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Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker star in Lee Daniels' The Butler. (Anne Marie Cox/The Weinstein Group.

Weekend Box Office

New Releases Have Lackluster Openings Lee Daniels’ The Butler led the box office last weekend with a strong debut of $24.64 million. The early awards season hopeful from The Weinstein Co. had been widely expected to find itself in a close race with Universal Picture’s
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Matt Damon bald and tatted in Elysium. (Photo courtesy Sony Pictures)

Weekend Box Office

New Releases Take the Top Four Spots Sony’s Elysium took first place last weekend with $29.81 million. The Neill Blomkamp directed sci-fi film starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster opened quite similar to the $27.06 million start of 2 Guns the previous weekend, with the
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Hugh Jackman stars in The Wolverine. (Photo: 21st Century Fox)

Weekend Box Office

The Wolverine Disappoints at Box Office The Wolverine grabbed $53.1 million at the box office over its opening weekend, which may sound like a lot before considering that the blockbuster’s opening-weekend take was expected to be closer to $80 million, and the film faced virtually
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