Iron Man 2 was off -59% from its opening weekend to score another $53 million at the box office. The Marvel comic actioner has now crossed $200 million with $212 in its coffers and is likely to beat the original Iron Man’s total domestic gross of $318 million. (IMAX screens generated $4.2(…)

‘Iron Man 2′ soars with $133.6 million weekend; scores fifth highest opening ever,The Marvel Entertainment juggernaut didn’t bypass The Dark Knight’s weekend record of $158 million but got close to surpassing Pirates of the Caribbean 3′s opening of $135.6 million.

It should be noted that the 2-D event movie earned 8% of(…)

It was a good weekend for Freddy Krueger. The 1980s horror villain is back with a vengeance, with The Nightmare on Elm Street remake earning a solid $32 million, landing it in first place at the box office this weekend. Still, even with the success of Nightmare — which stars Jackie Earle(…)

How to Train Your Dragon took the top spot at the box office in its fifth weekend in theaters with only an estimated $15 million — still good enough to top rival offerings from CBS Films (The Back-Up Plan) and Warner Bros. (The Losers). The Back-Up Plan took second place with an(…)

DreamWorks Animated 3-D flick How to Train Your Dragon squeezed out a surprise come-from-behind first-place finish with an estimated $20 million take in its fourth weekend in release. Falling only 20 percent, Dragon’s total now stands at $158.6 million; a dearth of competing kids’ movies has been beneficial to the well-reviewed Viking(…)

In the end, it wasn’t even that close. Despite estimates all weekend that Clash of the Titans and Date Night were neck-and-neck for the top spot at the weekend box office, Clash claimed the top prize by a cool $1 million. Turns out Fox predictors had over-estimated their Sunday number for the(…)

It was a record Easter weekend at the box office thanks to robust performances by Clash of the Titans, Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too, and the animated How to Train Your Dragon, which held on well its second weekend in theatersLionsgate’s Tyler Perry comedy sequel “Why Did I Get(…)

How to Train Your Dragon won the weekend box office grossing $43.3 million for the three-day frame. (A solid 11.5 percent of that cash came from 187 IMAX theaters.) The DreamWorks Animation film, which has won rave reviews from critics and audiences alike, may well have bowed with a far bigger number(…)

The second weekend in a row. For the Leonardo DiCaprio-Martin Scorsese pairing earned an estimated $22.2 million, out-grossing any new releases and putting its total box office at over $75 million. Of the new releases, Kevin Smith’s buddy comedy Cop Out, starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, was the highest grosser with(…)

With no other wide releases to challenge it, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island dominated the box office this weekend with a $40.2 million take. That’s a career best for both the director and star Leonardo DiCaprio, neither of whom had scored a sizable hit since their last outing together on The Departed, which(…)