November 11th, 2008
New releases were not as strong this week as they were last week, and this hurt overall sales. However, Tinker Bell still did very well, especially for a direct-to-DVD release, selling 1.94 million units and generating $30.73 million in sales during its first week of release. Had the movie opened in theaters, I would suspect it would have been a much bigger hit than Space Chimps and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, probably bigger than those two films combined, and perhaps even earned $100 million or more, depending on its release date.
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November 11th, 2008
New releases were spread thin on the rental chart this week, but one of them, Journey to the Center of the Earth, did earn first place and earned nearly 25% more than the second place The Incredible Hulk.
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October 30th, 2008
The holiday season (un)official starts next weekend with the release of Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa. It will be the biggest hit of the week, potentially the biggest hit of the month, and possibly even the biggest hit of the rest of the year. It is also the target film this week. In order to win, one must simply predict the opening weekend box office of Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa.
Whoever comes the closest to predicting the film's opening 3-day weekend box office (Friday to Sunday), without going over, will win Hell Ride on DVD, The Flight Before Christmas on DVD, as well as South of Pico on DVD.
Meanwhile, whoever comes the closest to predicting the film's opening 3-day weekend box office (Friday to Sunday), without going under, will also win South of Pico on DVD, as well as Click & Clack's As the Wrench Turns on DVD.
Entries must be received by 10 a.m., Pacific Time on Friday to be eligible, so don't delay!
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October 28th, 2008
A slower week in terms of first run releases with a second tier summer release topping that particular list. However, there are a few other releases that are more interesting, including the direct-to-DVD release, Tinker Bell, which is worth picking up on either DVD or Blu-ray, but the latter is better than the former. While that release is the DVD Pick of the Week, two non-DVD releases are worth mentioning above the fold: The Mental Floss History of the World - Buy from Amazon and The Best Of Bond... James Bond - Buy from Amazon. It goes without saying that it was another busy week in terms of total DVDs on this week's list, so much so that it had to be split into two. The second part of the list can be found here.
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August 12th, 2008
Elegy topped the charts with more than $100,000 in 6 theaters for an average of $17,361. The only other film to top $10,000 was Beautiful Losers, which barely crossed that milestone with $10,607 in one theater.
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August 9th, 2008
Not the best week for websites, but not the worst. While the best of the best, The Pineapple Express - Official Site, is not one of the best sites I've seen. But there are almost no movie sites that are missing or below acceptable levels.
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August 8th, 2008
The Olympics have started and this might be scaring away some limited releases as we only have eight films in total, including three that are opening in dozens of theaters each. However, these wider releases are not necessarily the strongest releases. That said, none of the releases look particularly strong this week.
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March 13th, 2008
This week's round of new casting information contains updates for Confessions of a Shopaholic, Monsters vs Aliens, The Promotion, and more!
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March 11th, 2008
This week another number of upcoming movies, new stars and directors have been added to our archive!
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March 9th, 2008
This week's round of new movie release information contains release dates for Hell Ride, Hamlet 2, Burn After Reading and more!
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