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Christmas gift for Hollywood: Biggest weekend in box office history
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Christmas gift for Hollywood: Biggest weekend in box office history
The movie industry finished a monster year with the biggest film-going weekend in recent history.
Estimated total Dexter DVD season theatrical receipts of $278 million from Friday through Sunday in the U.S. and Canada weren't just the Family Guy dvd season largest ever recorded, according to Box Office at Hollywood.com, Gossip Girl dvds but also the highest number of tickets ever sold in a three-day period, 37.3 million, Grey's Anatomy dvds since precise data started to be collected around 1985.
One Tree Hill dvd The next four biggest box-office weekends were all dominated by one picture that grossed well CSI Miami Season dvd over $100 million -- "The Dark Knight," "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," and two "Pirates of theMedium DVD Caribbean" sequels. But the last three days smashed the record despite a No. 1 picture, Scrubs dvd "Avatar," that sold a comparatively modest $75 million worth Supernatural DVD of tickets.
This appears to Dexter DVD season be the first weekend ever, according to several studio executives, that three separate movies each grossed True Blood dvd season more than $50 million domestically.
All of the stars seemed to align How I Met Your Mother season for Hollywood as Christmas Day fell on a Friday, numerous strong Charmed dvd movies debuted or had recently opened, and audiences had been flocking to theaters all year despite the recession Gilmore Girls dvd season.
"When you have so Criminal Minds dvd many great choices for everybody and it's this time of year, people just love going to the movies," said Nikki Rocco, president of Universal Pictures domestic distribution.
Of the five new movies opening or expanding across the country, all but one did well or extremely well. Warner Bros dvd.' new version of Law and Order dvd "Sherlock Holmes," starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law, opened to a Buffy and Angel Series dvds strong $65.4 million and an audience that was evenly split between those over The Shield dvd season and under 30 and only slightly more male than female. In the 17 foreign markets Boston Legal dvd where it also debuted, "Sherlock" collected an additional $26 million, with Rurouni Kenshin dvd Holmes' home country, England, leading the way.
Fox's "Alvin and the The Sopranos complete dvd Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" collected $50.2 million over the weekend The Closer dvdand $77.1 million since it debuted Wednesday. Its crowds The Big Bang Theory dvd were 70% families and heavily Latino. "The Squeakquel" also grossed Heroes dvd season $36.5 million from the 42 foreign markets where it launched. That's more than Friends complete dvd twice as much as the first "Alvin" opened to in the same countries in 2007.
ItsComplicated "It's Complicated" Stargate complete dvd started with $22.1 million domestically, a solid debut for a romantic comedy from director Rome dvds Nancy Meyers. Paramount Pictures expanded its critically acclaimed George Clooney drama "Up in the Air" Sons of Anarchy Seasons dvd nationwide for the first time to a decent $11.8 million, bringing its gross so far to $24.5 million.
The only flop this weekend was "Nine," Dollhouse dvd the big-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical from the Weinstein Co. and co-financier Relativity Media. COLD CASE dvd The movie debuted around the country to just $5.5 million, bringing its total since last weekend to $5.9 million. The James Bond dvd box set Weinstein Co. head of operations, David Glasser, House MD dvd said the studio will be pulling back the movie, Disney dvd collection-100-Years-Of-Magic-164-Discs-DVD-Boxset-cartoon-1580.html]Disney dvd collection dvd collection[/url]which stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz and Nicole Kidman, from smaller Michael Jackson ultimate collection cities in the Midwest where it performed poorly and focus advertising on big coastal cities. The Beatles Collection dvds "Nine" will need to perform extremely well in those markets and get more awards recognition to avoid being a dud for the financially troubled Weinstein Co. las vegas dvd series and Relativity, which together spent about $64 million, after the benefit of tax credits, to make the film Charmed dvd.
The boom in moviegoing also One Tree Hill dvd benefited several pictures already in the market, most notably "Avatar," which saw ticket sales True Blood dvd season decline only 3% from its debut to $75 million. With $212.3 million domestically already, married with children dvd the costly James Cameron-directed 3-D epic is on its way to more than $400 million The L Word dvd domestically. Overseas, it already has grossed a phenomenal $405 million, including $145 million this Bones Season dvd weekend in 108 markets.
