Sunday, July 31, 2011

Weekend Box Office (07/31/11) part II: Attack the Block scores in limited release, Captain America tumbles, Harry Potter 7.2 crosses $1 billion worldwide.

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Meanwhile, a little farther down the chart, the much-anticipated and raved-about by geek critics Attack the Block was released on just eigh...
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Weekend Box Office (07/31/11) part I: The Smurfs, Cowboys and Aliens do battle,tying with $36.2 million, while Stupid Crazy Love opens with $19.2 million.

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This weekend is an excellent example of why it's the numbers, not the rankings that matter when discussing box office.  And, more import...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Paranormal Activity 3 gets a surprisingly revealing teaser.

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Considering how completely enshrouded in mystery the second film is, it's a little surprising that Paramount basically ups and reveals t...

Brett Ratner's all-star caper Tower Heist gets a trailer.

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This one has been on the radar for awhile purely due to the huge cast.  The big trump card is of course Eddie Murphy returning to slightly h...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Right idea, wrong execution: Paramount makes the wrong scheduling moves for GI Joe: Retaliation and Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol.

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As expected, Paramount was the first to blink this afternoon, moving Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol away from its December 16th releas...
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She's a politician, not a movie star. Why the box office failure of Sarah Palin's The Undefeated doesn't mean a gosh-darn thing.

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However immature it may be, it can be fun to crow when your enemy fails.  Thus we've had two weeks of various liberal bloggers jumping f...

Battleship gets a teaser, feels very Armageddon-ish.

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I could go on and on about how this represents the pinnacle of what is wrong with the 'tentpole' portion of the film industry at the...
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The Muppets gets a final domestic poster...

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Thanks to Fandango to putting this up originally.  Not much to say, other than I'm glad that Statler and Waldorf are getting prominent s...

For the good of the industry: Why The Amazing Spider-Man must not be a smash...

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What was merely presumed is now official, as IMAX announced that The Amazing Spider-Man would be debuting in IMAX 3D along with its 2D and ...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Happily Never After: The sad (and sexist?) rush to cast some of our most promising young actresses as fairy tale princesses.

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There were a few interesting articles written over the last several months about the unusual amount of ass-kicking (or at least take-charge)...
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