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Box Office Guru Wrapup: Transformers, Ice Age 3 Tie for 1stThe Independence Day holiday frame saw a rare tie for first place as Paramount and Fox both reported a $42.5M estimate for the Friday-to-Sunday span for their summer sequels Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, respectively. Final grosses to be reported on Monday will determine the true box office champ. Universal's gangster drama Public Enemies opened in third with strong results as studios provided many different moviegoing options which ticket buyers were excited to see. |
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Box Office Guru Wrapup: Transformers and Ice Age Tie for Top SpotThe Independence Day holiday frame saw a rare tie for first place as Paramount and Fox both reported a $42.5M estimate for the Friday-to-Sunday span for their summer sequels Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, respectively. Final grosses to be reported on Monday will determine the true box office champ. Universal's gangster drama Public Enemies opened in third with strong results as studios provided many different moviegoing options which ticket buyers were excited to see. The robots of Transformers dropped a steep 61% in the second weekend giving Paramount an eye-popping $293.5M total after just 12 days. That puts Michael Bay's tentpole pic at number 30 on the all-time domestic blockbusters list tied with 1999's The Sixth Sense. Ticket prices, of course, were much lower a decade ago when Haley Joel Osment was seeing dead people. Fallen also leaped past Pixar's Up to become this year's largest grosser and will top the $300M mark on Monday or Tuesday. |
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Weekly Ketchup: Universal Takes on AsteroidsThis Week's Ketchup features one of the most bizarre video game adaptation concepts ever announced (Asteroids?), news about Predators and Resident Evil 4, new projects for Seth Rogen and Julianne Moore, a couple of movies based upon interesting sounding books and we take you into the Independence Day weekend with one of the worst ideas for a remake ever, ever, ever announced. #1 UNIVERSAL PICTURES HITS THE THRUST BUTTON FOR ASTEROIDS Sometimes, things are called classic because they are just plain old, but rarely, the title is truly earned. Citizen Kane and Casablanca are classic movies, for example, while I Accuse My Parents is just plain old. |
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Sam Jackson Talks Iron Man 2Ready to see Nick Fury establish himself as a big-screen action hero? According to Samuel L. Jackson, you'll have to wait a bit longer -- in "Iron Man 2," his character is "still just kind of a talker." |
MTV |
Brandon Routh Talks Superman's FutureWhatever happens next for the "Superman" franchise, it appears that Brandon Routh won't be wearing that big "S" and cape -- in a new interview, he says his contract with Warner Bros. has expired. |
Moviehole |
M. Night Shyamalan Talks The Last AirbenderCurious about M. Night Shyamalan's plans for his "The Last Airbender" trilogy? You'll want to read up on the latest comments from the writer/director, as well as producer Frank Marshall. |
Latino Review |
Michael Lehmann Says No Heathers Sequel PlannedDespite what you may have heard from Winona Ryder, director Michael Lehmann wants you to know there is no "Heathers" sequel in the pipeline. |
Movieline |
Ready for a View-Master Movie?According to comments recently made by Brad Caleb Kane ("Fringe"), we can add the View-Master to the list of toys soon to receive the film adaptation treatment. |
ComingSoon.net |
Blood: The Last Vampire -- Exclusive Concept Art and Artist ProfileWe've been fans of up-and-coming artist Alexandre Tuis for a while, so we jumped at the chance to speak with him about his work and share exclusive concept art from his latest project, the live-action manga adaptation Blood: The Last Vampire, which is out already in the UK and debuts stateside July 10. Tuis also graciously shared additional original art from his personal collection of pop culture-based work (including his rendering of Doug Jones as Frankenstein, created in honor of Guillermo del Toro's potential film adaptation) and concept art from films such as Dragonball: Evolution and Xavier Gens' horror film, Frontiere(s). We spoke with Tuis via email about his art, his influences, and his career aspirations. Read more inside. |
