After decades in development, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ original sci-fi action hero John Carter [OMARS] finally makes his $250 million cinematic debut from Disney. Unfortunately, one of the worst marketing campaign in movie history is poised to result in an epic box office failure that won’t even open at number one. Instead, Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax [LORAX] looks to retain first place after a $70 million debut last weekend. The animated environmentalist may decay less than 40% to $43 million.
Lionsgate has unleashed a new trailer for the comedy What to Expect When You're Epecting [WTEXP] that's targeted at the male demographic. How do you sell a movie about pregnancy and fatherhood to guys so they are more willing to be dragged to the movie? Apparently, by coming up with The Dudes Group, it's like Fight Club but with babysitting and without the fighting. What to Expect When You're Epecting opens on May 18th.
Fox has released the first, official trailer for the animated sequel Ice Age: Continental Drift [ICEA4] on Apple along with a bunch of international trailers. Scrat has caused earth's one single landmass to break up into different continents which leaves Manny, Diego, Sid and friends far from home. The unlikely family of prehistoric mammals embark on their fourth adventure where they take on pirates during their homeward bound journey. Ice Age: Continental Drift opens July 13th.
After first debuting with a red-band trailer last week, Sony has released a green-band trailer for That's My Boy [TMBOY] which reveals how Adam Sandler [ASAND] came to be the father of Andy Samberg [ASAMB] with an age difference of only 12 years. The family-friendly version of this movie actually looks better than what will be the raunchy, R-rated raunchfest, but that's not really saying much.
Sony has revealed the full, theatrical trailer for the sci-fi comedy sequel Men in Black 3 [MIB3]. When Tommy Lee Jones' [TLJON] Agent K ddisappears from existence, Will Smith's [WSMIT] Agent J must travel back in time to the 1960s to join a young Agent K, played by Josh Brolin [JBROL], to find out why and in the process save the world, of course.Men in Black 3 returns Memorial Weekend.
Scoring the biggest opening of the year thus far, the 3D animated The Lorax [LORAX] banked an estimated $70.7 million at the weekend box office. More than 50% of the audience paid for 3D and 68% were families with young children. The environmentally friendly movie should have long legs through spring.
Project X [PROJX] debuted in second place with a respectable $20.8 million. The raunchy comedy connected with young guys young males as the crowd was 58% males and 67% was under the age of...
An international trailer has been uploaded for the drama Now is Good [NOWSG]. Dakota Fanning [DFANN] sports a British accent to play a seventeen year old diagnosed with a terminal illness who is determined to live out her every moment of her remaining life including losing her virginity and taking drugs. She ends up falling in love with her new neighbor, played by Jeremy Irvine [JIRVI]. Now is Good opens in the U.K. on May 25th, but does yeet have a release date staeside.
Focus Features has unveiled the full, theatrical trailer for the 3D animated ParaNorman [PNORM] on Apple. From the studio behind Coraline, the stop-motion horror comedy tells th story of a lonely boy who can see dead people. His unique gift is put to the task when he must save his town from horror monsters and supernatural entities. ParaNorman opens in August, a couple months ahead of Disney's own spooky stop-motion animated film Frankenweenie.
The first weekend of March brings the 3D animated film The Lorax [LORAX] based on the Dr. Seuss children’s book. Danny DeVito [DDEVI] voices the title creature who has an environmental message for a boy voiced by Zac Efron [ZEFRO]. The last animated film adapted from a Dr. Seuss book, Horton Hears a Who opened to $45.0 million in 2008. Although its starpower may not match Horton’s Jim Carrey, The Lorax does have the benefit of higher priced 3D tickets. Universal has pull out all the...
Universal has debuted a teaser for the animated sequel Despicable Me 2 [DESM2] on Apple. The playful minions sing and gets in your face with a 3D noisemaker.
