Tag: box office

As cynical as I am about the sorry state of the American movie star, never in a million years did I expect Will Smith to be anything less than a superstar. “Seven Pounds,” Smith’s humiliating 2008 dramatic flop, appears to

Without a doubt “Fifty Shades of Grey” is a box office hit. There is also no question, though, its success was front-loaded and that the C+ CinemaScore (which is pretty awful) audiences gave the S&M love story has hurt repeat

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Fifty Shades of Grey” raked in the Valentine’s Day dollars, earning an estimated $81.7 million from 3,646 theaters in its first three days.

In enlightened, progressive, left-wing Hollywood, women currently hold more power than they ever have. And yet, according to this weekend’s box office, the Cineplex is more of man’s world than at any time in recent memory. Long gone are the

In its third weekend of wide release, director Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” is expected to gross another $31.3 million, which breaks the record for the highest grossing film over Super Bowl weekend. What’s extraordinary about this feat is that previous

Deadline has looked at the box office tea leaves over the upcoming Super Bowl weekend and concluded that “American Sniper” will easily take the 3-day weekend with a $35-$36 million haul. If the weekday pace holds, that should put Clint

Over the course of about 5 years between 2004 – 2009, Hollywood produced no fewer than 18 anti-War On Terror box office bombs that defamed our country, our troops, and the righteous cause of the war against Islamic extremism. Every

In its first weekend of wide release “American Sniper” more than doubled its most optimistic projections with an incredible $89 million 3-day haul. That was an extraordinary achievement, no question, but one surpassed in weekend two when director Clint Eastwood’s

“American Sniper” hit the mark with moviegoers again. The military drama starring Bradley Cooper as Navy SEAL marksman Chris Kyle topped the box office for a second weekend in a row with $64.4 million in first place, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The box office belly-flop of “Mortdecai” has launched a number of “Is Johnny Depp’s Career Over?” think-pieces. The thinking is that after the combined failures of “The Lone Ranger,” “Transcendence,” and “Dark Shadows,” Depp’s career is now on the bubble,

Indignity after indignity continues to pile on producer Oprah Winfrey’s dishonest Civil Rights drama “Selma.” On top of countless award season snubs, audiences are staying away in droves. After 5 weeks in release and a ton of publicity (both good

Man alive, if you thought the Left was bitterly angry last week over the success of a film that portrays the War On Terror as a righteous cause, wait until they get a load of this weekend’s box office. “American

The Sundance Film Festival begins this week and you know what that means: a coming onslaught of oppressive, non-stop coverage from the entertainment media about dozens of films no one will ever see … ever. Deadline published a fine illustration

The science is now settled: Anti-American films are costly box office bombs at a rate of nothing less than 100%. On the flip-side, pro-American films make money. Many are outright blockblusters. Moreover, almost every the anti-American film produced over the

Deadline Hollywood reports that Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper—the film adaptation of U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle’s autobiography of the same name, starring Bradley Cooper—has broken multiple January box-office records, grossing over $100 million its first weekend of wide release. One studio executive described the critically-hailed film as a Marvel movie made for adults.

Despite an also-ran Best Picture Oscar nomination and a ton of publicity surrounding all the anti-science crybabying over “Selma’s” overall  Oscar snub, the dishonest Civil Rights drama stood alone in its box office free fall. Every other film nominated for

The early estimates for director Clint Eastwood’s pro-War On Terror masterpiece “American Sniper” hovered around $40 million. Obviously our provincial box office gurus under-estimated the American people’s desire to see their warriors, wars, and country properly honored and honestly portrayed.

It wasn’t just Oprah Winfrey‘s “Selma” and the late-Roger Ebert who felt Oscar’s snub after Thursday morning’s announcement of this year’s Oscar Nominations, so too did all of mainstream America.  Other than director Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper,” which is expected

After director Darren Aronosfsky’s “Noah” opened in March to a massive $44 million weekend — despite the fact it depicts God as a anti-human enviro-terrorist — anti-God Hollywood probably figured they had cracked the code: sell the movie to the

Despite a 16% increase in the American population between 1995 and 2014, film admissions in 2014 hit their lowest level since 1995. With 50 million additional American customers, Hollywood wasn’t able to put any more butts in seats. Overall, domestic

The big news out of the 4-day Christmas weekend is the startling over-performance of director Angelina Jolie’s “Unbroken,” which nearly doubled a predicted take of around $25 million to slide into Monday with a fat $47 million. “Unbroken” boasts no

Clint Eastwood’s Iraq War biopic shattered box office records over the extended holiday weekend, after debuting in only four theaters nationwide.

Angelina Jolie’s World War II drama “Unbroken” delivered big for Universal Pictures on Christmas Day, becoming the third highest-earning Christmas Day release ever.