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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It's too early to tell whether Kong is a success or not.
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It's too early to say if this is the beginning of the end.
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It's possible this holiday season will be a record breaker, but even if it were, that wouldn't be enough to make up (the comparisons with) last year.
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Domestic is still the engine that drives the train,
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They had it together this year. Each of their top three films performed at or above expectations and accounted for about $680 million of their business. They also had a lot of mid-range performers and not a lot of flops.
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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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Sci-fi is not the easiest thing to market. But if the story is strong enough, it will do well, regardless of the genre.
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Satire is traditionally a tough sell and the cynicism in it is one of the reasons for that. There are certain times of the year studios will release movies that they aren't confident about ... and the potential for business this time of year is huge.
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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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I don't see any way fall is going to help us cut down on the deficit
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You're not going to make a smash live-action movie when your lead character is a special effect. Especially one that doesn't even speak.
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It was a pretty decent year for comedies.