LITE 98.7 » box office http://lite987.com The Best Variety Of Yesterday And Today Tue, 21 May 2013 02:16:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Weekend Box Office — 'The Hunger Games' Eats the Competition Whole http://lite987.com/weekend-box-office-the-hunger-games-eats-the-competition-whole/ http://lite987.com/weekend-box-office-the-hunger-games-eats-the-competition-whole/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:07:09 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=82964 You could say ‘The Hunger Games’ did well in its debut, but that would be a vast understatement — with $155 million in revenues, the film adaptation of the best-selling novel left the other movies in the dust and moved easily to the top of the charts this weekend.

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Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert had his say in a recent commentary posted on his website. He pointed to 6 reasons why fewer of us are going to the theater.  Among them:

]]> http://lite987.com/why-are-movie-audiences-declining-just-ask-roger-ebert/feed/ 0 Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Catching A Movie This Weekend? http://lite987.com/catching-a-movie-this-weekend/ http://lite987.com/catching-a-movie-this-weekend/#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:20:23 +0000 Mark Richards http://lite987.com/?p=3365 Seth Rogen slimmed down to star in The Green Hornet. Box office-wise, was it worth it? Eh. The $120 million-ish superhero movie grossed an estimated $40 million over the four-day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend. Its worldwide total stands at about $56 million. "I really think they wanted a little bit more of out of it," Hollywood.com box-office analyst Paul Dergarabedian said Sunday. "… it's not a disappointment at all. I don't know if anyone in January expects to release a film wide and get a summer opening number." When stacked up against other comic-spawned superhero movies, The Green Hornet (which, yes, we know, got its start in radio) looks pretty mortal. 

]]> http://lite987.com/catching-a-movie-this-weekend/feed/ 0 movieposters.com Tron:Legacy Dominates Box Office http://lite987.com/tronlegacy-dominates-box-office/ http://lite987.com/tronlegacy-dominates-box-office/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 01:00:33 +0000 Dave Wheeler http://lite987.com/?p=1752 Tron: Legacy came out on top this weekend in the theaters, with an estimated $43.6 million, which unfortunately, isn't even half of the flick's $170 million budget!

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