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Weekend Box Office – TRUE GRIT Scores First Place with $15 Million; SEASON OF THE WITCH Opens in Third

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: January 9th, 2011 at 10:10 am

January suffered another down weekend, with estimated grosses for the top ten films down almost 56% over this weekend in 2010.  Paramount had reason to celebrate, as True Grit outdrew Little Fockers in the weekend race for the first time.  Season of the Witch, 2011’s first new title, struggled while Sony/SG’s Country Strong did modest business in its first expanded nationwide run.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	True Grit	$15,000,000	$110.4
2	Little Fockers	$13,800,000	$124
3	Season of the Witch	$10,700,000	$10.7
4	Tron Legacy	$9,803,000	$147.9
5	Black Swan	$8,400,000	$61.4
6	Country Strong	$7,300,000	$7.4
7	The Fighter	$7,000,000	$57.8
8	The King’s Speech	$6,811,000	$33.2
9	Yogi Bear	$6,810,000	$75.6
10	Tangled	$5,200,000	$175.8

Weekend Box Office – PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 On Top with $41.5 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: October 24th, 2010 at 9:27 am

It’s another weekend for the box office record books. Sort of. One week after Jackass 3D claimed the month’s highest opening weekend with $50.3 million, Paranormal Activity 2 has scored the highest opening ever for a supernatural horror flick. In terms of general horror titles, PA2 now ranks third.  First or third, with an estimate of over $41 million, the sequel is opening scary-huge.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Paranormal Activity 2	$41,500,000	$41.5
2	Jackass 3D	$21,600,000	$87.1
3	Red	$15,000,000	$43.4
4	Hereafter	$12,000,000	$12.3
5	The Social Network	$7,200,000	$72.8
6	Secretariat	$7,000,000	$37
7	Life As We Know It	$6,300,000	$37.4
8	Legend of the Guardians	$3,100,000	$50
9	The Town	$2,700,000	$84.6
10	Easy A	$1,700,000	$54.7

GRAN TORINO Blu-ray Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: May 27th, 2009 at 11:02 am

Somewhere around 1988′s Bird, Clint Eastwood’s career took a turn for the respectable. Four years later he had two Oscars for Unforgiven. And though Eastwood’s career as an auteur has had some detractors (people either love him, or find him highly overrated), his run in the 21^st century has shown that he’s given up his “Right turn, Clyde” ways and been fully embraced by the academy. Except as an actor.

And Eastwood’s acting career has always been defined by what Sergio Leone said about him, and that’s that he’s basically a brick, a piece of stone to which you work around. And being leaden and of small range has always been the main criticism leveled against him. Like Jimmy Stewart, he played with that image, often turning his hard characters into psychotics, or fetishists (Tightrope and White Hunter, Black Heart come to mind), but he never received much love from the Academy.

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