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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema and more

Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Contraband Tops The US MLK Weekend Box Office

January 17, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Although Martin Luther King Day is a four day weekend in the US, it isn’t one of the particularly big holidays for cinema-going. That said, the Mark Wahlberg starring Contraband did pretty well, scoring a $28.8 million debut to top the chart.

It beat out the 3D re-release of Beauty and The Beast, which made $23.5 million. Although not as big as the opening of The Lion King a few months ago, considering that the film (including the 3D version) has been available to buy of DVD and Blu-ray for ages – unlike Lion King – it’s a pretty impressive take.

The only other new entry was the Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah starring Joyful Noise, which took the number four spot with $13.7 million. Outside the top 10, The Iron Lady got a big boost when it expanded from five to 800 screens, taking $6.4 million and finishing in 11th place on the chart.

Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend of January 13th-16th:

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 Contraband $28.8 $28.8
2 Beauty and the Beast $23.5 $23.5
3 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol $14.2 $189.5
4 Joyful Noise $13.7 $13.7
5 Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows $10.5 $172.1
6 The Devil Inside $9.1 $47.5
7 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo $8.1 $89.2
8 Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked $7.8 $120.8
9 War Horse $7.1 $67.3
10 We Bought A Zoo $6.8 $65.2
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FILMS: Contraband, Beauty and the Beast (1990), Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Joyful Noise, Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, The Devil Inside, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Alvin & The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, War Horse, We Bought A Zoo  

The Devil Inside Tops The US Box Office

January 9, 2012 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

Paramount’s decision to set up a unit to make and purchase micro-budget genre movies for under a million dollars certainly seems to be paying off. They decided on the strategy following the success of Paranormal Activity, and with The Devil Inside it’s working far better than they expected.

The studio predicted an $8-$10 million opening for the horror film (which they bought for only a million), but in the end they got a $34 million weekend, which is the most any film has ever opened to in early January. It’s an impressive achievment, which many believe is down to a good marketing campaign that attracted young men, who’ve been conspicuous by their absence at the box office recently.

There were no other new openers in the top 10, although Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy made its first appearance in the top 10 after it expanded from 50 to over 800 screens. The movie added another $5 million to place ninth, and with the per screen average holding up extremely well during its expansion, it could become a significant indie hit as the awards season gears up.

Rank Title Weekend Gross
(millions)
Total Gross to
date (millions)
1 The Devil Inside $34.5 $34.5
2 Mission: Impossible –
Ghost Protocol
$20.5 $170.2
3 Sherlock Holmes: A
Game Of Shadows
$14.0 $157.4
4 The Girl With The
Dragon Tattoo
$11.3 $76.8
5 Alvin & the
Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
$9.5 $111.5
6 War Horse $8.6 $56.8
7 We Bought A Zoo $8.4 $56.5
8 The Adventures Of
Tintin
$6.6 $61.8
9 Tinker, Tailor,
Soldier, Spy
$5.7 $10.4
10 New Year’s Eve $3.2 $52.0

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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FILMS: The Devil Inside, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Alvin & The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, War Horse, We Bought A Zoo, The Adventures Of Tintin, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, New Year's Eve  

Ghost Protocol Top New Year’s US Box Office

January 3, 2012 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

If the studios were hoping for some four-day holiday New Year’s cheer at the box office, they didn’t get a huge amount, with Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol the only real bright spot. The overall box office was down over last New Year, but Ghost Protocol added another $38 million to take its total to $14 million in the US and $361 million worldwide. It’s a decent hit but not astounding.

There were no new entries, with just a few films shifting about. Among the Christmas openers, War Horse is doing best, moving up from sixth to fourth place on the chart (and it should be noted its sixth place finish last weekend was after only two days in cinemas). Other films such as Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and We Bought A Zoo continued to do modest but not horrific business.

It’s Tintin though that’s be the biggest failure, only making $50 million so far in the US, despite finding success in other parts of the world.

Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend of December 30th-January 2nd.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol $38.3 $141.2
2 Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows $26.5 $136.5
3 Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked $21.0 $97.3
4 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo $19.2 $45.2
5 War Horse $19.0 $60.0
6 We Bought A Zoo $16.5 $43.9
7 The Adventures Of Tintin $15.0 $50.8
8 New Year’s Eve $7.7 $47.3
9 The Darkest Hour $5.2 $14.2
10 The Descendants $4.2 $40.2

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FILMS: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, Alvin & The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, War Horse, We Bought A Zoo, The Adventures Of Tintin, New Year's Eve, The Darkest Hour, The Descendants  

Mission: Impossible Tops The Christmas US Box Office

December 27, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

The Christmas US box office is slightly unusual, as while it was a holiday four-day weekend, rather than releasing movie on a Friday, many of the studios decided to either release their movie early or wait until Christmas itself, largely because they now Christmas Eve always tends to be an unsually weak day (whereas Saturday is normally the best day of the week). The result is that while some of these new films movies got off to decent starts, they couldn’t beat out previously released flicks.