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Box Office Guru Preview: Dinosaurs and Gangsters Spark FireworksHollywood is hoping to score two $40M+ grossers over the Independence Day holiday frame for the first time ever. With Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen still raking in large numbers, two new releases opened on Wednesday to get a head start on the long weekend led by the animated sequel Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaur which will give the robots a challenge for the number one spot. Looking to debut firmly in the number three spot is the period gangster flick Public Enemies starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale which will give mature adults something to rally behind. |
Rotten Tomatoes |
The Friday Harvest: Ice Age 3, Gamer, Daybreakers, and more! |
Rotten Tomatoes |
Total Recall: Johnny Depp's Best MoviesHe once seemed destined for nothing better or worse than simple teen idolhood, but since escaping from 21 Jump Street in 1990, Johnny Depp has proven himself to be a brave (and mostly pretty astute) chooser of scripts, building an impressive filmography that encompasses everything from black-and-white arthouse fare (Dead Man) to blockbuster Disney trilogies (Pirates of the Caribbean). This weekend, he'll gun his way into theaters as John Dillinger in Michael Mann's Public Enemies, so we thought now would be a fine time to devote an installment of Total Recall to counting down the 10 best-reviewed releases of Depp's 25-year film career. As always, we let the Tomatometer do the heavy lifting, arranging our list according to the reviews written by the film critics we all know and love. With a lifetime Tomatometer rating of 63 percent -- not to mention a tendency to throw himself into some pretty far-flung roles -- there are bound to be some hotly contested omissions, but that's just part of what makes these things interesting, right? |
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Will The Game Play The A-Team's B.A. Baracus?We've read Ice Cube and Common's names being floated in connection with the role of B.A. Baracus in the upcoming "The A-Team" adaptation -- now, courtesy of Blackfilm, comes word that The Game is being "heavily considered" for the part. |
BlackFilm.com |
Nimrod Antal Confirmed for PredatorsConfirming an earlier scoop by Latino Review, Ain't It Cool News is reporting that Nimrod Antal will direct the new "Predator" project. |
Ain't It Cool News |
Harrison Ford More Than Doubles Angelina Jolie's 2008 EarningsIs Hollywood sexist? That's up for debate -- but those who say it is have some new ammo, thanks to the news that last year's top-earning actor, Harrison Ford, earned more than two and a half times the top-earning actress, Angelina Jolie. |
Slashfilm |
More Resident Evil Scheduled for 2010Ready for another "Resident Evil" movie? Shock Till You Drop has obtained confirmation that a fourth installment in the series will be arriving in late 2010. |
ShockTillYouDrop.com |
The Runaways Set Photos PostedKristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning are filming "The Runaways," and the first totally '80s set photos from the biopic have been posted courtesy of Just Jared. |
JustJared |
Uni Plots Asteroids Film AdaptationWhich do you find harder to believe: that a movie based on the "Asteroids" arcade game is in development, or that Universal won a four-studio bidding war to land the rights to the property? |
Hollywood Reporter |
The Green Hornet Bumped Two WeeksIn a move attributed to a need to make room for another of the studio's releases, Columbia has bumped "The Green Hornet" back two weeks, to June 25, 2010. |
Superhero Hype |
RoboGeisha: 2009's Most Insane Trailer?It's lucky the Academy Awards have expanded their Best Picture Nominee category to 10 because here comes next year's first entry. RoboGeisha, Noboru Iguchi's delicate meditation on feminism in Japan, is your typical awards-baiting costume melodrama: Geisha assassins who kill adversaries with deadly swords and chainsaws sprouting from their mouths, transform into tanks, have machine-gun busts, katana-sword hips and... use shrimp tempura daggers to take out the eyes of villains. And that's just the half of it -- we can't quite describe certain other elements here, so be warned: this isn't PG-13 material. On a side note, who is this gravelly genius doing the voice-over -- and can he be the new Don LaFontaine? |
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