Francis Lawrence Articles

Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Tai the Elephant in Francis Lawrence’s Water for Elephants Paul Feig’s sleeper hit Bridesmaids, starring Kristen Wiig, topped the North American box office throughout this past week, grossing another $2.85m on Thursday, May 19, according to Box Office Mojo. The well-received comedy fell (slightly) below the daily $1k-per-theater average yesterday, with $980 per site. Bridesmaids, in fact, should pass the $50m [...]

Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Water for Elephants To date, Rio is the biggest worldwide box-office hit of 2011. Fast Five and Thor are also performing remarkably well. But apart from Oscar winners The King’s Speech and Black Swan — both late 2010 releases — the North American box office hasn’t been all too keen on dramas about human relationships. Nearly half of 2011 has gone [...]

Robert Pattinson, Tai the Elephant (as Rosie), Water for Elephants Tyler Perry’s MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY Weaker Than Previous Madeas: Box Office Starring Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Hal Holbrook, and Tai the Elephant (as Rosie the Elephant), Francis Lawrence’s period romantic drama Water for Elephants, adapted by Richard LaGravenese from Sara Gruen’s bestseller, debuted with a stronger than expected $17.5m according to studio [...]

Robert Pattinson in Francis Lawrence’s Water for Elephants Carlos Saldanha’s Rio, featuring the voices of Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jane Lynch, George Lopez, and others, topped the US/Canada box office on Friday, April 22, grossing $10.75m according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. At a — relatively speaking — disappointing no. 2, Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family opened with $10.5m. If figures [...]