Sure to give millions a relapse of childhood nightmares involving gloved brooms trying to drown Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney Pictures is reportedly developing a two-hour film based on their 10-minute Fantasia feature, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Nicolas Cage, apparently inspired by countless tripfests watching the film about dancing hippos and flying whales (or reading Goethe) is … Continue reading
Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 Norbit $33,740,000 $33,740,000 1 2 Hannibal Rising $13,350,000 $13,350,000 1 3 Because I Told You So $9,041,000 $25,626,000 2 4 The Messengers $7,200,000 $24,724,000 2 5 Night at the Museum $5,750,000 $232,146,000 8 6 Epic Movie $4,450,000 $35,474,000 3 7 Smokin’ Aces $3,793,000 $30,854,000 3 … Continue reading
With the recent rumor of the Dark Crystal prequel Power of the Dark Crystal being kaput and our mention of that in the Puppets Plan Attack story (read it here), some some investigative readers on the message boards called bullshit. I put in a call to the Jim Henson Co. to find out for sure. … Continue reading
Spies Like Us, John Landis’ 80’s cold war comedy starring Dan Akroyd, Chevy Chase and Donna Dixon’s bouncing mammaries, is getting a shot at becoming relevant in the 2000s.Warner Brothers and Imagine will be distributing/producing a remake and has tapped Eurotrip/Cat in the Hat writers Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg and Dave Mandel work out the … Continue reading
For as little information as there is officially coming out of the new Star Trek film, speculation and rumor-mongering have naturally become the order of the day. Is it a reboot or a revisit? Will it have the original characters or won’t it? Is JJ Abrams directing or isn’t he? Of course, Devin deftly answered … Continue reading
It was a rough weekend for fans of the puppet. Word came last week that the whole Dark Crystal prequel was shut down all Halo-style. Clone War/Samurai Jack fan-god Genndy Tartakovsky was directing, preproduction was churning out some goods and seemingly, out of nowhere, it smacked face-first into a wall of postponement with no plans … Continue reading
In 2005 Steven Spielberg deftly and depressingly gave us a microcosmic view of the Mossad (Israel’s intelligence agency) as it related to the events of Munich. Now it’s Sandler’s turn because, man! Is that Mossad ever funny!Actually, it’s more a comedy threesome, as Sandler is colluding with Judd Apatow and Robert "Triumph the Insult Comic … Continue reading
Box Office Mojo, bastion of all box office number references, has either been doing some deductive reasoning or has the inside track on George Lucas and friends.The site has posted a release date for the long-rumored, much skepticised Indiana Jones IV: May 22, 2008. Variety reported back on January first that with the completion of … Continue reading
Fangoria was always one of two dirty magazines for me as a kid. The first was Cosmo – you know, before I discovered it wasn’t filled with naked ladies, but just the cleave-heavy one on the front. Fangoria, on the other hand, never blueballed. I knew if I saw some dude with an axe in … Continue reading
Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 The Messenger $14,500,000 $14,500,000 1 2 Because I Told You So $13,022,000 $13,022,000 1 3 Epic Movie $8,225,000 $29,369,000 2 4 Night at the Museum $6,750,000 $225,365,000 7 5 Smokin’ Aces $6,324,000 $24,955,000 2 6 Stomp the Yard $4,200,000 $56,001,000 4 7 Dreamgirls $4,048,000 $92,795,000 … Continue reading