Ticket sales for long-running hit "Star Trek Series dvd The Blind Side" actually rose 17%, while "Invictus" got a boost after two Criminal Minds dvd soft weekends with a 4% jump. Disney dvd collection's animated feature "The Princess and the Frog," however, experienced Doctor Who dvds the biggest drop of any movie in the top 10, 29%, a sign that it's not recovering well from a so-so debut.
Still, the coming week should be lucrative even for Farscape season dvd movies that struggled this weekend. With kids out of school, many people off work and no new Ghost Whisperer dvd films debuting, Boston Legal dvd theaters are expected to be packed through next Sunday.
"Every day this week will be like Smallville season dvd a Saturday," said Bert Livingston, senior vice president of domestic distribution for Fox.
"It's Complicated" got an CSI Miami Season dvd average grade of A- from audiences, according to market research firm CinemaScore, while "Alvin" got an prison break dvd A. That means those movies should benefit the most from Mash dvd Season word-of-mouth in the coming days. "Sherlock" The Tudors dvd and "Up in the Air" Audrey Hepburn Collection dvd both got Bs, an average grade from typically generous moviegoers. That could be a cause The Simpsons dvds for concern for Paramount, since "Up in the Air" has gotten extremely positive NCIS season dvd reviews.
At four theaters in Los Angeles and Buffy The Vampire Slayer dvds New York, the Terry Gilliam-directed "Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," Battlestar Galactica dvd season which stars Johnny Depp and the late Heath Ledger, opened to a so-so $130,000.
Here are the top [url=http://www.dvdsetcollection.com/products/Warner-Bros-Cartoons-Movies-Complete-Series-DVD-Box-Set-cartoon-1820.html]Warner Bros dvd dvd[/url] 10 movies at the domestic box office, according to studio estimates and Hollywood.com:
1. "Avatar" Law and Order dvd (Fox/Dune/Ingenious): $75 million, down just 3% from its opening Mad Men Season dvd and $145 million from foreign countries. Tales from the Crypt dvds $212.3 million domestic total. $405 million international total.
2. "Sherlock Holmes" Supernatural DVD (Warner Bros dvd./Village Roadshow): $65.4 million debut. $26 million internationally.
3. "Monk dvd season Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" (Fox/New Regency): $50.2 million over the weekend, $77.1 million Monk dvd season since Wednesday in the U.S. and Canada. Overseas, it opened to $36.5 million 24 dvd season.
4. "It's Complicated" Monk dvd season (Universal/Relativity): Opened to $22.1 million and an additional $5.4 Family Guy dvd season million from 11 foreign countries.
5. "Up in the Air"South Park dvds (Paramount/Montecito): $11.8 million on its first weekend nationwide. $24.5 million including its last three weeks Gossip Girl dvds in limited release.
6. "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros dvd./Alcon): Grey's Anatomy dvds $11.7 million on its sixth weekend, up 17%. $184.4 million total.
7. "The Princess and the Frog" (Disney dvd collection): $8.7 million, down 29% on its fifth weekend (third weekend in wide release). $63.4 million so Battlestar Galactica dvd season far in the U.S. and Canada.
8. "Nine" (Weinstein/Relativity): Law and Order dvd $5.5 million this weekend, $5.9 million total including its first week in four theaters.
9. "Did You 24 dvd season Hear About the Morgans?" (Sony/Relativity): Fell 24% on its second weekend to $5 million, bringing its Mad Men Season dvd domestic take so far to $16 million.
10. "Invictus" (Warner Bros dvd./Spyglass): $4.4 million, up 4% on its third weekend. $23.4 million so far Family Guy dvd season domestically.
-- Ben Fritz
Top photo: Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. in "Sherlock Holmes." Credit: Alex Bailey / Warner Bros dvd.
