Box Office - September 2-4, 2011

1 1 The Help BV $14,594,623 +0.4% 2,843 +65 $5,134 $118,985,176 $25 4 2 N The Debt Focus $9,909,499 - 1,826 - $5,427 $11,810,913 - 1 3 N Apollo 18 W/Dim. $8,704,271 - 3,328 - $2,615 $8,704,271 - 1 4 N Shark Night 3D Rela. $8,404,260 - 2,806 - $2,995 $8,404,260 - 1 5 3 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Fox $7,915,295 -10.7% 3,193 -181 $2,479 $160,139,988 $93 5 6 2 Colombiana TriS $7,463,200 -28.3% 2,614 - $2,855 $22,025,322 $40 2 7 5 Our Idiot Brother Wein. $5,450,884 -22.3% 2,555 - $2,133 $15,686,228 $5 2 8 4 Don't Be Afraid of the Dark FD $5,195,268 -39.1% 2,780 +20 $1,869 $16,635,457 $25 2 9 6 Spy Kids: All the Time in the World W/Dim. $4,817,284 -19.8% 3,007 -298 $1,602 $29,216,589 $27 3 10 7 The Smurfs Sony $4,099,478 -13.8% 2,706 -155 $1,515 $132,052,090 $110...

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Spy Kids 4 Trailer

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Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Trailer

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Surprise box office tie for "Cowboys", "Smurfs"

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The tiny blue "Smurfs" battled big-name, big-budget "Cowboys & Aliens" to a surprising tie at the domestic weekend box office with each film ringing up an estimated $36.2 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates on Sunday."The Smurfs" live-action and animated 3D film drew families to the latest adventure of the classic Belgian cartoon characters and grossed higher-than-expected sales. "Cowboys & Aliens" fell short of pre-release estimates from box-office watchers.The totals are estimates of ticket sales from United States and Canadian theaters for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The leader will not be known until actual sales are tallied on Monday. Going into the weekend, "Cowboys...

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'Potter' finale conjures up $1 billion worldwide

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harry Potter has joined the billion-dollar club.Distributor Warner Bros. said Sunday that "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" crossed the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office. It's soon expected to pass "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," which is this year's top grossing movie at $1.03 billion.The last of the eight films about the young wizard is the first in the franchise to reach the billion dollar mark. The previous best global haul was $974.8 million for the original film, 2001's "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."With $21.9 million domestically this weekend, "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" climbed to a domestic total of $318.5 million. That tops the franchise's previous best of $317.6 million for "Sorcerer's Stone."But factoring...

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Captain America: The First Avenger trailer movie

Captain america poster.jpg There's an element of slavish worship to any superhero myth, but that's particularly true for Captain America, a WWII-era propaganda comic that took a sickly young man who just really wanted to fight those damn Nazis and made him into the pinnacle of the American ideal -- which is, of course, a 'roided up war-machine in a red-white-and-blue lycra suit. Now, because interminable, ambiguous wars with no clear objective are for pussies, we are privileged to welcome back the Cap'n into our popular consciousness equipped with Adolf Hitler as his foil -- every hero needs a villain, after all, and plus, comic-book-origin flicks are totally hot right now with nostalgic Gen-Xers, all of whom are expected to walk out of theaters and immediately vote Republican. It's hard...

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