- 3/14/13 /
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Box Office Battles: The 8 Most Crowded Movie Weekends of 2013
Which blockbusters are pitted against each other ... and which should move?
Your Box Office Explained
- 3/4/13 /
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Your Box Office Explained: Why Did Jack the Giant Slayer Bomb?
At least it opened before this weekend's Oz movie. That's the only positive we can find here.
- 2/25/13 /
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Your Box Office Explained: Identity Thief and Nominees Do Well on Oscar Weekend
While Snitch fizzled, Oscar nominees Argo and Silver Linings Playbook were still hanging in there.
- 2/18/13 /
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Your Box Office Explained: The U.S. Is Just Gravy for Good Day to Die Hard
The latest John McClane explodo-installment is all about the international markets.
- 2/11/13 /
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Your Box Office Explained: Identity Thief Is 2013’s First Comedy Hit
Does this mean Melissa McCarthy is a "movie star" or not?
- 2/4/13 /
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Your Box Office Explained: This Bullet to the Head Can’t Stop a Zombie Weekend
Also, Best Picture nominees keep chugging along.
- 1/28/13 /
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Your Box Office Explained: Silver Linings Is Gold; Zero Dark Stalls
The David O. Russell film appears to be finding its feet, while Bigelow's thriller is trending downward.
- 1/21/13 /
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Your Box Office Explained: Audiences Are Good to Mama
What about that Jessica Chastain, huh?
- 1/14/13 /
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Your Box Office Explained: Oscar Nominations Lift Zero Dark, Lincoln, and Silver Linings
Except for Django.
- 1/7/13 /
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Your Box Office Explained: Texas Chainsaw Carves Out Top Spot, to the Horror of Some
And Django is likely to become the highest-grossing Tarantino film next weekend.
- 12/31/12 /
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Your Box Office Explained: 2012 Was a Good Year for Hollywood
The industry saw its biggest single increase in admissions in a decade.
- 12/17/12 /
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Your Box Office Explained: Why Didn’t The Hobbit Make More Money This Weekend?
Not that $85 million isn't a boatload.
- 12/10/12 /
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Your Box Office Explained: Why Skyfall Won’t Fall
It and Lincoln have lured in a very important — and long-tailed — older audience.
- 12/3/12 /
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Your Box Office Explained: Brad Pitt’s Killing Them Softly Dies an Unworthy Death
With no new major studio releases, three Thanksgiving leftovers took the top spots.
- 11/19/12 /
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Your Box Office Explained: Vampires, Bond, Lincoln — Everyone’s a Winner!
It was a stellar box-office weekend.
- 11/12/12 /
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Your Box Office Explained: Skyfall Makes It Rain With Biggest Bond Franchise Debut Ever
$87 million. In one weekend.
- 11/5/12 /
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Your Box Office Explained: Wreck-It Ralph Destroys Competition, Yet Denzel Still Walks On Water
Still, Flight had a good weekend.
- 10/29/12 /
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Your Box Office Explained: Cloud Atlas Finds Itself Lost Against Argo, Hotel Transylvania
And let's not even talk about Chasing Mavericks.
- 10/22/12 /
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Your Box Office Explained: You Can’t Call Paranormal Activity 4 Anything Other Than a Success
So what if it’s on track to be the lowest-grossing film of the franchise so far?
- 10/15/12 /
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Your Box Office Explained: Hollywood Chases All the Young Dudes
Argo, Taken 2, and Sinister end the weekend in a tight finish.