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No Cure For The Hangover Part Two

June 2, 2011 By Barry Steele 2 Comments

It has felt like a pretty slow year at the box office, but that has changed over the last several weeks. Fast Five and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides have both made huge amounts of money, but this weekend a box office record was broken. To be fair, we are not talking about [...]

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The Last Airbender – Shyamalan’s Last Hurrah?

July 2, 2010 By Barry Steele 24 Comments

So the reviews are coming in for The Last Airbender, and boy, it don’t look pretty. There had been hope that it would be a resurrection of sorts for M. Night Shyamalan’s filmmaking career but, as it stands, it could be the final nail. So is this the end for the once loved director? The [...]

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Summer Box Office Crash?!

June 18, 2010 By Barry Steele 5 Comments

Last weekend’s big movies made money, with The Karate Kid doing particularly well against its production budget. However, compared to some of the numbers seen over the Spring, the Summer box office appears to be declining, with the A-Team particularly falling far short of expectations. Usually, Summer is the big seller, and there has been no [...]

Filed Under: Features, News Tagged With: A-Team, Alice in Wonderland, box office, films, gross, Inception, Iron Man 2, Movies, Reviews, Sex and the City, summer, The Karate Kid, Toy Story 3D

Why The Karate Kid Knocked Out The A-Team

June 16, 2010 By Barry Steele 7 Comments

This past weekend saw two big movies open at the US box office. There were high hopes for The Karate Kid and The A-Team, and they enjoyed remarkably differing fortune at the box office. With an opening weekend gross of around $25M, The A-Team only made a small percentage of its production budget, while The [...]

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Kick-Ass – The Harsh Reality Of Virtual Marketing

April 21, 2010 By Barry Steele 4 Comments

Well, the final weekend numbers came in, and it seems Kick-Ass DID win the weekend box office after all. But only by the slimmest of margins, and over a movie entering its fourth week of release. So why has one of the first ‘highly anticipated’ movies of the year had such a weak showing in [...]

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The Key To Alice’s Big Box Office… Timing…

March 9, 2010 By Barry Steele 2 Comments

I predicted in my preview ten days ago that Alice in Wonderland would draw big box office. No, it wasn’t exactly a bold prediction, and it was clear to everyone that a lot of money was going to be spent on Alice. I don’t think, however, that anyone could have predicted just how much money [...]

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Avatar Becomes Third Highest Grossing Film of All Time

January 7, 2010 By David Sztypuljak 5 Comments

It’s been out a total of 21 days and yet still it has already become the third highest grossing film of all time THR report. James Cameron’s epic fantasy movie, Avatar movie seems to have captured the world by storm with loads of people I know still finding it hard to get tickets to the [...]

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