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*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars. First off, I should apologize for neglecting to write a Friday Forecast column this week. Fridays are my day off from work so while I have plenty of time to cook up an article, it’s also the one day where the box office is farthest from [...]
SUNDAY CENTS: ‘Book’ report
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 10:23 am · January 17th, 2010
Filed in: Box Office · Sunday Cents
SUNDAY CENTS: That ‘Avatar’ thing is doing well, eh?
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 12:01 pm · January 10th, 2010
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars. Have you guys heard of this movie “Avatar?” Apparently, seeing as it’s the number one movie for the fourth week in a row and dropped a ridiculous 29% to $48.5 million. First off, it’s the biggest fourth weekend for a film ever, narrowly eclipsing the $45 [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Sunday Cents
FRIDAY FORECAST: January blues
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 5:20 pm · January 8th, 2010
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars. Barring a catastrophe, “Avatar” should spend a comfortable fourth weekend at the top and cross $400 million in the process. That would make 2009 the first year since 2004 to have two films cross that milestone. It would also make “Avatar” the second-fastest film to hit [...]
Filed in: Daily
Previewing the 34th annual Toronto fest
Posted by John Foote · 7:25 am · September 4th, 2009
In less than a week I will kiss my wife and kids goodbye and head into Toronto, about 50 miles away, for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Twelve years ago my wife and I found it makes no sense for me to attend the festival for 16 to 18 hours and then try to [...]
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