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Funny People Rib-Tickles The Weekend Box Office

by Stuart Heritage

Funny People is the top movie at the weekend box office this week, and it’s not difficult to see why. No, not because of Adam Sandler. Or Seth Rogen. Or Judd Apatow. No, Funny People is number one at the weekend box office because there’s nothing that people love more than  ridiculously long films that [...]

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G-Force Does A Sausagey Rodent Poo On The Weekend Box Office

by Stuart Heritage

G-Force sounded great, didn’t it? For a start, it’s called G-Force, so that promises all sorts of explosions and excitement. And it stars Will Arnett, Tracy Morgan, Bill Nighy, Zach Galifianakis, Nicolas Cage, Loudon Wainwright III, Penelope Cruz, Steve Buscemi and Sam Rockwell too, so we assumed that it had to be excellent. But no, [...]

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Harry Potter Death-Eats The Weekend Box Office

by Stuart Heritage

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, we do believe you’ve stumbled upon a clever new tactic. Despite being the worst-received movie of the Harry Potter franchise, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince looks set to become the most successful movie in the franchise’s history, topping the weekend box office by some margin. So the worse [...]

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Bruno Penetrates The Weekend Box Office

by Stuart Heritage

It’s the second-most controversial film of the year – after Paul Blart – but Bruno has aced the weekend box office. Despite attracting waves of controversy based on its edgy subject matter, Bruno – Sacha Baron Cohen’s follow-up to Borat – has entered the US weekend box office at number one, where it will definitely [...]

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Weekend Box Office: It’s Only A Blinking Tie

by Stuart Heritage

The July 4 weekend box office is always a big deal. It’s when America comes together and celebrates the birthday of noted French economist Gerard Debreu. And what better way to commemorate the life of the man who so famously revealed that economies have a finite number of price equilibria than by crowning two movies [...]

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Weekend Box Office – Transformers 2 Inexplicably Successful

by Stuart Heritage

Congratulations Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen – you’ve broken yourself a weekend box office record. What record? Why, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, you’ve broken the weekend box office record for the longest, noisiest film that’s about absolutely nothing at all. And the weekend box office record for having the most painfully racist-seeming characters this [...]

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The Proposal Hilariously Pretends To Marry The Weekend Box Office

by Stuart Heritage

Wow. What a year for comedy it’s been. Arguably one of the most successful weekend box office movies of the summer has been The Hangover. What’s more, there have been guaranteed blockbusters like Land Of The Lost and, um… oh, alright, it hasn’t been much of year for comedy at the weekend box office. Shut [...]

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The Hangover Hangs Over The Weekend Box Office

by Stuart Heritage

Right, first an admission. The Hangover is the top movie at the weekend box office this week. That’s not the admission.

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Up Beats Off Will Ferrell At The Weekend Box Office

by Stuart Heritage

In these days of giant fighting space robots, it’s rare for a movie to top the weekend box office for more than a week.

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Up Goes Up The Weekend Box Office (See What We Did There?)

by Stuart Heritage

It’s the summer. And that means that, as weekend box office law states, all films released now must be angry, loud and full of massive robots punching each other. But weekend box office law has another rule for the summer – that Pixar gets to release a new movie, and it’ll make all the other [...]

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