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27 Sep 2009 19:57

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Culture: “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” has a sunny box-office outlook

  • -19% week-two dip, good enough for a second week on top in a week with a lot of wide releases source

06 Sep 2009 11:57

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Culture: Is the Michael Cera hipster backlash upon us, guys?

  • He’s not a kid anymore, and that goofy-awkward-cute-puppy-dog shtick is wearing off, say some hipster sources which we don’t associate ourselves with (because we completely disagree). But with poorly-reviewed cutesy indie flick “Paper Heart” bringing in less than a million in a month of limited release, and would-be blockbuster “Year One” blowing it at the box office, perhaps it’s time to re-evaluate.source

23 Aug 2009 21:14

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Culture: “Inglourious Basterds” easily Tarantino’s biggest opening ever

  • $37.6 million the box-office tally “Inglourious Basterds” drew this weekend source

15 Aug 2009 14:03

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Culture: “District 9” will probably make its budget back this weekend

  • $13 million the estimated amount “District 9” made on Friday; it’s on track for a $34 million weekend source

09 Aug 2009 20:51

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Culture: “G.I. Joe” a real American hero at the box office; “Funny People” dives

  • $56.2 million the amount “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” made in its opening weekend, despite not being screened for critics source

19 Jul 2009 11:31

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Culture: “Harry Potter” did great, but not “Transformers” great

  • $159.4 million amount that the latest “Harry Potter” flick made in the U.S. alone in its first five days source

17 Jul 2009 07:53

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Culture: People love Harry Potter – just check those box office numbers!

  • $104 million amount the latest Potter flick, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” made worldwide in its first day source
 

15 Jul 2009 14:57

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Culture: Accio profits! The Half-blood Prince breaks Dark Knight’s record

  • $22 million raked in by the new Harry Potter at midnight last night source

12 Jul 2009 11:44

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Culture: “Brüno” did böffo at the böx öffice this weekend

  • $30.6 million in sales for a man pretending to be gay source

06 Jul 2009 20:44

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Culture: In a box-office battle between robots and pre-history, robots win.

  • $42.3 million weekend take of “Transformers 2,” based on official results released today source