This week, the Motion Picture Association of America released its annual Theatrical Market Statistics Report for 2010. The headline? Box office worldwide set an all-time high of $31.8 billion, an increase of 8 percent over 2009. Lest you get too giddy, however, here’s MPAA interim CEO Bob Pisano to rain on your parade. “[T]he continued [...]
America, the movie industry is very disappointed in you. The domestic box office total for 2010 was smaller than 2009′s, although IMAX can celebrate its most successful year to date, doubling its 2009 gross last year.
The success of Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D has had us wondering, what are the top grossing video game movies? Love them or hate them, you can’t deny that a lot of moviegoers forked over their money to watch these video game to movie renditions. Some of the answers shocked even us.
There’s been a lot of public debate about the box office performance of Kick-Ass last weekend. In the end, the movie barely squeaked out a weekend victory over How to Train Your Dragon, when all the receipts were finally tallied Monday. But still, the buzz around the entertainment world has been that the film underperformed. [...]
I took my second trip to Pandora Friday night – this time at a different IMAX 3D screen, with a couple hundred giddy first-timers. You can find a recap of my first impressions a week ago here. (You can also read the complete Avatar roundtable discussion here) As for round two, my thoughts:
Turns out it’s boom times for the apocalypse – as proven this past weekend, when you apparently took your friends, parents and grandparents to go see “2012.” In its first few days, the apocalyptic thriller cashed in a cool $225 million at the global box office ($65 million of that came from right here in [...]
