Feature: Box Office Update
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Box Office Update 10/10-10/12: Chihuahua's Remains Top Dog— Pups, blood, and spies.
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Box Office Update 10/3-10/5: This Weekend is for the Dogs, Beverly Hills Chihuahua Rides High
— Talking puppies rule the weekend!
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Box Office Update 9/26-9/28: Set Your Eyes on Eagle Eye— All of the summer films have been excised from the top ten.
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Box Office Update 9/19-9/21: Lakeview Terrace Takes Aim at the Top— The summer purge continues as we head into fall.
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Box Office Update 9/12-9/14: Burn After Reading Rises to the Top— The Coens triumphant.
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Box Office Update 9/5-9/7: Bangkok Dangerous Leads Limp Receipts— A rather weak week, don't you think?
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Box Office Update 8/29-9/1: Tropic Thunder Still at the Top— A slow Labor Day weekend brings the summer to a close.
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Box Office Update 8/22-8/24: Tropic Thunder Keeps The House Bunny at Bay
— A repeat week for the Thunderous ones.
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Box Office Update 8/15-8/17: Tropic Thunder Displaces The Dark Knight— Plenty of changes on this week's list.
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Box Office Update 8/8-8/10: The Dark Knight Fends Off the Express— Another weekend with a bat at the top.
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Box Office Recap 8/1-8/3: The Dark Knight Holds Off The Mummy
— Can you believe how well the Batflick is doing?
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Box Office Recap 7/25-7/27: The Dark Knight Continues to Dominate
— More records fall as The Dark Knight rides high.
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Box Office Recap 7/18-7/20: The Dark Knight, 'Nuff Said
— And we have a new king of the hill.
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Box Office Update 7/11-7/13: Hellboy Outlasts Hancock
— Superheroes rule the cineplex.
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Box Office Update 7/4-7/7: Will Smith Takes Hancock to the Top— Superheroes take flight.
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Box Office Update 6/27-6/29: Wall*E Flies High— Pixar does it again. Is there no stopping them?
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Box Office Update 6/20-6/22: Get Smart Rises to the Top
— Maxwell Smart proves he has what it takes to charge to the head of the class.
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Box Office Update 6/13-6/15: Hulk Smash Puny Panda— Another comic book movie tops the box.
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Box Office Update 6/6-6/8: Kung Fu Panda Displays Superior Fu in Defeating Zohan— The panda out-duels Sandler.
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Box Office Update 5/30-6/1: Sex and the City Climbs to the Top
— Surprising many, Indy was knocked from the top spot.
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Box Office Update 5/23-5/25: Indiana Jones Easily Defeats Prince Caspian
— Indy returns to his familiar place atop the box office charts.
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Box Office Update 5/9-5/11: Iron Man Outraces Speed Racer
— Comic book hero beats out cartoon hero.
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Box Office Update 5/2-5/4: Iron Man Explodes Onto the Screen— Headline: Superhero Storms Top Spot.
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Box Office Update 4/25-4/27: Baby Mama Nursed to Victory
— The spring season comes to a close with a mediocre weekend of flicks.
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Box Office Update 4/18-4/20: The Forbidden Kingdom is Tops at the Box— Li and Chan out-duel Segel and Bell.
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Box Office Update 4/11-4/13: Prom Night Victimizes the Box Office
— A remake dominates the weekend.
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Box Office Update: 21 Plays a Hot Table
— Card games outplay the imagination.
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Box Office Recap 3/28-3/30: 21 - Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner— Gamblers beat out the heroes.
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Box Office Update 3/21-3/23: Horton Hears a Repeat
— Another week, another few bucks for the Hollywood machine.
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Box Office Update 3/14-3/16: Horton Hears a Who Hears the Box Office Call
— Family Animation rises to the top.
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Box Office Update for 3/7-3/9: 10,000 B.C. Proves a Modern Day Success— 10,000 BC proves to be no 300. Heck, it's barely Pathfinder.
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Box Office Update 2/29-3/2: Semi-Pro Shoots, Scores, and Still Loses— Ferrell's comedy takes the top spot, but fails to reach expectations.
