> The Hollywood Reporter has preliminary boxoffice numbers for Friday, and as expected, PUSS IN BOOTS will be the easy weekend winner. Its $9-9.5M on Friday, if it holds, would probably mean $36-38M for the weekend, which...
> The Hollywood Reporter has some early numbers for the weekend’s overseas boxoffice. (Remember: comparisons of international boxoffice receipts aren’t necessarily apples-to-apples, as films follow diffe...
>The year to date box office tally picked up a tiny bit of ground moving from -3.8% versus last year to -3.7% this week. The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume All films in wide release...
> Why did it snow on my weekend? Based on Friday and Saturday box office (and estimated Sunday numbers), Puss in Boots looks like a $34 million opening weekend. The highly unusual late-October snowstorm in the northeast c...
> DreamWorks Animation can blame the weather for diminishing its PUSS IN BOOTS number–although there seemed to be little effect on the weekend’s other openings–but $34M is awfully low for a major animated rele...
> PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 continues Paramount’s license to print money–it’ll soon be in profit even with worldwide marketing costs calculated in. Yesterday will probably prove to be by far the biggest day ...
> PUSS IN BOOTS will have 3 weeks in theatres without serious competition for its target audience (until Happy Feet 2 opens on November 18), which is why DreamWorks moved the opening back a week. The picture can use the h...
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