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Box Office Weekend: Box Office Gain for Mild Critical Pain as Michael Bay’s Caper Takes Top Spot
To say that Pain & Gain is getting mixed critical praise is perhaps an understatement; it is Michael Bay’s best reviewed movie since Transformers, but then, Transformers was not a critical success. Bay, however, can make money despite critics, and his newest true story crime caper is no exception. On a low (for Bay anyway) budget of only $26 million, Pain & Gain has already made an estimat...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Living in Oblivion Not Such a Bad Thing
Tom Cruise may have been the best thing going for the science fiction action film Oblivion, which has only been getting lukewarm critical reception, but it still took the box office weekend easily. Costing $120 million, it made an excellent head start against its costs domestically with an estimated $38.2 million, though foreign box office has already made it a success with an additional $112 mill...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Robinson Leads the Way over a Tepid Scary Movie
Is it wrong for a well-regarded biopic to win the weekend over a comedy that was not even screened for critics? Well, of course not, though to say the abysmally reviewed Scary Movie 5 is a bomb is not exactly true. While the Jackie Robinson movie 42, starring Chadwick Boseman in the title role and veteran actor Harrison Ford, made a comfortable estimated $27.3 million, it has yet to make good on i...[Read More]