Top Box Office Grossers: Fifth Week in March 2010
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...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in March 2010
The movies we've got on the charts are showing some strength, but their population is thinning out...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in March 2010
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...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in March 2010
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...
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Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in March 2010
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...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in February 2010
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...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in February 2010
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...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in February 2010
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...
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Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in February 2010
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...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in January 2010
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...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in January 2010
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...
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Most Popular Articles: 20-26 December 2009
The most popular SFScope articles during the last week...
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Forget the Sherlock Holmes you’ve read; this one’s more a Victorian James Bond, but a heck of a lot of fun
It's not (quite) steampunk, but this Victorian Sherlock Holmes is far beyond what Conan Doyle dreamed, and a heck of a lot of fun... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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