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Box Office Update 2/22-2/24: Vantage Point's Trailer Carpet Bomb Pays Off
— Wide release films went 50/50 for placing in the top ten.
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Box Office Update 2/15-2/17: Jumper Overtakes the Fool's— The top ten sees a turnover of nearly half from last week.
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Box Office Update 2/8-2/10: Fool's Gold Plays a Trick on the Audience
— The first week of 2008 where the top films failed to top a combined $100 million.
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Box Office Update 2/1-2/3: Hannah Montana Kicks Dirt in The Eye and Dominates the Weekend
— Unbelievable weekend. 2008 is off to a great start, in terms of bringing in the bucks.
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Box Office Update 1/25-1/27: Meet the Spartans Is Number One and I Want to Cry
— January comes to a close with a bang and a tear.
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Box Office Update 1/18-1/20: Cloverfield Storms the Charts
— Monsters and clothing top this week's list.
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Box Office Update 1/11-1/13: The Bucket List Rises to the Top
— The new year continues to role in decent bucks.
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Box Office Update 1/4-1/6: National Treasure Sequel Three-peats While Juno Steps Up— Big week to start the year — is it a sign of things to come?
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Box Office Update 12/28-12/30: National Treasure - Book of Secrets Holds on to the Top Spot— 2007 ends with a bang.
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Box Office Update 12/21-12/23: National Treasure: Book of Secrets Leads a Large Freshman Class
— Big changes in the top ten landscape this weekend.
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Box Office Update 12/14-12/17: I Am Legend Lands at the Top
— We have a new winner for biggest December opening of all time, but is the movie any good?
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Box Office Update 12/7-12/9: The Golden Compass Soars Over the Competition
— Fantasy rules the day.
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Box Office Update 11/30-12/2: Enchanted Remains Ahead of the Competition
— Slight movement among the top films, the lull before the building holiday competition.
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Box Office Update 11/21-11/25: Audiences Are Enchanted By Enchanted
— Disney soars while the Weinsteins flounder with an ill-timed horror.
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Box Office Update 11/16-11/18: Beowulf Tears Through the Competition
— The next stage of 3D takes the top spot.
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Box Office Update 11/9-11/11: Bee Movie Buzzes Past American Gangster
— Vince Vaughn's first 20/20 deal fails to pay off.
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Box Office Update 11/2-11/4: American Gangster Holds Off Seinfeld's Bees— This weekend got November off to a start, putting smiles on executive faces.
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Box Office Update 10/26-10/28: Saw IV Draws Box Office Blood (It's Green)
— Despite Saw's bloodletting, box office is still down from last year.
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Box Office Update 10/19-10/21: 30 Days of Night Tops the Lifeless Chart
— Bloodsuckers suck the life out of the competition.
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Box Office Update 10/12-10/14: Tyler Perry overtakes The Game Plan
— Tyler Perry brings some life into the box office while The Rock slips to number two.
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Box Office Update 10/5-10/7: The Game Plan Fends Off Ben Stiller's Advances— The box office is down for the third consecutive weekend over last year. Still, the industry is raking it in.
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Box Office Update 9/28-9/30: The Game Plan Outscores The Kingdom— The Rock took the ball and ran with it.
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Box Office Update 9/21-9/23: Resident Evil: Extinction Takes Out Chuck— Zombies knock out the vigilante and fend off Chuck's advances.
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Box Office Update 9/14-9/16: The Brave One Shoots Past 3:10 to Yuma— A weak weekend finds vigilante thrills at the top.
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Box Office Update 9/7-9/9: The 3:10 to Yuma Goes Right to the Top
— A western dominates the weekend, while a holiday centered horror stumbles.
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Box Office Update 8/31-9/2: Halloween Delivers Scares Two Months Early— Michael Myers shows his Balls of Fury and proves to be more than Superbad.
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Box Office Update 8/24-8/26: Superbad Keeps it Gangsta— "We could be that mistake!"
