Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Universal and Jason Blum‘s microbudgeted thriller The Purge had no trouble scaring off The Internship as it grossed a stunning $36.4 million. The Purge, starring Ethan Hawke and Game of Thrones‘ LenaHeadey, wasn’t Universal’s only victory of the weekend. Fast & Furious 6 claimed the No. 2 spot as it grossed $19.8 million in its third weekend to race past the $200 million mark domestically. …
Read More »Will Smith Is No Longer The King Of Summer
Marking a sizeable blow for one of the world’s top stars, Will Smith‘s sci-fi adventure After Earthnarrowly lost to Now You See Me, although neither movie could catch the latest installment of The Fast and The Furious. After Earth, starring Smith and his son, Jaden, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, took in $27 million, far below estimates, …
Read More »‘Fast 6’ Runs Over Box Office
Universal’s Fast & Furious 6 is racing towards a $122 million Memorial Day debut after leaving The Hangover Part III in the dust and scoring the studio its biggest domestic opening of all time, not accounting for inflation. The action pic also marks the studio’s biggest international opening, taking in $158 million and pushing …
Read More »Iron Man 3 Continues To Dominate Box Office
Despite a stronger than expected showing in it’s debut weekend, “Gatsby” failed to overtake the armored avenger. “Iron Man 3” took in $72.5 million in its second weekend for a domestic cume of $284.9 million. Overseas, the Disney and Marvel Studios goliath grossed $89.3 million for an international total of …
Read More »‘Iron Man 3’ Dominates Box Office
Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man 3 made the record books as it kicked off the summer movie season with a $175.3 million opening from 4,253 theaters in North America, the No. 2 debut of all time behind fellow Marvel pic The Avengers ($207.4 million), also starring Downey as Iron Man. Iron Man 3 received a glowing A CinemaScore …
Read More »‘Pain & Gain’ Tops Box Office
Michael Bay‘s Pain & Gain starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson topped the domestic box office with $20 million on the final weekend before summer tentpoles begin rolling out. Overseas, however, Iron Man 3 opened to a mammoth $195.3 million, bigger than last year’s The Avengers and boding well for the threequel’s domestic launch on May 3. The top …
Read More »‘Oblivion’ Tops Box Office
Despite Tom Cruise’s horrific acting and poor audience reviews, sci-fi pic Oblivion opened to $38.2 million at the domestic box office to come in No. 1 after a better-than-expected performance. Overseas, the Universal pic continued to please, grossing $33.7 million in its second weekend for an international cume of $112 million and worldwide total …
Read More »’42’ Hits Box Office Home Run
The rousing baseball biopic 42, from Warners and Legendary, scored at the weekend box office, batting in an estimated $27.3 million at the North American box office. 42 recounts the career of Jackie Robinson. The film was written and directed byBrian Helgeland (A Knight’s Tale), and stars Chadwick Boseman as Robinson and Harrison Ford as the Brooklyn Dodgers general …
Read More »‘Evil Dead’ Rises To The Top Of The Box Office
The low budget remake of Sam Raimi‘s 1981 cult horror film Evil Dead earned a better-than-expected $26 million in its domestic bow for a No. 1 finish. Overseas, the pic took in $4.5 million from its first 21 markets for a worldwide debut of $30.5 million. The top 12 films of the weekend, as of …
Read More »‘Croods’ Tops The Box Office
A bumbling prehistoric family and a terrorist takeover of the White House galvanized weekend moviegoers as new entries The Croods and Olympus Has Fallen took the top two spots at the North American box office. Croods opened to a solid $44.7 million from 4,406 theaters after receiving a pleasing A CinemaScore. That’s welcome news forJeffrey Katzenberg‘s DreamWorks Animation, whose …
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