Brandon Gray
Brandon Gray
Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, founded in 1999. In 2008, Box Office Mojo was bought by the Internet Movie Database, owned by Amazon. The website is widely used within the film industry as a source of data. From 2002–11, Box Office Mojo had forums popular with film fans. On October 10, 2014, the website's URL was redirected to Amazon's IMDB.com website for one day, but the website returned the...
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This is a real snub for moviegoers. This is not necessarily about quality -- this is purely political.
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This is prime time for a picture like this between nomination and awards. This is when they make all their money, and it's at $50 million before it's even nominated.
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The most successful horror pictures play mostly to females.
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One could take these movies and learn a lot about Hollywood, but you wouldn't learn much about America. Because they are not popular.
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King Kong is not the dominant beast people either expected or hoped for. Crowd pleasers and family movies tend to do well over the holidays.
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Pirates of the Caribbean' was, at its root, a fun swashbuckler. 'King Arthur' was dark and dank. They forgot the fun.
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'Pirates of the Caribbean' was, at its root, a fun swashbuckler, ... 'King Arthur' was dark and dank. They forgot the fun.
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There's the 'official' budget, there's the 'rumored' budget, and then there are the various deals struck with exhibitors and the talent, ... There's a lot of mystery there.
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It's not a little off. Six percent is a big number. And they've got a big problem.
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Horror always has a consistent audience. That doesn't often translate into blockbuster numbers but since they tend to be cheaper anyway, they don't need to do over $100 million.
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He took a dead genre notorious for flops turned it into one of the biggest hits. It'll be interesting to see if he can do it again.
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Generally speaking, 2004 has so far been a mixed bag. This year we've seen the highest of the highs and some very low lows.
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Generally comedies and family movies have a harder time on sequels than action or science fiction films, ... That would explain the problems of 'Analyze That' or 'Stuart Little 2.' This year, 'Legally Blonde 2' could be in trouble. It doesn't have the hard core fan base of 'The Matrix' or 'X-Men.' And it opens opposite 'Terminator 3.'
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I don't see any way fall is going to help us cut down on the deficit