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TROPIC THUNDER blasts to box office lead
August 18th, 2008Dark Knight Holds off the Mummy while Swing Vote Asks For Recount
August 3rd, 20081 Dark Knight, The $43,800,000
2 Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor, The $42,450,400
3 Step Brothers $16,300,000
4 Mamma Mia! $13,120,670
5 Journey To The Center Of The Earth $6,875,000
6 Swing Vote $6,300,000
7 Hancock $5,200,000
8 WALL-E $4,747,000
9 X-Files: I Want to Believe, The $3,425,000
10 Space Chimps $2,840,000
Dark Knight Punishes Step Brothers
July 28th, 2008Rank Title Weekend Gross
1 The Dark Knight (2008) $75.6M $314M
2 Step Brothers (2008) $30M $30M
3 Mamma Mia! (2008) $17.9M $62.7M
4 The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) $10.2M $10.2M
5 Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) $9.41M $60.2M
6 Hancock (2008) $8.2M $206M
7 WALL·E (2008) $6.35M $195M
8 Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) $4.93M $65.9M
9 Space Chimps (2008) $4.38M $16M
10 Wanted (2008) $2.73M $129M
DARK KNIGHT Light Up Box Office – $155 Million and Counting
July 21st, 2008
One of the best reviewed films of the year had a stunning opening this weekend with an estimated take in excess of $155 million while playing on 4,366 screens. Apparently that wasn’t enough screens because the weekend was a virtual sellout and HOLLYWOOD REPORTER published a report of tickets selling on Ebay for around $50.
There is extensive coverage of the DARK KNIGHT box office saga at DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD DAILY.
Hot As Hellboy
July 13th, 2008Lukewarm Reviews No Match for Will Smith’s Star Power – HANCOCK Soars
July 7th, 2008North American numbers show that, thanks to big weekend bounces in 3,965 theaters, Sony Pictures’ No. 1 Hancock scored its first 3-day weekend with $66 mil and gave star Will Smith his biggest Independent Day holiday opening ever with a 5 1/2-day cume of $107.3 mil. The PG-13 pic went up 9% from Thursday to Friday for $18.8M, and up 39% from Friday to Saturday for $26.1M. The dark comedy about an unhappy superhero mustered the momentum despite receiving only 33% positive reviews from top critics and only so-so buzz.
Read all about it in Deadline Hollywood Daily
Top 5 Weekend Box Office
June 29th, 2008Sex Too Much for Indiana Jones – Weekend Box Office Stunner
June 2nd, 2008BOX OFFICE MOJO
COMPLETE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE TOTALS HERE
May 30 – June 1, 2008
Studio Estimates
Next updates: Monday afternoon – Actual grosses for 50+ movies;
Monday evening – Top 90+ Actuals
Weekend Boxoffice – Iron Man passes $177,000,000
May 11th, 2008
IRON MAN, SPEED RACER and WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS together accounted for $90,000,000 of the total weekend boxoffice. IRON MAN, with $50,000,000 for the weekend has passed a total of $177,000,000 in two weeks. SPEED RACER and WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS each pulled in about $20,000,000 in the opening weekend for each. That’s good news for VEGAS, with a budget of $35 million and a big disappointment for RACER with its estimated $100 million budget.
Get the box office results for the entire weekend at Box Office Mojo.
Weekend Box Office Hits and Misses
April 27th, 2008BOX OFFICE MOJO
COMPLETE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE TOTALS HERE
April 25–27, 2008
Studio Estimates
Next updates: Monday afternoon – Actual grosses for 50+ movies;
Monday evening – Top 90+ Actuals
