The ability (as of a show) to attract ticket buyers; also : something that enhances that ability <any publicity is good box office>

The top theaters in LA:
 - Man's Chinese Theater (Hollywood)
 - Arclight (Hollywood)
 - Arclight (Sherman Oaks)
 - AMC  16 (Burbank)
 - Pacific Theaters  18 (Glendale)
 - AMC City Walk Stadium 19 (Universal City)
- Pacific Paseo Stadium 14 (Pasadena)

Director: Alister Grierson
Stars: Rhys Wakefield, Allison Cratchley, Christopher Baker (Full Cast)
Studio: Universal Pictures The Plot: A diving team experiences a life-threatening crisis during an expedition to an unexplored cave system.

The Roommate
Director: Christian E. Christiansen
Stars: Minka Kelly, Leighton Meester, Cam Gigandet (Full Cast)
Studio: Screen Gems

The Plot: College student Sara (Kelly) finds her safety jeopardized after she's assigned to a dorm room with a new roommate, Rebecca (Meester).

Director: Don Roos
Stars: Natalie Portman, Scott Cohen, Lisa Kudrow (Full Cast)
Studio: IFC Films The Plot: After Emilia (Portman) marries her one-time boss, high-powered New York lawyer Jack (Cohen), she looks to settle into a new role as wife, stepmother, and expecting parent. When a tragedy strikes, Emilia must contend with her grief, strained family dynamics, and the constant interferences of Jack's ex-wife (Kudrow).

Just Go with It
Director: Dennis Dugan
Stars: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Brooklyn Decker (Full Cast)
Studio: Columbia Pictures

The Plot: A guy (Sandler) convinces a mother of two (Aniston) to pose as his soon-to-be-divorced wife in order to woo the woman of his dreams (Decker).

Gnomeo & Juliet
Director: Kelly Asbury
Stars: James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Maggie Smith (Full Cast)
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

The Plot: An animated version of Shakespeare's play, where Gnomeo (voice of McAvoy) and Juliet (voice of Blunt) are would-be lovers from rival garden-based families.

Cedar Rapids [limited]
Director: Miguel Arteta
Stars: Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Anne Heche (Full Cast)
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures

The Plot: Naïve small-town guy Tim Lippe (Helms) has no idea what he's in for when he's sent to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to represent his company at an annual insurance convention, where he soon finds himself under the "guidance" of three convention veterans.

The Eagle
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Stars: Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland (Full Cast)
Studio: Focus Features

The Plot: In 140 AD, Roman soldier Marcus Aquila (Tatum) embarks on a quest to restore the reputation of his father, the one-time commander of Rome's Ninth Legion, who disappeared in the mountains of Scotland twenty years earlier.

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
Director: Jon Chu
Stars: Justin Bieber (Full Cast)
Studio: Paramount Pictures

The Plot: A look at Justin Bieber's early life, his rise to fame, and behind the scenes of his 2010 tour.

I Am Number Four
Director: D.J. Caruso
Stars: Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Dianna Agron (Full Cast)
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

The Plot: Nine alien teens come to Earth after their planet is destroyed by an enemy species. But soon discover that their enemy is now after them on Earth.

Unknown
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Stars: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Plot: Dr. Martin Harris (Neeson) awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one -- not even his wife (Jones) -- believes him. With the help of a young woman (Kruger), he sets out to prove who he is.

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
Director: John Whitesell
Stars: Martin Lawrence, Brandon T. Jackson (Full Cast)
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

The Plot: FBI agent Malcolm Turner (Lawrence) and his nephew Trent (Jackson) go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder.

Vanishing on 7th Street [limited]
Director: Brad Anderson
Stars: Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, John Leguizamo (Full Cast)
Studio: Magnet Releasing

The Plot: When a massive power blackout causes a city's population to vanish, a handful of survivors band together inside a tavern in an effort to survive as darkness approaches.

Drive Angry 3D
Director: Patrick Lussier
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner (Full Cast)
Studio: Summit Entertainment

The Plot: A felon (Cage) breaks out of hell for one last chance at redemption: to prevent the cult who murdered his daughter from sacrificing her baby in three days' time. He's aided by a young waitress (Heard) and her ex-boyfriend's muscle car, and together the duo will have to face down the leader of the cult, the police, and a killer known as "The Accountant" (Fichtner) -- who wants to return him to the Devil.

Hall Pass
Director: Bobby Farrelly Peter Farrelly
Stars: Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Christina Applegate (Full Cast)
Studio: New Line Cinema

The Plot: Two married guys are given the freedom to engage in a week's worth of extra-marital affairs, though they get a little bent out of shape when their respective wives start having fun on their own, too.

