With two weeks of “The Dark Knight” in the books, Warner Brothers has moved into 2nd place in the studio box office battle for 2008. However, #1 is going to be hard to catch.
Here’s the top 10 as of 7/29:
10) Screen Gems (“First Sunday”) – $110.3M 9) Lionsgate (“Rambo”) – $202.1M 8) Dreamworks (“Kung Fu Panda”) – $226.3M 7) New Line (“Sex and the City”, “Journey to the Center of the Earth”) – $316.2M 6) Disney/BV (“WALL-E”, “The Chronicles of Narnia”) – $503.6M 5) Sony (“Hancock”, “Step Brothers”) – $577.0M 4) 20th Century Fox (“X-Files”, “Space Chimps”) – $608.0M 3) Universal (“The Incredible Hulk”, “Hellboy II”) – $641.8M 2) Warner Bros. (“The Dark Knight”) – $673.9M 1) Paramount (“Iron Man”, “Indiana Jones”) – $1.064B
Still five months to go. May the best studio win!
Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic/entertainment reporter in 2006 at the age of 7. Jackson has written nearly 1,000 reviews of new releases. All together he has seen more than 1,500 films. In 2010, Jackson became the youngest person to win a NY Emmy Award, for his on-air movie reviews on Time Warner TV station, Capital News 9.
LCJ appears every Friday morning on WGNA-FM . His movie reviews are also posted on his website, his YouTube channel and the popular website Cultjer.com. He is also a contributing writer for Jerry Beck’s AnimationScoop.com. Jackson hosts the weekly internet pop culture news show “LCJ LIVE” (every Sunday at Noon ET). And “The LCJ Q&A Podcast” features interviews with celebrities and filmmakers.