Dec 15th 2009Box Office Results
Source: www.boxofficemojo.com
“Kiss you and we’re #1? M’oookay….”
Despite every other industry ailing during the recession and everything, Hollywood has already set a new revenue record for theatrical releases in 2009, already grossing over $9.79 BILLION so far this year, which breaks the previous record of $9.68 BILLION set in 2007 — and that’s not counting AVATAR and the other X-Mas releases coming soon to a theatre near you! In fact, pundits are estimating that the annual box-office will surpass the $10 BILLION mark in the next 10 days or so. Not bad, not bad at all. Read More »
Dec 9th 2009Box Office Results
Source: www.boxofficemojo.com
“You’re money and you know it!”
This is Sandra Bullock’s year and we’re just sitting around watching her movies, apparently. After posting the biggest opening weekend of her career with THE PROPOSAL this past summer with $33.6M (which ended up being her highest grossing film to boot with $164M), Bullock beat that mark with the opening for THE BLIND SIDE three weeks ago, $34.1M, and appears to be headed to yet another personal best, as the film just moved from 2nd place for the past two weeks (behind NEW MOON, of course) into 1st place in its third week of release and has already earned $129M — not to mention being the major surprise hit of the season! Read More »
Dec 3rd 2009Box Office Results
Source: www.boxofficemojo.com
New Moon almost eclipsed by Bullock’s Blind Side!
Everyone blindly assumed that NEW MOON would return as the #1 movie over the Thanksgiving weekend. And while, yes, NEW MOON was the #1 movie this holiday weekend, it was by a much smaller margin than most anticipated. NEW MOON grossed $42.5MM this weekend beating out THE BLIND SIDE by only about $2MM. While MOON dropped a big-time 70.2%, the Sandra Bullock family drama THE BLIND SIDE actually rose by 17.6% with $40.1 million bringing its total so far to over $100MM in just its second week. Read More »