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Your Box Office Explained

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    Your Box Office Explained: The Muppets Survives the Family Film PileupHugo and Arthur Christmas are not so lucky.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Your Box Office Explained: Breaking Dawn Does Not Disappoint’Happy Feet Two’ comes up surprisingly short.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  3. Your Box Office Explained: Immortals Slays Jack and JillAnd J. Edgar underperforms.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Your Box Office Explained: Tower Heist UnderperformsPuss in Boots does not.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  5. Your Box Office Explained: Puss in Boots Roars’In Time’ whimpers.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Your Box Office Explained: Paranormal Activity 3 Scares Up Big Money’Three Musketeers’ flops.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Your Box Office Explained: Now Can We All Agree Eighties Remakes Are a Bad Idea?Nobody cares about ‘Footloose’ or ‘The Thing.’
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  8. Your Box Office Explained: Real Steel Is for Real$27.3 million, and ‘Ides of March’ comes in second.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  9. Your Box Office Explained: Dolphin Tale Wins the Weekend, But Courageous Does Surprisingly WellAnd ‘What’s Your Number?’ flops.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  10. Lion King 3D, Moneyball, and Dolphin Tale Stage a Photo FinishAll made between 20 and 22 million. ‘Abduction’ was not even close.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  11. Throwback Weekend As The Lion King 3D Stomps the New Stuff’Drive,’ ‘Straw Dogs,’ and ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It’ don’t fare well.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  12. Your Box Office Explained: Contagion Is Highly Infectious’Warrior’ is no ‘The Fighter.’
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    The Help Is All that Saves a Weekend of Horrible Horror’Apollo 18’ and ‘Shark Night 3D’ tank.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  14. Hurricane Irene Swamps Everything But The HelpAnd the new releases keep eating into each other’s box office.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  15. New Releases See How Low They Can GoGood news for ‘The Help.’
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Rise of the Planet of the Apes Does Excellent Monkey Business$54 million worth.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Captain America Is VictoriousAnd ‘Harry Potter’ falls off 75 percent.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  18. Your Box Office Explained: Harry Potter Destroys Most of the World’s Box Office RecordsIt made nearly half a billion dollars worldwide.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  19. Horrible Bosses Outdraws Zookeeper at the Weekend Box OfficeWhile ‘Transformers’ becomes the highest-grossing film of the year.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  20. Transformers: Dark of the Moon Demolishes the Long WeekendA Happy July 4th for Michael Bay.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Cars 2 Wins, Despite Breaking Critics’ HeartsAnd ‘Bad Teacher’ also taunts critics with an impressive take.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Green Lantern, the Underperforming Superhero’Green Lantern’ takes in $52, but it cost a lot more.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    How Super 8 Overcame Its Bad TrackingJ.J. Abrams’s mysterious approach to marketing had his movie overshadowed by the show-it-all superhero trailers.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  24. Your Box Office Explained: X-Men: First Class Wins the WeekendAnd it should have legs.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  25. Hangover II Leads Record-Breaking Holiday WeekendThe sequel made $140 million, the weekend made $280.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  26. Your Box Office Explained: Always a BridesmaidsAnd that’s a good thing. A $24 million good thing.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Who Thor’s Hammer Connected WithWell, it wasn’t as mighty as ‘Fast Five’ was last week, but $66 million isn’t bad.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  28. Your Box Office Explained: Expect a Fast Six$84 million and the biggest opening in the history of Universal.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  29. Your Box Office Explained: Hanna Beats Up On Arthur, Your HighnessAnd ‘Hop’ stays strong.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  30. Your Box Office Explained: Hop Skips Over Source CodeThe animated movie is the biggest of the year so far.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  31. Your Box Office Explained: Wimpy Kid Sucker Punches Sucker PunchZach Snyder’s action movie loses out to a nerd.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Your Box Office Explained: Rango Conquers AllAnd the ‘Adjustment Bureau’ didn’t do too shabby, either.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Your Box Office Explained: Nic Cage and the Farrellys Fall to Old GnomesThe who and the why behind the weak openings of ‘Hall Pass’ and ‘Drive Angry.’
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  34. Your Box Office Explained: Liam Neeson Shows Alex Pettyfer How It’s Done’Unknown’ wins the weekend.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Sandler Beats Bieber by a HairHow did ‘Never Say Never’ come so close to defeating ‘Just Go With It’?
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    The Rite Performs Only All Right’The Rite’ opened to $15 million, or $4 million less than expected.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Natalie Portman’s on Top’No Strings Attached’ wins the weekend.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Your Box Office Explained: The Green Hornet Stings The Dilemma’Hornet’: The “highest-grossing opening ever for a live-action superhero comedy,” whatever that means.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    True Grit Guns Down Fockers, Season of the WitchThe Coens’ biggest movie to date has now become one of the best-performing horse operas of recent memory.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Box Office: Tangled Wins, But Everything TanksAttendance for November: the weakest in 15 years.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Box Office: Tangled Can’t Beat Harry Potter’s LeftoversShock: Men skip ‘Burlesque.’
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Half a Harry Potter Movie Takes Almost the Whole Box OfficeWho DIDN’T go see ‘Harry Potter’ this weekend?
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Ironically Titled Denzel Movie Places SecondPlus: ‘Morning Glory’ fails to rise or shine.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Box Office: Everybody Wins! (But Especially Megamind)Good news for ‘127 Hours,’ too.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Saw 3D Takes Biggest CutPlus: Kristen Stewart’s Rileys unwelcome.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Paranormal Activity 2 Scores Three WaysIt got a big boost when a chain banned its trailer back in June.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Jackass 3D Shatters Records, RibsParamount’s Jackass 3D earned a retina-separating $50 million over the weekend.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    The Social Network Hangs OnPlus: Katherine Heigl’s Life disappoints.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    The Social Network Pokes America’s WalletsBut only $23 million for our generation’s ‘Citizen Kane’?
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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    Your Box Office Explained: Gekko Eats OwlsA good weekend for Serious Movies For Grown Ups.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
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