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Box Office Update 8/17-8/19: Superbad Proves to Be, Well, Super Bad! (In a Good Way)
— Looking for August laughs? Superbad delivers!
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Box Office Update 8/10-8/12: Rush Hour 3 Quips Its Way to the Top— A weak film easily takes the top spot, and I helped.
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Box Office Update 8/3-8/5: The Bourne Ultimatum Explodes to the Top— Bourne proves his supremacy.
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Box Office Update 7/27-7/29: The Simpsons Obliterates Expectations— Who would have thought that many people would pay to see the Simpsons family on the big screen?
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Box Office Update 7/20-7/22: Chuck and Larry Top Harry— Phony gays fend off a young wizard.
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Box Office Update 7/13-7/15: Harry Potter Heads to the Front of the Class— The boy wizard is triumphant over the mighty Megatron.
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Box Office Update 7/6-7/8: Transformers - They're More Than Meets the Eye— Robots top the box office, wrestling the spot away from a rat who cooks.
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Box Office Update 6/29-7/1: Ratatouille Holds Off John McClane— Pixar's latest tops the charts.
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Box Office Update 6/22-6/24: Evan Almighty Survives the Flood— The Carrey-less sequel limps to the top while the Fantastic flounder.
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Box Office Update 6/15 - 6/17: The Silver Surfer Rises— Featuring: the third superhero title to top the box office this year.
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Box Office Update 6/8-6/10: Ocean's 13 Deflates Captain Sparrow's Sails— A mediocre weekend, cinema-goer burnout?
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Box Office Update 6/1-6/3: Pirates Gets Knocked Up— May is over; which film was tops for you?
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Box Office Update 5/25-5/27: Pirates Lays Anchor at the Top
— The final of May's thirds is here.
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Box Office Update 5/18-5/20: Shrek the Third Leads the Way— Shrek takes the crown, for one week anyway.
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Box Office Update 5/11-5/13: Spider-Man 3's Web Sags— Zombies are unable to stop the swinging Spider, news at 11.
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Box Office Update 5/4-5/6: Spider-Man 3, Any Questions?— All Spidey, all the time!
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Box Office Update 4/27 - 4/29: Disturbia Clings to the Top Spot— Will Spidey be able to unseat Shia?
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Box Office Update 4/20-4/23: Disturbia Holds Off Fracture
— The battle of the one name thrillers.
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Box Office Update 4/13 - 4/15: Disturbia Settles at the Top
— Shia Lebeouf takes his first top slot of the year — will he repeat with Transformers in July?
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Box Office Update 4/6-4/8: Will Ferrell Skates to a Second Victory— Grindhouse grinds down, Ferrell skates to the gold.
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Box Office Update 3/30 - 4/1: Blades of Glory Skates Past Competition
— Will Ferrell brings home the gold!
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Box Office Update 3/23-3/26: TMNT Charges Past 300— Four turtles take out 300 Spartans.
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Box Office Update 3/16 - 3/18: 300 Holds Off a Horde of Puppets— Puppets, visions, and wives fail to unseat a Spartan king.
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Box Office Update 3/9-3/11: 300 - "Prepare for Glory!"
— Talk about your impressive debuts...
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Box Office Update 3/2-3/4: Wild Hogs Goes Hog Wild— Trading one biker for four bikers.
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Box Office Update 2/23-2/25: The Ghost Rider Cruises by Jim Carrey— Flame-head beats out the man with the rubber face.
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Box Office Update 2/16-2/18: Ghost Rider Rides to the Top
— Ghost Rider burns Bridge to Terabithia.
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Box Office Update 2/9-2/11: Norbit Takes a Bite Out of Hannibal— This week features a large gap between the number one and two films, and I'm not talking about quality.
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Box Office Update 2/2-2/4: The Messengers Have Something to Tell You— The Hitcher plummets out of the top ten while Night at the Museum still packs them in.
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Box Office Update 1/26-1/28: Epic Movie Gets Medieval on Your Collective Butt— From one of the writers of last week's box office column...
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Box Office Update 1/19-1/21: Stomp the Yard Holds Off The Hitcher— The Hitcher doesn't get picked up on the box office super highway.
