Tag: BOXOFFICE

It may not have been as impressive a figure as some had anticipated, but the $23 million that 'The Social Network' raked in during its opening weekend was still enough to give David Fincher's Facebook film the top spot at the box office. In the wake of the film's effusive critical reception, many analysts had projected 'The Social Network' to earn at least $25 million during its maiden ...

In March, 'The Hurt Locker' became the lowest-grossing film to take home Best Picture honors at the Oscars. A few months later, in an apparent attempt to shore up their balance sheet, the producers behind the film promised to file as many as tens of thousands of lawsuits against people accused of illegally downloading the movie. Now, Voltage Pictures has finally provided a little bite to back up ...

Share Ever since the dawn of Hollywood's Golden Age, from 'Sunset Boulevard' to 'The Player,' the world of movie-making and show business has been portrayed as some stylized, inaccessible society that we can observe and idolize -- but only from a distance. Soon, though, you may be able to get in on the business yourself, thanks to a newly approved financial market devoted exclusively to film ...

Telling us that you can predict a movie's box office success using Twitter isn't going to impress us. Tell us that you can use it to predict ticket sales even more accurately than market-based tools like the Hollywood Stock Exchange can, and our ears will perk up. Researchers at HP Labs discovered that by simply monitoring Twitter for mentions of particular films, and by then feeding those ...

It's one of our favorite pastimes -- betting what movies will soar and flop at the box office. By no means do these numbers indicate film quality, of course, but we still enjoy keeping an eye on them. Now, we have even more incentive. According to The New York Times, Cantor Futures Exchange will launch a Web site in late April that allows everybody from studio executives to film lovers to bet ...

Maybe spending nearly half a billion dollars on a movie isn't such a bad idea, after all. As CBS News reports, James Cameron's latest blockbuster 'Avatar' has officially become the all-time biggest box office success, dethroning, of course, the director's own 'Titanic,' which kept the throne warm for more than a decade. The film has grossed a staggering $1.8 billion worldwide, and many expect it ...

What led to the better-than-expected box office opening of Quentin Tarantino's 'Inglourious Basterds?' Was it the anticipation for a film that was years in the making? Or, was it maybe Brad Pitt's mustache? According to various sources on the Web, neither is the case. Instead, Twitter swooped in to save the day. The film racked up about $37 million at the box office this weekend, which is about ...