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UPDATED, Monday, 2:34 PM: After a bad weekend for newcomers, made worse by tracking numbers that artificially inflated expectations, Guardians Of The Galaxy emerged as the box office champ, one of the top grossers of the year as well as the top title of this summer with $251.4M so far … though Disney proclaimed the…

Warner Bros.’ If I Stay grossed $1.1M in late nights which began at 7 PM — a strong showing for this picture based on a YA novel and starring Chloe Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass 1 and 2, Carrie). For comparisons, last weekend’s YA offering The Giver opened at 8 PM, grossed $750K and went on to gross $12.3M for the weekend. Th…

This weekend, three newbies come into the fray against the holdovers Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Guardians of the Galaxy. All three — If I Stay, Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For and When the Game Stands Tall — open tonight in late nights. But, it currently looks like If I Stay, the movie based on yet…

The latest entry into the inspirational sports movie is based on the longest winning streak in sports history — or rather, what happened when it ended. De La Salle High School in Northern California had gone 12 years and 151 games without knowing the agony of defeat. When The Game Stands Tall focuses on the lives of…