusters like the new Star Wars, The Avengers 2, and many others, it only stood to reason that in spite of some great movies, 2014 wasn't all that "boffo" … [Read more...]
Can an "all you can eat" movie ticket save theaters? By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) It's no secret that 2015 is going to be a cinema onslaught. With Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, the next James Bond film Spectre, Mad Max: Fury Road, Insurgent, Jurassic World, Furious … [Read more...]
By Ronald Grover and Chris Michaud (Reuters) "Big Hero 6," Walt Disney Co's animated superhero film featuring a flying robot, clocked $56.2 million (35.36 million pounds) in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales to lead the weekend box office, topping director Christopher Nolan's space adventure, … [Read more...]
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) "Nightcrawler," a dark crime thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a cameraman in the high-speed world of siren-chasing journalism, topped sluggish weekend domestic box office charts with $10.9 million (6.82 million pounds) in ticket sales. "Ouija," last weekend's box … [Read more...]
By Lisa Richwine and Chris Michaud (Reuters) "Ouija," a horror film inspired by the board said to contact the dead, haunted the top of movie charts in the United States and Canada, collecting $20 million (12.42 million pounds) in weekend ticket sales and knocking Brad Pitt's "Fury" out of first … [Read more...]
By Lisa Richwine and Chris Michaud (Reuters) Brad Pitt's gritty World War Two drama "Fury" conquered all box office foes over the weekend, ringing up $23.5 million in ticket sales at theaters in the United States and Canada. "Fury" kicked two-time box office leader "Gone Girl" to second place. … [Read more...]
By Lisa Richwine and Chris Michaud (Reuters) Ben Affleck's movie thriller "Gone Girl" dominated U.S. and Canadian movie charts for a second consecutive weekend, collecting $26.8 million in ticket sales to beat back challenges from four new films that fought for moviegoer dollars. New action … [Read more...]
By Lisa Richwine and Chris Michaud (Reuters) Movie thriller "Gone Girl," starring Ben Affleck as a man suspected of causing his wife's disappearance, overcame a demonic doll named "Annabelle" to win a tight weekend race at U.S. and Canadian movie box offices. "Gone Girl" pulled in $38 million … [Read more...]
