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The final figures for 2008 are finally available, so here’s a quick look of the top movies of 2008, from a box-office perspective, in the U.K.: 1. Mamma Mia!: £69.17 million 2. Quantum of Solace: £51.02 million 3. The Dark Knight: £48.69 million 4. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: £40.27 million … more…
Big big numbers in the U.K. this past weekend, just like in the U.S.: 1. Bolt: £5.5 million (NEW) 2. Slumdog Millionaire: £1.82 million 3. He’s Just Not That Into You: £1.78 million (2nd week; drops 7%) 4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: £1.77 million (2nd week; drops 20%) 5. Hotel for Dogs: £1.5 … more…
Man, it’s been a bitch this week trying to catch up with everything, because I’m still sick — still weak from the food poisoning, and now I’ve got a bad head cold! unbelievable — and would rather be sleeping or at least just lying on the couch watching some comfort Doctor Who. Winter ills did … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I saw this at the Tribeca Film Festival last year — in 2D, and it was titled simply Terra then — and I quite liked it. It flips some conventions of cinematic science fiction around: the humans are the aliens, for one, which is a refreshing change. … more…
First came the news of the new book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Now we learn, via the Guardian, of a new movie: Pride and Predator: Will Clark, best known for his award-winning gothic comedy short The Amazing Trousers, will direct the film, which is being produced by Rocket partners Steve Hamilton Shaw and David … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Again with the Hollywood and the hating females. Again with the women ruining perfect normal guys with their emotions and their hotness and their making the perfectly normal guys fall in love and do all sorts of things that perfectly normal guys shouldn’t do, like feel things. … more…
Two high school football players skip football camp for cheerleading camp. “2 girls. 300 guys. You do the math.” Okay, I’m doing the math on Fired Up! (opens in the U.S. on February 20 and in the U.K. on May 22). Clearly we are meant to infer — infer’s not too hard a word for … more…
More proof that Hollywood hates women: Ugh. Is there some new Photoshop filter called Skeevify that they used on Matthew McConaughey, or has he always been this vile and I’ve finally reached a tipping point in (just barely) tolerating it? Ghosts of Girlfriends Past? Really? Really: Celebrity photographer Connor Mead loves freedom, fun and women… … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… A “Western” with motorcycles and knife-throwing? Ho-kay. Maybe it doesn’t matter that the trailer doesn’t reveal much about the story, not when it does tell us that there’s motorcycles and knife-throwing, but here’s the scoop on the film (from a press release from the British publicist): Set … more…
An ad for an exhibit of movie sets, near the London Eye: Promoting the tube as a place to shoot movies, featuring lines of dialogue from a movie, and the location in the tube where it was shot: (Great campaign. Wish I’d seen more of these.) Not a movie, but a planetarium show. The important … more…
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