Weekend Box Office – 4/26/10

Rank       Title                                                  Weekend          Gross
1.   HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON      $15,025,000     $178,021,000
2.   THE BACK-UP PLAN                             $12,250,000     $12,250,000
3.   DATE NIGHT                             [...]

Weekend Box Office – 12/21/09

Rank    Title                                                                 Weekend          Gross
1.   AVATAR                                                              $73,000,000    $73,000,000
2.   PRINCESS AND THE FROG                          $12,224,000    $44,756,000
3.   BLIND SIDE                                                       $10,030,000    $164,734,000
4.   DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS   $7,000,000       $7,000,000
5.   TWILIGHT: NEW MOON                                   $4,370,000      $274,561,000
6.   INVICTUS                                                           $4,170,000      $15,845,000
7.   A CHRISTMAS CAROL                                    $3,419,000     $130,789,000
8.   UP IN THE AIR [...]

Weekend Box Office – 10/26/09

Rank    Title                                                                 Weekend          Gross
1.   PARANORMAL ACTIVITY                                $22,000,000     $62,477,000
2.   SAW VI                                                                 $14,800,000     $14,800,000
3.   WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE                   $14,420,000     $53,960,000
4.   LAW ABIDING CITIZEN                                     $12,713,000    $40,318,000
5.   COUPLES RETREAT                                        $11,097,000     $78,213,000
6.   ASTRO BOY                                                        $7,017,000       $7,017,000
7.   THE STEPFATHER                                            $6,500,000       $20,352,000
8.   THE VAMPIRE’S ASSISTANT                          $6,348,000       $6,348,000
9.   CLOUDY W/A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS    $5,600,000       $115,204,000
10.  ZOMBIELAND                                                   $4,300,000       $67,308,000
 

Back When I Reviewed

Some of the best times I had writing was back in college, reviewing music for the Georgia State University newspaper. When I realized again how happy that reviewing made me, it dawned on me that all my interviews and reviews (and now blogging) are an effort to recapture that creative happiness.
I can’t relax easily. It’s [...]

Sound and Words

Two items of interest to point toward.
First, I thought I knew everything about music worth knowing. Boy was I wrong. I stumbled across a show, Sound Opinions, that apparently has been around in Chicago for almost a decade. In more recent years, the show was picked up by American Public Media/Chicago Public Radio and [...]