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Box office: Mean Girls beats The Beekeeper in a tight race to see who can be the lowest-grossing #1 film since 2022
This was the second weekend in a row with no new major studio releases, and the week's new Oscar nominations didn't offer that much of a bump.
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Peter T Chattaway
Oscar winners at the box office — 2023
Will the Academy give Best Picture to a Top 10 film for the first time in 20 years?
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Peter T Chattaway
Oscar nominations — my own two bits, and a complete list
Among other thing, the awards are more international than ever this year, and a record number of Best Picture nominees were directed by women.
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: The Marvels, Journey to Bethlehem get the holiday season off to a rocky start
The big-budget superhero flick and the low-budget "faith-based" film both set record or near-record lows for their respective genres.
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: It's back to the doldrums as Five Nights plummets and there are no new (or old!) studio films to pick up the slack
Usually, the weekend after Halloween marks the start of the lucrative winter holiday season. This year... not so much.
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Five Nights at Freddy's gets the fans out of their houses for Halloween
Far surpassing expectations, it had one of the best openings ever of any horror movie, any video-game movie, any October release, any day-and-date…
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Scorsese, DiCaprio return to the big screen and take streaming with them
Killers of the Flower Moon, which reunites Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio after their separate gigs with Netflix, is the first Apple TV+ film to…
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Taylor Swift does her part to "save movie theatres"
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is already the top-grossing concert movie of all time in North America, and it may or may not have set a new record for best…
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: New releases Paw, Saw, Creator, Blind dominate the top five
Meanwhile, Barbie almost drops out of the top ten, and Oppenheimer definitely does.
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Expendables bombs, might lose to The Nun in the worst weekend of the year
Also: The Nun II has some of the best legs of the Conjuring franchise, while Branagh's latest Poirot film drops faster than the others.
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: It's a spooky-movie showdown as The Nun II bumps A Haunting in Venice
Also: Oppenheimer is now the top-grossing biopic of all time, and more.
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: The Conjuring universe rebounds, to a point, with The Nun II
Meanwhile, Barbie lands in 5th place -- its first time outside the weekly top two.
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Peter T Chattaway
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