Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Batman Begins $26,700,000 $121,600,000 2 2 Bewitched $20,200,000 $20,200,000 1 3 Mr. and Mrs. Smith $16,700,000 $125,400,000 3 4 Herbie: Fully Loaded $12,700,000 $17,800,000 1 5 Land of the Dead $10,200,000 $10,200,000 1 6 Madagascar $7,300,000 $160,000,000 5 7 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the … Continue reading
Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production company has been frantically whipping the horses on the remake wagon since their first major financial successes (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror), and The Hitcher is next on the money trail. The original 1986 flick, which made C. Thomas Howell the household name it is today, revolved around a man … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: UniversalMSRP: $49.98 RATED: UnratedRUNNING TIME: 376 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Jack• Shit• Zilch• Nada Quantum Leap was the end of a long line of similar shows. Sharing the same basic premise of The A-Team or The Incredible Hulk, these were shows that the viewer never needed to know what had happened … Continue reading
A quick note. I’d love to start running RON pin-ups from reader/artists, so if you have a character you like, send me a JPG no wider than 400 pixels at nick@chud.com. We’ll run them. To help fill in the blanks a little, we’re going to be running profiles right from the files of Lt. Mike … Continue reading
This afternoon I had the pleasure of talking with Nick Frost, star of Spaced and Shaun of the Dead, about his new DVD Danger 50,000 Volts, which hits stores in the US on Tuesday (order it from CHUD.com here). It’s a funny and interesting program where Frost shows you how to get out of various life-threatening scenarios, … Continue reading
Spike Lee’s next film, The Inside Man, not only has a title ripe for porn but also a cast ripe for porn – Great Actor Porn. Previously Denzel Washington, Jodi Foster and Willem Dafoe have been announced for this film about a cop vs a clever bank robber stuck in a hostage situation. Now more actors … Continue reading
We normally don’t link to stuff like this, but Hustle & Flow kicked my ass when I saw it a couple of weeks back and I want to try to get it into the CHUD reader consciousness. It’s the story of a small time pimp and weed dealer who takes one last shot at redemption … Continue reading
Roving ex-army cop Jack Reacher (how come tough guys are never named Stanley or Purvis?) has settled at Paramount, who snapped up the rights to his latest adventure. The studio has grabbed Lee Child’s latest Reacher novel One Shot, which finds the long-running thriller series’ reticent hard-hitting hero investigating a former Gulf War sniper accused … Continue reading
Wednesday I attended the massive War of the Worlds press junket in New York City. In the days leading up to the release of the film we’re going to be kicking our WOTW coverage into overdrive with interviews, a massive tag team review, the final days of our Win a WOTW PC Contest and even … Continue reading
All images copyright Nick Nunziata & Lewis Cox III. Do not reprint without permission. * Note: I’m going to include the previous strip above the current one as to preserve some semblance of continuity in case you’d missed or forgotten the last strip. The CHUD.com Superstore has just opened up and there are TONS of … Continue reading