Box Office

'Idnetity Thief' Steals the Box Office

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 04.12.2013

LOS ANGELES — "Identity Thief" has turned out to be the real thing at the North American box office. The comedy starring Jason Bateman and Meli...

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Box Office: How Did 'Warm Bodies' Come Alive to Win the Weekend?

HuffingtonPost.com | Gary Susman | Posted 02.04.2013

"Warm Bodies" may be a strange horror hybrid, a zombie romance with a dearth of big stars, released in the dead of winter over Super Bowl weekend, but...

'Warm Bodies' Heats Up Box Office

AP | By JAKE COYLE | Posted 04.05.2013

NEW YORK -- The love-struck zombies of "Warm Bodies" swarmed the box office on Super Bowl weekend with a $20 million opening. On a weekend that Holly...

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Box Office: Why Did All-Star Comedy 'Movie 43' Stumble?

HuffingtonPost.com | Gary Susman | Posted 01.28.2013

Opening in seventh place this weekend with just $5.0 million on 2,043 screens, "Movie 43" marks one of the poorest wide-release openings of Hugh Jackm...

'Hansel & Gretel' Top Box Office

AP | DERRIK J. LANG | Posted 03.29.2013

LOS ANGELES — "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" cooked up $19 million in its opening weekend. Paramount's R-rated action film update on the clas...

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Schwarzenegger's Last Stand?

HuffingtonPost.com | Gary Susman | Posted 01.22.2013

What if the man who said, "I'll be back" came back, and no one noticed? Not that anyone was expecting huge numbers from "The Last Stand," the first...

Chastain Wins Box Office

AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 03.22.2013

NEW YORK — Jessica Chastain easily outmuscled Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mark Wahlberg over the weekend, topping the box office with both her sup...

'Zero Dark Thirty' Wins Weekend

AP | DERRIK J. LANG | Posted 03.15.2013

LOS ANGELES — "Zero Dark Thirty" hunted down the top spot at the box office – and easily won it. Sony Pictures' controversial Osama bin L...

'Texas Chainsaw 3D' Hits No. 1

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 03.08.2013

LOS ANGELES — It took Leatherface and his chainsaw to chase tiny hobbit Bilbo Baggins out of the top spot at the box office. Lionsgate's horror...

'Django' Out Does 'Les Mis'

AP | By CHRISTY LEMIRE | Posted 03.01.2013

LOS ANGELES -- "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" continues to rule them all at the box office, staying on top for a third-straight week and capping ...

'Les Mis' Sweeps X-Mas Box Office

Posted 12.26.2012

While your Yuletide festivities may be at an end, the spirit of Christmas is alive and well at the cinema this year. Unsurprisingly, Tom Hooper's ...

'Hobbit' Wins Weekend

AP | By JAKE COYLE | Posted 02.15.2013

NEW YORK -- Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" led the box office with a haul of $84.8 million, a record-setting opening better than the three previous "Lor...

'Skyfall' Knocks Out 'Twilight'

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 02.08.2013

LOS ANGELES — James Bond is in a box-office photo finish with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny over what looks to be the last slow weekend of th...

Weekend Box Office: 'Twilight,' Bond, 'Lincoln' Lead Record Weekend

AP | By DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 01.25.2013

LOS ANGELES -- Bella Swan, James Bond and Abe Lincoln have combined to lift Hollywood to record Thanksgiving revenue at the box office. Kristen Stewa...

'Breaking Dawn' Comes Out Big

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 01.18.2013

LOS ANGELES — The sun has set on the "Twilight" franchise with one last blockbuster opening for the supernatural romance. "The Twilight Saga: B...

'Skyfall' Scores Big

Posted 01.11.2013

LOS ANGELES -- The sky's the limit for James Bond's "Skyfall." The 23rd Bond film hauled in a franchise-record $87.8 million in its first weekend a...

'Wreck-It Ralph' Overcomes Sandy

AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 01.04.2013

NEW YORK — The weekend box office was not only undeterred by the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, it was buoyed by it. Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph" ...

Another No. 1 For 'Paranormal Activity'

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 12.21.2012

Scary movie fans are still into "Paranormal Activity," though the horror franchise looks as though it's starting to run out of steam at the box office...

'Taken 2' Takes Down 'Argo'

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 12.14.2012

LOS ANGELES — Liam Neeson's "Taken 2" has defended its box-office title with a narrow win over Ben Affleck's "Argo." Sunday studio estimates pu...

'Transylvania' Scares Its Way To No. 1

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 11.30.2012

LOS ANGELES — Adam Sandler's monster mash-up "Hotel Transylvania" has brought the weekend box office back to life after a late-summer slump. Th...

J-Law Wins Weekend Box Office

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 11.23.2012

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is in photo-finish mode with three new movies bunched up tightly for the No. 1 spot during a sleepy weekend at the box o...

'Resident Evil 5' Tops Box Office

AP | CHRISTY LEMIRE | Posted 11.16.2012

LOS ANGELES — Paul Thomas Anderson's cult drama "The Master" commanded a huge following in its opening weekend, smashing records on just a handf...

'Possession' Remains No. 1 At Weak Box Office

AP | DERRIK J. LANG | Posted 11.09.2012

LOS ANGELES — "The Possession" occupied the top spot at a nearly comatose box office. The fright flick with Kyra Sedgwick and Jeffrey Dean Morg...

'The Possession' Scares Up Big Weekend

Posted 09.03.2012

The working class have spoken: they chose to celebrate the Labor Day weekend by seeing "The Possession." The horror film about a mysterious box from ...

August's Biggest Box-Office Bombs

Posted 08.27.2012

August can be a rough month for movie fans. With every major summer blockbuster already out in theaters, studios look to shove out whatever bottom-of-...