PHOTOS: 20 top Grossing Movies of 2011. Billed as an action-thriller, the Grey has picked up steam in recent days and could win the weekend. Tom Ortenberg's Open Road Films is distributing the Joe Carnahan-directed pic, which cost $25 ...

Man on a Ledge: It's a testament to Sam Worthington's general shrugworthiness as an actor that even though dude was in Avatar, the highest-grossing movie ever, it still seems weird that he's able to bounce into lead roles (he ...

"The Flowers of War," a dark and violent Chinese-language movie about the Rape of Nanking that cost more than $90 million to produce, grossed an anemic $48558 in 30 U.S. locations last weekend. Its per-location average: A mere $1619. " The Flowers of War" belly flop -- and the ... It has grossed nearly $100 million in China, making it one of the highest-grossing films in the country's history. That might sound impressive, but producer and China film-industry expert ...

The year-over-year returns continued to surge this week, as the box-office was 26 percent over last year's returns for the same weekend. That's due in large part to the unexpected success of the top two films of the weekend, ...

That $34.5 million gross also marks the biggest opening weekend for a movie opening during the first weekend of the year, all time. Here's a trip down memory lane with a look at the entire top 10 in that category. 10.