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But Precious is precious indeed: 1. A Christmas Carol: $30 million (NEW) 2. Michael Jackson’s This Is It: $13.2 million (2nd week; drops 43%) 3. The Men Who Stare at Goats: $12.7 million (NEW) 4. The Fourth Kind: $12.2 million (NEW) 5. Paranormal Activity: $8.3 million (4th week in wide release; drops 50%) actual numbers, … more…
Robert Zemeckis appears to have given up making fantasies for grownups in favor of making theme-park attractions designed to do nothing more than shut the kiddies up for 90 minutes, if they can sit still for that long for the dazzling…
Clear skies ahead for the movie? The sun is shining upon it? What other tedious weather-related metaphor can I come up with? 1. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: $30.3 million (NEW) 2. The Informant!: $10.5 million (NEW) 3. Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself: $9.9 million (2nd week; drops 58%) 4. … more…
Avatar, James Cameron’s eagerly awaited science fiction flick (watch the trailer), doesn’t open till December 18, but tickets for the first opening-day midnight shows are already on sale for some locations: Online ticketers MovieTickets.com and Fandango on Friday began ringing up sales for “Avatar” performances at more than 75 AMC locations, most of them Imax … more…
The movie won’t open till just before Christmas, but already James Cameron’s Avatar is being hyped to levels that it seems impossible it could actually meet. We already know, for instance, that this is the movie Cameron has been actively working to drive cinematic technology forward in the last 15 years in order to make: … more…
Armed guinea pigs beat Harry Potter? 1. G-Force: $31.7 million (NEW) 2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: $29.5 million (2nd week; drops 62%) 3. The Ugly Truth: $27.6 million (NEW) 4. Orphan: $12.9 million (NEW) 5. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: $8.4 million (4th week; drops 52%) actual numbers, not estimates Oh, god, … more…
I’ve been telling my friends in New York City for months now: Don’t pay extra for any IMAX showings unless it’s at the AMC Lincoln Square, which is the only genuine IMAX screen in NYC. Even the one at the American Museum of Natural History — which shows only nature documentaries, not blockbuster flicks — … more…
Oh, you knew a joke about light-speed was in the offing: 1. Star Trek: $79.2 million (NEW) 2. X-Men Origins: Wolverine: $26.4 million (2nd week; drops 69%) 3. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: $10.3 million (2nd week; drops 33%) 4. Obsessed: $6.6 million (3rd week; drops 46%) 5. 17 Again: $4.2 million (4th week; drops 34%) … more…
People like cartoons: 1. Monsters vs. Aliens: $59.3 million (NEW) 2. The Haunting in Connecticut: $23 million (NEW) 3. Knowing: $14.7 million (2nd week; drops 40%) 4. I Love You, Man: $12.7 million (2nd week; drops 29%) 5. Duplicity: $7.7 million (2nd week; drops 45%) actual numbers, not estimates MvA enjoyed the third biggest opener … more…
Monsters vs. Aliens, opening today, will be the widest 3D release ever, on more than 2,000 screens (plus around another 2,000 non-3D screens). The plan was, though, for it to be even wider: Theater owners, slowed by funding delays that have hampered the adoption of 3-D technology, raced to complete upgrades for tomorrow’s opening of … more…
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