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    By Christopher Rosen 7/27/09 12:56pm

    Box Office Breakdown: Household Pets Take Down Harry Potter While Katherine Heigl Has a Not-So-Ugly Opening

    Upset alert! In a somewhat shocking turn of events, G-Force—heretofore known to adults-with-children as “that movie we were dragged to with the talking guinea pigs”—topped the charts this weekend with an estimated $32.1 million in ticket sales, which was enough to knock boy wizard Harry Potter into second place. With Up and Read More

    By Christopher Rosen 7/20/09 12:51pm

    Box Office Breakdown: Harry Potter Wears the Crown, (500) Days of Summer Opens Strong, Brüno Takes a Bath

    With all this extra money lying around, perhaps it might be time for Hogwarts to add a new wing to the campus: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ruled the roost over the weekend conjuring up an estimated $79.4 million in ticket sales. (Wizard jokes, hello!) Add that to the nearly $80 million Read More

    By Christopher Rosen 7/13/09 12:33pm

    Box Office Breakdown: Bruno Tiptoes Past Ice Age, Beth Cooper Gets Left Back

    What’s Austrian for “not as good as we thought?” It was a tale of two weekends for Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno. On the one hand, the guerrilla comedy pulled down an estimated $30.4 million in ticket sales to pace the field; on the other, the total gross came in well below the Read More

    By Christopher Rosen 7/06/09 12:34pm

    Box Office Breakdown: Ice Age 3 and Transformers 2 Play to a Tie, While Public Enemies Steals Third

    Ladies and gentlemen: We have a draw! Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs each pulled down an estimated $42.5 over Fourth of July weekend to tie atop the charts, meaning a winner won’t be decided until the final numbers are tallied later today. (Our money is Read More

    By Christopher Rosen 7/03/09 1:06pm

    Opening this Weekend: Celebrate July 4th with Johnny Depp in a Fedora and Those Cute Critters from Ice Age!

    What, is there a better way to celebrate our nation’s independence over this July 4th weekend than by spending some time inside a movie theater? Three films hope to win your hard-earned money, but, if none of them get your juices flowing, you can always see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen again. As Read More

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