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Stories By Steve Mason
  • Semi-Pro

    Box Office Tracking: Semi-Pro Aims For A Slam-Dunk With $42M-$45M

    The new 1970's-style basketball comedy Semi-Pro (New Line) appears to be the equivalent of a slam-dunk at America's box offices this weekend. The past few years have featured other Will Ferrell vehicles set in variety of sports, including Kicking & Screaming ($20.1M opening) about soccer, Talladega Nights ($47M opening) set in the high-stakes world of…
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  • Vantage Point

    Box Office: Vantage Point With $9.7M Saturday & Headed For $23M+

    Sony may not have a serious Oscar contender at tomorrow night's 80th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre, but they still have a big winner this weekend. Vantage Point, either an homage or a knock-off of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, received a nice 22% Saturday bounce from its opening day, adding another $9.76M. The Oscar…
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  • Vantage Point

    Box Office: Vantage Point Surprises w/$7.5M Friday, Headed For $22.4M

    Critics have been generally unkind to Vantage Point, the Pete Travis-directed film, with many, describing it as an Akira Kurosawa Rashomon ripoff, but that hasn't kept moviegoers away. With an all-star cast, including Oscar winners William Hurt and Forest Whitaker, Matthew Fox from TV's Lost, and former Academy Award nominees Dennis Quaid and Sigourney Weaver,…
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  • Jumper Movie Poster

    Box Office: Jumper Headed For $38.6M; Spiderwick #2 On Saturday

    Doug Liman's Jumper (Fox) received a nice 27% Saturday surge, adding just over $11M for a new 3-day cume of $26.37M. With a projected $8M or so on Sunday and another $4.19M on President's Day, the tepidly-reviewed Hayden Christensen sci-fi action movie will finish with a 5-day of $38.63M, more than enough to win the…
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  • Jumper

    Friday Box Office: Jumper $8.2M; Step-Up 2 $6.2M; Spiderwick $4.7M

    Jumper has leapt to an excellent $8.21M on Friday, and it should bound to a solid $34.47M for the Valentine's Day through President's Day 5-day box office frame. After finishing in a virtual dead heat with Disney's Step Up to the Streets on Thursday, Doug Liman's sci-fi adventure pic overwhelmed the competition on Friday. Meanwhile,…
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  • Step Up 2 the Streets

    V-Day Box Office: Step Up & Jumper In A Virtual Dead Heat

    Step Up 2 the Streets (Disney) appears to have edged Fox's big budget Jumper on Thursday, although technically, it's a bit too close ro call the race definitively. The urban dance sequel has averaged an estimated $2,500 per location on its opening day for what looks to be a $6.175M total. The big budget sci…
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  • Fool's Gold

    Box Office: Fool's Gold With $9.4M Saturday; Roscoe Jenkins Surges

    The 3-day estimate for Fool's Gold (Warner Bros) I released Friday night (see below) was dead-on, but I underestimated the Saturday surge for Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (Universal). The Matthew McConaughey/Kate Hudson romatic comedy received a 23% Saturday bump for an estimated day 2 take of $9.4M. Gold will finish the weekend with $22.42M, making…
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  • Fool's Gold

    Box Office: Fool's Gold $22.6M 3-Day; Paris Hilton's Hottie $76 PTA

    5 years ago, Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson teamed up for the romantic comedy How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days with a $7.96M Friday and a $23.7M opening weekend. Their new movie together, Fool's Gold (Warner Bros), is enjoying virtually the same success. The tepidly-reviewed date flick has opened with an estimated $7.81M…
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  • Cloverfield

    Box Office Tracking: Cloverfield #1, Spartans #2, Rambo #3

    Film industry tracking points to a Cloverfield repeat weekend win. History points to a 50%-55% drop forThe J.J. Abrams-produced monster flick to a likely take in the $21M-$23M range. The battle will be for #2, and I'm calling for an upset. The Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer spoof movie Meet the Spartans (Fox) has an overall First…
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  • Cloverfield

    Bos Office: Cloverfield Down 10% On Saturday, Headed For $49M

    First off, with Cloverfield (Paramount) and 27 Dresses (Fox) opening huge, the movie industry is off to a spectacular 2008 start. In the first 21 days of January 2007, the total domestic box office recorded was $508.2M. By the end of business Monday (1/21), the overall business will be at an estimated $600M. That's 15%…
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  • Cloverfield

    Box Office Tracking: Cloverfield Targets $40M 4-Day

    The star-studded premiere of Cloverfield (Paramount) was last night (Wednesday, January 16) at the studio lot on Melrose. Young Hollywood was out in full force, including everyone from Lindsay Lohan, Patrick Stump and bandmates from Fall Out Boy and, of course, the cast of MTV's The Hills (with LC, Audrina and Whitney not giving the…
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  • The Bucket List

    Friday Box Office: Bucket List #1, First Sunday #2, Juno #3

    The star power of Oscar winners Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman has lifted The Bucket List (Warner Bros) to a solid $6M Friday in its expansion to 2,911 locations, and the oldster road comedy will give director Rob Reiner the best opening of his career. After opening to $10,000+ per location on 16 screens on…
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  • National Treasure 2

    Friday Box Office: Treasure Eyes $18.9M 3-Day; Juno Surges To Likely $15.3M

    National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Disney) will officially become Nicolas Cage's biggest hit ever some time next week. The continuing adventures of treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates has scooped up another $6.1M on Friday, lifting its domestic cume to $156.9M. The holiday blockbuster will likely deliver a weekend haul of $18.9M, more than enough to…
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  • National Treasure: Book of Secrets

    Thursday Box Office: Treasure W/7-Day Gross Of $86.4M; Blood /$28K PTA!

    Nicolas Cage's National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Disney) continued its holiday domination with a $9.52M Thursday, down 17% from the day after Christmas. The sequel about treasure hunter Ben Gates has posted an estimated 7-day total of $86.43M. Treasure has generated the 6th-best 7-day gross in modern box office history, about $7.5M stronger than last…
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  • National Treasure 2

    Christmas Box Office: National Treasure Grabs $14.75M; AVP-R Strong #2

    As is the tradition, American's opened Christmas presents and then flooded the nation's multiplexes. National Treasure: Book of Secrets easily won the day, and in so doing may have posted the 2nd-best all-time single day Christmas gross with an estimated $14.75M. ALL-TIME TOP 5 SINGLE DAY CHRISTMAS GROSSES 1. Meet the Fockers - $19.5M 2.…
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  • Christmas Tree at Citywalk

    Christmas Eve Box Office Up 25% From 2006

    Christmas Eve is never a big day at America's multiplexes, but Monday was considerably stronger than December 24, 2006. The top movie last year was Night at the Museum with $5.7M. By comparison, National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Disney) has registered an $8.4M estimated haul. The latest adventure of treasure hunter Ben Gates has now…
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  • National Treasure: Book of Secrets

    Saturday Box Office: Treasure Down, Headed For $50M; Charlie Beats Sweeney

    Nicolas Cage's National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Disney) was down on Saturday from its enthusiastic Friday opening. The return of treasure hunter Ben Gates added an estimated $16.9M with a Per Theatre Average of $4,410.Now the question becomes how will the weekend box office play out considering that Monday is Christmas Eve and a holiday…
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