The Blind Side Hits A Touchdown, New Moon Eclipsed, Noboyd's Fine, Armored Rubber, Brothers OK & Up In The Air Great

The Blind Side took 3 weeks to reach number 1, but that was fine. It still made 20 million over the weekend. Plus, it has now made 129.2 million dollars, becoming the 4th biggest Sports film ever. It'll likely be the biggest Sports film ever and be the first to make 200 million by the end of the month.

New Moon kept falling, showing that this installment was quite front-loaded. It made 15.7 million dollars and has made 255.6 million. It making 300 million is still likely.

Brothers opened up with 9.7 million. It's an okay opening, though it may have trouble recouping it's 26 million budget.

Armored was mediocre at number 6 in the box office, making 6.6 million dollars.

Everybody's Fine, the largest film this weekend, bombed with only 4 million. This makes another bomb for Robert De Niro, one of the greatest actors of all time and the death of Everybody's Fines studio: Miramax who has been on life support for years now.

Among hold-overs, A Christmas Carol fared best with 7.5 million, holding better than Santa Clause 2 and Elf at this point. It has made 115 million and is ahead of The Polar Express by 6 million dollars.

2012 continued it's good plight at the cinema's with 6.6 million, the same as Armored. When the actual box-office results come in later today, it will be seen if 2012 is at number 7 or 6. 2012 has made 666 million worldwide and 148.7 million here in the USA.

Old Dogs plummeted to 6.9 million dollars and has made 33.9 million. It is likely to make 50 million total.



Up In The Air made 1.1 million dollars at 15 theatres, making 79,00 dollars at each cinema.

Transylmania made only 282,000 dollars at number 21 in only 1,007 theatres. It has the horrid honor of being the worst opening film in 1,00 theatres.

Overall, this weekend was the biggest ever for this time of year, making 94 million dollars.

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Box Office: New Moon Falls, Blind Side Hits A Touchdown, Carol Lifts Holiday Spirits, 2012 Stays, Old Dogs Not Quite A Dog, Fox Not So Fantastic

New Moon won, but it was The Blind Side that struck up the news. New Moon made 42.5 million, dropping 70.2% from last weekend, one of the biggest drops of the year. It made 10,515 dollars at each cinema it played at. It has now made 230 million total.

The Blind Side went up 17.6%. This is a rare as the yeti in Hollywood and was the
4th smallest drop at the Box Office ever. It has now made 100.2 million and will soon surpass the Proposal to become Sandra Bullock's biggest film ever.

Old Dogs made 16.6 million. It wasn't quite a flop though thanks to it only costing 35 million to make. The marketing, though, kept it from becoming really big. It has made 24 million right now.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox made 7 million. Like Old Dogs, the film isn' quite a bomb thanks to it's low budget.

2012 stayed at No.3, the same spot it was last weekend. It has now made 138.7 million and is behind The Day After Tomorrow by 14.4 million.

The only other new release was Ninja Assassin. It made 13.1 million and 21 million thus far.

A Christmas Carol made 16 million and made 106 million so far. It's way ahead of The Polar Express and Santa Clause 2 at this point, though behind Elf by 23 million.

The Princess and The Frog made 712,000 at only 2 theatres and had a theatre average of 356,000, the 3rd best ever. It will go wide December 11.

The Road had the best theatre average in the Top 12, with 13,000 pet theatre (The Princess and The Frog was at number 18)

The weekend's total gross was 176 million. This made it the 2nd biggest November weekend ever, behind last week.

We have now ended the biggest november on record. Plus, with this weekend, 2009 became the biggest year ever and by December 2009 will likely make a record: It'll be the first year ever to have sold 10 billion dollars worth of tickets.

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New Moon a Boon, 2012 Holds, Blind Side Comes To the Front, Precious as Ever and Disney Caroling to the Bank!!

New Moon made 140 million dollars this weekend, the 3rd biggest weekend ever, beating Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest for that honor. IT also made 36,000,000 dollars at each of it's 4024 theatres. New Moon also holds the not so good honor of the 2nd time that half of the money it made in 3 days came from Friday alone.

Meanwhile, The Blind Side made 34.3 million, a sum no one expected. 2012 held well, with 26 million. It has grossed 108 million now.

Precious made 11 million and went up 120.2%. This is quite a rare thing, so congrats, congrats. Finally, A Christmas Carol has made 79.7 million, on par with The Polar Express at this point.

The weekend overall made 248 million, the 2nd biggest weekend ever.

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TV Review: Merry Madagascar

This is one of those times where TV ratings baffle me. Besides one character *possibly* being durink, I cannot imagine why this isn't G. Other than that minor quibble, there isn't much to be said about Merry Madagascar except that it's alright.

You have likely seen the two Madagascar films. This takes place between the two, when they hurt Santa Clause (GASP!!) , give him amnesia, and then have to save Christmas. A bit cliche' of a plot? Oh yes. This whole thing has been done before. But at least it's a little cute.

The whole cast has returned, including Ben Stiller, though not Sacha Baron Choen (Bruno). There is a few very funny things, like a claustrobia line, Santa's gifts to the 4 main animals and the Russian reidneer (They belong to Santa) and their war with the penguins. Some good stuff there. It's way better than the made for money only second Madagascar, so maybe this is a step in the right direction for the franchise which will become a trilogy in 2012.

Rating: B or 7.3 out of 10

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Note: You can see this again on December 11, 2009 or buy it only at Wal-Mart on DVD.

A Fox On Your House Sir!!

Just as a note, the biggest per theatre average for an animated film in the 21st Century (So far) has been set by Fantastic Mr. Fox. It has opened in 4 cinema's this past weeekend and made 260,000 overall this weekend and 65,000 at each cinemae it played at. It will be in 5 theatres this weekend and expand to over 2,400 theatres on November 25.

My opinion? Looks ok. The second trailer looks alright. Go here to watch it. Just click on Trailer 2#.

I will have a review up soon, probably next week once we get the 6 other reviews up for this week. Let's hope Wes Anderson can fulfill anything we hoped he could achieve.

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