

Klady By Leonard KladyKlady@moviecitynews.com
Healthy, Wealthy and Vice
The box office pundits were on the money as the debut of Miami Vice emerged the weekend’s top draw with an estimated $25.1 million. The frame also included a passable $14.1 million bow for the teen comedy John Tucker Must Die and a very potent limited launch for the Sundance favoriteLittle Miss Sunshine. However, it…
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The other day I was asked by William Goldman whether I had seen the documentary Boffo!? I hadn’t. He hadn’t seen it either. However, he’s been told that somewhere in the middle of this exploration of Hollywood’s blockbuster movies there was five minutes with him that were “brilliant.” I groaned but before I could rally,…
Read the full article »All Shook Up
The weekend film going landscape wasn’t quite what had been predicted by pundits. Industry tracking was ready for a heated competition between the third weekend of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and the debut of the spooky M. Night Shyamalan thriller Lady in the Water. However, as Friday matinee figures trickled in, one…
Read the full article »The Squid and the Wayan…and Dupree
The question was not whether Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest would lead weekend film going but how steep would be its box office drop. The secondary concern were the performances of debuting pictures Little Man and You, Me and Dupree. And, of course, there was the issue of how well everything else in…
Read the full article »Yo, Ho, Ho and a Magnum of Dough!
Wow! Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest debuted to a staggering $132.9 million and effectively rewrote the box office record book. The film’s opening day gross of $55 million surpassed Star Wars: Episode III by roughly $5 million and its weekend was about $18 million better than that of former champ Spider-Man. Overall weekend…
Read the full article »Up… Up… and Oy Vey!
Superman Returns flexed its pecs with an estimated $52.3 million to lead weekend movie going. The frame also saw the bow of The Devil Wears Prada with a steelier than expected $26.8 million in an overall session with slight box office improvement from 2005. Though the Independence Day holiday is officially on Tuesday, much of…
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