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We really liked Real Steel — it wasn't a deep character study, or a brilliant epic, but it was a fun movie about robots beating the crap out of each other. And it had a boy befriending a huge robot, which he then upgraded. It was a robot movie which managed to avoid getting hung up on the question of whether the robots were sentient. And we really wanted to see Atom kick Zeus' ass. More »
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This summer was like a battlefield of awesomeness, with a larger-than-average slew of superhero movies, action movies and escapist fare. Some films emerged victorious, while others fell by the wayside. More »
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Green Lantern is the second superhero movie in a row to perform disappointingly in its opening weekend, after X-Men: First Class. If Captain America also stumbles, we could look back on this as the summer that superheroes lost their invulnerability. More »
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We quite liked X-Men: First Class, but sadly it failed to levitate the box office with the power of its mind. The mutant prequel made just $56 million in its opening weekend, less than the $69 million some analysts predicted. More »
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Thor did pretty decent box office numbers in its opening weekend — not Iron Man good, but decent. But one thing stuck out about the Thunder God's results — the audience was 72 percent people 25 years old and older. More »
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Finding out the month-to-month earnings of this year's major movies is as easy as moving the pointer across the screen. This detailed chart can tell you what earned what and when. More »
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The original Tron was considered a failure in 1982 — and now, early tracking says Tron Legacy is on track to be another disappointment. The $200 million sequel could have a lackluster opening weekend. Plus check out two new featurettes. More »
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It's official: U.S. audiences decided not to let in Let Me In. The U.S. remake of the Swedish vampire classic crashed and burned. But most other domestic horror remakes have been critical or box-office failures. Check out our damning statistics. More »
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What kind of world do we live in, where cheesetastic monster movie Piranha 3-D can go up against a vapid vampire spoof and lose? What does it mean that vampire slapstick made sashimi of the year's most promising monster-fish movie? More »
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Tons of movies do well in their first weekend, but a lot fewer keep it up for a second weekend. Add Inception to that exclusive club: It's the number one movie in America two weekends running. More »
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The best way to beat James Cameron? End the world. Post-apocalyptic flick The Book of Eli has finally managed to topple Avatar from the top of the US box office after almost a month of ruling over all. More »
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The competition (including singing chipmunks and the world's greatest detective) was tough, but Avatar still came out on top of this weekend's box office. All the more impressive, considering it was the biggest weekend haul in US cinema history. More »
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Surprisingly, given the hype ahead of time, it's looking like Avatar won't break I Am Legend's December opening weekend box office record. Have movies not been changed forever after all, or is there something else going on? More »
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It's not just one of the most anticipated movies released this summer, but District 9 may also turn out to be one of the most profitable, having made almost half of its budget back within its first day of release. More »
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Despite expectations of disaster and controversy over a lack of mainstream reviews, GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra looks like it's going to be a hit after all, opening with a surprising $22.3 million box office take on Friday. More »
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...But not close enough. Surprising many - and frustrating Paramount executives, no doubt - Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen is now expected to fall just short of the five-day box office record set by last year's The Dark Knight. More »
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Star Trek isn't just the most successful movie of 2009 to date (although it achieved that particular milestone at the end of last week), it's also already one of the 100 highest domestic box office grosses of all time. Boldly going, indeed. More »
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Apparently, killer robots can be defeated by animated inanimate objects. At least, that's one conclusion to be drawn from Friday's US box office, which saw Terminator Salvation outgrossed by Night At The Museum 2. More »
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Watchmen's opening weekend gross of $55.7 million was, depending on whom you listen to, either a triumph or a disappointment. But what really happened this weekend, and what does it mean? More »
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Deal with it; more people wanted to see Twilight on its opening weekend than Wall-E. Or Hellboy II. Or, thankfully, High School Musical 3. The teen vamp romance grossed $70.5 million this weekend, making it the fourth biggest opening of the year, behind The Dark Knight, Iron Man and Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. Unsurprisingly, Summit greenlit the movie version of New Moon, the sequel, as a result. [Box Office Mojo] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5097582&view=rss&microfeed=true The box office hit of the weekend is definitely Quarantine, which took the top spot on its first day of release with a $5,350,000 haul, despite showing on fewer screens than its closest competition (Disney's Beverly Hills Chihuahua; Quarantine earned $2174 on average per screen, against $1398 per screen for the little dog movie). Don't expect it to last, though; industry insiders expect Chihuahua's kidlure to take the prize for the weekend after afternoon matinees and news of Quarantine's bad reviews are factored in. [Box Office Mojo] More »
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Remember how we said Incredible Hulk had to pull in an impressive second weekend box office to be considered a hit? And how the Hulk movie really had to beat Get Smart? Well, get in the lotus position and stare at a metronome — we've got some upsetting news. Get Smart pulverized TIH at the box-office, taking in $39 million to Hulk's $21 million. And preliminary estimates show Hulk scoring a roughly 62 percent drop-off from its first weekend, nearly as bad as Ang Lee's Hulk. The movie is close to making $100 million, and it'll probably do well on DVD. But the prospects of a second Incredible helping are dimming. Update: Now people are speculating Incredible Hulk's performance may actually hurt Marvel's stock. More »
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The Incredible Hulk easily crushed the competition at the box office over the weekend, but you'll have to wait another week to see if it's a massive hit. The new Hulk movie took in $55.8 million, less than the $71 million (adjusted for inflation) that Ang Lee's Hulk took in in its opening weekend. The Lee Hulk left a bad taste in people's mouths, so a smaller opening is understandable — Batman Begins took in only $48 million in its opening weekend, coming on the heels of the ultra-campy Batman And Robin. The crucial question is what happens next. More »
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