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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Hidden Figures” Challenges “Rogue One” & “Sing”

It’s shaping up to be a close race at the box office this weekend, and with the result likely to come down to performance on Sunday, we may not know the winner for sure until final numbers are issued on Monday. H...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Moana” Stays On Top

There don’t appear to be many surprises in the Friday box office numbers, based on preliminary estimates at Deadline. As usual, ticket sales declined on Thanksgiving itself (particularly for family movies), then ...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Accountant” Adds Up Weekend Win, “What Now” Starts OK

It’s a deja vu weekend, as THE ACCOUNTANT (RatPac/Warners) had a $9M opening day (including $1.35M from Thursday night), according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, almost identical to last Friday’s $9.3M f...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “The Boss” Is Kryptonite to “BvS,” “Hardcore Henry” & “Demolition” Implode

How much more humiliating can things get for Warners? On Friday, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, THE BOSS (Universal), which isn’t even a high-performing Melissa McCarthy vehicle, beat up both the s...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: No Gods for “Egypt,” “Triple 9″” or “Eddie” In Another “Deadpool” Romp

GODS OF EGYPT (Summit/Lionsgate) has been sitting around for so long that Gerard Butler managed to make next week’s London Has Fallen in the interim, and its own studio has been bleating about how the downside had ...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: Holdovers Lead “Dirty Grandpa,” “The 5th Wave” On Snowy Weekend

This was never going to be much of a box office weekend, and the east coast snowstorms certainly won’t help. According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, all 3 of the newcomers are closely packed with $3.5-4M Fr...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Ted 2″” Loses Some Stuffing, “Inside Out” and “Jurassic World” Duel For #1

Seth MacFarlane’s moment, it seems, has passed. The three years that followed the triumphant opening of the original Ted included his missteps as Oscars host and as live action star of A Million Ways to Die In th...

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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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Behind the Friday Box Office – 11/21/14

OPENINGS: Congratulations and condolences to THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 (Lionsgate), which had the biggest day of any movie this year–yet at $55M (slightly higher than Friday afternoon estimates had pr...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 10/4/14

On what’s shaping up to be a very good weekend for Hollywood, the two leaders showcase different kinds of hits. OPENINGS: ANNABELLE (New Line/Warners) took Friday with $15.5M ($2.1M from Thursday night), which is...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 9/19/14

OPENINGS: As YA franchises go, the $11.3M opening day for THE MAZE RUNNER (20th) was ahead of the $9.6M for the first Percy Jackson, which ended up with a $31.2M weekend. Maze is being pitched more to teens than to f...

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Behind the Friday Box Office: 9/12/14

OPENINGS: NO GOOD DEED (Screen Gems/Sony) surged ahead of expectations with a $8.8M Friday. The level of its frontloadedness, however, isn’t yet clear. 2009’s Obsessed, an April 2009 Screen Gems thrille...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 8/29/14

OPENINGS: AS ABOVE/SO BELOW (Universal) cost just $5M to produce, but its big-studio marketing campaign will add at least $30M to that, and after a $3.2M Friday, it’s headed for $9.5M by Sunday and $11.5M for the...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 8/15/14

After 2 weeks of unexpectedly smash hits, the dog days of summer attacked multiplexes with a vengeance. OPENINGS: THE EXPENDABLES 3 (Lionsgate) squeezed ahead of Let’s Be Cops on Friday, $5.8M (including $875K fr...

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 6/6/14

Here’s a scary factoid for the studios. In 2013, 5 movies opened in May/June that reached over $200M in the US alone, and none of those movies had a total lower than $228.8M. This year, as we head to mid-June, ...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Hidden Figures” Challenges “Rogue One” & “Sing”

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Moana” Stays On Top

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Accountant” Adds Up Weekend Win, “What Now” Starts OK

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “The Boss” Is Kryptonite to “BvS,” “Hardcore Henry” & “Demolition” Implode

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: No Gods for “Egypt,” “Triple 9″” or “Eddie” In Another “Deadpool” Romp

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: Holdovers Lead “Dirty Grandpa,” “The 5th Wave” On Snowy Weekend

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Ted 2″” Loses Some Stuffing, “Inside Out” and “Jurassic World” Duel For #1

Behind the Friday Box Office – 12/5/14

Behind the Friday Box Office – 11/21/14

Behind the Friday Box Office – 10/4/14

Behind the Friday Box Office – 9/19/14

Behind the Friday Box Office: 9/12/14

Behind the Friday Box Office – 8/29/14

Behind the Friday Box Office – 8/15/14

Behind the Friday Box Office – 6/6/14

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