The Tolkien saga rolls along, as does the Disney-princess feature ‘Frozen’; and a Bollywood action film breaks into the top 10
Box Office Report
Smaug Alert: Hobbit Sequel Thaws Frozen, Manhandles Madea
The Peter Jackson sequel does O.K., not great, as Tyler Perry stumbles and ‘American Hustle’ opens strong
Weather and Box-Office Have a Frozen Weekend
The Disney princess movie catches ‘Fire,’ as Christian Bale fails and the Coen brothers make music of a sort
Catching Fire and Frozen: Hollywood Gives Thanks for Girl Power
Katniss and the Disney princesses light up the long holiday weekend
Catching Fire Scorches the World With $307M Opening
The Hunger Games sequel held serve by setting an opening-weekend record for a 2-D movie
The Best Man Holiday Gives Thor a Run for Its Millions
Thor: The Dark World won the weekend, and it almost doesn’t matter. The Marvel Studios sequel will keep generating hundreds of millions at the North American box office — where its $38.5-million second weekend brought it to a muscular $147 million — and abroad. In less than three weeks, The Dark World has already exceeded the …
Thor Thunders to a Marvel-ous $86-Million Opening
The Norse god and his scheming sibling Loki make November a good month to open a big movie
Ender’s Game Win Muted by the Distant Hammers of Thor
A Marvel movie abroad out-thunders kid-angled sci-fi film at home
Bad Grandpa: A Jackass Is Stronger Than Gravity
The gross-out comedy wins the weekend, while ‘The Counselor’ crumbles and ’12 Years a Slave’ rises
Gravity Soars, Captain Phillips Sails, Grownups Rule!
Tom Hanks joins Sandra Bullock in the adult swim, as the core young audience goes missing
The Awe of Gravity: A Space-tacular $55 Million
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney hit all-time highs in the debut of Alfonso Cuarón’s sci-fi thriller
Cloudy With a Chance of … Breaking Bad!
The ‘Meatballs’ sequel wins a weekend when viewers are thinking only of the Meth Man
Prisoners Wins the Weekend, but It’s No ‘Grand Theft Auto V’
Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal win the weekend with a kidnap drama and leave Chris Brown’s ‘Battle of the Year’ battered