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The Box Office Thread: "Beverley Hills Chihuahua" is No. 1
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Zaz
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5/25 7:18pm
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RE: The Box Office Thread: How Will Indy IV do?
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"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull so far has banked $126 million since opening on Thursday, according to box office estimates. The long-awaited sequel, reuniting the dream team of producer George Lucas, director Steven Spielberg, and star Harrison Ford, made about $25 million in its first day, then over a three-day period tallied an additional $101 million. That's the biggest movie debut of 2008 so far. Also, after just four days, Crystal Skull is already at No. 3 for total 2008 box office, behind Iron Man (No. 1) and Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (No. 2)."
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Zaz
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5/30 12:50pm
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RE: The Box Office Thread: How Will Indy IV do?
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Is Indy IV Mr. Big?
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Vengance1003
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Indy has definably been doing good at the box office. Let's hope it keeps it up.
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solojones
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I do hope it keeps up decently anyway, solely because I really, really, really want to see an Indy V, a more planned closure, as do nearly all the people I've talked to here on the Indy board (whether they liked Skull much or not).
But I dunno what EW is talking about- I'm young and I love both Indy and SatC, so I must just be breaking stereotypes everywhere 
-sj loves kevin spacey
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JohnWesleyDowney
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5/31 1:24am
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Vengance1003 posted:
Indy has definably been doing good at the box office. Let's hope it keeps it up.
I'll definitely being seeing it numerous times while it still plays theatrically. There's much to learn from it, and I shall scour EVERY frame.
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Zaz
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5/31 6:20pm
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I wonder how it did overseas?
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MarcusP2
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6/1 6:21am
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I believe it's broken 300 million total already, so pretty good. I think around 150 mil so far.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=indianajones4.htm
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Zaz
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6/1 11:42am
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"Sex and the City" surprises everybody
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Zaz
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6/8 7:30am
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Kung Fu Panda will battle for first place
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6/8 11:11am
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RE: The Box Office Thread: Kung Fu Panda Battles for First Place
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And...
"'Kung Fu Panda' Kicks up a Big Win
By Joshua Rich
"On a robust weekend when the four top movies each earned over $20 million and the cumulative box office take was way up from a year ago, it was Kung Fu Panda that led the way. With an impressive $60 million debut gross, the Jack Black animated film easily finished in first place, beating Adam Sandler's strong new flick You Don't Mess With the Zohan and the long-legged holdovers Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Sex and the City.
For Kung Fu Panda, that blockbuster $60 mil opening ranked No. 9 on the all-time list of animated premieres, and it was the best yet for a non-sequel from DreamWorks Animation (only Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third banked more on their first weekends). It was almost exactly in line with the $60.1 mil that Pixar's Cars bowed with on this weekend two years ago. It was the best opening ever for a movie starring Jack Black's voice...or body (topping King Kong's $50.1 mil). It was the third No. 1 movie to be distributed by Paramount in this six-week-old summer (Iron Man and Indy 4 were the others; none were produced by Paramount, however). And, yep, it was exactly — exactly! — what I predicted. Judging by the film's nice A- CinemaScore review from a crowd that, remarkably, skewed older than many pundits anticipated (45 percent of its audience was over the age of 25), Kung Fu Panda should cruise to big box office returns for several weeks, until Wall-E opens at the end of the month.
Meanwhile, You Don't Mess With the Zohan gave Adam Sandler another hit premiere, grossing $40 mil at No. 2. That's better than the $34.2 mil that his I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry debuted with a year ago, but it's in line with Click's $40 mil bow in June 2006. Despite a disappointing B- CinemaScore grade from an audience that was nearly three-fifths male, Sandler is well on track to tallying the ninth $100 mil grosser of his career.
The race for third place was a heated one, with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (No. 3 with another $22.8 mil) edging out Sex and the City (No. 4 with $21.3 mil). The former's three-week total stands at $253 mil. The latter dropped an expected 63 percent from its winning opening weekend, but strong mid-week numbers have propelled Sex and the City to bring in nearly $100 mil in just 10 days. Sexy indeed!
Hefty horror holdover The Strangers rounded out the top five, scaring up $9.3 mil on a weekend that, as I hinted earlier, was up more than 31 percent from the same frame a year ago (when Ocean's Thirteen floated high and Surf's Up sank). In fact, for the second straight week, the overall box office was up more than 20 percent from the same period in 2007. Well done, people! Hey, Hollywood, go ahead, take the rest of the day off!"
