Box Office

Weekend Box Office Report: ‘Pan’ Fails to Take Flight While ‘The Martian’ Soars Again

Pan has had disaster written all over it for the better part of a year now, so it’s not surprising that Joe Wright’s Peter Pan origin story stumbled in its opening weekend. However, no one was prepared for it to stumble as badly as it did as it ran face-first into The Martian and Hotel Transylvania 2.

Jacob Hall

Lea Michele’s Holiday Flick ‘New Year’s Eve’ Opens to Low Box Office Numbers

Lea Michele and the rest of the cast in ‘New Year’s Eve’ may want to hold off popping that bottle of champagne. The celebrity-saturated holiday rom-com opened to the lowest grossing weekend since 2008.

Nadine Cheung

Weekend Box Office: ‘The Help’ Takes Over Top Spot

In its second week of release, strong word-of-mouth and positive reviews propelled ‘The Help’ past ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ to take the number one spot at the box office this weekend, while ‘Apes’ moved to the number two slot. ‘The Help’ earned $20.5 million, while ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ pulled in $16.3 million.

Shauna Wright