All Box Office articles – Page 172
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Smurfs 2 crosses $200m int'l
China helped The Smurfs 2 soar past $200m over a lukewarm session, driving the overall weekend take to $17.6m from 13,000 screens in 70 markets through Sony Pictures Releasing International.
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Smurfs 2 targets $200m milestone
Sony Pictures Releasing International top brass expect two major markets to push The Smurfs 2 past the threshold this weekend. The family animation stands at more than $191.6m and opens in China and Australia.
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About Time tops UK box office
Universal’s romantic comedy scores $2.76m (£1.76m), including previews, to dethrone One Direction; eOne’s Riddick records $2.2m (£1.4m) debut, including previews, to land second.
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Elysium tops int'l on $21.2m
Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi action release added an estimated $21.2m from 10,630 screens in 52 markets through Sony Pictures Releasing International to push the running total to $127.1m.
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Summer box office tops $5.99bn
SEPT 3 UPDATE EXCLUSIVE: The aggregated gross of Hollywood’s summer exports has surpassed the freshly minted $4.7bn record North American session by at least 22%.
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Studios serve up record summer
Lee Daniels’ The Butler restored supremacy at the top of the North American charts as a record four-day Labor Day weekend wrapped up a record $4.7bn summer.
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One Direction top UK box office
Sony score second number one in as many weeks as One Direction: This is Us debuts with $5.5m (£3.5m), including previews.
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One Direction win LDW on $17m
The summer session neared a conclusion over Labor Day Weekend as One Direction: This Is Us, Morgan Spurlock’s documentary about the UK-Irish pop sensation, opened top on an estimated $17m through Sony’s TriStar label over three days.
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Elysium rules int’l on $18m
UPDATE: Sony Pictures Releasing International (SRI) executives reported that the sci-fi added an estimated $17.9m from 5,095 screens in 55 markets to reach the cusp of $100m.
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Monsters Uni, Pac Rim excel
Disney executives announced that the Pixar family film Monsters University was on course to cross $700m at the worldwide box office.
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Wetlands grosses €1.9m in Germany
David Wnendt’s much-talked about adaptation charts second on debut with almost 240,000 admissions.
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La Cage Dorée reaches €10m at box office
Ruben Alves’ comedy also records third straight week as number one in Portugal.
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Elysium tops UK box office
Sony’s sci-fi debuts at number one with $4.8m (£3.13m), including previews; Warner Bros’ We’re The Millers grosses $2.9m (£1.85m) over the four-day weekend to chart second.
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Butler stays top in US on $17m
Lee Daniel’s The Butler held on to top spot at a lacklustre box office weekend that marked the penultimate session of blockbuster season.
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Jurassic Park storms China
UPDATED AUG 26: Universal Pictures International’s Jurassic Park 3D grossed a confirmed $28.9m from 3,373 theatres in 11 territories, fuelled by a $28m launch in China. Despicable Me 2 crossed $800m worldwide.
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Disney crosses $2bn int'l
The studio announced on Friday [23] that it had crossed the threshold in record time.
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Octane fired up for Haunted 2
A Haunted House 2 is scheduled to kick off production on Monday [26] through IM Global’s Octane genre division. Open Road will distribute in the US on Mar 2014.
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Elysium eyes UK launch
Sony Pictures Releasing International’s champion of last weekend, Elysium, opens in the UK in what is expected to be a low-key international session that also sees Disney-Pixar’s Monsters University arrive in China and Italy.
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SPC plots Blue Jasmine expansion
Sony Pictures Classics announced that it will expand Woody Allen’s box office hit Blue Jasmine this weekend from 229 screens to more than 1,200, making the awards contender Allen’s widest ever release.
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Jurassic Park 3D storms into China
Universal’s 3D reboot opened at number one in China on Tuesday [20] on an estimated $6.3m (CNY 38.5m) from 2,500 screens.