The reason this piece doesn’t need a sub-headline is because you already knew that The Avengers took the #1 spot, zooming over everyone else ala Iron Man in the photo above. Let’s just get to the chart already. No. Title Weekend Per Theater Average Total 1 Marvel’s The Avengers $55.1M $12.958 $457.1M 2 Battleship $25.3M $6,856 $25.3M […]
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Boy, am I getting tired of having to report that The Avengers has once again taken the #1 spot at the North American box office! Are moviegoers ever going to stop flocking to the Marvel juggernaut? All three new openers got crushed; Battleship sunk, The Dictator fell, and What to Expect… over-expected. In fact, the only movie really worth
To promote the upcoming release of their new movie Brave, Pixar has partnered with AMC Theatres to bring back four of their most beloved films–Toy Story 3, Up, Ratatouille, and WALL-E–to multiplex screens. It will all go down on Memorial Day weekend, when each film will show at participating AMC locations for only $6 per
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It seems that Ridley Scott recently realized that new film concepts haven’t really been working out for him. Sure, Black Hawk Down and American Gangster were terrific motion pictures, but think of all the screw-ups surrounding them on Scott’s resume (Kingdom of Heaven, A Good Year, Body of Lies, Robin Hood). Apparently determined to buck the negative career
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The city is bleak, soaked in black rain, caked in gleaming neon and glowing blood. The sequel comes. It’s called Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. On October 4, 2013, its darkness will spray from digital projectors onto silver screens. The audience gasps. Boys put their arms around girls, ready for the
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Nearly four years after Quantum of Solace disappointed James Bond fans everywhere, MGM has released a new teaser poster for Skyfall, the series’ twenty-third installment. Daniel Craig returns as Bond, with American Beauty director Sam Mendes taking the helm. Skyfall will land in UK theaters October 26, followed by the US on November 9.
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In 2011, he wrote an Oscar-winning portrait of Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Now, it’s Steve Jobs’ turn to get the Aaron Sorkin treatment. Sony announced today that Sorkin will adapt Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of Jobs, which was published shortly after the Apple CEO’s death last year. The project is being produced by Mark
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After years of drama, viewers will finally get to watch Kenneth Lonergan’s much-discussed and little-seen Margaret, just the way the filmmaker intended. Lonergan notoriously sparred with studio Fox Searchlight over creative differences, causing the film’s release to be dealyed for five years. Searchlight ended up forcing Lonergan to release a 2-1/2 hour cut, abbreviated from
Let’s be honest: legendary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard has fallen off his rocker in recent years. While his 2004 effort Notre musique was a notable bright spot on his New Millenium resume, 2001’s In Praise of Love was tedium personified and last year’s Film socialisme… well, I don’t need to go on about that one. If
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Director Jay Roach is carving quite the niche for himself: making a mockery of our political system. Roach is in talks to direct El Presidente, a buddy comedy about a disgraced former President and his Secret Service agent. The comedy, written by Parks and Recreation scribe Dan Goor, sees a sleazy ex-commander-in-chief targeted for assassination
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