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Speed Racer Can’t Outrun Iron Man’s Repulsors
Take this for what you will: The Wachowski Brothers’ “Speed Racer’, their first movie since the third installment of their “Matrix” trilogy in 2003, couldn’t handle Iron Man’s repulsor rays, opening at #2 with an approximate $20 million take, about the same amount as the Ashton Kutcher-Cameron Diaz romantic comedy “What Happens in Vegas”. Meanwhile, [...]
May 11th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreIron Man Scores $201 million in First Week
To no one’s surprise, Jon Favreau’s “Iron Man” was #1 at the box office over the weekend, making it a bona fide blockbuster hit. Not only did ol’ shellhead pull in an astounding $104 mil in the U.S. box office, but the film also raked in an equally impressive $96.7 million in overseas receipts, for [...]
May 4th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreTina Fey is Harold and Kumar’s Baby Mama
To no one’s surprise, least of all me, who called it on Friday, the Tina Fey comedy “Baby Mama” took the #1 spot at the U.S. box office in its first weekend. The movie, featuring a team-up of former SNL Weekend Update co-anchors Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, took in $18 million in its first [...]
April 27th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreJet Li and Jackie Chan Survives Sarah Marshall
It was close, but as we predicted, the combination of Jet Li and Jackie Chan’s first-ever onscreen collaboration in “The Forbidden Kingdom” was just strong enough to survive a furious challenge from the Judd Apatow-produced comedy “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” to take #1 at the box office over the weekend. The Disney martial arts movie took [...]
April 20th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreProm Night Remake Slices and Dices the Box Office
I’m not surprised that “Prom Night” took the #1 spot at the box office over the weekend in its debut, but color he shock and awed that it took in a whopping $22.7 million. Even more surprising is just how badly the teen horror remake crushed Keanu Reeves’ cop thriller “Street Kings”, which despite its [...]
April 13th, 2008 | Nix | 1 comment | Read MoreDisney and Pixar Announces Upcoming Movies to 2012
Speaking of Disney, the mega studio has just issued a press release on its slate of animated movies that it plans to release for public consumption from now to 2012. In 2008, keep an eye out for “Wall-E”, “Bolt”, and “Tinker Bell”; 2009 brings “Up”, “Toy Story in 3-D”, “The Princess and the Frog”, and [...]
April 8th, 2008 | Nix | 3 comments | Read More21 Takes 23 Million at the Box Office
Who says kids can’t appreciate a good heist film nowadays? Okay, so maybe “21″ isn’t really a heist film, more like a con film with, er, math — or something like that. What matters is that the blackjack movie, based on a true story (except the real hero was Asian, but has since been Caucasianized [...]
March 30th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreSteve Brill to Fanboys Fanboys: Up Yours, Biotch!
You know, I don’t even plan on seeing “Fanboys” (I’m not that big a Star Wars fan, even though I love sci-fi, but Star Wars just doesn’t do it for me), but man, this whole hullabaloo about what’s going on with the Weinsteins and the movie “Fanboys” (and their fanboys) — more details about the [...]
March 26th, 2008 | Nix | 1 comment | Read More5 Reasons to Love Uwe Boll (Instead of Hating Him with a Passion)
Okay, so he’s the maker of bad, bad, really bad movies based on videogames. How one man can love videogames so much (the dude is, like, in his ’40s!) to make so many movies based on videogames is a mystery I don’t think anyone can really answer, and I doubt if the man himself knows. [...]
March 25th, 2008 | Nix | 10 comments | Read MoreDr. Seuss and Tyler Perry Tops at Box Office
You can’t keep a good CGI elephant down. For the second straight week, the Jim Carrey-voiced “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who” was tops at the U.S. box office, taking in $25 million in its second week of release, for a total of $86 million in just two weeks. And proving that Tyler Perry’s unfathomable [...]
