Top Stories from Box Office Mojo Copyright 2009 IMDb.com, Inc. en-us http://boxofficemojo.com/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:00:00 GMT mail@boxofficemojo.com (Box Office Mojo Editors) mail@boxofficemojo.com (Box Office Mojo Webmaster) http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2626 Claiming the record for the biggest one-day gross, The Twilight Saga: New Moon raked in an estimated $72.7 million on approximately 8,500 screens at 4,024 sites. The Dark Knight was the previous title holder with $67.2 million on around 9,300 screens at 4,366 sites. New Moon's first day more than doubled that of its predecessor Twilight, which debuted to $36 million on around 6,000 screens at 3,419 sites. Twilight's first weekend wound up at $69.6 million, which was also less ... mail@boxofficemojo.com (Brandon Gray) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?ref=rss&id=2626 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2625 The Twilight Saga: New Moon shattered the midnight opening record, raking in an estimated $26.27 million at 3,514 sites showing the movie starting at 12:01 a.m. Friday. The previous benchmark was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which conjured $22.2 million at 3,003 sites for its midnight opening. That accounted for 38 percent of the picture's $58.2 million full opening day. The full opening day record is held by The Dark Knight, which earned $67.2 milli... mail@boxofficemojo.com (Brandon Gray) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:02:33 +0000 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?ref=rss&id=2625 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2624 Detonating atop the weekend box office, 2012 swept in with $65.2 million on approximately 6,500 screens at 3,404 sites, ranking as the seventh highest grossing November debut ever. Among fellow disaster movies, it had the second-highest grossing start, behind only director Roland Emmerich's previous disaster, The Day After Tomorrow, which opened to $68.7 million. In terms of initial attendance, though, it trailed Day After Tomorrow by a wide margin, and Emmerich's Independence Day tops... mail@boxofficemojo.com (Brandon Gray) Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:20:59 +0000 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?ref=rss&id=2624 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2623 It was a miserly start to the Holiday movie season as the high profile movie positioned to bring the most cheer, A Christmas Carol (2009), stumbled a bit out of the gate. Overall weekend business was off 16 percent from the same timeframe last year, when Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa landed, and was on the low end for early November. Haunting approximately 6,500 screens at 3,683 sites, A Christmas Carol churned out $30.1 million, selling fewer tickets than Elf and The Santa Clause 2 and f... mail@boxofficemojo.com (Brandon Gray) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:22:03 +0000 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?ref=rss&id=2623 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2622 Michael Jackson's This Is It was all there was as far as new nationwide releases went this Halloween weekend, but it was sufficient to help propel overall business four percent higher than the same timeframe last year. Though it may not be commensurate with the raft of pre-release hype surrounding the movie and Michael Jackson's death, This Is It performed exceptionally well for a concert picture or music documentary, charting second only to the opening of the Hannah Montana concer... mail@boxofficemojo.com (Brandon Gray) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:32:42 +0000 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?ref=rss&id=2622 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2621 As a new horror sensation rose, another fell over the weekend. Paranormal Activity rolled out into more theaters and claimed the top spot, in part because the new releases were non-starters, including the latest movie in the usually reliable Saw franchise. Overall business was down 14 percent from last year, which featured the one-two punch of High School Musical 3: Senior Year and Saw V, but was still solid for the timeframe. Jumping to approximately 2,500 screens at 1,945 sites (more... mail@boxofficemojo.com (Brandon Gray) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:57:08 +0000 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?ref=rss&id=2621 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2620 Between the openings of Where the Wild Things Are and Law Abiding Citizen and the nationwide expansion of Paranormal Activity, overall weekend business was booming by October standards, leaping 38 percent ahead of last year and posting a record gross for the timeframe. Where the Wild Things Are emitted a $32.7 million howl on approximately 5,000 screens at 3,735 sites, including around $3.1 million at 145 IMAX sites. The picture's daily box office pattern suggested that i... mail@boxofficemojo.com (Brandon Gray) Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:47:33 +0000 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?ref=rss&id=2620 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2619 While weekend business as a whole was relatively modest for the time of year (albeit up seven percent from last year), the sole new nationwide release Couples Retreat, the spreading Paranormal Activity and holdovers Zombieland and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs all boasted impressive showings. Landing smack dab in the middle of the debut weekends for star Vince Vaughn's previous relationship comedies Four Christmases and The Break-Up, Couples Retreat attracted $34.3 m... mail@boxofficemojo.com (Brandon Gray) Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:48:47 +0000 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?ref=rss&id=2619 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2617 The moribund horror comedy sub-genre showed a glimmer of vitality with the ripsnorting debut of Zombieland, which yanked $24.7 million out of around 3,900 screens at 3,036 sites. Despite Zombieland and the continued strength of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and the Toy Story franchise, though, overall weekend business was off six percent from the same period last year, when Beverly Hills Chihuahua ruled, and on the low end for the timeframe. In the realm of zombie mov... mail@boxofficemojo.com (Brandon Gray) Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:14:20 +0000 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?ref=rss&id=2617 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2618 The summer's first two big movies, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Star Trek, officially ended their runs on Thursday, Oct. 1. That is to say, their distributors will no longer track them even though they might continue at a few theaters (Star Trek in particular). Star Trek closed with a $257.7 million tally for its 147-day run, including $28.1 million from its IMAX run (which will continue at a trickle). The reboot of the venerable sci-fi franchise, which had a marketing campaign that sl... mail@boxofficemojo.com (Brandon Gray) Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:18:36 +0000 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?ref=rss&id=2618