Word: boxful
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...Origins: Wolverine, a prequel to three Marvel hits, with Jackman serving this time as star and producer, grossed a burly $87 million at the North American box office. McConaughey's Ghosts of Girlfriends Past earned $15.3 million. The totals nearly replicated those of last year's first May weekend, when Marvel's Iron Man took in $98.6 million to $14.8 million for the Patrick Dempsey romantic comedy Made of Honor. Shrugging off tepid reviews, Wolverine proved that Hugh is huge, movie-starwise, as long as he carries cutlery between his knuckles. In its first two days' release, it easily outperformed...
...robust numbers enjoyed by new and older movies shows that Hollywood knows how to please a recession audience. Though fewer studio films were released in Jan.-Apr. 2009, the North American box-office numbers rose 16%, and attendance 14%. As Gitesh Pandya notes on boxofficeguru.com, "the number of $20M+ openers rose from 11 last year to 18 this year while the amount of films crossing the $100M mark skyrocketed from just one in 2008 to six in the current year." Pandya points out that the summer biggies should benefit from the success of off-season fare, since moviegoers get bombarded...
...official estimation of the top 10 finishers, as reported by Box Office Mojo...
...Farrow announced that she had gained nine pounds in preparation for a 3-week fast to draw awareness to starvation in Darfur, telling People magazine that magician and publicity generator David Blaine had called to offer some tips from the 44 days he spent suspended in a glass box above London's River Thames without food. On May 3, more than 160 journalists and fellow Northwestern alumni launched a "relay" hunger strike in solidarity with Saberi; volunteers each take a 24-hour shift...
...displayed in the movies that made him famous: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Fool's Gold, both with Kate Hudson; The Wedding Planner, with Jennifer Lopez; Failure to Launch, with Sarah Jessica Parker. These fluffy films earned no awards, no critics' raves - nothing but healthy box-office numbers; How to Lose a Guy broke $100 million domestic. So somebody must love McConaughey. In Ghosts, one woman says of him, "He's all surface," and another observes, "But a really hot surface." That surface has made McConaughey, 39, the monarch of a tiny, neglected kingdom: the romantic...