After allllllll that , the PG-13 cut of Harvey Weinstein’s shameless cause célèbre Bully grossed $534,000 over the weekend in expanded release to 158 theaters. That would amount to an aromatic $3,380 per screen — dramatically less than foreseen following the R-rated cut’s $23,000-per-screen opening two weeks ago. Who would have ever guessed? Oh . [ Box Office Mojo ]
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The ex-Beatle revealed two new music videos over the weekend at his daughter Stella’s West Hollywood fashion outpost, directed by none other than McCartney himself. Apparently it was easy! Read on for his working methods and the results. Per VF.com’s Julie Miller, who caught up with McCartney at the event: “I wasn’t sure that I wanted to do the big, million dollar music video thing,” McCartney explained about his hesitation to film a big-budget production. ”Stella suggested that I do something really simple. ‘You know Natalie,’ she said. ‘Ring Natalie up and just ask her if she will sign to your song.’ “I would talk to Natalie and Johnny before filming and we would just have a normal conversation. Then we would turn the camera on and there was just a complete transformation. It wasn’t surprising, because, you know, that they are both that good, but to see it happen in front of you is pretty remarkable. It was like seeing two different people completely—it was like they morphed into screen gods right in front of me.” Also: Depp does his own guitar stunts here, for the record: “The boy is good,” McCartney explained. Now you know. [ VF.com ]
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Weekend box-office sluggishness got you down? Oh. Well, either way, fortune tellers around Hollywood are saying the recent Avengers buzz has further heated up an already scorching prospect: Some tracking reports have Joss Whedon’s Marvel-hero mash-up sailing beyond The Dark Knight ‘s $158 million three-day mark from 2008, though Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ‘s all-time record of $169 million seems safe, 3-D and all. Stay tuned to Movieline for more box-office previews and projections — especially your own — as The Avenegers ‘ May 4 release date draws near. [ THR ]
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Avengers Buzz Could Feed Record Box Office
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Lionsgate needed it, and Lionsgate got it: The beleaguered studio’s Hunger Games gamble paid off in record-shattering fashion over the weekend, milking smart social-media strategy with old-fashioned saturation marketing — not to mention an honest-to-goodness good film — on the way to $155 million in three days. $155 million . As in the third biggest opening ever . You weekend receipts are here. 1. The Hunger Games Gross: $155,000,000 (new) Screens: 4,137 (PSA $37,467) Weeks: 1 And let’s not forget the nearly $60 million pulled in abroad, bringing the first adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s dystopian bestsellers to an early $215 million tally overall. I have a few things to say about this a little later in the day, but for now let’s just tip our caps and/or stew jealously at the volume of the numbers here — the third-largest opening ever behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and The Dark Knight and the runaway biggest opening for a non-sequel. All that’s left now is to predict the week-two drop. 55 percent? 60 percent? Less? Take your best shot in the comments. 2. 21 Jump Street Gross: $21,300,000 ($71,051,000) Screens: 3,121 (PSA $6,825) Weeks: 2 (Change: -41.3%) In other, vastly secondary but still-intriguing box-office news, how about 21 Jump Street holding on with a decent week-two score against outrageous competition? Watch them wind up counterprogramming sequels against Hunger Games films through at least 2016. 3. Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax Gross: $13,100,000 ($177,300,000) Screens: 3,677 (PSA: $3,563) Weeks: 4 (Change: -42.5%) Another solid week. Now pinch your nose, because… 4. John Carter Gross: $5,014,000 ($62,347,000) Screens: 3,212 (PSA $1,561) Weeks: 3 (Change: -63.1%) Money hemorrhaging aside, I had every confidence after week one that Disney could muscle this to $100 million in the States. At this rate, however — I mean, a 63 percent drop ? Even against Hunger Games that’s outrageous — John Carter will be lucky to make it to $90 million. On the bright side, Disney is doing nearly triple the business overseas, enough to make $325 million overall a possibility. Feel free to bet on that while you’re at it. 5. Act of Valor Gross: $2,062,000 ($65,942,000) Screens: 2,922 (PSA $931) Weeks: 5 (Change: -44.8%) I went back a couple years before essentially losing interest in the previous film to finish in the weekend top five with a PSA under $1,000. It’s rare! Congrats to Relativity as well, I guess. [Figures via Box Office Mojo ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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Weekend Receipts: Hunger Games Claims Insane $155 Million
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The industry seers pretty much nailed it : ” The Hunger Games opened with $68.25M grosses for Friday’s North American box office, including $19.75M in record-setting midnights. That should make for a first weekend of $140M with upside. This is the highest non-sequel opening weekend ever, and the highest debut single day for a non-sequel ever, and the highest March opening ever, and the 5th highest opening day ever.” Read Nikki Finke’s full report at our sister site Deadline .
