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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: 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]
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