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14 Mar 2010 12:14

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Culture: The year’s first $200 million movie: “Alice in Wonderland 3D”

  • $62 million in its second week alone; not bad source
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31 Jan 2010 20:32

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Culture: Expect “Avatar” to top “Titanic” at the box office by Tuesday

  • $595
    million     “Avatar’s” box-office take in the U.S. after a 7th weekend at the top; it needs $6 million to top “Titanic”
  • $2
    billion     the James Cameron flick’s worldwide box office take, which is well into the record books already source
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29 Jan 2010 11:37

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Biz, Tech: Windows 7 win: Microsoft all high-fives after record quarter

  • $6.7B size of Microsoft’s profits in their second quarter – that’s way above analyst estimates
  • 60% increase in profits between the first quarter and second, despite some lagging divisions
  • 60M number of units Microsoft sold of its Windows 7 OS – it’s a massive freaking hit source
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24 Jan 2010 21:28

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Culture: One down, two to go: Avatar breaks an all-time box-office record

  • $1.29 billion in worldwide box-office so far source
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10 Jan 2010 21:40

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Culture: “Avatar” once again charmed at the box office. Who hasn’t seen it?

  • $48M the size of “Avatar’s” fourth-weekend box office take, making it the first four-week movie champ since “The Dark Knight”
  • $429M the movie’s total domestic box-office take, which is within shouting distance of the $533 million take of “The Dark Knight”
  • $1.3B the movie’s world box-office take, which is just $500 million shy of “Titanic’s” $1.8 billion haul; this is gonna be huge source
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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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30 Nov 2009 09:14

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Tech: That super-duper particle collider’s making particle beams faster than ever

  • 1.18 trillion electric volts of big-banging action 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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21 Nov 2009 11:19

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Culture: New Moon’s record day: A bunch of vampires look pretty self-satisfied

$26.3 million in midnight showings alone. Over $70 million in first day sales anticipated. Both records. Is there anything this movie can’t do to annoy us? 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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