But it does nothing to reduce the risks that the movie will be a box-office dud.
Clooney's method has produced a string of box-office disappointments including Michael Clayton and The Good German.
Screens playing the movie in that format generated only 33% of its box-office receipts.
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Everything about this movie flies, as will its box-office receipts over Christmas and beyond.
If there were a category for box-office earnings, they would have been nominated there too.
The box-office uptick was welcomed by the concert industry, which suffered a down year in 2010.
His swarthy sidekick, played by the baritone Nathan Gunn, is an equal box-office draw.
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Some can be really amazing on a low-budget, and others are simply box-office duds.
In the early days of cinema, studios made almost all of their money from box-office takings.
There are two other French comedies in the box-office top five so far this year.
Actually the closest thing to a big box-office winner among the nominees is Juno, from News Corp.
If there is someone who can give Star Wars a run for box-office gold, maybe it's Spider-Man.
"This means we might not be able to meet our box-office goal for the year, " Tian said.
That follows nearly flat box-office revenue in 2010, with higher prices offsetting a 6% drop in attendance.
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Their recent great box-office and award kudos means they'll both be able to push their quotes up.
"India's movie stars are essentially the country's ambassadors, " said Gitesh Pandya, box-office analyst and founder of BoxOfficeGuru.com.
The director hasn't made a film since "Chaser, " and Mr. Panitch believes his next one will be box-office gold.
At the same time, early positive buzz doesn't always translate to box-office success.
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Who knew that an endlessly chatty movie devoid of naked ladies and car chases could become a box-office smash?
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For his part, Bevan does confess to concerns about the film's box-office prospects.
ROH's marketing resources, they will pay no rent, and they will be able to keep all their box-office receipts.
In South Korea, ticket sales to local movies accounted for about 10% or 20% of box-office revenue in the 1990s.
Shortly after, small towns in Pennsylvania started bringing in television by wire, which Rigas realized would cost him box-office receipts.
More than 20% of Cineworld's box-office revenues were from 3D films, up from 8% in the same period last year.
Lincoln sounded like a boring high school history class come to life, yet it became a critical and box-office triumph.
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In other countries, value-added taxes are taken out of gross box-office receipts, before the money is divided between studios and theaters.
Eight of the ten films with the highest-ever opening weekend box-office receipts were released either this year or last (see table).
And given box-office figures from the first week, it can predict subsequent domestic and overseas performance much more accurately than that.
It was driven by a number of box-office successes such as The King's Speech, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Jane Eyre.
Even in the early '90s, the academy picked box-office hits like The Silence of the Lambs and Braveheart for its top award.
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