The Last Exorcism Articles

Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell, The Other Guys Julia Roberts’ EAT PRAY LOVE Tops Sylvester Stallone’s THE EXPENDABLES for First Time: Box Office Following a dismal Monday, things improved somewhat at the North American box office on Tuesday, Aug. 31. Revenues were up 11% (though they were still down 30% from the previous week) and nine among the top twelve movies posted attendance gains. The three [...]

Javier Bardem, Julia Roberts in Ryan Murphy’s Eat Pray Love The US/Canada box office tumbled on Monday, Aug. 30, down 64% from Sunday and 33% from the previous Monday — which was already down 31% from the Monday before (Aug. 16). Despite their surprising weekend debuts, it doesn’t look like the current top hits, John Luessenhop’s heist thriller Takers and Daniel Stamm’s mockumentary The Last [...]

Matt Dillon in John Luessenhop’s Takers (top); Sam Worthington as a Na’vi in James Cameron’s Avatar (bottom) The top spot at the North American box office this past weekend belonged to Takers, not The Last Exorcism, which came at no. 2. Studio estimates released Sunday were quite a bit off. Featuring Hayden Christensen, Paul Walker, Matt Dillon, Chris Brown, and Idris Elba, John Luessenhop’s heist [...]

Paul Walker, T.I., Michael Ealy, Hayden Christensen, Idris Elba, Takers Perhaps because there just wasn’t much out there, Daniel Stamm’s mockumentary The Last Exorcism (cost: $2m) and John Luessenhop’s heist thriller The Takers (cost: $32m) performed way above expectations over the weekend, according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Totals for each movie hovered around $21m, with The Last Exorcism having an edge [...]