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`Shutter Island' stays afloat at No. 1 with $22.2M

`Shutter Island' stays afloat at No. 1 with $22.2M

Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese continue to lure movie-goers to "Shutter Island," while James Cameron's "Avatar" has surpassed $700 million domestically....

 

FIRST BOX OFFICE: 'Shutter Island' #1, 'Cop Out' #2, 'The Crazies' #3

FIRST BOX OFFICE: 'Shutter Island' #1, 'Cop Out' #2, 'The Crazies' #3

Holdover Shutter Island, the Marty Scorsese/Leo DiCaprio psychological thriller from Paramount, will easily stay No. 1 again with just a 51% drop from a week ago. It made $6.7M Friday for what should be a $21M weekend and estimated cume of $75+M. Warner Bros' Bruce Willis/Tracy Morgan buddy comedy Cop Out (formerly entitled A Couple Of Dicks) opened Friday with $6.2M for an expected $18.5M weekend which shows audiences are starved for laughs.

 

‘Shutter Island’ Soars at Box Office

‘Shutter Island’ Soars at Box Office

“Shutter Island,” yanked from the fall release schedule by a cost-cutting Paramount Pictures, was a strong No. 1 at the North American box office.

 

'Shutter Island' Looks To Be Scorsese's & DiCaprio's Biggest: Likely $12M Friday & $30+M Weekend

'Shutter Island' Looks To Be Scorsese's & DiCaprio's Biggest: Likely $12M Friday & $30+M Weekend

Paramount's delay of Shutter Island's release, once widely questioned, now looks shrewdly strategic. Sources tell me this 4th film collaboration between Marty Scorsese and Leo DiCaprio is shaping up tonight as the highest-grossing debut ever, bigger than 2002's Gangs Of New York, 2004's The Aviator, and 2006's The Departed (which posted their previous biggest opening ever of $26.8M).

 

Critics Consensus: Shutter Island Is Solid But Minor Scorsese

Critics Consensus: Shutter Island Is Solid But Minor Scorsese

This week at the movies brings just one new wide release: Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, a psychological thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley. It's inevitable that a new Martin Scorsese movie will be greeted rapturously by film buffs -- and will inevitably be compared, fairly or not, to his past triumphs. Critics say Shutter Island is unquestionably the work of a cinematic maestro, but it's also a second-tier effort in the man's career. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a U.S.

 

Shutter Island Pushed Back to February

Deadline Hollywood Daily is reporting that Paramount Pictures has pushed back director Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island from October 2nd to February 19th.

 

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