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The cute-puppy movie proves it doesn’t need a holiday weekend to win: 1. Marley & Me: £4.4 million (NEW) 2. Watchmen: £1.4 million (2nd week; drops 57%) 3. Gran Torino: £.82 million (4th week; drops 33%) 4. Slumdog Millionaire: £.76 million 5. The Young Victoria: £.63 million (2nd week; drops 38%) (actual numbers, not estimates) … more…
Aliens rule, superheroes drool: 1. Race to Witch Mountain: $24.4 million 2. Watchmen: $17.8 million (2nd week; drops 68%) 3. The Last House on the Left: $14 million (NEW) 4. Taken: $6.6 million 5. Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail: $5.1 million (4th week; drops 40%) actual numbers, not estimates Ouch, but that drop for … more…
The preliminary weekend box office numbers are in, and it doesn’t look good for Watchmen: after a so-so opening last weekend of $55 million, the movie dropped like a stone this weekend, taking in only an estimated $18 million… a plunge of 67 percent, which is pretty much a death knell for a flick. I’ll … more…
It’s all capes and vigilantism on the other side of the Atlantic, too: 1. Watchmen: £3.2 million (NEW) 2. Slumdog Millionaire: £1.3 million 3. Gran Torino: £1.2 million (3rd week; down 10%) 4. The Young Victoria: £1 million (NEW) 5. Bolt: £.98 million (4th week; drops 25%) (actual numbers, not estimates) Overall business in the … more…
In the comments section of the Patrick Goldstein L.A. Times piece I linked to the other day, the one about the gnashing-of-teeth that the box-office performance of Watchmen has ignited, one commenter posted this to explain the appeal (or not) of the film: It comes down to this: Do you mind watching a blue schlong … more…
To the commenter who complained that this site has been all about Watchmen lately: tough noogies. I’m excited about it… and I think a lot of you are, too. So here’s the amazing opening credits of Zack Snyder’s film. Warner Bros. has been trying to quash this video, which may be the supreme act of … more…
Take a break from work: watch a DVD trailer… I’ll be curious to see how this stands up on its own, as a separate story. Because it’s so integrated into the story of Watchmen, and its impact is so tied up with the contrast and parallel with the main story, that I suspect it will … more…
Shocking news! Comic book movie dominates at the box office: 1. Watchmen: $55.2 million (NEW) 2. Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail: $8.5 million (3rd week; drops 47%) 3. Taken: $7.3 million 4. Slumdog Millionaire: $6.8 million 5. Paul Blart: Mall Cop: $4.1 million actual numbers, not estimates Watchmen is down a bit from the … more…
I write regularly about books and the publishing industry at the blog home of Cosimo Books, a boutique print-on-demand publisher here in NYC, and I’ve just posted something that FlickFilosopher readers may be interested in: “‘The New York Times’ finally acknowledges that graphic novels are books… sort of.” It all has to do with how … more…
Oh. My. God.
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