This weekend two new subpar comedies and a stale heap of Thanksgiving leftovers made multiplexes the last place audiences wanted to go to as the North American box office slumped to its worst performance of 2011. The all-star holiday pic New Year’s Eve and the Jonah Hill-led raunchy laugher The Sitter both met with lackluster [...]
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Skin Deep: A Yoga Devotee Finds a New Guru in a Personal Trainer
November 24th, 2011 
Buzzy Seeing the light and getting lighter, a yoga devotee turns to a personal trainer to get in better shape. NYT > Fitness & Nutrition
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Puss in Boots Beats New Comedies for #1 Spot
November 7th, 2011 Buzzy In a surprise upset, the animated comedy Puss in Boots held onto the box office crown thanks to an astonishingly strong hold in the second frame while the competing new comedies Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas debuted in the silver and bronze positions, both performing on the lower end of [...]
Box Office Guru! Puss in Boots at Top with $34M
October 31st, 2011 Buzzy The animated comedy Puss in Boots debuted at number one over the pre-Halloween frame while other new releases failed to generate much excitement averaging under $ 4,000 a piece. The overall marketplace got hit hard by a double whammy of game seven of the World Series on Friday which attracted over 25 million viewers followed [...]
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Paranormal Activity 3 Scares Up A Huge Opening
October 23rd, 2011 Buzzy Scaring up more business than the rest of the films in the top ten combined, the horror prequel Paranormal Activity 3 shattered records with its top spot debut proving that the low-budget fright franchise still has a lot of life in it. But despite the massive debut and low declines for most holdovers, the overall [...]
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Bradley Cooper More Popular Than Lawyers and Aliens
March 20th, 2011 Buzzy The paranoia-fueled action thriller Limitless led a trio of new releases and opened at number one with a sturdy debut. The crime drama The Lincoln Lawyer and the road comedy Paul both attracted respectable business landing in the top five but the overall marketplace once again failed to match up to last year’s levels. Rotten [...]
