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Weekend Box Office: Kids Come Out For 'Hop,' 'Sucker' Thoroughly 'Punch'ed

  • By Gabe Toro
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  • April 3, 2011 5:00 AM
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While Universal’s animated division remains behind Disney and Dreamworks, “Hop” became their second straight surprisingly big opening this weekend, collecting $39 million. Most called the heavily-promoted film in the high 20’s, low 30’s, but like “Despicable Me” before it, the film definitely connected with family audiences in its first frame. While “Despicable Me” eventually collected $544 million globally with a much bigger opening, “Hop” isn’t expected to bust the doors down. But due to the seasonal and family appeal, expect this thing to have legs, and while they initially weren’t counting on $100 domestic, that should be easily surmountable from here, with $150 million being a solid preliminary target. Fanciful returns for the studio, who have kept the budgets for the partly-animated “Hop” and the fully animated “Despicable Me” well under the industry-standard $100 million.
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More: Films, Actors, Film Studios, Foreign Films, Weekend Box-Office, Zack Snyder, La Quattro Volte, Super Hero Films, Modern Horror, Animated Films, Sucker Punch, Source Code, Jane Eyre (2011), Battle: Los Angeles, The Lincoln Lawyer, Limitless, Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Trust, Super, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros, Sony, Paramount, Dreamworks, Certified Copy, Insidious, Hop, Rango, Win Win

The Perils Of iChat Are Explored In Trailer For 'Trust'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • February 9, 2011 3:38 AM
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Basically, the gist of "Trust" seems to be: if you get your teenage daughter a MacBook Pro for her birthday she will be violated by an online pervert.
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