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'District 9' Emerges On Top In The Sunday Box Office Report

Posted 8/16/09 2:41 pm EST by in Box Office


District 91. "District 9" ($37 million)
2. "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" ($22.5 million)
3. "The Time Traveler's Wife" ($19.2 million)
4. "Julie & Julia" ($12.4 million)
5. "G-Force" ($6.9 million)

Given its strong opening day of $14.2 million and a Saturday take of $12.6 million, it's hardly surprising to hear that "District 9" finished its first weekend on top of the box office. What is surprising is that "District 9" is on track to make $37 million by Sunday's end, meaning that the alien-centric film has already surpassed its budget costs by $7 million. According to Deadline Hollywood Daily, the results surpassed rival studios' expectations of the film, thanks largely to good word of mouth and grassroots marketing from producer Peter Jackson, director Neill Blomkamp and the rest of the "District 9" team. Read More...

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Moviegoers Bravely Explore 'District 9' In The Saturday Box Office Report

Posted 8/15/09 11:50 am EST by in Box Office


District 91. "District 9" ($13 million)
2. "The Time Traveler's Wife" ($7.5 million)
3. "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" ($7.2 million)
4. "Julie & Julia" ($3.6 million)
5. "G-Force" ($2.3 million)

There's nothing alien about the moviegoing crowd's relationship with "District 9," the Peter Jackson-produced, Neill Blomkamp-directed science fiction epic that opened in the top box office slot on Friday evening. The film -- which is what an adaptation of the "Halo" video game could have looked like had studios trusted Jackson and Blomkamp's vision -- opened to at least $13 million, with that number set to go higher after west coast numbers are accounted for. Read More...

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'G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra' Falls Short In The Sunday Box Office Report

Posted 8/9/09 3:55 pm EST by in Box Office


G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra1. "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" ($56.2 million)
2. "Julie & Julia" ($20.1 million)
3. "G-Force" ($9.8 million)
4. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" ($8.9 million)
5. "Funny People" ($7.9 million)

Don't ever let anybody tell you that fighting for freedom wherever there's trouble is easy. Despite becoming the fourth biggest August debut of all time thanks to a strong $22.3 million Friday opening, "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" only earned $18 million on Saturday, a 16% drop from its opening day figures. The result is a projected $56.2 million opening weekend according to studio number-crunchers. Read More...

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'G.I. Joe' Is Certainly There In The Saturday Box Office Report

Posted 8/8/09 10:56 am EST by in Box Office


G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra1. "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" ($22 million)
2. "Julie & Julia" ($7.5 million)
3. "G-Force" ($2.8 million)
4. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" ($2.4 million)
5. "Funny People" ($2.4 million)

With blue and red lasers a-blazing, "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" stormed the box office on Friday to a $22 million dollar opening, on track to earn a respectable $55 million this weekend. The success might surprise the readers following our Box Office Poll -- after questionable trailers, some potentially damaging rumors about the director and other signs of failure, many of you expected "Rise of Cobra" to sink. Now we know -- remember kids: knowing is half the battle -- and it's not just ticket sales that the real American heroes are making bank on. Read More...

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Everyone's Still Laughing With 'Funny People' In Our Sunday Box Office Report

Posted 8/2/09 4:00 pm EST by in Box Office


Funny People1. "Funny People" ($23.4 million)
2. "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" ($17.7 million)
3. "G-Force" ($17.1 million)
4. "The Ugly Truth" ($13 million)
5. "Aliens in the Attic" ($7.8 million)

Moviegoers continued to flock to "Funny People" on Saturday, helping to boost the film to $23.4 million and putting it squarely in the middle of some studio controversy. Nikke Finke of Deadline Hollywood Daily is crowing that this is the first "soft" weekend of the summer, and that the comedy is yet another flop for the troubled Universal Studios. Read More...

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Audiences Are Laughing With 'Funny People' In The Saturday Box Office Report

Posted 8/2/09 12:44 am EST by in News


Funny People1. "Funny People" ($8.6 million)
2. G-Force" ($5.8 million)
3. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" ($5.4 million)
4. The Ugly Truth" ($4.4 million)
5. Aliens in the Attic" ($2.8 million)

Friday audiences were flocking to spend some time with "Funny People," as Judd Apatow's latest currently hold the #1 box office spot with $8.6 million, a slightly bigger opening than Apatow's previous hits "Knocked Up" and "The 40 Year Old Virgin." "Funny" isn't racing out of the gate as a big Sandler blockbuster, but it's actually the biggest R-rated opening the former "Saturday Night Live" star has ever had. Read More...

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'Orphan' Finds A Home In This Week's Box Office Poll

Posted 7/24/09 3:30 pm EST by in Box Office


OrphanThe voters have spoken, and talking CG animated guinea pigs are not what they want. The clear winner of this week's Box Office Poll is psych thriller "Orphan," about an adopted girl who seems just a little bit... off. Not "watch her or she might break something" off. More "oh crap, what is she doing with that bloody knife" off. Whatever her problem is, she nabbed 61% of your votes.

The other two big wide releases for the week -- the aforementioned guinea pig-driven family adventure "G-Force" and the Katherine Heigl/Gerard Butler rom-com "The Ugly Truth" -- are pretty much neck-and-neck as we round into the final few hours of this week's poll. The CG feature has a slight edge, with 23% of your votes as compared to 21% for "Ugly." Read More...

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Nicolas Cage On Auras And Talking To Animals

Posted 7/23/09 2:00 pm EST by in Video


Would that I could spend a day basking in the gloriously weird presence of Nicolas Cage. My initial compulsion would be to pick his brain for production related anecdotes from such modern classics as "Raising Arizona," "Gone in 60 Seconds" (it's classic to me, so shut up), "Leaving Las Vegas," "Face/Off"... the list goes on and on. Ultimately however, I think I would cave and ask him odd questions just to see what kinds of answers I get. Questions like whether or not he can talk to animals. That's exactly what MTV's Josh Horowitz asked at the press junket for "G-Force," which hits theaters tomorrow. Watch this video, that's all I can say.

To hear more from Cage on his "G-Force" mole, his upcoming role in "Kick-Ass" and his thoughts on "Spider-Man" and "Warcraft" director Sam Raimi, check out the rest of our Rough Cut interview at MTV.com!

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'G-Force,' 'Orphan,' 'The Ugly Truth' Highlight This Week's Box Office Poll

Posted 7/20/09 5:30 pm EST by in Box Office, Poll


Will ArnettWow is this a busy week. After the runaway success of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" last week -- and other shoe-in blockbusters in the weeks before it -- it's nice to see a little bit of variety for Friday's releases. "G-Force," with showings in two and three dimensions both, is an easy weekend win for families, provided they're not making a repeat (or first-time) trip to Hogwarts.

The CG animated adventure about a secret agent force of talking guinea pigs is a big-ticket item for a number of reasons. It is Disney's first (non-concert) live-action release shot in Digital 3-D. It is also produced by blockbuster-meister Jerry Bruckheimer in his 3-D debut. Then there's the knockout ensemble cast, which includes Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan, Will Arnett, Bill Nighy and Zach Galifianakis. Yeah, wow. Read More...

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