Very good numbers for Dreamworks...
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Vortigern99
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6/8 11:38am
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Out of all that, I'm glad to see The Strangers is doing well for a summer horror film. I haven't seen it yet, but from all I've read and seen it looks like a return to the non-gore, non-shock, non-erratic-camerawork thrillers of the 70s. The public is recognizing that, and I deem that a good thing.
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6/8 11:55am
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RE: The Box Office Thread: Kung Fu Panda Wins First Place
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I'm surprised Kung Fu Panda did so well- they didn't really advertise it at all until about 2 weeks ago it seems. Definitely spells the end of Speed Racer.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
6/8 12:03pm
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RE: The Box Office Thread: Kung Fu Panda Wins First Place
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The trailers are quite funny, and there's not much else for kids.
The horror flick looks quite boring, but there's about a guaranteed $20 Mill audience for horror, as opposed to $30 Mil audience for gore.
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Zaz
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6/14 9:41pm
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This Week It's Between The Hulk v. The Happening
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Zaz
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6/15 11:56am
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And both do well...
"'Hulk': An 'Incredible' Weekend Win
Defying bad buzz and low expectations, 'The Incredible Hulk' was No. 1 at the box office, while M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Happening' also fared well in third place
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THE INCREDIBLE HULK Marvel's green guy shouldn't be angry after opening at No. 1 at the box office
Rhythm & Hues
By Joshua Rich "On what wound up being one of the more unpredictable weekends of this summer box office season, The Incredible Hulk smashed the competition to earn $54.5 million and finish No. 1, while The Happening scared up a $30.5 mil gross that exceeded expectations.
Considering all the obstacles that this version of The Incredible Hulk had to overcome — bad buzz, an apparent lack of consumer interest in another Hulk movie, bad buzz, uh, bad buzz — this is a perfectly respectable, if not impressive, opening. (It's also pretty much in line with my prognostication!) Yes, that $54.5 mil total represents a moderate decline from the $62.1 mil debut of Ang Lee's much-maligned 2003 version of the Marvel comics saga. But, playing in 3,505 locations, the film scored a strong $15,560 per-theater average (better than both Kung Fu Panda and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian garnered on their first weekends, it's worth noting). It earned more than the last major comics-franchise reboot, 2005's Batman Begins, grossed on its opening weekend ($48.7 mil). It achieved the best debut ever for star Edward Norton (surpassing the $36.5 mil premiere of another franchise reprise, 2002's Red Dragon). And Hulk '08 also banked an additional $31 mil overseas.
Still, the film's biggest surprises came from its sweet polling data: It earned an A- CinemaScore grade and drew a (male-dominated) audience that was evenly divided between young people and old. More incredibly, Universal reports that 82 percent of the crowd for this film had seen Hulk '03, meaning that they weren't deterred from giving the franchise another shot. No wonder the studio is already suggesting there could be a sequel.
As I also foresaw, Kung Fu Panda was the weekend's No. 2 finisher, with $34.3 mil. That was the result of a decent 43 percent drop from the animated film's big win last time around, and it brings the movie's 10-day domestic total to $118 mil.
Next at No. 3 was The Happening, which certainly fared much better than most pundits predicted. Its $30.5 mil opening was the biggest premiere for director M. Night Shyamalan since 2004's The Village bowed with $50.7 mil, and Monday's final figures could give it enough of a boost to make it the third-best debut of the director's distinguished career (also after Signs' $60.1 mil first-weekend take). Unfortunately, the movie also got a dreaded D CinemaScore grade from ticket buyers — and at the box office , ''D'' stands for ''deadly,'' and ''don't expect it the movie to hang on for long.''
Rounding out the top five were You Don't Mess With the Zohan (No. 4 with $16.4 mil) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (No. 5 with $13.5 mil; its total domestic take is now $275.3 mil).
Overall, the cumulative box office was up a whopping 24 percent from the same frame a year ago, making this third consecutive weekend with a year-to-year increase of more than 20 percent. Moreover, the total Summer 2008 domestic box office gross is now running 4.6 percent better than that of the sequel-heavy Summer 2007."
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