Second photo: Meryl Streep, Gossip Girl dvds Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin and Lake Bell in "It's Complicated." Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon / Universal Pictures
The movie industry finished a monster year with the biggest film-going weekend in recent history.
Estimated total Dexter DVD season theatrical receipts of $278 million from Friday through Sunday in the U.S. and Canada weren't just the Family Guy dvd season largest ever recorded, according to Box Office at Hollywood.com, Gossip Girl dvds but also the highest number of tickets ever sold in a three-day period, 37.3 million, Grey's Anatomy dvds since precise data started to be collected around 1985.
One Tree Hill dvd The next four biggest box-office weekends were all dominated by one picture that grossed well CSI Miami Season dvd over $100 million -- "The Dark Knight," "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," and two "Pirates of theMedium DVD Caribbean" sequels. But the last three days smashed the record despite a No. 1 picture, Scrubs dvd "Avatar," that sold a comparatively modest $75 million worth Supernatural DVD of tickets.
This appears to Dexter DVD season be the first weekend ever, according to several studio executives, that three separate movies each grossed True Blood dvd season more than $50 million domestically.
All of the stars seemed to align How I Met Your Mother season for Hollywood as Christmas Day fell on a Friday, numerous strong Charmed dvd movies debuted or had recently opened, and audiences had been flocking to theaters all year despite the recession Gilmore Girls dvd season.
"When you have so Criminal Minds dvd many great choices for everybody and it's this time of year, people just love going to the movies," said Nikki Rocco, president of Universal Pictures domestic distribution.
Of the five new movies opening or expanding across the country, all but one did well or extremely well. Warner Bros dvd.' new version of Law and Order dvd "Sherlock Holmes," starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law, opened to a Buffy and Angel Series dvds strong $65.4 million and an audience that was evenly split between those over The Shield dvd season and under 30 and only slightly more male than female. In the 17 foreign markets Boston Legal dvd where it also debuted, "Sherlock" collected an additional $26 million, with Rurouni Kenshin dvd Holmes' home country, England, leading the way.
Fox's "Alvin and the The Sopranos complete dvd Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" collected $50.2 million over the weekend The Closer dvdand $77.1 million since it debuted Wednesday. Its crowds The Big Bang Theory dvd were 70% families and heavily Latino. "The Squeakquel" also grossed Heroes dvd season $36.5 million from the 42 foreign markets where it launched. That's more than Friends complete dvd twice as much as the first "Alvin" opened to in the same countries in 2007.
ItsComplicated "It's Complicated" Stargate complete dvd started with $22.1 million domestically, a solid debut for a romantic comedy from director Rome dvds Nancy Meyers. Paramount Pictures expanded its critically acclaimed George Clooney drama "Up in the Air" Sons of Anarchy Seasons dvd nationwide for the first time to a decent $11.8 million, bringing its gross so far to $24.5 million.
The only flop this weekend was "Nine," Dollhouse dvd the big-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical from the Weinstein Co. and co-financier Relativity Media. COLD CASE dvd The movie debuted around the country to just $5.5 million, bringing its total since last weekend to $5.9 million. The James Bond dvd box set Weinstein Co. head of operations, David Glasser, House MD dvd said the studio will be pulling back the movie, Disney dvd collection-100-Years-Of-Magic-164-Discs-DVD-Boxset-cartoon-1580.html]Disney dvd collection dvd collection[/url]which stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz and Nicole Kidman, from smaller Michael Jackson ultimate collection cities in the Midwest where it performed poorly and focus advertising on big coastal cities. The Beatles Collection dvds "Nine" will need to perform extremely well in those markets and get more awards recognition to avoid being a dud for the financially troubled Weinstein Co. las vegas dvd series and Relativity, which together spent about $64 million, after the benefit of tax credits, to make the film Charmed dvd.
The boom in moviegoing also One Tree Hill dvd benefited several pictures already in the market, most notably "Avatar," which saw ticket sales True Blood dvd season decline only 3% from its debut to $75 million. With $212.3 million domestically already, married with children dvd the costly James Cameron-directed 3-D epic is on its way to more than $400 million The L Word dvd domestically. Overseas, it already has grossed a phenomenal $405 million, including $145 million this Bones Season dvd weekend in 108 markets.
