Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 300 $31,185,000 $127,473,000 2 2 Wild Hogs $18,825,000 $103,993,000 3 3 Premonition $18,000,000 $18,000,000 1 4 Dead Silence $7,771,000 $7,771,000 1 5 I Think I Love My Wife $5,715,000 $5,715,000 1 6 Bridge to Terabithia $5,141,000 $74,917,000 5 7 Ghost Rider $4,000,000 $110,202,000 5 8 … Continue reading
Every year there’s the big hit TV show that introduces/reintroduces actors to the scene. Most of the time, they go opposite Johnny Storm (flame out!) or try to leverage their newly acquired small screen fame to impotently launch/relaunch a film career (Laura Flynn Boyle, David Carusso, Debra Messing). Grey’s Anatomy has been no exception- Patrick … Continue reading
After basking in the glow of The Queen‘s success, two-time best director nominee Stephen Frears is in talks to move on to his next filmic project, The Burial.Based on a New Yorker piece written by A Civil Action author Jonathan Harr (which was subsequently made into cinematic Lunesta), the Rain Maker story focuses on how … Continue reading
Expanding on his big fat acting portfolio, Steve Buscemi has been sharpening the screenplay/directorial skills on the side. His latest, Interview, just had U.S. rights picked up by Sony Classics. Interview debuted at Sundance this year and is based on the 2003 Dutch film titled, well, Interview, where a journalist begrudgingly gets an assignment to … Continue reading
Remember when Martin Lawrence used to do edgy movies? Neither do I. I do, however, faintly recall Lawrence as an edgy comedian (and by edgy, I guess I mean unafraid of scatology and f-bombing). In the end, that’s his choice and I can’t slight a guy for getting soft in his old age. But I … Continue reading
Since its publication in 1993, the book The Giver has garnered heaping shovels full of praise, despite a crappy cover. The futuristic utopian tale even garnered a Newberry Medal, which blurs the fact quite a few adults have hopped aboard its fanwagon thanks to big words like "utopia".Sadly, I missed the fanwagon when I picked … Continue reading
So Terminator 3 was kind of a ho-hum experience. The explodey chase-fest had action and peril, but was just missing soul. U-571 was a round of old fashioned submarine paint by numbers but still delivered a satisfyingly good time. Yeah, I’m segueing into likeable Jonatan Mostow, the guy with only two major releases this decade … Continue reading
Monster/man-eating animal movies will usually plant my butt in a seat without question. Except Sci-Fi monster/large animal movies – those are terrible. Still, the late 70s, in the frenzied attempt to piggy-back the Jaws phenomenon, rolled out some choice and campy selections with Tentacles, Orca, Empire of the Ants and of course, Piranha.Roughly thirty years … Continue reading
So the rumors have been flying about Reese Witherspoon opting out of the next Joe Carnahan film, a remake of the 1965 missing child/"but was she even real?" film Bunny Lake is Missing. Some sources said the split came by way of an uncompleted script. Others said it was simply fallout from her recent divorce. … Continue reading
ShoWest, the annual theater exhibition expo, is in full swing in swingin’ Vegas and I’m wondering why I didn’t stop by on my way back from California to crash the party. As a consolation prize, I did get a great picture of the recently hyped road Zzyzx going 85 M.P.H. on Northbound I-15. But so … Continue reading