North American box office: Zac Efron is your god

The tweens have spoken, again: 1. 17 Again: $23.7 million (NEW) 2. State of Play: $14 million (NEW) 3. Hannah Montana: The Movie: $13.4 million (2nd week; drops 59%) 4. Monsters vs. Aliens: $13.2 million (4th week; drops 39%) 5. Fast & Furious: $11.8 million (3rd week; drops 57%) actual numbers, not estimates I said … more…

trailer break: ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I thought, Wasn’t there a Hannah Montana movie last year? There was, and even though it was just a concert movie, it made 31-freakin’-million dollars over its opening weekend. And it was in only 683 theaters, which figures to a per-screen average of a phenomenal $45,561. Which … more…

Bolt (review)

I figured I was probably overthinking this, and should trust that it would all make sense, but I couldn’t help it. I knew that Bolt was about a dog who believes he has superpowers and actually fights crime alongside his beloved person, but he’s wrong because he’s just the canine star of a hit TV action show. I thought, How can a dog look at a green screen and see something that’s not there?

5 reasons I’d like to be psyched for ‘Bolt’

I look out across the seared moviescape that is November — bereft of a Harry Potter movie to be psyched for — and I’m finding it hard to find 5 movies I’m genuinely excited about. I found 3 to talk about last week, but I’m having to fake it a bit for these last 2. … more…