After securing five Oscar nominations including Best Picture, the thriller Zero Dark Thirty [ZDTHR] uncovered an estimated $24.0 million to finish atop the weekend box office. The controversial film about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden attracted an audience that was 60% male and 62% over the age of 30. With excellent word of mouth, Zero Dark Thirty should add plenty to its total which stands at $29.5 million including 3 previous weeks of limited release.
A Haunted House [AHAUH] debuted with...
The nominations for the 85th Academy Awards have now been announced. Lincoln leads the field with 12 Oscar nominations followed by Life of Pi with 11. Silver Linings Playbook becomes the first film in 31 years to score nods in all four acting categories. HSX lets traders buy and sell the Oscar nominees in the top eight categories with these exclusive AwardOptions. Think you know who will take home the golden statuette? Invest in your favorites and profit from your predictions!
Sony has dialed up the debut trailer for the thriller The Call [TCALL], previously known as The Hive. Halle Berry [HBERR] stars as a veteran 911 operator, who takes a call from an abducted teenage girl, played by Abigail Breslin [ABRES]. The kidnapper turns out to be a serial killer whose previous victim was a caller from her past. The Call opens wide on March 15th.
Capitalizing on the day’s Academy Awards announcement, the thriller Zero Dark Thirty [ZDTHR] expands into wide release with 5 Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actress for Jessica Chastain [JCHAS]. Director Kathryn Bigelow [KBIGE] was snubbed however, perhaps due to her already winning an Oscar for her last film The Hurt Locker. Zero Dark Thirty focuses on the decade-long search for Osama Bin Laden by the CIA. The R-rated film has earned rave reviews, which help the film...
Warner Bros. has send up the full, theatrical trailer for the biographical drama 42 [42] on Apple. Newcomer Chadwick Boseman stars as Jackie Robinson, the legendary Brooklyn Dodgers who broke the color barrier in 1947 as the first African-American in Major League Baseball. 42 opens on April 12th, ahead of Jackie Robinson Day on April 15th when every MLB baseball player will take the field wearing the number 42.
The nominations for 85th Academy Awards were announced today and as always contained surprises with unexpected nominees as well as snubbed hopefuls. HSX offered NominOptions for the leading contenders in the top eight major categories. Let’s see how well HSX traders predicted this year’s crop of Oscar nominees.
There were 9 nominees for Best Picture this year: Amour, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook and...
CBS Films has revealed the debut trailer for the horror sequel The Last Exorcism Part II [LXOR2], set to open on March 1st. The first film was made in the found footage style and released in 2010 by Lionsgate.
In the continuing story, Nell Sweetzer is found terrified and alone in rural Louisiana. When she returns to the relative safety of New Orleans, Nell finds that she can't remember large portions of the previous months, but she does know that she is the last surviving member of...
2013 is off to a horrific start as the horror reboot Texas Chainsaw 3D [TXCM3] claimed the top spot with an estimated $23.0 million at the weekend box office. The slasher film attracted an audience that was 64% under the age of 25, many of whom were fans of star Trey Songz.
Django Uncained [DJANG] remained in second place at $20.1 million, off just 33% from its opening weekend. The slavery-era western has banked $106.4 million.
After ruling for 3 weekends, The Hobbit: An Unexpected...
Sony has uploaded a full, redband trailer for the horror remake Evil Dead [EVILD], opening on April 12th. Five twenty-something friends discover a Book of the Dead in a remote cabin. They unwittingly summon a demon which possesses them in turn as they fight for survival until only one is left.
The first weekend of 2013 brings a couple of wide openers, but a couple of holdovers from 2012 are likely to be in a close fight for first place. After finishing second through Tuesday, Django Unchained [DJANG] finally rose to first place on Wednesday at the box office. Quentin Tarantino’s Southern western has garnered excellent reviews and word of mouth. Django Unchained could decline 40% in its second weekend to around $18 million. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey [HOBIT] has already...
