Title Ew,Gross! Per Screen Totalitarian 1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix $77,410,000 $18,065 $140,017,000 2 Transformers $36,000,000 (-48.9%) $8,888 $222,990,000 3 Ratatouille $18,019,000 (-37.9%) $4,970 $143,004,000 4 Live Free or Die Hard $10,875,000 (-38.7%) $3,397 $102,918,000 5 License to Wed $7,440,000 (-28.6%) $2,740 $30,508,000 6 1408 $5,010,000 (-29.3%) $2,271 $62,202,000 7 Evan … Continue reading
Damn me, but I still get excited at the prospect of more X-Files material, whether it be film or show or homosexual fanfic. Speaking of, Home was loosely based on my childhood. David Duchovny has been talking to folks about the possibility of the film again, this time claiming that a script is going to … Continue reading
Managing one’s expectations for Robert Zemeckis’s performance capture rendition of Beowulf is easy: just recall the front-to-back awfulness of The Polar Express! That film was Zemeckis at his autopilot worst. Though a technical marvel and occasionally thrilling amusement park ride if viewed in IMAX 3-D (pity the suckers who suffered through it in 2-D), The … Continue reading
Had the below clip of Cate Blanchett inhabiting the body of a twenty-four-year-old Bob Dylan following the troubadour’s electric transgression at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival appeared before I began categorizing the year’s remaining films, I would’ve bumped Todd Haynes’s I’m Not There up to "Sure Thing" status. Because something is happening here, and I … Continue reading
— Yesterday, I bemoaned Walden‘s continued onslaught of YA fiction adaptations. For some reason, they’re not listening, and that may be well and good. Walden has just added Tim Robbins as a secretive inventor in addition to Martin Landeau, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Harry Treadway to their upcoming adaptation of City of Ember. The title sounds … Continue reading
There’s no question whether there will be a sequel to Transformers; the real query is what it will be about*. If the guy who does the voice of Bumblebee (ie, delivers one line in the film) is right, the plot of the sequel is being set up in a special feature on the Transformers DVD … Continue reading
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know you’re all burned out on viral marketing, and thus this is merely an official dispatch. The 1-18-08 site has added a third, brand new photo as seen above, and apparently in the midst of all this Chtulu/Voltron/Parasite/MechaGodzilla/Jet Jaguar/? craziness, somebody’s barbeque got out of control. Or the Broadway musical version … Continue reading
There’s a rumor going around about Pixar’s upcoming slate – could the animation studio be putting out two sequels in a row? According to a Pixar blog*, Cars 2 will be released the year after Toy Story 3. This could possibly push John Carter of Mars back another year, to 2012. According to the site, … Continue reading
Now that Michael Moore has gone after the nation’s health with his excellent (and bi-partisanally acclaimed) Sicko, he’s going after our nation’s mental health: his next film might be about crazy gay-hating Christians. “I think it’s a very ripe subject for someone like me to make a movie about. Simply because we are not there … Continue reading