Two 3D blockbuster heavyweights, one a prequel the other a sequel, will battle for box office supremacy this weekend. Targeted at vastly different audiences, both have a chance to prevail on top. More than 30 years after directing Alien, Ridley Scott [RSCOT] returns to sci-fi and the same cinematic universe with Prometheus [PROME]. Fox has avoided calling the film a prequel to Alien even though it’s perhaps the worst kept secret. Who could blame them with the decline of the franchise and...
Fox has revealed the second trailer for the animated sequel Ice Age: Continental Drift [ICEA4] on Apple. Popstars Jennifer Lopez [JLOPE], Drake and Nicki Minaj are introduced as joining the voice cast in the fourth prehistoric adventure of Manny, Diego, Sid, and Scrat. Separated from their families and floating on an iceberg due to tectonic forces, the gang must find their way home once again but not before facing a ragtag band of pirates. The theme of family has made the Ice Age series...
Paramount has unveiled the teaser trailer for the thriller Flight [FLIGH] on Apple. Denzel Washington [DWASH] stars as an airline pilot who lands his disabled plane after a mid-air accident and saves nearly everyone on board. After the crash, he is hailed as a hero until his blood test came back positive for alcohol. Directed by Robert Zemeckis [RZEME], Flight arrives on November 2nd.
The teaser trailer for the slavery-era pulp western Django Unchained [DJANG] has appeared online. It's everything you've come to expect from writer-director Quentin Tarantino [QTARA] and more.
Set in the South two years before the Civil War, DJANGO UNCHAINED stars Jamie Foxx [JFOXX] as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz [CWALT]). Schultz is on the trail of the...
Disney has debuted the first trailer for the animated adventure Wreck-It-Ralph [RALPH]. John C. Reily [JCREI] voices an 8-bit videogame villain from an arcade game of the 1980s who after decades of doing the same thing now wants to be the hero. However, he soon learns he's the proverbial fish out of the water in the new violent high definition world of modern videogames. Featuring cameos from numerous real-life gaming characters, Wreck-It-Ralph hopes to be the Toy Story of videogames. ...
Sony has delivered a second redband trailer for the raunchy comedy That's My Boy [TMBOY], which revels in its R-rating for crude sexual content throughout, nudity, pervasive language and some drug use. Will this be enough to turn on or turn off Adam Sandler [ASAND] fans? Would anyone actually watch this with their dad on Father's Day?
Summit debuted the first trailer for the teen drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower [POBWF] on the MTV Movies Awards Sunday.Logan Lerman [LLERM] stars as an introverted high school student who feels alienated from fellow classmates and life in general until he is befriended by a couple played by Emma Watson [EMWAT] and Ezra Miller. The perks of Being a Wallflower opens in limited release on September 14th.
After several flops, Universal can claim to have the fairest of the weekend as Snow White and the Huntsman [SWHTM] grossed an estimated $56.3 million to lead the box office. The re-imagined fairy tale successfully appealed to both men and women with its gritty battle scenes and special effects. The audience demographics broke down 53% female and 56% over the age of 25.
Men in Black 3 [MIB3] declined 46% in its second weekend to $29.3 million. The sci-fi sequel has earned $112.3 million
Relativity has revealed a second trailer for the horror film House At The End of The Street [ENDST] on Apple. Jennifer Lawrence [JLAWR] stars as a teenager who falls for her young neighbor, played by Max Thieriot [MTHER], who's hiding a dark secret. Years ago, his younger sister killed their parents before presumably drowning in a lake. But she's apparently still alive and stalking for her next kill. House At The End of The Street opens September 21st.
Sony has unleashed a second trailer for the thriller Premium Rush [PRUSH] that's actually shorter than the first trailer released last year when the film was originally set to open in January. Showing off plenty of nifty special effects, the film perhaps should have been convert to 3D during that time. Arriving August 24th, Premium Rush stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt [JGORD] as a bike messenger with a package wanted by various parties in New York City.
