Invincible closes summer box office
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The summer box office season in North America ended on an "Invincible" note during the U.S. Labor Day holiday weekend as the Mark Wahlberg football movie scored a
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âCloverfieldâ obliterated the competition at movie box offices over the weekend.
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With what will likely be the last "big" opening of the summer box office season, "Alien vs. Predator" generated an impressive &#36;38.29 million last weekend, according to final numbers issued Monday. The opening was all the more impressive considering that individually the Fox franchises had pretty much run their course at the box office.
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LOS ANGELES  - By the standard box  office reckoning, DreamWorks' "Shrek 2" won the summer box  office derby with domestic ticket sales of $440 million. And  Lions Gate's "Fahrenheit 9/11," though a resounding success,  was the summer's ninth most successful movie with a domestic  gross to date of $119 million.
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Hollywood notched its first $4 billion summer as teen geeks helped Hollywood end the season in record fashion.  Sony's "Superbad," the comedy about three dorky high-schoolers trying to score booze for a party, was the No. 1 movie for a second st...
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LOS ANGELES  - Handily outdrawing an eclectic mix of fading holdovers and early fall newcomers, "The Bourne Ultimatum" reclaimed the top spot at the weekend foreign box office with an estimated $16.5 million from 37 markets.
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With movie makers wrapping up a  record $4 billion summer on Friday, Hollywood turned to fall  films and the Oscar hopefuls it hopes will push the annual box  office beyond last year's $9.5 billion.
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SYDNEY  - "The Incredibles" has  delivered Disney's biggest single weekend ever at the  international box office, taking in $45.5 million, according to  data issued Sunday.
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Handily outdrawing an  eclectic mix of fading holdovers and early fall newcomers, &quot;The  Bourne Ultimatum&quot; reclaimed the top spot at the weekend foreign  box office with an estimated $16.5 million from 37 markets.
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"Ocean's Twelve" sailed to the top of the international box office this weekend, and "The Incredibles" flew past &#36;300 million during a busy period that also saw encouraging debuts for "Ray" and "The Aviator."
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By the standard box office reckoning, DreamWorks' "Shrek 2" won the summer box office derby with domestic ticket sales of &#36;440 million. And Lions Gate's "Fahrenheit 9/11," though a resounding success, was the summer's ninth most successful movie with a domestic gross to date of &#36;119 million.
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LOS ANGELES  - With what will likely be  the last "big" opening of the summer box office season, "Alien  vs. Predator" generated an impressive $38.29 million last  weekend, according to final numbers issued Monday.  The opening was all the more impressive considering that  individually the Fox franchises had pretty much run their  course at the box office.
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it will miss its revenue target for the July-September quarter after it failed to finalize a small number of software sales, resulting in a quarterly net loss of up to $2 million US.
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Disney's "Invincible"  edged out newcomers "Crank" and "The Wicker Man" at the North  American box office during the Labor Day holiday weekend,  according to final data issued Tuesday.
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"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" lost momentum but remained the No. 1 movie with $44.2 million in its second weekend, raising its domestic haul to $217.5 million.
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Disney's "Invincible,"  opening Friday, tells the true story of a substitute teacher  who gets his big break when an open tryout leads to his making  the Philadelphia Eagles football team. So perhaps it is only  fitting that the movie also has provided respected  cinematographer Ericson Core with his first opportunity to take  to the field as the film's director.
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TORONTO  - "Pirates of the Caribbean:   Dead Man's Chest," Hollywood's newest billion-dollar baby,   ended its nine-week run atop the foreign box office Sunday,   replaced by another Disney smash, "Cars."