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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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 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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This year's best picture nominees are the least popular on record.
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Warner Bros. is releasing a bunch of movies and hoping a number of them stick.
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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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I'm hearing that 'Shark Tale' is unoriginal and uninspired,
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March of the Penguins is a unique film in part because it is an unprecedented look at a real-life phenomenon, ... And it anthropomorphizes these animals, and that is a tremendous selling point. And penguins are amusing.
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I can't find another example of when we had two movies with black actors on top.
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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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Unfortunately, it seems like a possibility that 'Crash' will win, given the campaign that Lions Gate has put out, with all those DVDs sent to voters.
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People want to be inspired by the movies, they want to have a cathartic experience and they want to laugh and they crave that and when its not there they notice that absence and that's what they talk about instead of going to the movies,
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You look at the slate, and it doesn't appear to be that different from last year. Hollywood has been letting moviegoers down, and I'm not seeing anything that screams that's going to change.
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We'll see if it's got the gumption to become a mainstream hit. Each weekend has been a test for this movie, it seems like, and it has passed with flying colors. I would expect it to do very well this weekend.