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Box Office Mojo

Where Are the Women?: crunching the numbers

Mon, Apr 11, 2016
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Everything we learned from the Where Are the Women? project. (Spoiler: It’s not pretty, but there is hope…) [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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the Force is with white men, and hardly anyone else [update]

Wed, Apr 30, 2014
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Star Wars is stuck “a long time ago”: in a 1950s mindset that was already outmoded when the first film was released in 1977.

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only 18 percent of 2013’s US wide releases are exclusively about girls or women (and 60 percent exclusively about men)

Fri, Nov 08, 2013
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Hint: That’s not enough.

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Despicable Me 2 dropped almost *74 percent* in its second weekend in the UK

Wed, Jul 10, 2013
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Maybe audiences are agreeing with my take on the film as pretty despicable itself…

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question of the day: Is the NC-17 rating doomed?

Mon, Aug 20, 2012
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It seems to me that the problem isn’t with what the adults-only rating is called — the problem is how American culture deals with adults-only movies… ie, it doesn’t want to deal with them at all.

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question of the day: Has Hollywood abandoned young men?

Tue, Nov 15, 2011
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Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Thor, Green Lantern, X-Men, Captain America, etc. This is what 2011 looks like at the movies. In what way can it be construed that young men are “endangered” at the box office?

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smurf me: ‘The Smurfs’ passes $500 million in worldwide box office

Thu, Sep 29, 2011
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This smurfing ensures that we will get not just one smurfing sequel to The Smurfs, but probably three or four. Smurf.

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The Whistleblower (trailer)

Tue, Aug 02, 2011
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Looks good! Looks mainstream! So why isn’t it getting a major release?

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question of the day: Is the biggest Memorial Day weekend ever a reboot for in-the-doldrums Hollywood, or just a blip on the radar?

Tue, May 31, 2011
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There will be no living with The Hangover Part II now: It had the biggest opening weekend ever and the second biggest ever for an R-rated film. But is this just a fluke for Hollywood in a year that’s been way down at the box office?

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North American box office: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ back at No. 1

Tue, Apr 27, 2010
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And new releases fail to engage: 1. How to Train Your Dragon: $15.4 million 2. The Back-up Plan: $12.2 million (NEW) 3. Date Night: $10.5 million (3rd week; drops 37%) 4. The Losers: $9.4 million (NEW) 5. Kick-Ass: $9.3 million (2nd week; drops 53%) actual numbers, not estimates Ugh. It was ugly out there this … more…

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