March 23rd, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreEnglish Patient Director Anthony Minghella Dead at 54
Anthony Minghella only had eight films to his credit in an eighteen year career, but he sure made the most of it. Counting among his credits were Oscar winners “The English Patient” and “Cold Mountain”. In 2008 alone, Minghella had three films in the pipe — one completed, one in production, and a third announced. [...]
March 18th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreJim Carrey and Horton Hears Box Office Bucks
Who? Horton, that’s who. The Jim Carrey CGI-animated movie “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who” took the box office over the weekend with $45 million. Not bad for a movie budgeted at $85 million, and produced by an animation company not called “Pixar”. I guess blatant (though funny) cross-promotions with American Idol didn’t hurt, either. [...]
March 16th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More10,000 B.C. Stomps the Box Office
The reviews weren’t kind (as expected), but Roland Emmerich’s “10,000 B.C.” nonetheless ruled at the box office in its opening weekend, taking in $35.7 million at the U.S. box office, which is about on par with industry expectations. The (not really) historical epic also opened worldwide in 20 countries, where it landed at the #1 [...]
March 9th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreSemi-Pro Bricks at the Box Office
Will Ferrell’s still got the magic touch — sort of. Yes, his basketball comedy “Semi-Pro” took first place in its opening debut at the box office. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it only earned a disappointing $15 million. What’s so bad about that? Because Ferrell’s previous two comedies, “Talledega Nights” and [...]
March 2nd, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More2008 Oscars Lowest Rated Oscars … EVER
It’s official: most of America kinda don’t really give a friggin’ damn about the Oscars. Then again, when you give a statuette to “The Golden Compass” for best special effects over “Transformers”, you sorta deserve it, don’t you? According to Nielsens, the 2008 Oscars was the lowest rated Oscars telecast in Oscars history, even beating [...]
February 26th, 2008 | Nix | 1 comment | Read MoreVantage Point Leads Box Office
American moviegoers love it when you shoot a sitting President and then put a conspiracy behind it, thus the Dennis Quaid political actioner “Vantage Point” took first place at the box office with a healthy $24 million, not bad a for movie that didn’t really open with any real buzz. The weekend’s only other opening [...]
February 24th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreOscar Countdown: Who Will Win? Who Cares? You Decide. (Winners Added)
The 80th Annual (aka the 2008) Oscars will be televised live later tonight on ABC, 5:00 PT/8:00 ET, and unless you have something better to do, you’ll probably end up watching it on and off. Personally, I got a Rockets game to keep me occupied, so I’ll probably tune in when the whole thing is [...]
February 24th, 2008 | Nix | 1 comment | Read MoreHD-DVD Throws in the Towel, Blu-Ray Victorious
You know, I would actually have more to say about this whole HD DVD war between Blu-Ray and the folks over at HD-DVD if only, well, I could afford to buy these movies in these formats and actually play them on an actual, honest-to-goodness Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player. But I can’t, because they’re too damn [...]
February 19th, 2008 | Nix | 1 comment | Read MoreJumper Jumps the Box Office, Get Ready for Jumper 2
The big, universal complaint about Doug Liman’s sci-fi “Jumper” is that it’s too short on details, leaving big plot holes about the Paladins, the secret organization led by Samuel L. Jackson’s character, whose sole goal is to kill jumpers like Hayden Christensen’s character in the movie. But fear not, nit-picky critic types, because after “Jumper” [...]
February 17th, 2008 | Nix | 1 comment | Read MoreA “Tentative” Deal is Reached to End Writer’s Strike
See that? That’s light at the other end of the tunnel, as the WGA officially announced that it had reached a “tentative” deal with the studios to end the 3-month long writer’s strike that has crippled Hollywood and the viewing habits of TV fans everywhere. Now it’s up to the WGA to sell the plan [...]
February 9th, 2008 | Nix | 1 comment | Read More
Yeah...interesting.... i hope that they get better news out soon 
Ok the intense lightning... this is used for two things... the first reason is so the audience can see the ...
Jolene Blalock - thought she did great as T'Pol on Star Trek Enterprise! 
i read the movie has grossed $20mil. but with all the bad pub. it's no wonder. they papers ...