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Weekend Box Office: ‘Puss In Boots’ Claws Its Way to Another First Place Finish
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Weekend Box Office: ‘Puss In Boots’ Is Purr-fect
The swashbuckling feline from the ‘Shrek’ franchise, ‘Puss In Boots,’ still has plenty of lives to spare after its weekend haul of $34 million, putting it at the top of the charts in its first week of release.
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Hollywood Are You Listening, We Want Family Movies
October 3, 2011 I was excited to see the box office reviews this weekend. I had written on Friday about Courageous, a movie that didn't get much press, it wasn't covered in any of the Box Office reviews yet it came in at #5 in the box office draws. So Hollywood are you paying attention, 3 family movies and one movie based on a true story made it into the top 5 this weekend at the box office. YAY! See the entire list.
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Weekend Box Office: ‘Dolphin Tale’ Swims to the Top of the Chart
It was neck-and-neck for a while, but in the end, the family-friendly ‘Dolphin Tale’ bested the Brad Pitt baseball-saga, ‘Moneyball,’ to take the top-earning spot at the box office this weekend.
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Weekend Box Office: ‘The Lion King 3D’ Remains King of the Jungle
Seventeen years after its initial box-office run, ‘The Lion King’ is again reigning supreme. The new 3D incarnation of the film, currently in a limited-engagement run, took in another $22 million to land atop the charts for the second weekend in a row.
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Weekend Box Office: ‘The Lion King 3D’ Roars to Number One
In a limited engagement in 3D, the 1994 Disney classic, ‘The Lion King,’ earned $29 million to take the top spot at the box office this weekend.
‘Contagion,’ last week’s most popular movie, moved to second place, while Ryan Gosling’s ‘Drive’ took third in its debut week. Former box office champ ‘The Help’ came in fourth, and ‘Straw Dogs’ rounded out the top five.
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New Movie Releases: ‘Drive,’ ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It,’ ‘The Lion King 3D,’ and ‘Straw Dogs’ [VIDEOS]
If you aren’t too busy tailgating now that football is back, you might want to check out one of the new movies opening up this weekend.
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Weekend Box Office: ‘Contagion’ Takes Top Spot from ‘The Help’
It took a global epidemic to do it, but ‘The Help’ has finally been knocked out of the number one spot at the box office after three weeks at the top of the list.
The Steven Soderbergh-directed ‘Contagion,’ about a deadly and fast-spreading disease and the panic it causes, earned $23.1 million at theaters in its first week of release, relegating ‘The Help’ to a runner-up status. The mixed-martial arts action flick, ‘Warrior,’ came in third during its debut week, with ‘The Debt’ and ‘Columbiana’ rounding out the top five.
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New Movie Releases: ‘Contagion,’ ‘Bucky Larson,’ and ‘Warrior’ [VIDEOS]
Moviegoers this weekend will have a choice of three new films in wide release.
In ‘Contagion,’ Matt Damon fights a viral epidemic that could endanger the entire planet, while the title character in ‘Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star‘ learns his parents were once porn-stars and abandons his small town life to follow in their footsteps. Finally, ‘Warrior‘ sees two
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Weekend Box Office: ‘The Help’ Stays Number One for the Third Week
Earning a total of $123 million at the box office in the month since its release, ‘The Help’ kept its number one spot in theaters for the third week in a row, becoming the first film to do so since last summer’s ‘Inception.’
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Weekend Box Office: ‘The Help’ Takes Over Top Spot
In its second week of release, strong word-of-mouth and positive reviews propelled ‘The Help’ past ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ to take the number one spot at the box office this weekend, while ‘Apes’ moved to the number two slot.
‘The Help’ earned $20.5 million, while ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ pulled in $16.3 million.