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*Unfortunately, the Will & Jaden Smith film “After Earth” is not doing well at the box-office. Deadline is reporting that the film (in (3,401 theaters), directed by Hollywood outcast M. Night Shyamalan began to show that it wasn’t tracking well when ticket sales on Fandango started lagging behind Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment’s “Now You See Me” (2,925 [...]
*Quentin Tarantino’s violent slave-revenge drama “Django Unchained” was yanked out of Chinese theaters on its opening day Thursday, with the importer blaming an unspecified technical problem. The rare suspension order by China Film Group Corp. has already lead to suspicion that the Hollywood film could have run afoul of Chinese censors despite weeks of promotion [...]
*It’s not going to number 1 or even number 2 at the box office. But at number 3 “Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions Of A Marriage Counselor” is looking like another winner for Perry. And yes, that’s the full, proper title of the film. By the way, “G.I. Joe” Retaliation” is number I and number 2 [...]
*Halle Berry’s new big screen effort “The Call” shocked Hollywood, according to Deadline.com’s Nikki Finke, by opening in 2nd place over the weekend with $6.2M for Friday box office and $6.8M Saturday for a $17.1M first weekend. “Huge credit to Halle and all her hard work,” stated. Sony, the film’s distributor. Finke writes: Grosses are [...]
*“Django Unchained” has become Quentin Tarantino‘s top-grossing film at the North American box office with nearly $130 million and counting, eclipsing the $120 million earned domestically by “Inglourious Basterds” in 2009. “Django” — starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson — has yet to make a major push overseas, [...]
*”Zero Dark Thirty” killed ‘em at the box office this weekend, bringing in over $24 million after getting an Oscar nomination for best picture. However, the conventional wisdom was that “Zero Dark Thirty” world end up in a tussle with mob flick “Gangster Squad.” Yep, the prediction was that when the smoke cleared the worst [...]
*Who can’t get enough Kevin Hart these days? The five-foot-two funny man has been making stomachs hurt with laughter for the past few years as he’s been on tour, working on films, and doing the most. He’s got a new movie for all of you who missed ‘em along the way. “Kevin Hart: Let Me [...]
*Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” — starring Jamie Foxx as a slave in the pre-Civil War South — is doing strong business among African-American moviegoers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This despite the fact that “Django,” from The Weinstein Co/TWC., features more than 100 uses of the N-word, igniting a debate over whether the movie is [...]
*According to Deadline, Quentin Tarantino’s R-rated “Django Unchained” is giving the G-rated “Les Misérables” a run for the money at the box office. Actually both titles are vying for the number 2 spot behind the “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” which has already taken in over $200 million domestically. As of its 3am report this [...]
*Will Smith’s sequel “Men in Black 3″ debuted as the No. 1 movie over Memorial Day weekend with $55 million domestically from Friday to Sunday. That bumps Disney’s “The Avengers” into second-place after three weekends on top. “The Avengers” took in $37 million over the three days to push its domestic total to $514 million [...]
*(Via The Hollywood Reporter) – Universal and Hasbro Entertainment’s big-budget Battleship barely left port in its North American launch, grossing a dismal $25.3 million. That’s well below the anticipated $35 million to $40 million that Universal and director Peter Berg were hoping for. Battleship, designed to put the studio squarely in the tentpole game, cost [...]
*In October, the Guinness Book of World Records named Samuel L. Jackson the highest-grossing actor in the history of film. With the record-breaking opening of his latest movie “The Avengers,” it looks as if no other actor will come close to his numbers any time soon, notes Entertainment Weekly. After its record $200.3 million opening, [...]
*With “Think Like a Man” currently No. 1 hit at the box office, the film’s source material, Steve Harvey’s advice book “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man,” just saw its paperback version rise to No. 40 on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list. “The movie is selling books because we all want to believe [...]
*For some reason the Hollywood experts didn’t see it coming. They thought either “The Hunger Games” would keep steamrolling the competition or “The Lucky Ones” would be the “lucky one” and end up as the new number one. RELATED: ‘Think Like A Man’ Audience Reactions by Mr. Locario (Video) Well, neither scenario happened because out [...]
*Screen Gem’s “Think Like A Man” is outperforming the studio’s box office expectations, reports Deadline.com’s Nikki Finke. The film, based on the bestselling book by TV/radio comedian Steve Harvey, was movie ticket seller Fandango’s top-selling theatrical release — representing a healthy 42% of Thursday’s sales. Right now this Screen Gems/Sony Pictures’ urban comedy aimed squarely [...]
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