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After $68 Million Friday, Hunger Games En Route to $140 Million Opening
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St. Patrick’s Day was not exactly lucky for Nicolas Cage, whose aromatic new thriller Seeking Justice bowed in 231 theaters to a gravely underwhelming $260,000 . That would make for a per-screen average of $1,125 and change — by far the worst opening of Cage’s 30-year career. The PSA “beats” that of last year’s little-seen disaster Trespass , which nabbed $1,682 in 10 theaters. (N.B. That one remains co-star Nicole Kidman’s worst-ever opening.) Were it not for the comic-book sequel he recently debuted to $22,000,000, we might be spending this afternoon eulogizing Cage’s movie-star status
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Everything went pretty much according to plan at the box office over the weekend: Scurrilous liberal plot The Lorax indoctrinated enough kids and families to reign over a second consecutive week, while Disney’s super-expensive sci-fi gamble John Carter settled somewhat anemically into second place. But it’s not all bad for our boy on Barsoom. Your Weekend Receipts are here. 1. Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax Gross: $39,100,000 ($121,950,000) Screens: 3,746 (PSA $10,438) Weeks: 2 (-44.3%) The year’s biggest hit to date achieved that distinction in nine days, as opposed to roughly three full weeks for the likes of Safe House and The Vow . And there was even one less hour this weekend. Summer is here! Break up The Lorax ! 2. John Carter Gross: $30,603,000 (new) Screens: 3,053 (PSA: $4,487) Weeks: 1 Right or wrong, the widely reported $250 million (at least) price tag will precede any and every conversation regarding John Carter as long as people are talking about John Carter . Which may be longer than the sluggish domestic gross implies — though not that much longer — if the rest of the world has anything to say about it: Andrew Stanton’s epic took in nearly $70 million abroad , including the fourth-highest debut ever in Russia. The takeaway remains relatively grim: No blockbuster status is foreseen, but at least the unprecedented write-down foreseen at Disney may not be that bad. Happy Monday? 3. Project X Gross: $11,550,000 ($40,125,000) Screens: 3,055 (PSA $3,781) Weeks: 2 (Change: -45.1%) Not a remarkable hold, but considering the competition both above and below it &mdash plus the long-ish tails of several of the year’s bigger releases to date — Warner Bros. will take it. The only question remaining: What’s the threshold to greenlight the sequel? 4. Silent House Gross: $7,010,000 (new) Screens: 2,124 (PSA $3,300) Weeks: 1 Here is a conversation sure to have ensued in roughly 750 theaters screening the very soft-performing Elizabeth Olsen thrller: Viewer 1: “That doesn’t look like Ryan Reynolds.” Viewer 2: “When does Denzel show up?” Viewer 1: “Are we in the right theater?” Viewer 3: “Shhhh!” [Throws popcorn] 5. Act of Valor Gross: $7,000,000 ($56,100,597) Screens: 2,952 (PSA $2,372) Weeks: 3 (Change: -48.4%) Slowly, inexorably, probably futilely, Relativity continues to push its Navy SEALs experiment toward $100 million theatrically. Look for a special St. Patrick’s Day weekend campaign pushing Act O’ Valor : “Erin go BLAM,” “Kiss me, I shot Osama bin Laden in the face,” etc. Or… not. [Figures via Box Office Mojo ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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Call it The Curse of The Change-Up : Another film that tried to fool viewers into buying tickets to see a nonexistent nude scene has bombed at the box office. Wanderlust opened this weekend to generally positive reviews and absolutely terrible box office receipts, coming in at number eight after Act of Valor , The Vow, This Means War and four other movies that had already been in theaters for a week or more, including Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance . And if you can’t beat the sequel to a Nicholas Cage movie widely considered to be the equivalent of gouging your eyes out with flaming pokers in its second weekend, then you know you’ve got problems. Some are blaming Jennifer Aniston ‘s flagging star power for the film’s weak performance. If “flagging star power” is code for “nude fake-out fatigue,” then we heartily agree. JenAn’s been playing this game with her male fans for several years now, and the next time she claims to have shot a nude scene for a movie…well…let’s just say we won’t take it with a grain of salt. We’ll take it with a truckful. You’ve burned us one too many times, Jen, and our lust has wandered away. Get the skinny on Wanderlust right here at the Mr. Skin blog!
