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2012 DOMINATES BOX NOVEMBER 13 - 15 With the power of a huge ad budget and millions of dollars in special effects, Roland Emmerich's
disaster feature 2012 easily won the weekend box office taking in
over $65 million bucks. That was $43 million more than runner up Robert Zemekis' remake of A Christmas Carol with Jim Carey as Scrooge
and other characters. Surprisingly George Clooney's The Men Who Stare At Goats came in third though it's take
was only $6.2 million. Michael Jackson's This is It fell substantially and finished fifth behind the critically
acclaimed Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire which took in $6 million in a little over 170 theatres! That's a whopping $35,000 per screen,
Better than 2012!
The Fourth Kind
$somehow captured $4.7 million to finish ahead of Rom com Couples Retreat Vince Vaughn's latest project. It continued
to hold its own capturing $4 million to pass the $100 million mark. Cameron Diaz's odd ball thriller
The Box declined significantly to barely make the top ten (with a gross of $3 million and change).
Meanwhile, micor budget thriller Paranormal Activity
increased it's theater count but lost revenue coming in 8th ahead of Law Abiding Citizen.
The other new comer, the very funny Pirate Radio took in less than
$2.8 million in limited release to finish just ahead of Steve Jonez's Where the Wild Things Are.
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Movie 2012 A CHRISTMAS CAROL THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE MICHAEL JACKSON'S THIS IS IT THE FOURTH KIND COUPLE'S RETREAT PARANORMAL ACTIVITY LAW ABIDING CITIZEN THE BOX [*
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Gross $65,000,000 $22,325,000 $6,200,000 $6,090,000 $5,100,000 $4,744,000 $4,253,000 $4,200,000 $3,932,000 $3,185,000 |
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Gross $65,000,000 $63,289,000 $23,376,000 $8,915,000 $68,211,000 $20,588,000 $102,133,000 $103,847,000 $67,326,000 $13,206,000 |
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WHAT'S NEW ON DVD STAR TREK (11/17/2009) Heroes star Zachary Quinto assumes the role of the Federation Starfleet lieutenant and Vulcan made famous in the original series by Leonard Nimoy (who also appears in an older incarnation of his original role), Spock, with Anton Yelchin stepping into the role of USS Enterprise navigator Pavel Chekov, Zoe Saldana assuming the role of communications officer Uhura, Simon Pegg keeping the ship in top shape as chief engineer Montgomery Scott (aka "Scotty"), and Eric Bana tormenting the benevolent space explorers as the villainous Nero. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY ANGELS & DEMONS (11/24/2009) Hanks stars as professor Robert Langdon, the most respected symbologist in the United States, who uses his knowledge in order to decode a symbol on the skin of a murder victim. The clues put him on the trail of an international conspiracy involving the Catholic Church. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY FUNNY PEOPLE (11/24/2009) Adam Sandler as George Simmons, a comic superstar who learns in the movie's opening scene that he suffers from a rare blood disorder that will likely kill him within a year. This news gives him the impulse to go back out and work on his standup, something he hasn't done in years thanks to the massive success of his movie career. At a club, he meets struggling standup Ira Wright (Seth Rogen), takes a shine to him, and hires the young man both to write jokes and to be his personal assistant. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY TERMINATOR SALVATION (12/01/2009) The fourth installment of the Terminator series follows an adult John Connor (played by Christian Bale) as he attempts to organize a human resistance force which could prove to be mankind's last true hope in the war against the machines. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN (12/01/2009) Ben Stiller returns as Larry Daley, the unfortunate night watchman who continues to encounter living and breathing museum exhibits. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY JULIE & JULIA (12/08/2009) Nora Ephron adapts Julie Powell's autobiographical book Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen with this Columbia Pictures production starring Amy Adams as an amateur chef who decides to cook every recipe in a cookbook from acclaimed celebrity chef Julia Child (played by Meryl Streep) in order to chronicle it in a blog over the course of a year. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY PUBLIC ENEMIES (12/08/2009) Based on author Bryan Burrough's ambitious tome Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43, director Michael Mann's sprawling historical crime drama follows the efforts of top FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale ) in capturing notorious bank robber John Dillinger. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE (12/08/2009) Adolescent wizard-in-training Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for another year of schooling and learns more about the dark past of the boy who grew up to become Lord Voldemort in this, the sixth installment of the film series that originated from the writings of author J.K. Rowling. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY THE HANGOVER (12/15/2009) A blowout Las Vegas bachelor party turns into a race against time when three hung-over groomsmen awaken after a night of drunken debauchery to find that the groom has gone missing, and they must attempt to get him to the alter before his wedding day. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY G-FORCE (12/15/2009) Two time Oscar-winning visual effects artist Hoyt Yeatman makes his feature directorial debut with this Jerry Bruckheimer-produced family film following a group of highly trained guinea pigs on their mission to prevent an evil billionaire from taking over the world. