The numbers might be miniscule this week, but with no new releases to speak of (barring the NC-17 rated Shame, which didn’t make the Top 10), the top contenders remained about the same. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 remained the top draw for the third week in a row, though it dropped considerably from its $60+ million earnings last week, picking up only an estimated $16.9 million. It h...[Read More]
Last year at this time, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 led the box office pack. This year, another Part 1 does the same…The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 held the top spot for a second week in a row with an estimated $62.3 million. While the film hasn’t wowed critics, with $221 million in domestic gross (over twice its production costs) it is unlikely Summit Entertainment is ...[Read More]
As I wipe away tears of exhausted joy, the sheer overwhelming beauty of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo is just beginning to take shape as a solid, golden object of art that should come to be a classic film for children and adults in the same pantheon as The Wizard of Oz, The Red Balloon, and E.T. Scorsese has been leading up to the kind of picture that would serve as a personal summation of all of the rev...[Read More]