Things went much as predicted this Fourth of July weekend. New Yorkers fell in love with a homeless wino with a penchant for busting road signs and throwing live whales into the ocean. Hancock landed on top of Manhattan’s sales charts with an $850,956 box office showing. It was the same story nationally. Sony’s film Read More
Manhattan may be famous for its plummeting crime rate (Oslo has four times as much crime as New York this year!), but it’s clear its residents still have a taste for violence — that, or they prefer Angelina Jolie’s slender arms and James McAvoy’s glistening chest to a dented metal-box with eyes. Either Read More
Lesson learned this weekend: Martin Lawrence still has it, while Vince Vaughn doesn’t always. Out of five—yes, five—comedies released this weekend, Lawrence’s Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (No. 1) was easily the fan favorite in Manhattan, out-grossing its closest competition, the Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey romantic barnstormer Fool’s Gold by over $60,000. (Gold did, however, get Read More
With only one wide release—MGM’s Awake (No. 6)—the box office had a slow weekend, with few, if any, changes either here or nationally in the top five. But that didn’t keep The Savages (No. 8) from making an impression. On two screens in the city, the Tamara Jenkins family drama starring Philip Seymour Read More
While the rest of the country gravitated toward the family fare over the Thanksgiving weekend, New York’s tastes were a bit more of a mixed bag. Sure, Enchanted (No. 1) topped our box office charts—just like it did the nation’s—with a strong per screen average of $33,000. But Bee Movie (No. 8), ranked fifth nationally, Read More
Robert Zemeckis used Beowulf (No. 1), once the scourge of high-school English classes nationwide, to lure unsuspecting children and families to the box office this weekend, promising a 3-D spectacle the likes the which they had never seen. Improbably, he ended the weekend at the top of the box-office charts both in Manhattan and across Read More
The box office was awakened this weekend from its fall slumber, as if it too had just been hit by the first cold spell of the season. American Gangster (No. 1) may have only grossed one and a half times as much as Bee Movie (No.2) nationally, but here in the city, it almost tripled Read More
Heartbleeders, both literally—ew!—and metaphorically—aw!—speaking, ruled over the weekend. Saw IV (No. 1) grossed over $32 million nationally and averaged over $53,000 at 8 theaters in the city, while Dan in the Real Life (No. 2) took in a respectable $12 million in national receipts, and did similarly respectable business in the city with an over Read More
New Yorkers hate the Red Sox. To suggest that New Yorkers also hate Red Sox fans is therefore a bit tautological. But this weekend, New Yorkers—lots of them—defied the national trend and went and saw Gone Baby Gone (#3), which was written and directed by the most famous Sox fan apart from John Kerry—what auspicious Read More
One had to know that George Clooney wasn’t going to settle for fourth place—not in this town! Michael Clayton (No. 1) expanded from 2 theaters into 9 and nabbed the top spot on this week’s Manhattan box office chart. The film, which is in its second week, managed to outgross Tyler Perry’s Why Did Get Read More
