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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Spider-Man” Slips But Still Dominates

  THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (Sony) didn’t succeed in outperforming other recent superhero movies in its Saturday matinees, and probably won’t supplant Captain America 2 as the year’s #1 opening to date, bu...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Big Hero 6″” Surges Ahead of “Interstellar”

  Saturday matinees, and the families who attend them, were the difference for BIG HERO 6 (Disney) this weekend.  Disney’s roly-poly new action star came back from being around $1.2M behind INTERSTELLAR (Par/Warners...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “22 Jump Street” and “Dragon 2″” Both Drop on Saturday

  It wasn’t a great Saturday for either of the weekend’s big openings.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline and elsewhere, 22 JUMP STREET (Sony/Columbia) fell more than 25% from Friday to around $19M....
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Turtles, Guardians Hold Their Lead

  There wasn’t much shift in position among the top titles at the Saturday box office.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (Nickelodeon/Paramount) kept its $1M edge over GUARD...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Ouija” Scares Pre-Halloween Win; “John Wick” OK #2

  OUIJA (Universal) had about the same hold on Saturday as Annabelle did 3 weeks ago, down 9% (in this case to $7.5M), according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, and that should be enough to get it to $20M for the weeke...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Strong Saturday for “No Good Deed,” “Dolphin Tale 2″” and “The Drop”

  NO GOOD DEED (Screen Gems/Sony) held better than expected on its 2d day of release and better than Obsessed did in 2009, and that guarantees the Idris Elba/Taraji P. Henson thriller the weekend win.  Based on preliminar...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Bad Grandpa” Holds Well For Easy Win

  Considering its genre and target audience, BAD GRANDPA (Paramount) did very well in its second day, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, slipping just 4% to $12M.  By comparison, the three Jackass movies went d...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Little Relief From Slow Summer Ticket Sales

  There were no miracles on Saturday to lift the faltering box office, although preliminary numbers at Deadline and elsewhere suggest that the holdovers did better than the newcomers. DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (20th) ...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “The Force Awakens” Stays Colossal On Saturday

  After its history-making $120.5M opening day, there were two pre-existing Saturday models that STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (Lucasfilm/Disney) could have followed.  The final Harry Potter was so front-loaded that it cra...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “The Butler” Stays In Charge

  If preliminary weekend numbers at Deadline hold, THE WORLD’S END (Focus/Universal) will be a bit more frontloaded than it would have liked, slipping 10% from Friday to Saturday for $3.1M on its second day, and a bi...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Dumb & Dumber To” Proves Smart Enough

  Despite the expected Saturday surge from Big Hero 6, DUMB & DUMBER TO (Red Granite/Universal) looks like it should hold on for the weekend win.  Dumb pulled in $14.4M on Saturday, according to preliminary numbers at...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Mockingjay” Flight Steadies On Saturday

  THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART I (Lionsgate) stabilized on Saturday, according to preliminary box office figures at Deadline.  The Day 2 drop was 23%, slightly better than the 25-26% Saturday drops for The Hunger Gam...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Ark Gets Bigger for “Noah”

  Proving, once again, that opening night exit polls are all but meaningless, preliminary numbers at Deadline have NOAH (Paramount/Regency) rising as much as 20% from Friday to Saturday despite a “C” grade that...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 10/5/13

  If preliminary numbers at Deadline hold, GRAVITY (Warners) will own the new record for all-time best October opening.  It had a superb $23.5M Saturday, up 35% from its $17.5M opening day, for what should be a $55M+ week...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Transformers” and the $100M Weekend Question

  The odds are strong that on Sunday morning, TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (Paramount) will claim a $100M weekend, the first of 2014–but we won’t really know until Monday whether the movie has hit that mark....
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