Summit has revealed the first trailer for the zombie romantic comedy Warm Bodies [WARMB]. In a world where a plague has turned its victims into the undead, Nicholas Hoult [NHOUL] plays a young zombie who unwittingly falls for a human survivor, played by Teresa Palmer [TPALM]. Their unlikely relationship can unite the zombies and the humans against the more vicious skeletal Boneys. Warm Bodies opens on February 1st.
Lionsgate has released the full, theatrical trailer for The Last Stand [LSTND]. Arnold Schwarzenegger [ASCHW] stars as the sheriff of a small border town between U.S. and Mexico where a drug lord is headed in a specially-outfitted Corvette after escaping from a FBI prisoner convoy in Los Angeles. The sheriff must lead his misfit bunch of deputies against the drug lord's mercenaries who have descended upon his sleepy little town. Korean director Kim Jee-woon makes his Hollywood debut with...
The aftermath of hurricane Sandy did not put a damper on the weekend box office as Wreck-It Ralph [RALPH] punched out an estimated $49.1 million to kick off the holiday movie season. The CG animated film set in the world of video games brought out mostly families who made up 68% of the audience.
Flight [FLIGH] debuted in second place with a stellar $25.0 million from just 1900 theaters. The Denzel Washington drama attracted a crowd that was 90% over the age of 25.
Last weekend's top...
The Weinstein Co. has revealed the first trailer for the animated comedy Escape From Planet Earth [ESCPE]. An extra-terrestrial crash lands on Earth and is taken to Area 51, where he is held captive with other aliens. The rag-tag bunch of aliens must band together to engineer a prison break and, wait for it, Escape From Planet Earth. The family film is set to open February 14th.
Open Road Films has debuted the first trailer for the psychological thriller Side Effects [SDEFC] directed by Steven Soderbergh [SSODE]. Rooney Mara [RMARA] stars as a troubled woman dealing with anxiety and depression who takes an overabundance of prescription drugs with unforeseen consequences. Channing Tatum [CTATU], Jude Law [JLAW] and Catherine Zeta-Jones [CZETA] co-star in film set to open on February 8th.
Hollywood starts the holiday movie season with three new wide releases even with the eastern seaboard reeling from the devastation of hurricane Sandy. The weekend box office will definitely suffer a negative effect, though how much remains to be seen. Disney leads off with the CG animated Wreck-It Ralph [RALPH] featuring John C. Reilly [JCREI] as a video game villain who wants to be the hero for a change. Although the film doesn’t carry the Pixar brand, Wreck-It Ralph has been called...
Universal has unveiled a second teaser for the animated sequel Despicable Me 2 [DEMS2] on Apple. Steve Carell [SCARE] supposedly returns to voice Gru, but the trailer don't provide any idea about the story since it just offers more of the same silly antics from a couple of minions. Despicable Me 2 hits theaters on July 3rd.
Paramount has revealed a red band trailer for the action fantasy Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters [HNGWH]. Jeremy Renner [JRENN] and Gemma Arterton [GARTE] star as the title characters from the fairy tale who have grown up to be professional exterminators of witches. The new trailer takes a slightly more serious tone than the previous green band trailer, which went over the top with campy action seemingly from a different time era. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters arrives in theaters on...
With four new releases failing to attract moviegoers, the holdover Argo [ARGO] rose to the top of the weekend box office with an estimated $12.3 million. The hostage thriller has escaped with $60.8 million.
Hotel Transylvania [HTRNS] grossed $9.5 million to finish second in its fifth weekend of release.
Cloud Atlas [CLATL] opened third with a disappointing $9.4 million. The sci-fi epic drew an audience that was 77% over the age of 25.
Last weekend's top film Paranormal Acitity 4 [PNAC4]...
The weekend before Halloween brings four new wide releases, but many moviegoers will be partying in costumes rather than visit the multiplexes. Warner Bros. targets older adults with the sci-fi epic Cloud Atlas [CLATL] directed by the Wachowskis [WACHO] and Tom Tykwer [TTYKW]. The R-rated epic features time-spanning storylines that inter-connect with an all-star cast playing multiple characters lead by Tom Hanks [THANK] and Halle Berry [HBERR]. Despite mostly positive reviews, the...
