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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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News Stories About Doomsday
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2008-08-19
There were only a trio of new releases to chart this week, including Nim's Island, which earned first place.
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2008-08-13
New releases dominated the sales chart this week, taking 5 of the top 6 spots. This included the new number one film, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, which sold 406,000 units for $9.49 million consumer spending.
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2008-08-13
There were more than a few new releases that reached the top 30 on this week's rental chart, but 21 remained in first place.
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2008-07-29
Another slow week without a single first run release that was a must have, or even a contender for DVD Pick of the Week. Granted, many will find Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay worth picking up, but it is not a top-notch release. There are also a couple of special edition releases that are easily worth picking up: Dark City - Director's Cut - Buy from Amazon: DVD or Blu-ray and WarGames - 25th Anniversary Edition. But the best of the best, and the DVD Pick of the Week is Stargate - Continuum - Buy from Amazon: DVD or Blu-ray. But I am also giving an honorable mention to Two Fat Ladies - Buy from Amazon. On a side note, it is another week where we had to split the list into two due to the size. Part II can be found here.
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2008-04-06
Step Up 2 The Streets fell more than 40% last weekend while dropping out of the top five. This was mainly due to the lack of major openings, while its holdover results were merely average. In the U.K. it was down 42% to $2.74 million on 351 screens over the weekend for a total of $11.32 million and in Australia it was down 44% to $1.31 million on 188 screens lifting its total to $5.10 million after two. Overall it added $7.38 million on 1615 screens in 27 markets for a total of $53.21 million, which was enough to lift its worldwide total to more than $100 million.
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2008-03-25
Easter Weekend is not regarded as a long weekend and expectations were not unreasonably high. However, a few films missed expectations and this left the box office on the south side of predictions. Overall, films earned $113 million over the weekend, which was down 6% from last weekend. More importantly, it was down nearly 16% from the same weekend last year. Hopefully things will turn around in April, because I don't see that happening next weekend.
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2008-03-18
The slump is over after four weeks. During the weekend, the overall box office was $121 million, which was 12% more than last weekend and 3% more than the same weekend last year. Paradoxically, 2008 slipped behind 2007's pace when it comes to ticket sales, albeit by less than 1%.
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2008-03-16
://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2008/HORTN.php">Horton Hears a Who matched expectations over the weekend with an estimated $45.1 million, according to Sunday studio estimates.
That's the biggest opening of the year so far, although, even with the benefit of inflation, it is a little down on the debut numbers for Ice Age, which opened on this weekend in 2002.
Never Back Down had a less auspicious beginning, with an estimated $8.6 million in 2,729 theaters, enough to take third place behind a relatively strong 10,000 B.C., which was down 54% to $16.4 million.
Doomsday disappointed with $4.7 million and seventh place, just behind a strong second week showing from The Bank Job, which fell just 17% to $4.9 million.
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2008-03-15
The biggest hit of the year so far opened this weekend in Horton Hears a Who and fortunately the studio put together an Official Site that matches its box office strength.
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2008-03-14
2008 is in danger of slipping below 2007's pace this weekend, at least when it comes to ticket sales. Fortunately, this time last year, the three new releases were rather weak while this year, Horton Hears a Who is tracking to become the biggest opening of the year so far. Even so, it will be tough for 2008 to keep pace with 2007.
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2008-03-01
2008 stumbled last month and there doesn't seem to be many potential blockbusters this month. By the end of March last year, there were three films releases that would reach $100 million, including one that reached $200 million, and two others that missed that milestone by less than $5 million. This year, we could enter April without a single $100 million movie.
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2008-01-13
This week's round of new movie release information contains release dates for The Spiderwick Chronicles, Doomsday, Coraline and more!
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2007-07-29
Server upgrades went... less smoothly than anticipated, which delayed this column, but at least there are a huge number of sites to check out. Many of these sites are making their first appearance on the list while quite a few are making their last appearance. Unfortunately, while it's a big list, there are not many that are even close to being award worthy at the moment. 30 Days of Night - Official Site comes the closest, but I'm waiting for the missing features to be added before I make that decision.
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