Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion $13,000,000 $48,000,000 2 2 16 Blocks $11,600,000 $11,600,000 1 3 Eight Below $10,200,000 $58,700,000 3 4 Ultraviolet $9,000,000 $9,000,000 1 5 Aquamarine $7,500,000 $7,500,000 1 6 The Pink Panther $7,000,000 $69,700,000 4 7 Dave Chappelle’s Block Party $6,500,000 $6,500,000 1 8 Date … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
Once again, CHUD.com is running a live commentary during the Academy Awards ceremony, bringing you results, snarky comments and a nominal amount of insight, until either the show finally ends, the server croaks or I simply pass out from boredom. Save us, Jon Stewart! Also, keep an eye out (or an ear… on) for sporadic … Continue reading
Will Rocky Balboa be Sylvester Stallone’s last chance? It’s easy to forget that Rocky was a celebrated film, and that Stallone earned both Best Actor and Best Screenplay Oscar nominations for it in 1977 (by the way, getting those two nods for the same film put Stallone in the same company as Charlie Chaplin and … Continue reading
Last night I had a chance to talk with Alexander Aja, the director The Hills Have Eyes – a movie I liked so much that you can look for my pull quotes on TV commercials right now. We’ll run the full interview – where he discusses what the MPAA cut, why rape scenes should be … Continue reading
We have exclusive new images for you from an interesting new film – Asia Argento’s adaptation of JT Leroy’s memoir The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things. It’s an interesting film because there is no JT Leroy – it’s a literary hoax; I guess some thing are deceitful above the heart after all. Even James … Continue reading
Well, it’s a new kind of coverage for this site at least. While Dave does his brilliant coverage of the show in the running commentary on the main page, the CHUD Podcast team (Justin, Steve, and I) are going to try a different method of doing our schtick. In segments of live Oscar coverage tossed … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
Brick is Rian Johnson’s debut as a director, and it’s an audacious one. Johnson, who also wrote the dense script, took a noir story and set it in a Southern California high school – and didn’t make a joke out of it. he makes the genre mash-up actually work, and he makes a really good … Continue reading
Fans of physical torment and freaky puppets, rejoice! I’m not sure just how worthy Saw really is of an ongoing movie franchise, but it’s hard to argue with a profit margin. And thus the official announcement of Saw III, already planning to slice thrice with a release on October 27th 2006, even though they’re still working on … Continue reading