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Impossible things: 1. Alice in Wonderland: $116.1 million (NEW) 2. Brooklyn’s Finest: $13.4 million (NEW) 3. Shutter Island: $13.2 million (3rd week; drops 42%) 4. Cop Out: $9.3 million (2nd week; drops 49%) 5. Avatar: $8.1 million actual numbers, not estimates This was the biggest March weekend ever, led by Alice, the biggest March opener … more…
We should thank Tim Burton for his *Alice in Wonderland,* for it does one thing extraordinarily well: It reminds us that James Cameron really did achieve something new and astonishing with *Avatar.*
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… So, I’ve generally been unable to post trailers for Disney movies because they always have embedding disabled (I’ve written before about the mysteriousness of studios refusing to let Web site owners give them free advertising.) Which is why I hadn’t posted a trailer yet for Alice in … more…
Gilliam gamboling freely through the public subconscious just doesn’t work, this time, on any level other than a meta one.
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but… prezzies! toys! candy canes! snowball fights! big holiday dinner! But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see Sherlock Holmes this weekend?” … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I can’t help it: the title Me and Orson Welles makes me think of that scene in Ed Wood when Johnny Depp’s Wood corners Vincent D’Onofrio’s Welles and they talk about movies. Wow: Richard Linklater made a movie with Zac Efron. I would have thought that if … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Well. I was about to say that this looks like nothing I’ve ever seen before, except that I do see shades of Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen in the snippets here. And maybe some stuff that Tim Burton has dreamed up… a bit of Edward … more…
I’m stoked for my very early screening this week of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (opens in the U.K. on October 16, and in the U.S. on December 25), Terry Gilliam’s new movie and Heath Ledger’s last. I’m avoiding reading the reviews from Cannes, but I am intrigued to see how Gilliam manages to work … more…
If you remember floppies, then you probably remember “Don’t Copy That Floppy” and “anti-piracy hero MC Double Def DP.” Yes, kiddies, that was the kind of condescension your elders had to put up with in the wild pioneer days of the digital age, back in the early 90s. But you’re in for a new taste … more…
Who has time to go to the movies, darling, when there’s all those fashion shows to attend and fabulous celebrities to stalk? But did you know that DVDs are for more than porn? Ich had no idea. So instead of the disgusting multiplex, where it’s all proles and unfabulous people anyway, you can stay in … more…
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