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Box Office Update 1/12-1/14: Stomp the Yard Dances to the Top— Ben Stiller finally falls from the top spot.
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Box Office Update 1/5-1/7: Night at the Museum and Pursuit of Happyness Lead Again— We have another three-peat.
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Box Office Update 2006: Captain Jack Sparrow Rules— Pirates rule the box office seas.
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Box Office Update 12/29-1/1: Night at the Museum Rules the Day(s)
— 2006 has come to a close. Long live 2007.
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Box Office Update 12/15-10/17: The Pursuit of Happyness in Pursuit of Box Office— Will Smith beats the dragons and the spiders.
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Box Office Update 12/8-12/10: Apocalypto Takes Subtitles to the Top— Mel brings another dead language to life on the big screen.
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Box Office Update 12/1-12/3: Can't Stop Happy Feet or Bond— Is there nothing that can stop them?
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Box Office Update 11/22-11/26: Penguins and Turkey Rule the Roost
— Penguins and Bond hang onto the top spots besting some comparatively weak competition.
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Box Office Update 11/17-11/19: Happy Feet Dances by Bond
— Penguins and Bond and Movies, oh my!
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Box Office Update 11/10-11/12: Borat Still Greatest in Country, Yes— Borat does it again, while Crowe and Scott fizzle.
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Box Office Update 11/3-11/5: Borat Greatest in the Country
— Color me suckered.
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Box Office Update 10/27-10/29: Saw III Slices Through the Competition— Saw III is strong, but The Departed continues its impressive run.
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Box Office Update 10/20-10/22: The Prestige Appears Magically on Top— The box office is topped by three of the year's best.
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Box Office Update 10/13-10/15: The Grudge 2 Creeps to the Top— If you're not careful, the Grudge-girl will get you.
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Box Office Update 10/6-10/8: The Departed Shoots Its Way to the Top— Scorsese has his biggest opening ever — could it lead to his first directorial Oscar?
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Box Office Update 9/29-10/1: It's Open Season On The Competition— Ashton Kutcher declares open season on the guardian of your IQ.
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Box Office Update 9/22-9/24: Jackass Number Two Takes a Number Two on the Competition— Jet Li does better than this guy expected, and that is a good thing. Plus, are teen boys really dumb?
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Box Office Update 9/15-9/17: The Rock Leads Gridiron Gang to the Top— Gridiron came on like gangbusters as the second football-themed film to take the top spot in a month.
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Box Office Update 9/8 - 9/10: The Covenant Makes History, Sort Of— The Covenant of Former Child Stars.
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Box Office Update 9/1 - 9/3: Invincible Hangs On To the Top Spot— Invincible holds off Crank, while the Wicker Man searches for honey.
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Box Office Update 8/25-8/27: Disney is Invincible
— Disney owns the summer: Cars, Pirates, and football, oh my!
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Box Office Update 8/18-8/20: Snakes on a Plane Slithers to the Top, Just Barely— Snakes fizzles, yet still finds it's way to the top. Is the Internet audience to blame?
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Box Office Update 8/11-8/13: Ricky Bobby Does it Again— Ricky Bobby holds on to the box office lead this week.
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Box Office Update 8/4-8/6: Talladega Nights Races to the Top
— Will Ferrell has a great weekend, and Captain Jack is undone by Barnyard animals.
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Box Office Update 7/28-7/30: Miami Vice Sinks Captain Jack— Among the returning films, The Devil Wears Prada continued to show strong legs.
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Box Office Update 7/21-7/23: Can Anyone Stop Jack Sparrow?— The Lady sinks in the water and a pair of Clerks come out swinging, but neither can match the comedic swashbuckler.
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Box Office Update for 7/14-7/16: Pirates Continues its Reign
— It's still a Pirate's life for me, but The Break-Up takes a long walk on a short plank.
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Box Office Update for 7/7-7/9: Pirates Plunders the Record Books
— Amazing, Johnny Depp sails the Black Pearl into the record books.
