A CHRISTMAS CAROL Tops Box Office; THIS IS IT in 2nd Spot
As expected, Walt Disney’s A Christmas Carol took the No. 1 spot at the North American box office this weekend with a solid $31 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Starring Jim Carrey (above), the Robert Zemeckis-directed 3D motion-capture adventure tale based on Charles Dickens’ classic opened at 3,683 locations and scored an average of $8,417 per theater, enough to crush its competition.
At No. 2, Michael Jackson’s This Is It delivered another strong performance, earning $14 million at 3,481 locations. Sony’s documentary about the late pop star’s planned concert series lifted its total gross to an impressive $57.8 million.
New entry The Men Who Stare at [...]
by Franck Tabouring | November 8, 2009
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Tags: A Christmas Carol, Box Office, Cameron Diaz, George Clooney, Jim Carrey, Michael Jackson, Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Robert Zemeckis, The Box, The Fourth Kind, The Men Who Stare at Goats, This Is It
TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN Tops Box Office
Though massacred by critics, Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen crushed the North American box office this week with an impressive $201.2 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, and Josh Duhamel, the anticipated sequel to Transformers opened at 4,234 locations Wednesday and scored a daily gross of $60.6 million, the highest ever for a Wednesday. The film brought in another $28 million Thursday and $36.7 million on Friday.
At a distant No. 2, last week’s winner The Proposal collected $18.4 million, reaching a domestic gross of $69 million. Starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, the film follows an overbearing book editor who [...]
by Franck Tabouring | June 29, 2009
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Tags: Box Office, Bradley Cooper, Cameron Diaz, Jason Patric, My Sister's Keeper, Sandra Bullock, The Hangover, The Proposal, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Up
Oscar 2008: Nicole Kidman, George Clooney, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz
Nicole Kidman
George Clooney, Sarah Larson
Rebecca Miller, Daniel Day-Lewis
Cameron Diaz
Photos: Matt Petit (Clooney), Richard Harbaugh (Day-Lewis), Greg Harbaugh (Diaz, Kidman). All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.
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by Andre Soares | February 25, 2008
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Tags: 2008 Oscar, Academy Awards, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Film Awards, George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Photos, Rebecca Miller, Sarah Larson
GANGS OF NEW YORK – Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis
Gangs of New York (2002)
Direction: Martin Scorsese
Screenplay: Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan, from a story by Cocks. (Herbert Asbury’s Gangs of New York treads on some of the same territory shown in the film.)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, Henry Thomas, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, John C. Reilly, Gary Lewis, Stephen Graham, Eddie Marsan, Alec McCowen, David Hemmings
KEEP AWAY YOUR POOR, YOUR TIRED. . .
Those who think that gangs and urban violence are a modern phenomenon should take a look at Martin Scorsese’s ambitious Gangs of New York, a riveting tale of revenge, corruption, and power lust set in mid-1860s New York City. Scorsese had already covered the dangerous streets of his hometown in [...]
by Andre Soares | December 23, 2004
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Tags: Bill the Butcher, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Film Reviews, Four-Star Movies, Four-Star Oscar Nominees, Gangs of New York, Henry Thomas, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Oscar 2002, Oscar Movies, Political Movies, Steven Zaillian, Thelma Schoonmaker
