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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: Middling “Focus” Sharp Enough For Win; “Lazarus” Stays Dead

You’ll be hearing quite a bit of spin over the next few days about how relatively inexpensive FOCUS (RatPac Dune/Warners) was to produce, $50-65M depending on the source. That number, however, ignores the lavish ...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “American Sniper” Eliminates “Mortdecai” and “The Boy Next Door”

By Sunday, AMERICAN SNIPER (Warners/Village Roadshow) may have one of the top 10-day wide release box office totals in history, as Clint Eastwood’s behemoth continues to lay waste to everything else in theatres. ...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “American Sniper” Takes Out the Competition

OPENINGS: Even though it technically opened last year, 2015 has its first blockbuster hit with AMERICAN SNIPER (Warners/Village Roadshow). According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, Clint Eastwood’s newly-mi...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Hobbit” Leaps; “Annie” and “Museum” OK; “Inherent Vice” Stalls

After a sub-par Thursday, preliminary numbers at Deadline have THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (New Line/MGM/Warners) surging to $16.1M on Friday. If that number holds, it will be a tremendous 62% jump from T...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Exodus” Doesn’t Reach the Promised Land

The holiday movie season is getting off to a very slow start this weekend–and since this is the same time last year when the 2d Hobbit opened to $73.6M, the early December date can’t be blamed for it. (This...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 12/5/14

OPENINGS: None, really, although you could stretch and include THE PYRAMID (20th), an ultra-low budget, barely-marketed “found-footage” horror item that opened at just 589 theatres. It made $458K on Frida...

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UPDATED: FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Mockingjay” Flies High On Black Friday

NOTE: UPDATED THROUGHOUT WITH STUDIO ESTIMATES Black Friday was, as always, a very bright day for movies. The holiday weekend continues to belong to THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART I (Lionsgate), which soared 118% ...

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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Dumb and Dumber To” Outsmarts “Big Hero 6″”

Belying its title, DUMB AND DUMBER TO (Red Granite/Universal) picked a strategically smart weekend to debut, facing very little fresh competition (because of last weekend’s Big Hero 6/Interstellar double bill and n...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Nightcrawler” Says Boo!

Halloween is a terrifying holiday for studios and theatre owners, because the young adult audience that both count on have better things to do that night–and it’s particularly bad when the holiday falls on a ...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Ouija” Frightening Enough For the Win

With Halloween, a traditionally slow moviegoing day, falling on Friday next week, this is the de facto Halloween movie weekend, which left a clear path for the low-budget OUIJA (Universal). According to preliminary num...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 10/17/14

OPENINGS: FURY (Columbia/Sony) should reach $25M for the weekend after a $8.8M Friday. Sony is claiming total costs (including worldwide marketing) of $150M, and that’s probably low by at least $25M. With a b...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Fury” Rolls to Unthrilling Win

FURY (Columbia/Sony) was expected to dominate the multiplexes this weekend, and it will indeed have no trouble notching the win, but it’s not performing with particular strength. Preliminary numbers at Deadline g...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: Middling “Focus” Sharp Enough For Win; “Lazarus” Stays Dead

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “American Sniper” Eliminates “Mortdecai” and “The Boy Next Door”

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “American Sniper” Takes Out the Competition

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Hobbit” Leaps; “Annie” and “Museum” OK; “Inherent Vice” Stalls

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Exodus” Doesn’t Reach the Promised Land

Behind the Friday Box Office – 12/5/14

UPDATED: FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Mockingjay” Flies High On Black Friday

EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Dumb and Dumber To” Outsmarts “Big Hero 6″”

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Nightcrawler” Says Boo!

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Ouija” Frightening Enough For the Win

Behind the Friday Box Office – 10/17/14

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Fury” Rolls to Unthrilling Win

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