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The Half-Blood Prince opens huge, but not quite as huge as it could have: 1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: $77.8 million (NEW) 2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: $17.6 million (3rd week; drops 36%) 3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: $13.7 million (4th week; drops 44%) 4. Bruno: $8.32 million (2nd week; … more…
And Michael Bay buys another fourteen mansions in the Caribbean: 1. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: $109 million (NEW) 2. The Proposal: $18.6 million (2nd week; drops 45%) 3. The Hangover: $17 million (4th week; drops 36%) 4. Up: $13 million 5. My Sister’s Keeper: $12.4 million (NEW) actual numbers, not estimates That $109 million … more…
It’s Red Nose Day today! And I’ve got lots of videos today in support of Comic Relief. So it seems that two of the funniest of Britain’s funny ladies — Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders — will be performing their last sketch ever on the Comic Relief show on the BBC tonight (which is now … more…
The weekend estimates are in, and it looks as if the chatter around Watchmen’s performance is going to go negative. With a weekend take of $55.7 million (that may change slightly when the final numbers come in later), the handwringing and questioning analysis and careful couching has already begun. “‘Watchmen’ falls short of expected box … more…
Just an FYI for those of you joining our story already in progress: the reason I don’t get to the British box office till so late in the week is because the U.K. number don’t become publicly available till Wednesday, unlike the North America numbers, of which estimates come out on Sunday and actuals on … more…
Predicting box office numbers has not been something I’ve been keen to get into here, but I think this is a unique case. Whatever number we see for Watchmen come next Monday, it’s going to get spun. If the movie does phenomenally well — say, over $125 million — it’ll be seen as a vindication … more…
Kim Voynar, one of the smartest women writing about movies at the moment, wonders whether women will want to see Watchmen. Much of what she writes, in her extended musings on movie violence, context, and whether female moviegoers approach cinematic violence (and cinematic superheroes) on a different level than male moviegoers do, sounds very much … more…
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…
A group of fans in Buenos Aires have started an online petition to convince Warner Bros. to retire the character of the Joker from film, in honor of the late Heath Ledger. At the petition site, Heath, The Ultimate Joker, the organizers explain themselves: Can you imagine the super human efforts film companies would have … more…
Here are the most quotable movie lines of the year 2008. I didn’t mean to hold these till the movie year was over — it just sort of happened that way. I’ll return to posting quotes as I hear them for 2009. No ranking — quotes are posted in reverse order of movie release dates, … more…
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