Monday, April 12, 2010 at 12:58AM 
Steve Carell and Tina Fey's new comedy, Date Night, from 20th Century Fox brought in $27.1 million during its opening weekend to take the #1 spot from last weekend's big opener, Clash of the Titans.
Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 8:27PM 
Warner Bros' Clash of the Titans opened this Easter weekend with $61.4 million in ticket sales. The film probably would have grossed even higher, but had its 3D screen availability limited by other recent 3D releases Alice in Wonderland and How to Train Your Dragon. Even with limited 3D screens, the higher priced tickets represented approximately $31 million of its opening frame debut. Critical response to the film has been mixed, but audience exit polls are very favorable, meaning the film will likely recoup its $125 million production budget over the next few weeks.
Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 9:42PM 
Paramount & DreamWorks' mega-budgeted 3D animated film How To Train Your Dragon started its run with a strong (but not record-breaking) $43.3 million this weekend. With a $165 million budget, their timing is perfect; much of the target audience is on Spring Break and the Easter long weekend is coming up. As is the norm these days for tent pole pictures, much of the gross came from 3D and IMAX 3D screens.
Monday, March 22, 2010 at 11:33PM 
Three new wide releases were unable to topple Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland from the top spot at the box office this weekend. Burton's 3D continuation of the Alice In Wonderland story picked up an additional $34.2 million, bringing its cumulative total to just over $265 million for distributing studio Disney.
Second place went to another family film, 20th Century Fox's Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Diary had an impressive $22.1 million in its first weekend. With no above the line stars, tough competition from Alice In Wonderland and a modest $15 million budget, it's obvious Fox can't be anything but happy with that result.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 10:37PM 
HBO's hit series True Blood will return to airwaves on June 13th. The series will pick up with Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) trying to find Bill Compton's (Stephen Moyer) mysterious abductor from the end of season 2 of the popular series. The series has been HBO's most popular in-house production since The Sopranos ended its run on the network.
Also on HBO, the long-awaited follow-up to Band of Brothers, The Pacific, premiered on Sunday night. Like Band of Brothers, The Pacific is Executive Produce
d by Tom Hanks. The new mini-series follows a crew of US Marines as they wage war against the Japanese in World War II. The 10 episodes cost a reported $150-200 million for the network, but given how much money Band of Brothers has made in DVD and now Blu-ray sales over the years, they should have no trouble recouping their investment. The new WWII series is off to a strong start with 3 million viewers watching the premiere.
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