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY INGLORIOUS BASTERDS (12/15/2009) A group of hardened Nazi killers stalk their prey in Nazi-occupied France as a Jewish cinema owner plots to take down top-ranking SS officers during the official premiere of a high-profile German propaganda film. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY DISTRICT 9 (12/22/2009) Director Neill Blomkamp teams with producer Peter Jackson for this tale of extraterrestrial refugees stuck in contemporary South Africa. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY 500 DAYS OF SUMMER (12/22/2009) Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel star in director Marc Webb's wry, nonlinear romantic comedy about a man who falls head over heels for a woman who doesn't believe in love. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY |
HD MOVIE TRAILERS [Large HD format]
LOVE (COMING SOON) SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL (COMING SOON) EICHMANN (COMING SOON) THE MISSING PERSON (NOVEMBER 20, 2009) RED CLIFF (NOVEMBER 20, 2009) UP IN THE AIR (NOVEMBER 25, 2009) OLD DOGS (NOVEMBER 25, 2009) FANTASTIC MR. FOX (NOVEMBER 25, 2009) ME AND ORSEN WELLES (NOVEMBER 25, 2009) THE ROAD (NOVEMBER 25, 2009) BROTHERS (DECEMBER 4, 2009) TRANSYLMANIA (DECEMBER 4, 2009) SERIOUS MOONLIGHT (DECEMBER 4, 2010) EVERYBODY'S FINE (DECEMBER 4, 2009) ARMORED (DECEMBER 4, 2009) ACROSS THE HALL (DECEMBER 4, 2009) SERIOUS MOONLIGHT (DECEMBER 4, 2009) INVICTUS (DECEMBER 11, 2009) PRINCESS & THE FROG (DECEMBER 11, 2009) THE LOVELY BONES (DECEMBER 11, 2009) SLAMMIN' SALMON (DECEMBER 11, 2009) A SINGLE MAN (DECEMBER 11, 2009) CRAZY HEART (DECEMBER 16, 2009) RICKY (DECEMBER 16, 2009) AVATAR (DECEMBER 18, 2009) DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS? (DECEMBER 18, 2009) THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE (DECEMBER 18, 2009) SHERLOCK HOLMES (DECEMBER 25, 2009) IT'S COMPLICATED (DECEMBER 25, 2009) THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNARSSUS (DECEMBER 25, 2009) THE WHITE RIBBON (DECEMBER 30, 2009) BITCH SLAP (JANUARY 8, 2010) DAYBREAKERS (JANUARY 8, 2010) THE TOOTH FAIRY (JANUARY 22, 2010) THE BOOK OF ELI (JANUARY 15, 2010) FROM PARIS WITH LOVE (FEBRUARY 5, 2010) DEAR JOHN (FEBRUARY 5, 2010) THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF (FEBRUARY 12, 2010) THE WOLFMAN (FEBRUARY 12, 2010) PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTENING THIEF (FEBRUARY 12, 2010) SHUTTER ISLAND (FEBRUARY 19, 2010) TAKERS (FEBRUARY 25, 2010) THE CRAZIES (FEBRUARY 26, 2010) GREEN ZONE (MARCH 12, 2010) HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (MARCH 26, 2010) A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (APRIL 30, 2010) PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (MAY 28, 2010) TOY STORY 3 (JUNE 18, 2010) THE LAST AIRBENDER (JULY 2, 2010) DESPICABLE ME (JULY 9, 2010) SALT (JULY 23, 2010) |
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ACADEMY HONORS BACALL AND CORMAN The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored Roger Corman,
Gordon Willis, Lauren Bacall and John Calley at the inaugural Governors Awards banquet Saturday night in
Hollywood. When accepting her award, Bacall held the statuette over her head and quipped: "I can't believe it. A man at last!"
The closest Bacall came to winning an Oscar was her nomination for "The Mirror Has Two Faces" in 1996.
Corman was behind low-budget B-movies such as "The Cry Baby Killer", "It Conquered the World", "The Little Shop of Horrors" and "The Raven".
THOR GETS TEAM "Thor" director Kenneth Branagh has signed Stuart Townsend, Ray Stevenson,
and Tadanobu Asano to play Warrior's Three, a trio of Asgardian adventurers who fight alongside the Norse
god in the Marvel Entertainment drama. Anthony Hopkins, Tom Hiddleston and Natalie Portman also star in the film
written by Mark Protosevich and Zack Stentz. Paramount Pictures will release "Thor" on May 20, 2011. ROLAND EMMERICH DEVELOPING 2012 INTO TV SERIES Roland Emmerich's next disaster film 2012 won't hit theaters
for a couple weeks (November 13th), but a sequel has already been planned... but not the normal
kind of sequel. Entertainment Weekly has learned that Emmerich and executive producer Howard Gordon
(Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice) are also developing a television drama titled 2013, which would be
about what happens after the disaster. Gordon has already entered talks with ABC to develop the series,
and if it does happen, don't expect a lot of action to take place on the small screen, as this would be
a drama set in a post apocalyptic setting. Spoiler warning: Apparently some people on earth survive the
epic disaster of 2012, and the series would be about "a group of people who survived .... on a piece of
land that was spared or one that became an island in the process of the crust moving. TRANSFORMERS 3 ALL SET FOR 2011 Fans of Hasbro's 2-hour commercials about the Transformers can set their calendars to July 1, 2001 for the next installment.
Paramount announce that Michael Bay will once again helm the third part yet to be titled. Franchise stars Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox are also expected back.
With the announcement summer 2011 looks full with a fourth "Spider-Man" kicks off in May, followed by "Thor" and "The Hangover 2" that month.
June has the launch of "The Green Lantern" and a "Kung Fu Panda" sequel, while July features the second part of "Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows," "The First Avenger: Captain America," "Battleship" and "The Smurfs." Disney also plans to bow "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger
Tides" some time that summer.
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