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Box Office Update For 6/30-7/2: Superman Returns Is Solid But Unspectacular— Next week will possibly see the biggest disparity between the first place film and the rest of the list.
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Box Office Update for 6/23-6/25: Click Closes Cars Garage— Adam Sandler's latest has a strong opening as the summer gets underway.
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Box Office Update for 6/16-6/18: Cars' Lead Shrinks to a Car Length— Cars succeeded in hanging on to the top spot despite a surprisingly strong showing from Jack Black's Nacho Libre
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Box Office Update 6/9-6/11: Cars Races to the Top
— How long 'til a pit stop?
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Box Office Update for 6/2-6/4: The Break-Up Breaks X-Men's Legs— I honestly did not think The Break-Up would be able to top X-Men: The Last Stand.
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Box Office Update for 5/5-5/7: Mission: Impossible III A Disappointing First— Has the box office take for Mission: Impossible III suffered due to Tom Cruise's odd antics of late?
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Box Office Update for 4/28-4/30: RV Tops United 93— Sophomoric family comedy rises to the top. Now, I have not seen RV, but something tells me that I wouldn't think much of it. Far be it for me to...
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Box Office Update for 4/21-4/23: Silent Hill Creeps to the Top— An R-rated film tops the charts again. Silent Hill went right to the top, despite not being screened for critics, or perhaps because of it. It is getting decidedly mixed...
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Box Office Update 4/14 - 4/16: Scary Movie 4 Scares Up An Easter Record— A few surprises, and an odd pattern to my predictions...
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New Movies and Box Office Predictions: Featuring Scary Movie 4
— Two wide releases and a third expanding add up to plenty of choices for holiday weekend viewing.
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Box Office Update for 4/7-4/9: Ice Age: The Meltdown— It may not be as good as I had hoped, but there is no doubt a goldmine in them there prehistoric critters.
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Box Office Update for 3/31-4/2: Ice Age: The Meltdown
— Ice Age's Meltdown floods the box office with some green.
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Box Office Update 3/17-3/19: Vendetta with a Vengeance— After a delayed release this movie sails to the top in it's opening weekend.
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Box Office Update 3/3-3/5: Madea's Family Reunion— Tyler Perry proves to be a money-making force.
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Box Office Update 2/10-2/12: The Pink Panther— The Pink Panther surprises all the nay sayers by pulling out a winning bid for the top spot.
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Box Office Update for 2/3-2/5: When a Stranger Calls— The horror/thriller genre proves once again that it can open a weekend.
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Box Office Update for 1/27-1/29: Big Momma's House 2— A couple of surprises in the top spots, and we get to see how well last week's predictions turned out.
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Box Office Update for 1/13-1/16: Glory Road— From Glory Road to Brokeback Mountain, the update.
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Box Office Update for 1/6-1/8: Hostel— Torture sells. The first full weekend of 2006 is ruled by the torturous gore-fest that is Hostel.
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Box Office Update for 12/30-1/1: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe— Narnia unseats Kong - Watch out for the raging gorilla!
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Box Office Update for 12/23-12/25: King Kong— King Kong remained high atop the box office pile over the Christmas weekend. Although, it is not doing as nearly as well had been previously estimated prior to its release....
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Box Office Update for 12/16-12/18: King Kong
— King Kong ruled the theaters this weekend, but not anywhere near what was being expected. You can visit just about any movie related forum and find discussions on how the...
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Box Office Update for 12/9-12/11: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
— The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe blasted out of the gate. It fell a little shy of the $67 million estimate, but still came in...
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Box Office Update for 12/2-12/4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire— Harry Potter held onto the top spot in the annual post-holiday slump. It managed to bring in nearly $20 million, despite losing over 60% of its audience from the previous...
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Box Office Update for 11/23-11/27: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
— Welcome back! I hope you all saw plenty of movies over your Thanksgiving weekend. This week's update is for the entire 5 day holiday. Read on, my faithful! This week's champ...
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Box Office Update for 11/18-11/20: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire— Potter-mania! Put a wand in my hand, a cloak around my shoulders and call me goofy! I cannot believe how well Goblet of Fire performed this weekend. After the lackluster...