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We take a look at what taking home Sunday’s big prize could do for this year’s Best Picture winner. By MTV News staff Jean Dujardin and Missi Pyle in “The Artist” Photo: The Weinstein Co. If the 2012 Oscars unfold as expected Sunday night, “The Artist” will walk away with a Best Picture win at the close of the ceremony. With that triumph, the silent, black-and-white film will become the second lowest-growing Best Picture winner in modern history. A populist fave, this movie is not. And that’s often the case. While box-office record-breaker “Titanic” took home the Academy’s top honor in 1998, the Best Picture ranks are littered with ho-hum performers. Some, like “Schindler’s List” and “Million Dollar Baby,” received huge bumps from their wins. “The Silence of the Lambs,” which hit theaters in February 1991, received no bump at all, as it was already out of theaters. Yet others received small re-releases and added a few million to their totals. To put the likely “Artist” win in historical context, MTV News took a look back at the past 20 years of Best Picture winners, ranking them from lowest to highest grossing (all figures come from Box Office Mojo and are not adjusted for inflation or ticket price). 20. “The Hurt Locker” Pre-show box office : $14.7 million Date of show : 3/7/2010 Date of release : 6/26/2009 Total box-office haul : $17 million 19. “Crash” Pre-show box office : $53.3 million Date of show : 3/5/2006 Date of release : 5/6/2005 Total box-office haul : $54.6 million 18. “Schindler’s List” Pre-show box office : $59.8 million Date of show : 3/21/1994 Date of release : 12/15/1993 Total box-office haul : $96.1 million 17. “The English Patient” Pre-show box office : $63.2 million Date of show : 3/24/1997 Date of release : 11/15/1996 Total box-office haul : $78.7 million 16. “No Country for Old Men” Pre-show box office : $64.3 million Date of show : 2/24/2008 Date of release : 11/9/2007 Total box-office haul : $74.3 million 15. “Million Dollar Baby” Pre-show box office : $64.9 million Date of show : 2/27/2005 Date of release : 12/15/2004 Total box-office haul : $100.5 million 14. “Shakespeare in Love” Pre-show box office : $73.2 million Date of show : 3/21/1999 Date of release : 12/11/1998 Total box-office haul : $100.3 million 13. “Braveheart” Pre-show box office : $73.3 million Date of show : 3/25/1996 Date of release : 5/24/1995 Total box-office haul : $75.6 million 12. “Unforgiven” Pre-show box office : $78.9 million Date of show : 3/29/1993 Date of release : 8/7/1992 Total box-office haul : $101.2 million 11. “Slumdog Millionaire” Pre-show box office : $98.4 million Date of show : 2/22/2009 Date of release : 11/12/2008 Total box-office haul : $141.3 million 10. “American Beauty” Pre-show box office : $108.5 million Date of show : 3/26/2000 Date of release : 9/15/1999 Total box-office haul : $130.1 9. “The King’s Speech” Pre-show box office : $114.2 million Date of show : 2/27/2011 Date of release : 11/26/2010 Total box-office haul : $135.5 million 8. “The Silence of the Lambs” Pre-show box office : $130.7 million Date of show : 3/30/1992 Date of release : 2/14/1991 Total box-office haul : $130.7 million 7. “The Departed” Pre-show box office : $131.4 million Date of show : 2/25/2007 Date of release : 10/6/2006 Total box-office haul : $132.4 million 6. “Chicago” Pre-show box office : $134.0 million Date of show : 3/23/2003 Date of release : 12/27/2002 Total box-office haul : $170.7 million 5. “A Beautiful Mind” Pre-show box office : $154.7 million Date of show : 3/24/2002 Date of release : 12/21/2001 Total box-office haul : $170.7 million 4. “Gladiator” Pre-show box office : $186.9 million Date of show : 3/25/2001 Date of release : 5/5/2000 Total box-office haul : $187.7 million 3. “Forrest Gump” Pre-show box office : $317.1 million Date of show : 3/27/1995 Date of release : 7/6/1994 Total box-office haul : $329.7 million 2. “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ” Pre-show box office : $364.1 million Date of show : 2/29/2004 Date of release : 12/17/2003 Total box-office haul : $377.0 million 20. “Titanic” Pre-show box office : $494.5 million Date of show : 3/23/1998 Date of release : 12/19/1997 Total box-office haul : $600.8 million The MTV Movies team has the 2012 Oscars covered! Stick with us for everything you need to know leading up to the awards show, and head to Next Movie for a printable Oscar ballot. On Sunday, tune into MTV.com at 5 p.m. ET for our two-and-a-half-hour red-carpet live stream and updates on the night’s big winners. To join the live conversation, tweet @MTVNews with the hashtag #Oscars. Related Videos 2012 Oscar Nominees Related Photos 2012 Oscar Nominees
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