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Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in May 2010
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A new screamer tops the charts, but we're waiting for Iron Man to kick Freddy Krueger's butt next week...

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in April 2010
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Weak openers mean sf/f/h once again owns the top of the charts, but they're still sparse throughout the top 25 as we wait for the summer blockbusters to open...

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in April 2010
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A new quasi-genre film opens at the top of the charts, dragons and aliens do well, but still, there are fewer sf/f/h films in the top 25 than last week...

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in April 2010
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With very few new films opening, there isn't much movement, and sf/f/h movies, though sparse on the chart, are still doing well...

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in April 2010
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And again, a new genre film opens at #1. SF/F/H movies are sparse in the top 25, but they manage to pound the top of the charts again...

Top Box Office Grossers: Fifth Week in March 2010
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A new sf release dethrones Alice, and Avatar slips out of the top 10 for the first time in nearly four months, but it wasn't such a good week for mid-range genre films...

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in March 2010
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The movies we've got on the charts are showing some strength, but their population is thinning out...

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in March 2010
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Alice in Wonderland holds strong at #1, and Shutter Island and Avatar both show strength, but the rest of the sf/f/h films in the top 25 show more weakness...

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in March 2010
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A new blockbuster tops the charts, as Lewis Carroll goes Tim Burton in 3-D. Other than that, there's some strength in sf/f/h films at the mid-range in the charts...

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in March 2010
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Not much relative movement this week among sf/f/h films, and nothing really new in the theatres, but some of those totals are really adding up...

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in February 2010
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In terms of placement on the charts, this was a good week for sf/f/h films. In terms of box office takes, everything dropped...

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in February 2010
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Two new sf films open at #2 and #3, and Avatar holds on to #4. It's a pretty good week for genre films all around...

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in February 2010
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Probably not a surprise, but finally, after seven weeks at #1, James Cameron's Avatar is knocked off the top of the charts. Other than that, it's a fairly unremarkable week for sf/f/h films...

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in February 2010
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Avatar, again. And very little movement among the sf/f/h films on the charts: a bunch near the top, none in the middle, and a few at the bottom...

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in January 2010
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Avatar, Avatar, Avatar, still the top of the charts. But new films opened this week, and while sf/f/h is still making a strong showing at the top of the charts, things always change...

Gene Roddenberry's lost Questor Tapes series gets new life
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Roddenberry Productions and Imagine Entertainment are working to breathe new life into Gene Roddenberry's 1970s unproduced television series The Questor Tapes...

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in January 2010
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There's finally been some movement at the top of the charts, but Avatar is #1 for an incredible fifth straight week. Otherwise, the charts are a lonely place for sf/f/h films, with some movement in and out at the bottom...

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in January 2010
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With sf/f/h films owning the top three spots on the charts for the third straight week, it's impressive for the big boys. But farther down, things thin our real fast for our genre...

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in January 2010
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Spec-fic flicks own the top of the charts, with the box-office pounding Avatar, Sherlock Holmes, and Alvin, but below the top three, things get a little sparse for sf/f/h films...

2010 Producers Guild of America Award Nominees
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The Producers Guild of America will soon be handing out its 21st annual awards. A number of genre films are nominees, and two special awards will go to Joss Whedon and John Lasseter...

SF/F/H films own the US box office in 2009
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Seventeen of the top 25 grossing movies of 2009 were science fiction, fantasy, or horror...

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in December 2009
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Genre pictures own the top of the charts. Lower down, not so much, but the charts are topped by sf/f/h pics...

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in December 2009
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This week's 800-pound gorilla was James Cameron's Avatar, but will it have the legs next week to stand up to Sherlock Holmes...

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in December 2009
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A poor week for sf/f/h films, even as one finally tops the charts...

Boston Society of Film Critics honor three sf movies
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The Boston Society of Film Critics honored three sf/f movies from this year's crop, including a surprise winner for best ensemble cast...
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