box office Articles

Ben Foster, Contraband According to Deadline.com, this four-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend the North American box office could reach $165 million — or up about 4% compared to last year. Considering the disappointing returns in late 2011, a modest increase is good news indeed for the jittery Hollywood studios. Helping things out are the Mark Wahlberg crime thriller Contraband, which earned an estimated $9 [...]

Simon Quarterman, The Devil Inside North Americans want original, high-quality stories, pundits are always reminding us. Make good, original movies and you'll have lots of butts warming movie seats. Well, the warm butts are back in huge numbers thanks to … The Devil Inside, a derivative, cheaply made horror flick with a 7% approval rating among Rotten Tomatoes' critics and an "F" CinemaScore rating from [...]

Suzan Crowley, The Devil Inside All Hollywood needs is a good movie and North Americans will return to movie theaters. Well, The Devil Inside is apparently that "good" movie: with an 8% approval rating among Rotten Tomatoes' critics, the horror thriller/exorcism "documentary" earned $2 million at Thursday midnight screenings at 1,400 sites. That's considerably more than Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows' $1.25 million in [...]

That Mission: Impossible IV – Ghost Protocol would easily top the North American box-office this four-day New Year's weekend was no surprise. Directed by Brad Bird (Ratatouille) and starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, and Paula Patton, MI4 brought in $38.32 million (+30%) as per studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Weekend box-office actuals will be released tomorrow. [Photo: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart in Breaking [...]