Shelter
Director: Måns Mårlind Björn Stein
Stars: Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jeffrey DeMunn (Full Cast)
Studio: Weinstein Company, The

The Plot: Forensic psychiatrist Cara Harding (Moore) discovers that her new patient, David (Meyers), has multiple personalities -- all of whom are murder victims. Shaking her faith and beliefs, she works to uncover the secret buried deep within David's mind in order to prevent more killings.

Season of the Witch
Director: Dominic Sena
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Claire Foy (Full Cast)
Studio: Relativity Media

The Plot: Crusader Behmen (Cage) and his comrade-in-arms Felson (Perlman) return from years of battle to find their homeland decimated by the Plague. To appease members of the church, the duo agree to transport an accused witch (Foy) to a remote abbey, where monks hope that a ritual will end the pestilence.

Country Strong [wide expansion]
Director: Shana Feste
Stars: Garrett Hedlund, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leighton Meester (Full Cast)
Studio: Screen Gems

The Plot: A drama centered on a rising country-music songwriter (Hedlund) who sparks with a fallen star (Paltrow). Together, they mount his ascent and her comeback, which leads to romantic complications involving her husband/manager (McGraw) and a beauty queen-turned-singer (Meester).

The Green Hornet
Director: Michel Gondry
Stars: Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz (Full Cast)
Studio: Columbia Pictures

The Plot: A newspaper publisher by day and masked crime fighter by night, The Green Hornet and his martial arts expert sidekick, Kato, fight crime while trying to keep their true identities a secret.

The Dilemma
Director: Ron Howard
Stars: Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder (Full Cast)
Studio: Universal Pictures

The Plot: A comedy centered on a guy (Vaughn) who struggles with whether or not to tell his best friend (James) that his wife (Ryder) is having an affair.

Barney's Version [limited]
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Stars: Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Jake Hoffman (Full Cast)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

The Plot: Impulsive and irascible TV-show producer Barney Panofsky (Giammati) reflects upon his life's successes, failures, and its great mystery -- from his three marriages, to his doubts with the bottle and infidelity, and then to the unsolved disappearance of his best friend, Boogie (Speedman).

A Somewhat Gentle Man [limited]
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Bjørn Floberg, Jorunn Kjellsby (Full Cast)
Studio: Strand Releasing

The Plot: One-time gangster Ulrik (Skarsgard) is back on the outside after 12 years in prison. Despite finding a new home (and a new mission) with his former boss (Floberg), Ulrik considers a fresh start, given tentative connections to his now-grown son and his boss's secretary.

The Company Men
Director: John Wells
Stars: Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones (Full Cast)
Studio: Weinstein Company, The

The Plot: Three co-workers and family men (Affleck, Cooper, Jones) try to redefine their lives after being laid off by their company

No Strings Attached
Director: Ivan Reitman
Stars: Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher (Full Cast)
Studio: Paramount Pictures

The Plot: After life-long friends Adam (Kutcher) and Emma (Portman) have sex one morning, they do what they can to keep their relationship strictly physical.

The Way Back [limited]
Director: Peter Weir
Stars: Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell (Full Cast)
Studio: Newmarket Films

The Plot: A young military officer (Sturgess) leads an escape from a hellish gulag in Soviet-occupied Poland during WWII. Making a pact with six companions, the group embarks on a daring mission across Asia to hopeful safety in India.

The Mechanic
Director: Simon West
Stars: Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland (Full Cast)
Studio: CBS Films

The Plot: An elite assassin (Statham) takes on an apprentice (Foster) who has a connection to one of his earlier targets.

The Rite
Director: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Colin O'Donoghue, Anthony Hopkins, Ciarán Hinds (Full Cast)
Studio: New Line Cinema

The Plot: A thriller centered on a disillusioned American seminary student who attends exorcism school at the Vatican, and his encounter with demonic forces.

Biutiful [limited]
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Stars: Javier Bardem (Full Cast)
Studio: Liddell Entertainment

The Plot: Uxbal (Bardem) is a dour man but a devoted husband and father who, thanks to his ability to read the minds of the recently deceased, ekes out a living in Barcelona.

From Prada to Nada
Director: Angel Gracia
Stars: Camilla Belle, Alexa Vega, Kuno Becker (Full Cast)
Studio: Lionsgate

The Plot: Two spoiled sisters (Belle and Vega) are left penniless after their father's sudden death, forcing them to move in with their estranged aunt in East Los Angeles.