Recession or not, the box office had a big summer, pulling in a total of $4.35 billion, a 5 percent increase over last summer.
The big winner this summer was Warner Bros., which earned just over $1 billion, 59 percent of which came from two films: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and the surprise hit comedy The Hangover.
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Paramount scraped up $848.8 million with only nine releases. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen did most of the heavy lifting, earning $400.7 million during its run, the highest of any other flick domestically this summer.
Fox and Disney, which both ...
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In a box office rarity, two films have tied for the top slot — with neither contender's studio puffing up its estimated haul to eke out a "win."
According to studio estimates, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs collected $42.5 million in its debut weekend (and $67.5 mil since opening last Wednesday). Similarly, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen this weekend added an estimated $42.5 mil to its own coffers.
Final, official numbers arriving later Monday could ...
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen proved to be an unstoppable machine at the box office: The sequel raked in $112 million over the weekend, bringing its five-day total to $201.2 million.
The monster haul narrowly falls short of The Dark Knight's five-day gross of $203.8 million last summer, which remains the biggest five-day gross of all time.
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Transformers did set some records of its own: Its weekend haul is the biggest ...
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