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Box Office: ‘Jack’ Tips Off New March Tentpole Season
Forget basketball — the new March Madness is happening at the movies. Studios are packing four or more big-budget bets into the month that traditionally has hosted half that many. For the second year...
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Box Office: ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ Climbs Toward Soft $22 Mil
Priced at a hefty $200 million-plus, "Jack the Giant Slayer" will have a lot of ground to make up overseas.
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Box Office: ‘Jack’ Looking Like Giant Disappointment at $23 Mil
It doesn’t look like there will be a fairy tale ending for Warner Bros.’ “Jack the Giant Slayer.” The $200 million-plus budgeted retool of the “Jack and the Beanstalk” children’s story bowed to $7.7...
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‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ Composer Makes the Cut
Oftentimes, the greatest hurdle a film composer can face is time. Coming into the process so near its conclusion, scorers are usually granted little wiggle-room in which to digest the emotional arc and...
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Box Office: ‘Jack’ Not-So-Giant at Home, OK in Asia
Warner Bros.-New Line’s $190 million family adventure pic “Jack the Giant Slayer” kicked off — or bunted — a crowded month at the box office, with a meager estimated $28 million Stateside debut....
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Box Office: ‘Oz’ Tracking for $80 Million-Plus Opening
Execs with fantasy tentpoles in development, who were spooked over last week’s dismal “Jack the Giant Slayer” debut, should rediscover their courage when Disney’s “Oz the Great and Powerful” bows boffo...
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Asia Adds a Few Beans for ‘Jack’
While Warner Bros.’ big-budget fantasy “Jack the Giant Slayer” stalled at home, the film got off to a better-than-expected start in Asia, where it sprouted $14.3 million in 10 smaller markets over the...
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Box Office: ‘Oz’ on Track for $80 Million Opening
Though the sky’s not the limit, the opening weekend gross for “Oz the Great and Powerful” is certainly over the rainbow. Disney’s fantasy prequel earned $24.1 million Friday, and is looking at a...
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‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ moves to March 1
Warner Bros. has moved Bryan Singer's Jack and the Beanstalk feature forward three weeks to March 1 and changed the title to "Jack the Giant Slayer" from "Jack the Giant Killer."
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Film Review: ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’
Fee-fi-fo-fum, this fairy-tale retread is pretty dumb. Feeding the recent appetite for revisionist screen fantasies (“Snow White and the Huntsman,” “Mirror Mirror,” “Once Upon a Time”), “Jack the Giant...
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