You can check out this chart at Box Office Mojo to see how slowly the box office tapered off for the film.
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Check out this chart at Box Office Mojo that ranks films that opened in limited release (under 600 theaters) by their per screen average opening weekend.
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While 3D movies may have been successful at box office, that does not guarantee the success of 3D programming on pay-TV without several modifications necessary to reduce inconvenience and potential health hazards.
We used Box Office Mojo to look at the box office returns for 675 summer releases going back to 2006 to create our list.
To compile our list, we looked at worldwide theatrical grosses for the top 200 films to date of 2010 and their estimated budgets (numbers courtesy of Box Office Mojo) to determine what percentage of a film's budget was earned back at the box office.
"I'm somewhat ignorant as to whether or not it is a hard sell at the box office because I am at the receiving end of people who are very moved, full of praise and deeply touched, " said Sir Ben.
We used data from Box Office Mojo to see which films earned the smallest percentage of their budgets at the box office.
We then divided box office by budget to find out what percentage of the budget each film has earned at the box office.
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The film, from News Corp. studio Twentieth Century Fox, failed to top the box office last weekend, losing out to Clash of the Titans, which has proved resilient at the box office.
While 77 of the top 100 movies at the box office in 2012 were available on DVD at the beginning of January 2013, you could only rent up to 46 online.
Rounding out the top five at the box office: Shrek the Third, Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Mr Showmanship, it appears, is still capable of kicking up a storm at the box office.
Tom Cruise's silver screen comeback Lions for Lambs proved sheepish at the box office.
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The movie also now holds the record for the biggest single day at the box office.
With so much hype, is it possible Tron could do Avatar-like numbers at the box office?
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The film has already brought in 7.3 times its production budget at the box office.
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That means the film brought in 6.8 times its budget at the box office.
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It wins at the box office which is an even bigger reward in some ways.
But The Gingko Bed was a rock-solid No. 1 at the box office last year.
Pitt has found a way to do smart movies that also do well at the box office.
"The bottom line for any studio is what its films do at the box office, " he said.
At 59, Streep proved this year that women can be a powerful force at the box office.
If the studio head's star casting misfires at the box office, he or she has an excuse.
And female viewership helped propel Harry Potter films to unprecedented heights at the box office as well.
If online buzz is any indication, there will be little to celebrate at the box office this Christmas.
Umrao Jaan 2006 has bombed at the box office - critics panned it for being a big yawn.
It certainly helps to get a movie some good post-opening publicity if it does gangbusters at the box office.
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