Posts Tagged ‘box office’

  • New Moon scores third biggest box office opening ever

    The Twilight Saga: New Moon has recorded the third biggest opening in box office history grossing $140.7million.

    The second film in the vampire series scored the record for single day performance earning $72.7 million in ticket sales on Friday.

    The Dark Knight ($158 million) and Spiderman 3 ($151 million) are the only two movies to have scored bigger box office figures.

    The Twilight series, based on Stephenie Meyer’s four best-selling novels, tells the story of a teenage girl named Bella who falls in love with a vampire.

    The first Twilight film made $384 million in global ticket sales. Closely held Summit has the rights to all four books in Meyer’s series, and has already completed the third film, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

    New Moon stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner and is about a small-town girl caught in a love triangle between a vampire and a werewolf.

    2009.11.23 / no responses / Category: Movie Premiers, Movies, Robert Pattinson

  • Actor George Clooney’s new films will go head to head at the box office

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    Actor George Clooney’s new films will go head to head at the box office.

    The 48-year-old’s new films, The Men Who Stare at Goats and Up in the Air are set to be released around the same time and consequently will battle against each other at the box office.

    Clooney’s The Men Who Stare at Goats, a dark comedy set in Iraq, is going to be released on November 6 and his other movie Up in the Air, a film about a businessman who meets the woman of his dreams through his frequent-flyer programme, hits the big screens on November 13.

    The Hollywood Reporter has reported that the Men Who Stare at Goats release date will definitely not be changed and it is not yet known if Up In The Air’s will.

    George is keeping busy and currently shooting his new film The American, in Italy.

    2009.09.30 / no responses / Category: George Clooney, Movie Premiers, Movies

  • Terminator Salvation poised for box office success

    Terminator Salvation has opened to $13.3million on its first day of release putting it in pole position to be the number one movie at the box office this weekend.

    The Warner Bros picture starring Christian Bale made the big splash on its opening night from 3,530 theatres on Thursday, including around $3 million from midnight screenings.

    Studio execs have projected that Terminator Salvation could make another $60 million over the four day Memorial Day weekend for a total of over $70 million for its first five days.

    The last film in the franchise, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, had a preview night on July 1, 2003 during which it earned $4 million and then it made $12.4 million the next full day in 3,355 theaters.

    Terminator Salvation is going head-to-head with two big releases this weekend, Fox’s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and Paramount’s Dance Flick as it battles for box office supremacy.

    2009.05.25 / no responses / Category: Actors, Money, Movie Premiers, Movies

  • A writer has piled financial misery for Mel Gibson as he sues him over his fees for Passion of the Christ

    A writer is piling on the financial misery for divorce-bound Mel Gibson after telling a judge the star fiddled figures for a film to avoid paying him a fair fee.

    Benedict Fitzgerald, who wrote Gibson’s controversial box office smash The Passion of the Christ, is suing him as he tries to get a larger paycheque for his work.

    The writer said he accepted a low fee after being told the movie would have a reasonably modest $4-$7m production budget – but believes he has been lied to.

    During the case, Gibson’s team produced accounting records putting the expenditure at $30m.

    But Fitzgerald is now claiming the amount is even higher and is asking a judge to force a more thorough accounting.

    He wants what he considers to be a fair writer’s fee based on the true cost of the movie, reported TMZ.com.

    The news came just days after it emerged Gibson’s wife Robyn had filed for divorce – which could lead to a record settlement.

    A large slice of Gibson’s estimated $950m fortune has come from The Passion of the Christ, which reportedly made over $600m around the world in cinemas alone.

    Source: Splash News

    2009.04.15 / no responses / Category: Divorce and BreakUps, Mel Gibson

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