The chart topper was Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, which is shaping up to be a decent blockbuster for Paramount. Expanding into normal cinemas after its IMAX start last weekend, the movie took a strong $46 million over the Christmas weekend, and should take a lot more leading into New Year..

The top new entry was at number four, with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo taking $19.4 million over the weekend following its release in the middle of last week. It’s an okay start for a rather serious, R-rated movie, but the studio was hoping that with David Fincher at the helm it would really hit it big.

The Adventures Of Tintin came in fifth with $16.1 million, which is a disappointment after the movie hit it big in the rest of the world, having already grossed $239 million internationally. We Bought A Zoo came next with $15.6 million, which is lower than had been hoped for, but it’s rather early to say if it can make up ground over the coming days.

Spielberg’s War Horse didn’t get released until Sunday, so it’s two-day take of $15.0 million isn’t too bad at all, especially for a period war movie. Many are thinking the film could well turn into a decent sized hit and will end up as the highest grossing of the Christmas releases. The final new entry was the sci-fi flick The Darkest Hour, which took a weak $5.5 million.

Overall the box office was up on last year, which will be a relief to Hollywood after several weeks where things have been in the doldrums. However, many have been predicting problems due to the fact the release schedule is ridiculously packed. It certainly seems that with so much competition, the new movies (and indeed the holdovers) have all opened lower than they might have if they’d had a clearer run.

Take a look below for the Christmas 2011 US box office top 10.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol $46.2 $78.6
2 Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows $31.8 $90.5
3 Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked $20.0 $56.9
4 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo $19.4 $27.7
5 The Adventures Of Tintin $16.1 $24.1
6 We Bought A Zoo $15.6 $15.6
7 War Horse $15.0 $15.0
8 The Darkest Hour $5.5 $5.5
9 New Year’s Eve $4.9 $34.2
10 The Descendants $3.4 $33.7

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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FILMS: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, Alvin & The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Adventures Of Tintin, We Bought A Zoo, War Horse, The Darkest Hour, New Year's Eve, The Descendants  

Sherlock Holmes 2 Tops The US Box Office

December 19, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

If Hollywood was hoping for a little pre-Christmas cheer, it didn’t get much over the weekend, after disappointing debuts for two movies there’d been high hopes for. Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows topped the chart with $40 million, more than $20 million down on the first movie’s take during Christmas 2009. It’s even lower than Tron: Legacy, which opened to weak reviews this weekend last year.

As A Game Of Shadows had good reviews and strong word of mouth, it’s not certain what happened to the audience (Warner Bros had been expecting a $50 million+ opening), but it does suggest it’s not just a dearth of decent films that’s causing people to stay away from the multiplex.

Doing even worse was Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, which took $23.5 million, less than half what it’s predescessor made.

The one bright spot at the US box office was Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, which took $13 million in limited released on only 425 IMAX and large screens cinemas. While it suggests the film will do well when it expands onto normal screens later this week, some may worry that the IMAX numbers were heavily skewed by the inclusion of a six-minute prologue to The Dark Knight Rises, and that without that (it won’t be included in normal cinemas), it’s still difficult to know just how well the new Mission: Impossible movie will do.

Hollywood is likely to be worrying a lot at the moment. Studios have spent more than $600 million on movies being released in December, and so far every weekend has been significantly down on the comparable weekend from a year ago. They’re going to be hoping for a stellar period between Christmas and New Year to make up lost ground or it’s going to be a very bad end to a very up and down year.

Rank Title Weekend Gross
(millions)
Total Gross to
date (millions)
1 Sherlock Holmes: A
Game Of Shadows
$40.0 $40.0
2 Alvin & the
Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
$23.5 $23.5
3 Mission: Impossible –
Ghost Protocol
$13.0 $13.6
4 New Year’s Eve $7.4 $24.8
5 The Sitter $4.4 $17.7
6 The Twilight Saga:
Breaking Dawn Part 1
$4.3 $266.4
7 Young Adult $3.6 $4.0
8 Hugo $3.6 $39.0
9 Arthur Christmas $3.6 $38.5
10 The Muppets $3.4 $70.9

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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FILMS: Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, Alvin & The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, New Year's Eve, The Sitter, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, Young Adult, Hugo, Arthur Christmas, The Muppets  

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