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Weekend Box Office: Humans Welcome the Aliens

By  in August 17th 2009   No Comment »
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District 9

It probably comes as no surprise that District 9 beat out all of it’s competition. The amount of hype that was generated for that movie has not been seen since Cloverfield. The movie took in over $37 million this weekend. This number is even more astounding when you realize that the movie only cost $30 million to make, just one more weekend like that and the production studio will already be ahead. Which is a much better position than G.I. Joe, which has dropped to the number 2 slot, pulling in $22 million this weekend, bringing it’s total to $98 million a fa cry from recouping it’s $175 million production costs. The Time Traveler’s Wife came in at number 3 with $19 million, not a bad showing considering it is solely a chick flick and the tough competition it faced. Harry Potter continues it’s descent out of theaters, coming it at number 7 with $5 million, making it’s grand total gross over $280 million.

Source: BoxOfficeMojo.com

TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Week #
1 N District 9 TriS $37,000,000 – 1
2 1 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Par. $22,500,000 -58.9% 2
3 N The Time Traveler’s Wife WB (NL) $19,205,000 – 1
4 2 Julie & Julia Sony $12,400,000 -38.1% 2
5 3 G-Force BV $6,908,000 -30.0% 4
6 N The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard ParV $5,350,000 – 1
7 4 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince WB $5,155,000 -42.3% 5
8 6 The Ugly Truth Sony $4,500,000 -33.3% 4
9 N Ponyo BV $3,506,000 – 1
10 9 (500) Days of Summer FoxS $3,025,000 -19.1% 5
11 5 Funny People Uni. $3,023,000 -62.1% 3
12 7 A Perfect Getaway Uni. $2,796,000 -53.0% 2

Weekend Box Office: G.I Joe breaks out of the Mold

By  in August 10th 2009   No Comment »
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GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra

After a few weeks of relatively disappointing Box Office returns G.I Joe: Rise of the Cobra brought fans of all ages to the theaters. The long awaited movie (after all for over 40 years there hasn’t been a cooler action figure than G.I. Joe) pulled in massive crowds to make over $56 million. Julie & Julia came in a distant second at $20 million, which isn’t surprising for a movie with talent like Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci. G-Force once again beat out Harry Potter. It seems like the wizard has already started on his descent out of theaters which seems surprising considering the run of movies like The Hangover and Ice Age, both of which dropped out of the top ten for the first time this week.

TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Total Gross Week #
1 N G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Par. $56,200,000 – $56,200,000 1
2 N Julie & Julia Sony $20,100,000 – $20,100,000 1
3 3 G-Force BV $9,804,000 -44.0% $86,116,000 3
4 2 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince WB $8,880,000 -50.4% $273,800,000 4
5 1 Funny People Uni. $7,866,000 -65.3% $40,417,000 2
6 4 The Ugly Truth Sony $7,000,000 -46.9% $69,088,000 3
7 N A Perfect Getaway Uni. $5,765,000 – $5,765,000 1
8 5 Aliens in the Attic Fox $4,000,000 -50.1% $16,293,000 2
9 6 Orphan WB $3,730,000 -50.4% $34,822,000 3
10 12 (500) Days of Summer FoxS $3,725,000 +34.1% $12,343,000 4
11 8 The Hangover WB $3,400,000 -34.5% $262,010,000 10
12 10 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen P/DW $3,000,000 -36.0% $393,701,000 7

Source: BoxOfficeMojo.com

Weekend Box Office: “Funny People” is funny enough to bring in the crowds.

By  in August 3rd 2009   No Comment »
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Funny People

Harry Potter remains in the number 2 slot, but this time the movie knocking it down a peg isn’t G-Force, it’s Funny People. Coming in at over $20 million for the weekend, Adam Sandler and Seth Rogan had a good showing. It’ll be interesting to see if they can keep it up as well as The Hangover which is still in the top ten after 9 weeks in the box office. G-Force takes a close third, showing that it has more draw as a children’s movie than Aliens in the Attic which released over the weekend. The Collector, this weekend’s other new release, failed to make the top ten, putting it well below Orphan, but it was shown in only half as many theaters. As is expected for summer, kids movies are taking the top spots but comedies have the staying power.

TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Total Gross Week #
1 N Funny People Uni. $23,440,000 – $23,440,000 1
2 2 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince WB $17,700,000 -39.9% $255,463,000 3
3 1 G-Force BV $17,058,000 -46.2% $66,461,000 2
4 3 The Ugly Truth Sony $13,000,000 -52.9% $54,481,000 2
5 N Aliens in the Attic Fox $7,800,000 – $7,800,000 1
6 4 Orphan WB $7,250,000 -43.7% $26,791,000 2
7 5 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Fox $5,300,000 -37.0% $181,843,000 5
8 7 The Hangover WB $5,080,000 -21.4% $255,776,000 9
9 8 The Proposal BV $4,848,000 -24.0% $148,882,000 7
10 6 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen P/DW $4,600,000 -43.4% $388,101,000 6
11 N The Collector Free $3,625,000 – $3,625,000 1
12 12 (500) Days of Summer FoxS $2,750,000 +68.1% $6,821,000 3

Source: BoxOfficeMojo

Smurfs Details Emerge (Don’t Tell Gargamel)

By  in July 28th 2009   No Comment »
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SMURFS!

Info on the storyline for the upcoming Smurfs movie (GAH!) from Sony Pictures Animation has come out in the form of details about a couple of the parts being cast.   This movie will be a hybrid of live action and animation, and will center on a couple of kids who find a Smurf  attempt to get him back to his friends.  EW.com has the story:

…the doll her dad brought home from Belgium is actually a living, breathing Smurf. And not just any Smurf — Clumsy Smurf! Sophie tries to get her mom and dad to embrace Clumsy as a member of the family, but ultimately realizes what he really wants is to reunite with his fellow Smurfs.

Great, this should hold me over until somebody pitches a live-action Gummi Bears movie….

Weekend Box Office: Secret Agent Guinea Pigs take out “Potter”

By  in July 27th 2009   No Comment »
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G-Force takes the cake this weekend narrowly beating out Harry Potter. The two movies grossed just over the $30 million mark for the weekend. The Ugly Truth wasn’t far behind and Orphan took a distant fourth and was the last of the opening movies to make the top slots. Holdover movies are still doing very well with Ice Age and Transformers taking a very close 5th and 6th. The Hangover continues to out perform the newer movies with Bruno, (500) Days of Summer, and Public Enemies, all of which opened a month after Hangover, unable to overtake it at the box office. To be fair though (500) Days of Summer is still a limited release and is playing in only 85 theaters, being squeezed out by the big names and the big films much like In the Loop which opened in a reported 8 theaters, but still managed a decent showing, making the highest average per theater of any movie in box office lists, at over $25,000.

TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Total Gross Week #
1 N G-Force BV $32,152,000 – $32,185,000 1
2 1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince WB $30,000,000 -61.5% $221,834,000 2
3 N The Ugly Truth Sony $27,000,000 – $27,000,000 1
4 N Orphan WB $12,770,000 – $12,770,000 1
5 2 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Fox $8,200,000 -53.3% $171,291,000 4
6 3 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen P/DW $8,000,000 -41.6% $379,090,000 5
7 6 The Hangover WB $6,465,000 -20.9% $247,077,000 8
8 5 The Proposal BV $6,423,000 -22.5% $140,086,000 6
9 7 Public Enemies Uni. $4,170,000 -46.2% $88,096,000 4
10 4 Bruno Uni. $2,719,000 -67.3% $56,516,000 3
11 12 (500) Days of Summer FoxS $1,630,000 +95.3% $3,004,000 2
12 8 Up BV $1,609,000 -49.3% $283,612,000 9

Source: BoxOfficeMojo.com

Castlevania Coming to Big Screen

By  in July 27th 2009   No Comment »
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Castlevania

Video game publisher Konami is in negotiations with James Wan (he of the Saw series) to direct the big screen adaptation of the video game classic Castlevania.  Hey, at least it isn’t a whole movie based on the View-Master.  Ian Jeffers is set to pen the script (he may actually use a computer, or a typewriter or even a pencil, though that would require an awful lot of sharpening).  From Variety.com:

The project centers on the battle between Dracula and the Belmont clan of vampire hunters in a labyrinthine fortress in the Carpathian mountains.

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“Castlevania” debuted as a vidgame in Japan in 1986. Crystal Sky acquired the feature rights in 2005 and attached Paul W.S. Anderson to direct, followed by Sylvain White in 2007, with Rogue co-producing, but the project stalled during the WGA strike.

Steven Paul of Crystal Sky Entertainment will be producing.  As a video game player who has loved the “Castlevania” series, all I have to say is, “Someone please keep Uwe Boll distracted for the entirety of this production.”

