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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Peter Berg’s “Battleship,” “based on” the board game, is the sort of film that contains the caption “Hong Kong, China,” as if to remind the viewer that the events aren’t unfolding in the rival Asian metropolis of Hong Kong, Nebraska. The caption is an indication of just how low the film’s sights are set, made
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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
“God Bless America,” the latest film from stand-up comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, has a story that could have been told from a compelling angle. Joel Murray stars as Frank, a middle-aged man with nothing to lose, who goes on a murderous rampage, offing “scum of the earth” targets like Bill O’Reilly, a spoiled girl featured on
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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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Hello and welcome back to Box Office Beat, Critic Speak’s weekly box office predictions column. After missing the mark considerably for two weekends in a row–I lowballed the record-breaking run of The Avengers and overestimated Tim Burton’s anemic Dark Shadows–I am ready to redeem myself with better predictions this time around. Thankfully, I have three
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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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Sacha Baron Cohen is perfectly capable of going after hard targets. And that’s the biggest disappointment about “The Dictator,” which at times suggests he’s going soft. Certainly, the gags are profane, vulgar, and habitually dedicated to annihilating good taste. But the edge that drew blood in both “Borat” and “Brüno” is dulled to harmlessness. Then
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