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Top-10 Movies from the Weekend – Chronicle moves The Woman in Black

by on February 6, 2012

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Cinema Static Top-10 Movies & Box Office NumbersOver the last weekend, the three new movies took 3 of the top-5 spots in the weekend top-10 box office rankings while last week’s number 1 movie, The Grey, settled into third in the charts and No. 2 ranked Underworld: Awakening sidled into 5th.

Chronicle (w/ Dane DeHaan) performed surprisingly well actually, pulling in $22M, taking the No. 1 spot at the box office while The Woman in Black (with Daniel Radcliffe) was right on its tail, having pulled in $21M for being No. 2 in the chart of top-10 movies from last weekend.

If you’re interested, here’s my surprisingly positive movie review of Chronicle…

The Grey had Liam Neeson pulling in less than half what the leaders pulled in, raking in $9.5M while the ‘rescue the big whales from under the ice’ movie, Big Miracle, with John Krasinski, managed almost $8.5M.  And that’s awesome, because I was really close to going to see that movie instead and it looked interesting enough for me to ponder going.

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A Grey Wolf Bites The Head Off The Top-10 Movies This Weekend

by on January 29, 2012

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Cinema Static Top-10 Movies & Box Office NumbersThis weekend, the new movies that hit the box office Friday populated the 1st, 3rd and 5th place spots in the chart of top-10 movies.

According to estimates, The Grey with Liam Neeson will be the lead money maker in the top-10 movies by the time the weekend is over, pulling in $20 million in it’s opening weekend, dominating the other movies by almost double.

Trailing The Grey is a movie in its second week in movie theaters, Underworld: Awakening, which  dropped by more than half from it’s opening weekend, will pull in an estimated $12.5M this weekend.

In third place in the charts is the new Katherine Heigl movie, One for the Money.  Apparently Heigl doesn’t have the draw they’d like her to have and the movie only pulled in $11.7M in ticket sales in its first weekend out. Hmm, no wonder she dropped the soundbite about wanting to return to Grey’s Anatomy.

Outside the top-3 in 4th, is Red Tails with Cuba Gooding Jr..  Red Tails dropped nearly 50% from its opening weekend too and pulled in just over $10M.  But still hung on to a spot in the list of top-10 movies.

The new movie Man on the Ledge starring Sam Worthington seemed to have very little draw compared to the other top-4 movies, pulling in an estimated $8M.  Ouch.

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New At The Movies This Week: The Grey, One for the Money, Man on a Ledge

by on January 24, 2012

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New Movies at the Box Office from Cinema Static 2011 logo 475w lq

This week’s new movies coming out in theaters on Friday, January 27th  include celebrities like Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl, John C. Reilly, & Sam Worthington.

With this collection of new movies this week, I think there might be competition for the no. 1 spot at the box office.  The newest Underworld chapter found itself getting trashed by critics but the fans flocked to see it anyway.  So I’m wondering if word-of-mouth is going to take its toll on this new “Beckinsale in tight leathers” movie? (That wasn’t a complaint… I’m just sayin’._)  We’ll see, right?

After the list of new movies is a selected list of what movies are in what state of production update…  and as always, if you leave enough comments/requests to check out a new movie, I’ll go see it for you guys!

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•      The Grey

An airplane crashes in Alaska, stranding an oil drilling team, as they struggle to survive, as a pack of wolves stalks them.

It stars Liam Neeson and a wolf, and is directed by Joe Carnahan, whose past credits include The A-Team, & The Fourth Kind.  That says to me that the action could be pretty decent.  Another data point that I consider is that Howard Stern says he likes the movie.  Believe it or not, I trust his movie opinions, as they’ve tended to agree with mine over the years… so I may head out to see this, this weekend!

Theatrical Trailer for The Grey

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Vampires Take A Bite out of This Weekend’s Top-10 Movies at The Box Office

by on January 22, 2012

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Cinema Static Top-10 Movies & Box Office NumbersThis last weekend, to me, had some surprises as to what order the movies ranked out in the top-10 list of movies at the box office.

(1st) Screen Gems Underworld: Awakening was panned hard by critics across the board and even the star, Kate Beckinsale, was seemingly making excuses about how the role was a test or what not.  But it may seem that the franchise and a hot star decked out in a tight leather outfit may win out after all!  Underworld: Awakening took the first spot in the list of top-10 movies by pulling in an estimated $25M.

