The most anticipated flick of the fledgling summer season slammed into theaters this weekend, as moviegoers flocked to see “Iron Man 2″ to the tune of an estimated $133.6 million. The tally was the fifth-best opening weekend of all time, falling far short of record-holder “The Dark Knight’s” $158.4 million. While we won’t know the [...]

Mountains of Web buzz weren’t enough to drive mainstream movie fans to see “Kick-Ass” on its opening weekend. The action flick opened with a paltry estimate of $19.8 million, landing in second place behind the $20 million earned by “How To Train Your Dragon”…

The much-ballyhooed remake of “Clash Of The Titans” handily won the box office race Easter Weekend, but fell short of hyped-up expectations. The film brought in an estimated $61.4 million in its opening weekend, between traditional theater screenings and the 3D screens the movie was converted to inhabit. Even with the added hoopla of adding [...]

Dreamworks’ 3D CG factory has rolled out another winner, as “How To Train Your Dragon” won the box office race on its opening weekend with an estimated $43.3 million. While the film has scored high with both audiences and critics, “Dragon” also benefited from the weekend’s rise in ticket prices, both in 2D and 3D [...]

While Tim Burton’s “Alice In Wonderland” racked up its third consecutive weekly box office win in decisive fashion, the battle for second was slightly more contentious. While the star combination of Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston was expected to bring in the audiences, a wimpy kid beat them both. The youth-market book adaptation “Diary Of [...]

“Alice In Wonderland” scored big for Disney, as Tim Burton’s 3D take on Lewis Carroll’s classic earned an estimated $116 million in its opening weekend. As with “Avatar,” a sizeable chunk of the revenue is estimated to have come from 3D and IMAX exhibitions of the movie (final numbers and percentages will be available on [...]

Martin Scorsese’s thriller “Shutter Island” held serve at the domestic box office, leading all releases with an estimated $22.2 million. The film, held back from a November release, has earned over $75 million in two weeks. The two new major releases – Kevin Smith’s “Cop Out” and horror remake “The Crazies” – came in second [...]

All three of this week’s new releases landed in the top spots in the weekend’s box office estimates, with ensemble love story “Valentine’s Day” overcoming lukewarm reviews to pull in $52 million. “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” came in second, with an estimated $31.1 million, and Benicio Del Toro’s “The Wolfman” was [...]

Never underestimate the power of a good cry. “Dear John,” a movie aimed squarely at your tearducts, has pulled in an estimated $32 million in its opening weekend, bringing an end to the two-month run of James Cameron’s “Avatar” at the top of the box office leaderboard. Earlier reports had “Avatar” hanging on to the [...]

Just when you thought there wasn’t another box office record for “Avatar” to break: the James Cameron flick now holds the record for highest-grossing movie in its seventh week of release, after it brought in an estimated $30 million. It’s chief competition, the new Mel Gibson action noir “Edge Of Darkness,” came in second with [...]