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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 8/16/13

OPENINGS: Comparisons between THE BUTLER (Weinstein) and The Help 2 years ago are somewhat skewed by the fact that Help opened on a Wednesday, so it had already earned $9.9M before its $26M weekend. Nevertheless, an...

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: 8/9/13

Sheer tonnage is keeping the total box office aloft, but on a movie-by-movie basis, things aren’t nearly as rosy. OPENINGS: Unless things collapse today, ELYSIUM (TriStar/Sony) will do doubt report a $30M weekend...

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 8/2/13

OPENINGS: The production budget for 2 GUNS (Universal) was funded by producers Emmett/Furla and Foresight Entertainment, with Universal just on the hook for marketing and distribution. In addition, the overseas distr...

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 7/19/13

OPENINGS: THE CONJURING (Warners) is off to a great start with a $17M opening day (including $3.3M from Thursday evening), but its real test comes today. Horror movies tend to be very frontloaded and plunge on their ...

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 7/12/13

What kind of summer movie season has it been, really? For the past several weeks, business has been consistently up, erasing the losses from a soft spring, and even with 3D, Imax and inflation taken into account, more ...

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 6/28/13

OPENINGS: Almost all the “early Friday” numbers turned out to be overly optimistic, but THE HEAT (20th) is still having a great opening, with a $13.6M first day that should put it in the neighborhood of a $...

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 6/21/13

OPENINGS: A bit surprisingly, perhaps, Pixar’s recent movies haven’t exploded at the Saturday/Sunday matinee box office, with merely normal (as opposed to “family”) weekend multiples off their F...

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