Sep 26

Lion King 3D tops Box Office again

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Disney’s 3-D version of 1994’s The Lion King was the No. 1 movie in the country for a second week in a row, beating out Brad Pitt’s baseball flick, Moneyball. The animated classic earned an estimated $22.1 million dollars this weekend, while Moneyball debuted with $20.6 million. The Lion King’s re-release box office success has come as ...

Sep 23

Box Office: Moneyball or Abduction

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This week’s box office battle features three star-studded casts of breakout actors and veteran superstars. First up, we have Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill overcoming the odds in Moneyball. This movie tells the story of “Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane‘s successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis ...

Sep 19

Weekend Box-Office: ‘Lion King’ Reclaims Box Office Crown

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All three genuinely new releases combined to make less than the 3D re-release of The Lion King this weekend, reaffirming the Disney animated classic's continued popularity a whole 17 years after its initial run. Drive fared best among the other openers, though its debut was unremarkable, while Straw Dogs and I Don't Know How She ...

Sep 12

Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Contagion’ tops US Box Office

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Steven Soderbergh's virus thriller Contagion has knocked The Help from the top of the North American box office chart, where it has sat for four weeks. Contagion, starring no less than six Oscar nominees and winners, including Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law Laurence Fishburne and Marion Cotillard, took $23.1m (£14.5m) in its ...

Sep 07

‘The Help’ tops box office for third straight week

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"The Help" topped the box office for the third straight weekend, earning $19.9 million over the Labor Day weekend. The film, based on the best-selling novel about black maids in the 1960s, has taken in a total of $124 million domestically. The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Monday, followed by distribution studio, ...