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‘Harry Potter’ to pass ‘Star Wars’?
I have to say that I am not all that excited about the possibility of the Harry Potter franchise overtaking that of my beloved Star Wars films. But, it seems that there may be a new champion when it comes to overall box office strength. The George Lucas inspired movies of the Star Wars saga [...]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine Opens Up In Number 1 Spot.
It really shouldn’t come to anyone’s surprise that the newly released X-Men Origins: Wolverine would open up at the number one box office draw. Even the internet leaks of the workprint didn’t seem to slow down the opening weekend. Taking in a pretty healthy $87 million US open for the weekend, puts Wolverine miles ahead [...]
Surprises at Box Office leaves Watchmen losing momentum
The tally’s are in and it looks like Watchmen loses out to Disney’s Race to Witch Mountain. I wasn’t going to write another post about the box office take for this past weekend, but I am really quite surprised at the outcome. After all the reviews from critics, and the people who have actually gone [...]
Top 10 All-Time Highest Grossing Superhero Movies
Over the years superhero movies have had a special place in the hearts of movie goers of all ages. Maybe it’s an escape from reality or because the chances they take on effects, or maybe because of the complexity of the characters at times… whatever the reason, they have been very popular. Superhero movies are [...]
‘Watchmen’ breaks through $55 million taking box office top spot
The motion picture adaptation of the graphic novel Watchmen has just taken over the top spot in the weekend’s box office reports by bringing in a very respectable %55.7 million in its opening weekend. This officially makes the newest superhero movie the biggest film in 2009. Even though some people are trying to compare both [...]
Watchmen Opens With $25 Million First Night Run
The screen adaptation of the best selling graphic novel of all time, Watchmen has begun its box office run with an opening night take of a very impressive $25 million. That is in excess of the $4.5 million that it took in with the Thursday midnight showings and IMAX showings. While that is an incredible [...]
Top Grossing Movies of 2008
I’ve been thinking about the movies that I enjoyed last year and then wanted to look them up and see how they stacked up against the top money earners of 2008. I have to say that as I looked back I enjoyed seven out of the top ten. Three of the top grossing movies of [...]
Top Ten Highest Grossing Movies In Order From Worse To Best
If I were to list the top movies listed on the USA’s top grossing movies of all time I don’t think my list would be the same as the actual list. I really have to wonder why some of these movies made it above other movies. Or why people went and spent more money to [...]
The Dark Knight Passes Star Wars to Claim No. 2 Spot
It’s official. The Dark Knight has just surpassed Star Wars as the number two highest grossing movie of all time. I don’t really know how I feel about this yet. I am a Star Wars fan. Yet, I am also a superhero movie fan. I deeply loved Star Wars, but didn’t really get into The [...]
The Dark Knight hits $400 million in record breaking time!
It took only 18 days for The Dark Knight to topple the $400 million mark and make it the fastest in history to reach that milestone. This incredible feat beats the previous record holder, Shrek 2, in half the time. Shrek 2 didn’t hit this milestone until it’s 43rd day of release. The Dark Knight [...]