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Box Office Update for 11/11-11/13: Chicken Little— I bet Disney is happy. The performance of Chicken Little has been fantastic. For the second week it sits atop the box office chart, dropping only 21% from its debut...
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Box Office Update for 11/4-11/6: Chicken Little
— Not a bad week at the box office. The list is topped by the two major new releases. Two other spots are filled by films whose releases expanded. Another spot...
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Box Office Update: 10/28-10/30 - Saw II— Saw II cut a bloody swath through all comers.
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Box Office Update: 10/21-10/23 - Doom— The box office continues to show less than stellar results. Whether this is a result of poor films, or preclusive cost, or the growth of home theater, or some...
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Box Office Update: 10/14-10/16 - The Fog— What a sad week at the box office. I cannot remember the last time that the number 1 movie took in under $12 million. Of course, there really wasn't...
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Box Office Update: 10/7-10/9 - Wallace & Gromit— After 2 weeks we have a new film atop the charts, Wallace & Gromit in Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The wonderful claymation film, which took 5 years to make...
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Box Office Update: 9/30-10/2
— The movie I was most looking forward to seeing this weekend came in second with a little over $10 million. That film is Serenity, based on the short lived...
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Box Office Update: 9/23-25— Jodie Foster and Flightplan topped this weeks list. Pulling in pretty decent numbers. It was followed pretty closely by Tim Burton's latest stop motion entry, Corpse Bride. There isn't...
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Box Office Update: 9/16-18
— Reese Witherspoon comes out on top this week with her latest romantic comedy, Just Like Heaven. It opened to relatively good reviews, but it also did not have a...
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Box Office Update: 9/9-11— Big surprise this week with The Exorcism of Emily Rose taking in over $30 million. I couldn't believe that number when I saw it. But I will also say...
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Box Office Update: 9/2-5— This is for the 4 day Labor Day weekend, rather than the normal 3 day period. I don't think any of the places would be any different for the...
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Box Office Update: 8/26-28— Much like Wedding Crashers before it, and still going, The 40 Year Old Virgin is showing signs of having strong legs to carry it through the rest of the...
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Box Office Update: 8/19-21— Who would have guessed it? The Virgin came out on top. It exceeded expectations taking in over $21 million. It looks like Judd Apatow may finally have a hit,...
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Box Office Update: 8/12-14— Welcome once again to the Box Office Recap. This week offers a few notables, and surprises (at least to me). Four Brothers exceeded my expectations at the box...
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Box Office Update: 8/5-7— August is dragging on, kids are starting to dread the coming of school in less than a month, and there is less competition at the box office. The big...
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Box Office Update: 7/29-31— Hollywood has nothing to worry about, they still have a slump to complain about. Ticket sales were down over 21% from the same weekend last year. Of course, it...
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Box Office Update: 7/22-24
— Well let's just say, right up front, the perceived slump is back. Or to put it another way, this week didn't match or beat the same weekend last year,...
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Box Office Update: 7/15-17— How sweet it is: the magical chocolate factory, combined with those looking for love in all the wrong (right?) places, has lifted the box office, for an amazing second...
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Box Office Update: 7/8-10— Finally, talk of the downturn in the week to week business comparisons is over. This weekend, the box office rose to $148.9 million compared to last year's $148.2 million....
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Box Office Update: Independence Day Weekend
— I have included the Monday holiday numbers in this rather than just the usual 3 day weekend, since most people had off let's just make it the whole thing,...
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Box Office Update: 6/24-26
— This week marks the 18 straight week that the weekend box office did not exceed or match the comparable weekend from last year. The movies are still bringing in...
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Box Office Update: 6/17-19
— Well, the Batman was not strong enough to get the box office slump. The streak has now reached 17 weeks, tying the unwanted record set back in 1985. It's not like...
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Box Office Update: 6/10-12
— Well, Mr. & Mrs. Smith exceeded all expectations to lead the box office this week, grabbing more than $50 million dollars. I admit, I added to the pile of that...
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