Category: "Weekend Recaps"

Weekend Recap: Wild box office rumpus for WB

It probably comes as no surprise to you that Where the Wild Things Are took the weekend box office, but it might be a bit more surprising to learn that it’s not because of families. Personally, I had no doubts about the older demographics feeding solidly into the weekend gross, but did I expect them [...]

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Weekend Recap: Some Paranormal Activity at the box office

I don’t know what’s better: super-low-budget horror film Paranormal Activity breaking insane box office records or the fact that I don’t have to talk about Couples Retreat because of it. If you haven’t heard of Paranormal Activity yet, don’t worry. It only means that you don’t follow trending topics on Twitter, which is acceptable. Believe [...]

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Weekend Recap: I should be paid to do this

If predicting box office winners were baseball, I’d be batting 1.000. In my fifth week, I’ve done it again, picking Zombieland, which made nearly $25 million this weekend — plenty good enough for first place. But more impressively, do you recall the rest of my Top 5? Nailed it. So, movie media, where’s my big [...]

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Box Office Ramblings: Thank God it’s District 9

As I prayed for so fervently, Peter Jackson produced sci-fi alien actioner “District 9″ took first at the Box Office with $37.4 M this past weekend. I’m not trying to see to it that all films I like cash in at the box office, but like I said in my review, this is the kind [...]

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