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Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Sex and the City vs. The Wackness on New York Screens

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:27:23 -0400

Things went much as predicted this Fourth of July weekend. New Yorkers fell in love with a homeless wino with a penchant for busting road signs and throwing live whales into the ocean. Hancock landed on top of Manhattan's sales charts with an $850,956 box office showing. It was the same story nationally. Sony's film scored $66 million in ticket sales, putting it way ahead of Wall-E ($33.4 million) and Wanted ($20.6 million). Since...

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Talking Robots Can't Outsell Angelina Jolie's Pretty Pucker

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:38:14 -0400

Manhattan may be famous for its plummeting crime rate (Oslo has four times as much crime as New York this year!), but it's clear its residents still have a taste for violence — that, or they prefer Angelina Jolie's slender arms and James McAvoy's glistening chest to a dented metal-box with eyes. Either way, last weekend New Yorkers resisted the calls of ecstatic critics and chose Timur Bekmambetov's kill-fest Wanted — in which Jolie...

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Who's So Money, Now? Martin Macks Manhattan, While Vince Winces

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:19:45 -0500

Lesson learned this weekend: Martin Lawrence still has it, while Vince Vaughn doesn’t always. Out of five—yes, five—comedies released this weekend, Lawrence’s Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (No. 1) was easily the fan favorite in Manhattan, out-grossing its closest competition, the Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey romantic barnstormer Fool’s Gold by over $60,000. (Gold did, however, get the last laugh by claiming more cash nationally.) So, where did Vince Vaughn’s stand-up travelogue, Vince Vaughn’s Wild West...

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Savages and Schadenfreude, Awake a Snoozer

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:39:19 -0500

With only one wide release—MGM’s Awake (No. 6)—the box office had a slow weekend, with few, if any, changes either here or nationally in the top five. But that didn’t keep The Savages (No. 8) from making an impression. On two screens in the city, the Tamara Jenkins family drama starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney averaged close to $40,000—a stellar opening for such a slow time.

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Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Enchanted, Sure! But Not With Kiddie Fare

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:29:14 -0500

While the rest of the country gravitated toward the family fare over the Thanksgiving weekend, New York’s tastes were a bit more of a mixed bag. Sure, Enchanted (No. 1) topped our box office charts—just like it did the nation’s—with a strong per screen average of $33,000. But Bee Movie (No. 8), ranked fifth nationally, dropped 4 spots, while Fred Claus, ranked sixth, went poof!

Despite the fact that...

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Beowulf Reigns, While Cholera Looks Sick

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:17:01 -0500

Robert Zemeckis used Beowulf (No. 1), once the scourge of high-school English classes nationwide, to lure unsuspecting children and families to the box office this weekend, promising a 3-D spectacle the likes the which they had never seen. Improbably, he ended the weekend at the top of the box-office charts both in Manhattan and across the country. What's next? The Finnish national epic, the Kalevala?

For the third week in a row, American Gangster...

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Great Scott! Gangster Opens With Bang; Bee Flies and Lumet Thrives

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:49:16 -0500

The box office was awakened this weekend from its fall slumber, as if it too had just been hit by the first cold spell of the season. American Gangster (No. 1) may have only grossed one and a half times as much as Bee Movie (No.2) nationally, but here in the city, it almost tripled the cartoon’s gross, averaging an astronomical $91,969 per theater. Gangster, starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe and directed by...

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Bella Does Beautifully; (Another) Eastwood Needs to Pull the Plug

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:58:55 -0400

Heartbleeders, both literally—ew!—and metaphorically—aw!—speaking, ruled over the weekend. Saw IV (No. 1) grossed over $32 million nationally and averaged over $53,000 at 8 theaters in the city, while Dan in the Real Life (No. 2) took in a respectable $12 million in national receipts, and did similarly respectable business in the city with an over $23,000 average on 8 screens.

Perhaps there is a little surprise that Steve Carell and...

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Yankee Dawdle! Gone Baby Gone Succeeds Despite Affleck's Red Sox Fandom

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:04:55 -0400

New Yorkers hate the Red Sox. To suggest that New Yorkers also hate Red Sox fans is therefore a bit tautological. But this weekend, New Yorkers—lots of them—defied the national trend and went and saw Gone Baby Gone (#3), which was written and directed by the most famous Sox fan apart from John Kerry—what auspicious company!—Ben Affleck. While it failed to outgross (double entendre alert) vampire flick 30 Days of Night (#1) and that...