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Box Office: ‘Harry Potter’ Trumps ‘Tangled’ By A Hair

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Shannon Hood

Harry Potter held off a fair haired princess to eke out a win over the weekend.  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows made $50.3 M, bringing its ten day total to $220 M.  If you count the entire Thanksgiving weekend … Continue reading →

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Box Office: ‘Harry Potter’ Has A Magical Weekend

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Shannon Hood

The Harry Potter franchise enjoyed its biggest opening weekend ever, as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 bowed at the box office with $125.1M.  That included midnight totals ($24M) from Thursday.  The film made $61M on Friday (factoring … Continue reading →

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Box Office: ‘Megamind’ Has Another Mega-Weekend

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Shannon Hood

It was  surprising to find out that Unstoppable was indeed stoppable at the box office over the weekend.  The movie did extraordinarily well with critics and audiences alike, so its modest (but solid) take of $23.5 Million was a bit … Continue reading →

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Box Office: Megamind Crushes The Competition

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Shannon Hood

On Saturday morning, it looked like Megamind was going head to head with Due Date.  Both films made around $12M on Friday evening, but Megamind built on its momentum and added another $20 M to its total on Saturday, bringing … Continue reading →

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Box Office: ‘Saw 3D’ Carves Out A Win

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Shannon Hood

Saw 3D won the  weekend box office, to no one’s surprise.  The perennial Halloween franchise made its 7th (and presumably final) bow at the box office with a healthy $22.5M.  It is reported that almost 90% of that total is … Continue reading →

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Box Office: ‘Paranormal Activity 2’ Has A Spook-Tacular Weekend

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Shannon Hood

After some truly disappointing weekends at the box office for horror movies (Hatchet 2, Pirahna 3D, Let Me In, My Soul to Take) fans can finally breathe easy that the genre is alive and well.  Paranormal Activity 2 catapulted to … Continue reading →

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Box Office: A Couple Of Jackasses Win The Weekend

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Shannon Hood

Well, the Jackass gang was at it again, this time offering their usual gags, gross-outs and stunts in 3D.  The 3D format payed off as Jackass 3D broke the opening weekend record for Fall (considered the months of September and … Continue reading →

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Box Office: ‘Secretariat’ Stumbles Out Of the Gate

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Shannon Hood

A lot of people thought that Secretariat would be a shoo-in for first place this week. There has been Oscar talk for Diane Lane, and Disney was pinning its hopes on having a “Blind Side” type four-quadrant hit film on … Continue reading →

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