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Looks like even the big football game could not interrupt the mainlining of movies we’re all doing of late in an attempt to comfort and/or inebriate ourselves in these tough times: 1. Taken: $24.7 million (NEW) 2. Paul Blart: Mall Cop: $13.9 million (3rd week; drops 36%) 3. The Uninvited: $10.3 million (NEW) 4. Hotel … more…
I’m late with everything this week, but I can at least get in a quick look at last weekend’s box office before the next weekend starts: 1. Paul Blart: Mall Cop: $21.6 million (2nd week; drops 32%) 2. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans: $20.8 million (NEW) 3. Gran Torino: $16.2 million (3rd week in wide … more…
This was the sort of hopeless dread the news that Ron Howard was directing this left me with. I felt like Robert Stack in *Airplane!*: ‘It’s a goddamn waste of time — there’s no way he can land this plane!’
I remain in awe of Slumdog Millionaire: 1. Slumdog Millionaire: £2.6 million (2nd week; up 44%) 2. Seven Pounds: £1.6 million (NEW) 3. Role Models: £1.4 million (2nd week; drops 39%) 4. My Bloody Valentine 3-D: £1.34 million (NEW) 5. Bride Wars: £1.32 million (2nd week; drops 23%) (actual numbers, not estimates) Up 44 percent … more…
The nominees for the 81st annual Academy Awards were announced this morning — get the full list here. What are your thoughts on the Oscar nominations? I’m stunned that I’m not stunned by any of the nominations. Usually there’s at least one outlier that makes you go, What? Really? And the only nomination that comes … more…
Oh boy: Fanboys (opens in the U.S. on February 6; no U.K. release date has yet been announced) is about a buncha geeks who, a decade ago, made a pilgrimage to Skywalker Ranch to steal an early copy of The Phantom Menace. It’s sort of adorable, now, how much we all thought that movie wasn’t … more…
The Golden Globes award ceremony was last night. Did you watch it? Do you care who the winners are? Me? Not so much. I did not watch the ceremony — though I do make a point of watching the Oscars — and I don’t see a lot of surprises on that list of winners. My … more…
Just for fun, here’s a quick look of the top movies of 2008, from a box-office perspective: 1. The Dark Knight: $531,001,578 2. Iron Man: $318,313,199 3. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: $317,023,851 4. Hancock: $227,946,274 5. Wall-E: $223,806,889 6. Kung Fu Panda: $215,434,591 7. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: $177,016,810 8. … more…
We had another five-day weekend this past week, what with New Year’s Eve falling on a Wednesday, but the ranking remains the same whether we look at the five-day or the three-day weekend, so for sanity’s sake, I’m gonna stick with the three-day figures… that is, Friday, January 2, through Sunday, January 4: 1. Marley … more…
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Doh! I wanna say that this is, annoyingly, one of those trailers that gives away more than it should, except that it doesn’t matter, because pretty much from the opening moments of the movie, you know almost everything that’s going to happen anyway. Still, that’s no … more…
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