Red Tails movie poster

(2nd) Another new movie this weekend was 20th Century Fox’s Red Tails with Terrence Howard, showed up in the 2nd spot in the weekend’s list, having pulled in just over $19M.  The film looked like it had great visuals.

(3rd) Coming up third in its second week out, Universal Pictures Contraband, with Mark Wahlberg, pulled in ~$12M this weekend, bringing their overall gross to $46M

(4th) Warner Bros. Pictures Tom Hanks starrer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, pulled in over $10M.

(5th) The other new movie this week, from Relativity Media, Haywire, had better reviews than Underworld, but pulled in fewer bucks, at around $9M this weekend from the box office.

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Contraband Led the Pack of Top-10 Movies At the Box Office Last Weekend

by on January 16, 2012

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Cinema Static Top-10 Movies & Box Office NumbersLast weekend consumers decided to give some power to he three new movies last weekend and put them in the top-4 spots amongst the top-10 movies at the box office last weekend.

Estimated numbers:

Number One Movie At the Box Office

Contraband showed that Mark Wahlberg can switch hats from his executive producer hat (Boardwalk Empire, Entourage) to his acting hat (The Other Guys, Date Night, The Lovely Bones) and still draw the fans in to the movie theater for his new movies.  He does have that pull on you and he can pull off an action role pretty awesomely.  (Is that even a word?  LOL)

Contraband movie poster

Contraband, from director Baltasar Kormákur (Inhale, A Little Trip to Heaven), pulled in just over $24M at the ticket window, averaging almost $8.5K per theater.  Yea…  the fans like Wahlberg!

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Beauty and the Beast 3D movie poster

The 1991 animated classic, Beauty and the Beast, was re-released in 3D this last weekend and showed that classic movies that are close to the heart can still have an interesting draw when slapped out in the 3D theater…

Beauty and the Beast drew in almost $18.5M at the box office, which surprised me.  I was sure it would do OK, but I wasn’t sure it would be such the hit to be the No. 2 movie in America.

This brings the movies’ overall worldwide tally to $378M.

Sure, it’s a 3D release.  Sure, they’re just adding money to their coffers by taking advantage of your heart strings, but A: It worked, B: Animated features in 3D can be awesome.

Did any of my readers see this in 3D?  Was it any fun in 3D?

Hey, at the very least, you get to take your kids to the same movie and give them the experience you had once when you were young!  Right?

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Movie Theater Attendance At A 16-year Low… But It’s All Good News

by on December 31, 2011

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Cinema Static Top-10 Movies & Box Office NumbersAccording to a report by The Hollywood Reporter, a mere 1.28 billion movie-goers fessed up their hard earned cash to see movies in 2011.

This number is a decrease from 2010 by 4.4% and they report that this is the lowest number of movie-goers to attend movie theaters since 1995, when 1.211 billion folks went to the movies back then.

But that’s domestically speaking, here in the U.S..  Overseas (Worldwide) box office tallies are still a huge aspect of the income to any studio that captures our overseas movie fan brethren.

For example, from two of the top-10 movies out there, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 brought in $381 million in 2011, but worldwide it’s pulled in $1.3B.  Transformers 3 (Dark of the Moon) pulled in $352M, but worldwide it pulled in $1.1B.  And we’re not counting the home-entertainment market.

Transformers 3

The overseas movie market has generated an all-time record of $13.53B in 2011.

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The Top-25 Domestic Movies of 2011, As You Spoke With Your Wallet

by on December 30, 2011

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Cinema Static Top-10 Movies & Box Office NumbersEveryone is doing Top-10 movies from 2011 lists.  Or top-10 movies that they’re anticipating for 2012.  That’s all fine and dandy and I’m guessing maybe some of you like the idea of mulling things around.  (Let me know if you do.)  But in some regard it’s all pretty subjective, depending on who is saying what.

For instance, the connoisseur of popcorn movies might say that Transformers: Dark of the Moon was the best movie in 2011.  Or the comedy movies fan might say that The Hangover Part 2 was the best of 2011.  Or animated movie fans might say that Kung Fu Panda 2 was the best film of the year.