Ticket sales for long-running hit "Star Trek Series dvd The Blind Side" actually rose 17%, while "Invictus" got a boost after two Criminal Minds dvd soft weekends with a 4% jump. Disney dvd collection's animated feature "The Princess and the Frog," however, experienced Doctor Who dvds the biggest drop of any movie in the top 10, 29%, a sign that it's not recovering well from a so-so debut.
Still, the coming week should be lucrative even for Farscape season dvd movies that struggled this weekend. With kids out of school, many people off work and no new Ghost Whisperer dvd films debuting, Boston Legal dvd theaters are expected to be packed through next Sunday.
"Every day this week will be like Smallville season dvd a Saturday," said Bert Livingston, senior vice president of domestic distribution for Fox.
"It's Complicated" got an CSI Miami Season dvd average grade of A- from audiences, according to market research firm CinemaScore, while "Alvin" got an prison break dvd A. That means those movies should benefit the most from Mash dvd Season word-of-mouth in the coming days. "Sherlock" The Tudors dvd and "Up in the Air" Audrey Hepburn Collection dvd both got Bs, an average grade from typically generous moviegoers. That could be a cause The Simpsons dvds for concern for Paramount, since "Up in the Air" has gotten extremely positive NCIS season dvd reviews.
At four theaters in Los Angeles and Buffy The Vampire Slayer dvds New York, the Terry Gilliam-directed "Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," Battlestar Galactica dvd season which stars Johnny Depp and the late Heath Ledger, opened to a so-so $130,000.
Here are the top [url=http://www.dvdsetcollection.com/products/Warner-Bros-Cartoons-Movies-Complete-Series-DVD-Box-Set-cartoon-1820.html]Warner Bros dvd dvd[/url] 10 movies at the domestic box office, according to studio estimates and Hollywood.com:
1. "Avatar" Law and Order dvd (Fox/Dune/Ingenious): $75 million, down just 3% from its opening Mad Men Season dvd and $145 million from foreign countries. Tales from the Crypt dvds $212.3 million domestic total. $405 million international total.
2. "Sherlock Holmes" Supernatural DVD (Warner Bros dvd./Village Roadshow): $65.4 million debut. $26 million internationally.
3. "Monk dvd season Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" (Fox/New Regency): $50.2 million over the weekend, $77.1 million Monk dvd season since Wednesday in the U.S. and Canada. Overseas, it opened to $36.5 million 24 dvd season.
4. "It's Complicated" Monk dvd season (Universal/Relativity): Opened to $22.1 million and an additional $5.4 Family Guy dvd season million from 11 foreign countries.
5. "Up in the Air"South Park dvds (Paramount/Montecito): $11.8 million on its first weekend nationwide. $24.5 million including its last three weeks Gossip Girl dvds in limited release.
6. "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros dvd./Alcon): Grey's Anatomy dvds $11.7 million on its sixth weekend, up 17%. $184.4 million total.
7. "The Princess and the Frog" (Disney dvd collection): $8.7 million, down 29% on its fifth weekend (third weekend in wide release). $63.4 million so Battlestar Galactica dvd season far in the U.S. and Canada.
8. "Nine" (Weinstein/Relativity): Law and Order dvd $5.5 million this weekend, $5.9 million total including its first week in four theaters.
9. "Did You 24 dvd season Hear About the Morgans?" (Sony/Relativity): Fell 24% on its second weekend to $5 million, bringing its Mad Men Season dvd domestic take so far to $16 million.
10. "Invictus" (Warner Bros dvd./Spyglass): $4.4 million, up 4% on its third weekend. $23.4 million so far Family Guy dvd season domestically.
-- Ben Fritz
Top photo: Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. in "Sherlock Holmes." Credit: Alex Bailey / Warner Bros dvd.
Second photo: Meryl Streep, Gossip Girl dvds Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin and Lake Bell in "It's Complicated." Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon / Universal Pictures
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