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We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, except you’re busy investigating the latest government/corporate coverup and that leaves little time for amusing yourself. 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 … more…
Geeks are ascendant over the pond, too: 1. Star Trek: £5.95 million (NEW) 2. Coraline: £2.4 million (NEW) 3. X-Men Origins: Wolverine: £2.2 million (2nd week; drops 67%) 4. Hannah Montana: The Movie: £1.3 million (2nd week; drops 36%) 5. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: £.79 million (2nd week; drops 19%) (actual numbers, not estimates) Trek … more…
Everyone loves a kick-ass mutant: 1. X-Men Origins: Wolverine: £6.7 million (NEW) 2. Hannah Montana: The Movie: £2 million (NEW) 3. State of Play: £.982 million (2nd week; drops 35%) 4. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: £.977 million (NEW) 5. 17 Again: £.53 (4th week; drops 48%) (actual numbers, not estimates) It’s the biggest opening of … more…
Maybe they’ll figure out a way to beam Logan onto the Enterprise next weekend: 1. X-Men Origins: Wolverine: $85.1 million (NEW) 2. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: $15.4 million (NEW) 3. Obsessed: $12.1 million (2nd week; drops 58%) 4. 17 Again: $6.4 million (3rd week; drops 45%) 5. Monsters vs. Aliens: $5.8 million actual numbers, not … more…
Nice. I dunno why British audiences seem to like grownup movies more than American audiences, except that I am clearly a biast Anglophile who thinks everything is better in England. What other explanation could there be: 1. State of Play: £1.5 million (NEW) 2. Monsters vs. Aliens: £1.08 million (4th week; drops 48%) 3. Fast … more…
They didn’t screen it for critics, it’s a complete piece of tripe, and it wins the weekend? Oh no they didn’t. Oh yes they did: 1. Obsessed: $28.6 million (NEW) 2. 17 Again: $11.5 million (2nd week; drops 51%) 3. Fighting: $11 million (NEW) 4. The Soloist: $9.7 million (NEW) 5. Earth: $8.8 million (NEW) … more…
The grownup movies are not doing well at the box office at the moment. Duplicity, State of Play, The Soloist: none have caught fire with audiences. A recent article in The Hollywood Reporter worries: Pricey, star-driven thrillers and dramas will struggle for profitability as the recession intensifies a trend toward youth-dominated openings. That’s the consensus … more…
Observe and Report, Uninvited, State of Play, Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel, Paul Blart Mall Cop, Outlander, Doctor Who, Shaun of the Dead, Encounters at the End of the World, Werner Herzog, Shifty, City Rats
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…
This is probably the best two-hour, 2009 version of that six-hour, 2003 British TV miniseries possible.
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