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22 Dec 2009 21:09

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Culture: Hollywood’s having a gangbusters year; today, they hit a watermark

  • $10 billion in sales in 2009 so far; best year evah source
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20 Dec 2009 21:42

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Culture: Avatar screwed by a massive winter storm. That must’ve hurt.

  • $73 million in box-office results – OK but not amazing results for the movie that’s gonna change life itself
  • 75% dip in movie sales in D.C. on Saturday – sorry, movie industry, we were ordering pizza in our apartment
  • 57% dip in movie sales in Philadelphia on Saturday; we’ve always seen Philly as a wannabe D.C. source
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18 Dec 2009 16:11

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Culture: Based on midnight showings, “Avatar” is no “New Moon”

  • $3.54 million “Avatar”‘s midnight box-office total last night; a modest sum, BTW
  • $26.3 million “New Moon”‘s midnight box-office sum; it holds the record source
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30 Nov 2009 09:57

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Culture: “New Moon” has surprisingly strong competition in “The Blind Side”

  • $40.1 million the amount Sandra Bullock’s latest made in its second week – just behind “New Moon”
  • 17% increase the boost in box-office receipts it saw between week one and week two source
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22 Nov 2009 12:11

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Culture: “New Moon” is about to kick some “Twilight” box office @$$

  • $140.7 million “Twilight: New Moon”‘s weekend box-office take – the third highest opening weekend ever and significantly above expectations
  • $193 million The original “Twilight”‘s entire box office take – a total “New Moon” should break by complete accident at this point source
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20 Nov 2009 21:49

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Culture: The “Twilight: New Moon” juggernaut is living up to its hype

  • $67.2 million the amount that “The Dark Knight” made at the box office on its first day – a record
  • $70 million the amount that “New Moon” is on track to make today after a wave of superhype source
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26 Oct 2009 07:55

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Culture: “Paranormal Activity” still doing paranormal box office numbers

  • $22 million the amount that “Paranormal Activity” has made in the five weeks it’s been out, on a mere $15,000 budget source
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18 Oct 2009 21:15

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Culture: Spike Jonze’s “Where the Wild Things Are” killed at the box office

  • $32.5 million in “Wild Things” making hearts sing source
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12 Oct 2009 21:17

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Culture: “Paranormal Activity” is doing some paranormal box-office numbers

  • $11,000 the amount it cost to make the Twitter-buzzed low-budget horror flick “Paranormal Activity,” which is using the “Blair Witch” model source
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11 Oct 2009 20:51

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Culture: “Couples Retreat” did much better box-office than it deserved

  • $35.3 million for the panned flick; must’ve been good PR source
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