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*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars.
After spending only seven weeks at the top of the box office, “Avatar” was humiliatingly defeated by “Dear John” and doomed to obscurity forever by dropping to second place.
The new weekend victor earned a phenomenal $32.4 million to end James Cameron’s epic reign and finally give 2010 [...]
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SUNDAY CENTS: Dear James, Suck it! Signed, ‘Dear John’
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 10:43 am · February 7th, 2010
Filed in: Box Office · Sunday Cents
FRIDAY FORECAST: 72 degrees and ‘Avatar’
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 11:26 am · February 5th, 2010
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars.
“Avatar” has swept aside the entire January schedule with relative ease and is aiming for an eighth weekend at the top of the box office. Considering it dropped only 10% last week despite some direct male competition from Mel Gibson and it now has 9 Oscar [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Friday Forecast
SUNDAY CENTS: ‘Darkness’ falls
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 12:54 pm · January 31st, 2010
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars.
The self-proclaimed King of the World wiped the floor with the self-proclaimed King of Malibu as “Avatar” spent a seventh consecutive week at the top of the box office. A cool $30 million represents a drop of only 14% from last week and again sits only [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Sunday Cents
SUNDAY CENTS: ‘Fairy’ bust
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 10:55 am · January 24th, 2010
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars.
Blah blah blah blah “Avatar” blah blah number one blah blah blah $36 million. Second biggest sixth weekend ever, behind “Titanic.” $550 million+ in the bank, passing “The Dark Knight” and entering the top 10 highest grossing films of the modern era (1980 onward). The [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Sunday Cents
FRIDAY FORECAST: The awful ‘Tooth’
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 9:52 am · January 22nd, 2010
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars.
Here we go again. There’s very little reason to think that “Avatar” won’t spend a sixth consecutive weekend at the top of the box office. No film has done that since “Titanic” and only three have done it since 1988. It’s just not possible [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Friday Forecast
SUNDAY CENTS: ‘Book’ report
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 10:23 am · January 17th, 2010
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars.
First off, I should apologize for neglecting to write a Friday Forecast column this week. Fridays are my day off from work so while I have plenty of time to cook up an article, it’s also the one day where the box office is farthest from [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Sunday Cents
SUNDAY CENTS: That ‘Avatar’ thing is doing well, eh?
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 12:01 pm · January 10th, 2010
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars.
Have you guys heard of this movie “Avatar?” Apparently, seeing as it’s the number one movie for the fourth week in a row and dropped a ridiculous 29% to $48.5 million. First off, it’s the biggest fourth weekend for a film ever, narrowly eclipsing the $45 [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Sunday Cents
SUNDAY CENTS: Happy Blue Year
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 10:49 am · January 3rd, 2010
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars.
Okay. What kind of fairy dust is James Cameron sprinkling in his films? Subliminal messages perhaps? There’s no other explanation. “Avatar” is the number one movie again this weekend, raking in $68.3 million, off 10% from last week. It becomes the first film to [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Sunday Cents
SUNDAY CENTS: Box office is a Festivus miracle!
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 2:18 pm · December 27th, 2009
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars.
Holy shit. There’s no other way to describe the box office this weekend, which may well go down as the most attended three days on record. Nearly 35 million tickets were sold and three films grossed more than $50 million each.
The number one movie for [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Sunday Cents
SUNDAY CENTS: Pandora’s tops
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 12:03 pm · December 20th, 2009
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars.
Alright, let’s get down to brass tacks. “Avatar” is the number one movie of the weekend with a $73 million gross. This is an enormous figure, there’s no two ways about it. It’s the fourth-biggest December debut of all time. It’s the 26th-biggest [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Sunday Cents
FRIDAY FORECAST: Blue boon
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 3:46 pm · December 18th, 2009
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars.
It’s “Avatar” day people! The day some of us have been waiting for! The movie has been hyped for years and if you listen to the critics, James Cameron has delivered. The man has a pretty impeccable box office history and is belatedly coming [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Friday Forecast
SUNDAY CENTS: A little ‘Princess’
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 8:00 pm · December 13th, 2009
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars.
Disney tasted a bit of its old early-1990s magic with the number one finish of “The Princess and the Frog” this week. The hand-drawn toon grossed $25 million after two phenomenal weeks in New York and Los Angeles only. “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast” [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Sunday Cents
FRIDAY FORECAST: Freeman vs. frog
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 2:14 pm · December 11th, 2009
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars.
We are only one week away from the day that movie-going is changed forever so why even bother seeing anything now? I can’t be hassled by anything in only TWO dimensions! I didn’t buy these designer 3D/sunglasses for nothing!
Disney really emphasizes the 2D this weekend with [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Sunday Cents
SUNDAY CENTS: ‘Brothers’ gloom
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 11:11 am · December 6th, 2009
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars.
As I already mentioned, the first weekend in December is a veritable dead zone at the multiplex as audiences start shifting more towards Christmas shopping and making vacation plans. Or maybe they are just too busy having sex. (More people are born in August than any other [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Sunday Cents
FRIDAY FORECAST: Thanksgiving leftovers and new turkeys
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 7:34 pm · December 4th, 2009
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars.
Sorry this is a little late, as I’ve been super busy this week. Luckily, it’s one of the slowest box office weeks of the year and there is little to look forward to.
You can bet the farm that “The Blind Side” will win the weekend for [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Friday Forecast
