The latest box office totals say that the backstage documentary “Michael jackson’s This is It” has reaped $23 million since opening. That’s not bad, but it’s doesn’t beat the American opening-weekend record for a performance movie, $31 million, set by “Hannah Montana/Miley…

A movie that was released earlier this year has become the third-highest grosser of all-time on the world box-office list, behind “Titanic” and “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.” Can you guess what it is?

Nope, it’s not “Transformers: Revenge…

Despite almost universally bad reviews, “Couples Retreat,” the new romantic comedy staring Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau, directed by their pal Peter Billingsley, was the number-one movie at the box office this weekend, earning about $35 million.

True, there wasn’t much…

It was a good news/bad news weekend for Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow. The good news was that their collaboration “Funny People” finished first at the box office, with an estimated $23 million. The bad news was that it was…

“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” the sixth installment in the boy-wizard movie franchise, set a record Wednesday, earning more than $22 million at midnight screenings.

That easily smited the midnight-movie mark that was set last year by the Batman flick “The Dark…

When I gave the new “Transformers” sequel a mixed review, acknowledging its technical heft but criticizing its ideological emptiness, it turns out I was being nicer than most other critics. The movie, which earned more than $200 million through its…

“The Proposal,” the new marriage-of-convenience comedy staring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, was number one at the weekend box office with an estimated haul of $34 million. The femme-friendly flick snapped the two-week winning streak of the dude movie “The…

“Star Trek,” propelled by strong reviews and word-of-mouth, earned $76 million from late Thursday to Sunday (including a record for an opening weekend in the IMAX format). Eighteen of those dollars were from me, as I sprung for two tickets…

Franchises like the “X-Men” movies don’t rely on the critics, but when “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” opened Friday, it was handicapped by more than just bad reviews.  A version of the movie was leaked on the Internet a few months ago,…

On Thursday, the canine comedy “Marley & Me” set a new record for Christmas Day box office, earning an estimated $15 million on its first day of release.

When final numbers are tallied, Brad Pitt’s reverse-aging fable “The Curious Case of…