In the midst of a busy box office weekend packed full of knights, kings, cowboys, and death, it had all ended with Maleficent sitting atop of the competition, with over $70 million to show. The Disney film was originally expected to earn about $50 million, but as we can see now, that was a blatant underestimation. […]
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‘Maleficent’ Reigns Over Box Office
June 1st, 2014 
Adrian Garza 
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‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ Overpowers ‘Godzilla’
May 25th, 2014 Adrian Garza In typical summer superhero movie fashion, X-Men: Days of Future Past came, saw, and conquered this Memorial Day weekend. Things are still far from over, but studio estimates show that the CGI-packed action film will come out of this weekend pulling around $90.7 million. This weekend’s other major release didn’t fare nearly as well, with $14.25 […]
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‘Captain America’ Falls Before ‘The Other Woman’
April 27th, 2014 Adrian Garza Captain America: The Winter Soldier sure did fight the good fight for two straight weeks, but as of this weekend, the production’s been dethroned by The Other Woman. With sales scraping in at about $24.7 million, Cameron Diaz’s latest is topping the Marvel film by an estimated $8.7 million. Further on our list of this […]
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‘Captain America 2’ Clings to Top Position for Third Consecutive Week
April 20th, 2014 Adrian Garza While facing off against time itself and three new films that have charted on this weekend’s top ten, Captain America: Winter Soldier has held its ground, and made $26.6 million in the process. If this estimate is correct, then that would mean that Marvel Studios has made over $200 million in domestic sales off of […]
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‘Rio 2’ Flies Up To #2 Spot; ‘Captain America 2’ Maintains #1
April 13th, 2014 Adrian Garza One of the (albeit minor) surprises of this weekend came when news spread that Rio 2 had pulled in more sales ($12 million) in its opening weekend than the behemoth that is Captain America: Winter Soldier ($11.9 million). Things still remain to be neck and neck for the two sequels, seeing as how current weekend estimates […]
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‘Captain America: Winter Soldier’ Takes Box Office
April 6th, 2014 Adrian Garza Just as the case normally is with the films to come from Marvel Studios, Captain America: The Winter Soldier has completely dominated the box office charts this weekend while breaking records in the process. The action-flick opened this last Friday and made over $37 million, which breaks the single day record for the month of […]
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‘Noah’ Thrives This Box Office Weekend
March 30th, 2014 Adrian Garza Whether or not the massive behemoth that is Noah achieved its success off of quality, hype, or controversy will probably remain an open discussion for months to come, but regardless, the Russell Crowe-led film made quite the impact this weekend. As of today, estimates have revealed a weekend pull of $44 million. Sadly, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s […]
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‘Need For Speed’ Fails To Catch Up To The Success Of ‘Peabody’
March 16th, 2014 Adrian Garza After Mr. Peabody & Sherman had debuted last weekend and ranking in second to last week’s top highest grossing film, which was 300: Rise of an Empire, the animated Dreamworks film has now surprisingly climbed the charts with an estimated $21.2 million made in sales. Suffice it to say, Need for Speed did not meet expectations […]
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‘Non-Stop’ Takes Off With #1 Spot
March 2nd, 2014 Adrian Garza After three weeks of dominance, The LEGO movie has been dethroned by none other than Liam Neeson’s latest film, Non-Stop. The action film made about $30 million over this weekend after it had earned over $10 million on Friday alone. This marks Neeson’s live-action return to the silver screen after strictly voice-acting in films like […]
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‘The LEGO Movie’ Dominates For Third Consecutive Week
February 23rd, 2014 Adrian Garza Even through an overall slow weekend for the box office as a whole, The LEGO Movie’s still been cranking out big numbers ($31.5 million), and in doing so, holding onto its #1 spot in weekend sales for the third week in a row. This now raises the total count of domestic sales for the film to […]
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‘The LEGO Movie’ Stacks Higher Than The Rest
February 9th, 2014 Adrian Garza It should come as no surprise that The LEGO Movie has obliterated the competition this weekend. Currently, the stop motion film is poised to finish the weekend with $69.1 million in the bank… not too bad for a movie based off of toy building blocks, right? Much of this success could be attributed to the presence […]
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‘Ride Along’ Keeps Rolling Along
February 2nd, 2014 Adrian Garza Three weeks in, and Ride Along‘s box office dominance remains unshaken with 12.3 million made this weekend. At this point, we’re left wondering how long of a tenure the comedy will have on weekend charts. Things haven’t changed much for Disney’s Frozen either, which has now been in theaters for the past 11 weeks, and has […]
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