Or the art film fan might say something completely different, and claim that Drive or Hanna were wonderful artistic journey or risks taken by the director.  (But don’t tell the popcorn movie fans that!!!  They might say that the marketing for these movies was nothing but lies and they may never go near another movie from those directors again!)

But a more pragmatic perspective would be to take a look at who you, the movie-goer, spoke with your wallet in 2011.

Tom Cruise and Paula Patton in 'Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol'

Now obviously, there are a few movies missing from this list that should be there, but they’ve only been out a few weeks and they’re almost on the list!  Those movies are Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol; Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, who are both very close to my threshold of getting past the $100 million dollar domestic mark.

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Top Grossing 2011 Movies, in the Theater and at the Store

by on December 17, 2011

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Are you wondering what movies are setting the real dollar tallies?  I think this is interesting because this top-seller list takes the doubt out of some in-store marketing pitches I see.  I want to make sure what they’re saying isn’t just to push a specific product.  Check it out below…  neutral stats for your review:

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Inside Movies over on EW.com, put together an interesting list of best selling movies… in different categories.  They were showing different categories so that some good movies could actually be competitive and be in a top-ten list.  As you scroll through the quick lists below, you’ll see what I mean…

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With that said, can you guess what 2011 movie was at the top grossing box office movie this year?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 barely edged out Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 for the top spot here.

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Now, they split out a second list, calling it the Top-grossing non-sequel/prequel/superhero/Smurf movie category.

In this category, The Help and Bridesmaids snuggled into a tie at the top spot.  Bridesmaids is funny and predictable, all at once.  Melissa McCarthy stole the show for me in this one.

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Top-10 Movies At The Box Office: A Holiday Movie Trumps The Vampires

by on December 11, 2011

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Cinema Static Box Office Numbers - Top-10 MoviesThis weekend, the number 1 movie spot finally changed hands, ending a multi-week run by Summit Entertainment’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn at the top spot of the top-10 movies from this weekend.

The estimated number 1 at the box office this weekend is New Year’s Eve, followed by the other new movie for the weekend, The Sitter.

Breaking Dawn settled into the third spot this weekend, followed by The Muppets. The Muppets continue to trail Breaking Dawn, not matter what they try with their marketing!

Arthur Christmas rounded out the top-5 of the top-10 movies.

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Rank Title Wknd
1 New Year’s Eve $13,705,000
2 The Sitter $10,000,000
3 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Pt 1 $7,900,000
4 The Muppets $7,100,000
5 Arthur Christmas $6,600,000
6 Hugo $6,125,000
7 The Descendants $4,385,000
8 Happy Feet Two $3,750,000
9 Jack and Jill $3,200,000
10 Immortals $2,442,000
11 Tower Heist $2,379,350
12 Puss in Boots $1,655,000

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Top-10 Movies At The Box Office: Twilight Puts the Bite on The Muppets

by on November 27, 2011

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Cinema Static Box Office Numbers - Top-10 MoviesIf you’re wondering about the top-10 movies at the box office:  Twilight: Breaking Dawn pt 1 put the bite on The Muppets, Arthur Christmas and Hugo!

As expected, despite some huge family anticipated favorites coming out for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Pt 1), maintained its grip on the top spot of the box office tallies beating out the three new movies that were hoping for that coveted number 1 spot.

Now unlike much of the media, I’m not going to spend time comparing this to that and that to this… meaning how well Breaking Dawn is doing versus New Moon, etc.  Or how this year, the Thanksgiving movies fared against last years’ and so forth.

Nah, I’m just looking at this weekend, now.  In the time frame we’re living this moment.  With that said,

These are all industry estimates

Twilight: Breaking Dawn pt 1, will be raking in $42M for Robert Pattinson, Kirsten Stewart and Taylor Lautner, bringing the movie gross tally to a whopping $221M take at the box office.  (I hope they’re saving their money from this windfall!)

The best performing new movie that came out this weekend that tried competing with the love of vampires and werewolves, was The Muppets, who will probably pull in just under $30M.

Happy Feet Two retained a top-five spot, cranking in just over $13M, and staying ahead of the next new movie, Arthur Christmas.  Arthur mustered up just under $13M in holiday money.

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