Sunday, September 1, 2013

'One Direction' edges 'Butler', sings its way to box office win

Actor Whitaker, star of the new film "Lee Daniels' The Butler," poses at the film's premiere in Los Angeles, California LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Concert film "One Direction: This is Us," a Sony Pictures/TriStar release featuring the red-hot British boy band One Direction, won the weekend box office race with ticket sales of $17 million, edging the civil rights drama "Lee Daniels' The Butler" which had led for the past two weeks. "The Butler," starring Forest Whitaker as a long-serving White House butler, generated $14.7 million in ticket sales at domestic theaters from Friday through Sunday, according to studio estimates which did not include projected sales for the Monday Labor Day holiday. Warner ...








via Movies News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/one-direction-edges-butler-sings-way-box-office-163943725--finance.html

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