Box Office Power Rankings: June 6-8, 2008
A rule to live by: Don’t bet against computer-animated movies for kids. For example: Kung Fu Panda topped this week’s Box Office Power Rankings by a wide margin, finally knocking Iron Man off its perch.
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Box Office Power Rankings: May 16-June 1, 2008
The few weeks that I neglected the Box Office Power Rankings featured two hotly anticipated movies – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Sex and the City – as well as the second chapter in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Iron Man kicked all their asses, with a little help.
Box Office Power Rankings: May 9-11, 2008
I’m guessing that reading about Speed Racer is a hell of a lot more fun than seeing it, but I’ll never have the movie experience.
Box Office Power Rankings: May 2-4, 2008
So the 2008 summer-movie season begins the way the last ended: with a perfect score. Iron Man became the first movie since The Bourne Ultimatum in August to top all four of the Box Office Power Rankings criteria.
Box Office Power Rankings: April 18-27, 2008
Welcome to summer movie season, now officially begun on the first weekend of May thanks to our friends at Iron Man. That blockbuster wannabe will be followed in short order by Speed Racer, Narnia’s second installment, and Indiana Jones before Memorial Day. Closing out the ever-modest spring movie season, Forgetting Sarah Marshall notched one outright victory and one shared victory in our Box Office Power Rankings, scoring a mild upset by tying Baby Mama in last weekend’s rankings.
Box Office Power Rankings: April 11-13, 2008
Everything new feels old. Al Pacino, at age 67, is the lead in a thriller that was filmed in 2005. It’s called 88 Minutes but runs 108 minutes. That’s old times three, methinks. Forgetting Sarah Marshall is the fifth Judd Apatow-produced movie released in the past 11 months. And Keanu Reeves is on top of this week’s Box Office Power Rankings.
Box Office Power Rankings: March 28-April 6, 2008
Our Box Office Power Rankings have been grim in recent weeks. George Clooney’s Leatherheads tops this week’s rankings – breaking Horton’s three-week reign – and was the second-best-reviewed movie in the top 10 with mediocre Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores of 53 and 56, respectively. It’s a bad crop out there, people. So it seems appropriate to get grimmer with Michael Haneke’s English-language remake of his own Funny Games.
Box Office Power Rankings: March 14-23, 2008
Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who dominated the Box Office Power Rankings the past two weekends, but it was Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns that taught us an important lesson: It’s good to not suck as much as everybody else.
Box Office Power Rankings: March 7-9, 2008
The Bank Job won this week’s Box Office Power Rankings title, but I’d prefer to talk about Fool’s Gold, which has the distinction of being the first three-time 10th-place finisher in the history of our calculations. It’s not as easy as it sounds.
Box Office Power Rankings: February 29-March 2, 2008
The lesson from this week’s Box Office Power Rankings is that sometimes the winner tells you more about its competitors than itself. The Spiderwick Chronicles, in its third week in release, topped the rankings this week after finishing third last week. That could mean that its relative box-office fortunes have improved – that audiences have finally found it – or it could mean that it had shitty competition. It had shitty competition.