Weekend Box Office: Potter does not Disappoint

By  in July 20th 2009   No Comment »
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The weekend’s big winner is no surprise. Not only because it opened without competition, but because the Potter movies typically have everything that makes a movie great. With this installment being perhaps the most action-packed and drama heavy so far, the belief that the movies only get better as the series goes on continues to hold ground.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince more than quadrupled the weekend returns of its closest competitor Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Ice Age has had a remarkable showing these past few weeks, which seems to express the power of children’s movies during the summer. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen takes 3rd and is the only other movie to get more than $10 million for the weekend, which considering the competition isn’t as bad as it seems. Bruno dropped to 4th, barely beating out The Hangover which still remains in the top five even after seven weeks in the box office. If you haven’t seen it yet, what are you waiting for?

TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Total Gross Week #
1 N Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince WB $79,475,000 – $159,662,000 1
2 2 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Fox $17,700,000 -35.9% $152,005,000 3
3 3 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen P/DW $13,750,000 -43.2% $363,867,000 4
4 1 Bruno Uni. $8,374,000 -72.7% $49,588,000 2
5 6 The Hangover WB $8,315,000 -16.3% $235,882,000 7
6 5 The Proposal BV $8,294,000 -21.8% $128,087,000 5
7 4 Public Enemies Uni. $7,592,000 -45.0% $79,483,000 3
8 8 Up BV $3,147,000 -33.3% $279,559,000 8
9 9 My Sister’s Keeper WB $2,825,000 -34.2% $41,504,000 4
10 7 I Love You Beth Cooper Fox $2,665,000 -45.8% $10,261,000 2
11 10 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Sony $885,000 -42.7% $62,896,000 6
12 N 500 Days of Summer FoxS $838,000 – $838,000 1

Source: BoxOfficeMojo.com

Weekend Box Office: Oh No Bruno

By  in July 13th 2009   No Comment »
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Bruno Movie Promo

Bruno tops off the weekend, which may not be a big surprise considering the competition was a campy, ‘everything we’ve already seen before teen comedy.’ But while the sensationalism of Bruno may have topped the weekend, there’s no doubt this movie will crash and burn soon, as its social satire goes way too far for all the wrong reasons.  The real thing that should be learned from these box office results is the power of some of the holdovers, with Up, The Hangover, Night and the Museum and Star Trek still remaining in the top ten after more than five weeks in the Box Office showing what a good bet these movies are. What may be a bit disappointing is the quick drop for Public Enemies. With a star-studded cast of Hollywood heartthrobs and some brilliant acting, one would have liked to see it have a better standing against Bruno.

Gilliam Continues to Tilt at Windmills

By  in May 14th 2009   No Comment »
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Terry Gilliam Accepting An Award

Terry Gilliam Accepting An Award

Terry Gilliam is giving his failed epic The Man Who Killed Don Quixote another go nearly 10 years after giving up on the first attempt.  Gilliam has rewritten and updated the script along with Tony Grisoni, who also cowrote the original version.

Says Gilliam:

“I’m not so much a filmmaker as someone who gets possessed by an idea and it doesn’t leave me until I make the film,” Gilliam told Variety. “I commit myself to it so fully.”

Gilliam is also in talks with Johnny Depp, who had been set to star in the first ill-fated attempt as a modern-day ad exec who travels back in time and is mistaken for Sancho Panza by Don Quixote. Scheduling concerns are seen as the biggest obstacle to Depp’s participation this time.

Lost in La Mancha, which chronicles the original disaster of a production, still brings tears to my eyes whenever I see it.

Source: Variety.com

Lost in La Mancha

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The Complete Monty Python’s Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset

Scorsese Brings Ol’ Blue Eyes Back

By  in May 14th 2009   No Comment »
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That's right, I'm smokin', whaddya gonna do about it?

That's right, I'm smokin', whaddya gonna do about it?

According to Variety, Martin Scorsese is set to direct a biopic of the Chairman of the Board himself, Frank Sinatra.  Scorsese will also produce.

Per Variety:

Although no actor is attached to star in the film, Schulman said Leonardo DiCaprio is an obvious candidate because he has become Scorsese’s go-to actor over the past decade, having starred in the director’s past four features: “Gangs of New York,” “The Aviator,” “The Departed” and the upcoming “Shutter Island.” Because any music in the film will come from Sinatra’s recordings, it will not be necessary to cast an actor who is a proficient singer.

Apparently the process of acquiring the rights to the music and story was a royal pain and this has been in development for a couple of years now.

Source: Variety.com

Nothing But The Best

Live At the Meadowlands (with Bonus CD)

Frank Sinatra Mug Shot – Fine Art Print / Poster – 20.00 x 35.00

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