With no new wide release over the New Year's holiday, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol [MISS4] remained in first place with an estimated $38.3 million over the 4-day weekend. The fourth film in the series has already banked $141.2 million.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows [HOLM2] remained in second place at $26.5 million over the long weekend, bringing its total to $136.5 million. Alvin in the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked [ALVN3] gained in its third weekend with $21.0 million over 4 days...
With six new wide releases and two strong holdovers over the Christmas holiday weekend, there was bound to be some box office disappointments. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol [MISS4] was not one of them. The fourth film in the Tom Cruis action franchise earned an estimated $46.2 million over the 4-day weeekend to lead the box office. The film has banked $78.6 million since opening first on IMAX last weekend.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows [HOLM2] dropped down to second with $31.8...
After teasing the trailer with three teasers for the trailer, Fox has finally released the teaser trailer for Prometheus [PROME] on Apple. Director Ridley Scott [RSCOT] returns to sci-fi and the Alien universe with a prequel to Alien that doesn't contain the xenomorph Alien. Charlize Theron [CTHER], Noomi Rapace [NRAPA], Michael Fassbender [MFASS], Guy Pearce [GPEAR], and Idris Elba [IELBA] star as space explorers who discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, Ancient Alien...
With Christmas falling on a Sunday this year, studios are employing different release strategy to best capture an audience for their product. Six films will open in wide release from Wednesday to Sunday. Tom Cruise [TCRUI] takes his fourth outing as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol [MISS4]. Looking to get a head start on the competition, Paramount snuck the PG-13 rated film on 425 IMAX screens last Friday earning $12.8 million. The word of mouth has been terrific, which...
Here it it, the first teaser for the prequel to The Lord of The Rings trilogy, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Jounrey [HOBIT], has premiered on Apple. After years in legal limbo followed by years in development and Guillermo Del Toro to direct at one time, the live-action feature adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy tome is finally coming to the big screen with director Peter Jackson [PJACK] rightfully at the helm. The trailer reveals the return of familiar favorites Ian McKellen [IMCKE] as...
Warner Bros. has unleashed the first trailer for the fantasy sequel Wrath of the Titans [CLSH2] on Apple. Sam Worthington [SWORT] returns as Perseus, who saved Queen Andromeda from the Kraken in Clash of the Titans. Ten years later, Perseus's God father Zeus (Liam Neeson [LNEES]) has been kidnapped by Hades (Ralph Fiennes [RFIEN]), who has switched his allegiance from the Gods of Olympus to Kronos of the Titans. To save mankind, Perseus embarks on a journey into the underworld to rescue...
Warner Bros. has unveiled the full, theatrical trailer for the highly-anticipated sequel The Dark Knight Rises [BATM3] on Apple. The concluding chapter to director Christopher Nolan's [CNOLA] Batman trilogy with Christian Bale [CBALE] as Bruce Wayne introduces Anne Hathaway [AHATH] as Selina Kyle, Tom Hardy [THARD] as Bane, as well as Marion Cotillard [MCOTI] and Joseph Gordon-Levitt [JGORD] as new characters who may or may not be alter egos for more familiar names from the Bat-universe....
A couple of franchise sequels got the holiday season off to a slow start. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows [HOLM2] topped the weekend box office with an estimated $40.0 million, well off the $62.3 million debut of the first Sherlock Holmes. The film drew an audience that was 59% male and 68% over the age of 25.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked [ALVN3] opened with just $23.5 million, nearly half of the two previous installments. Business should pick uup for the threequel with school...
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Although a much longer promotional trailer is already online, Pantelion Films has debuted a short teaser for the comedy Casa de mi Padre [CDMPD] on Apple. Will Ferrell [WFERR] stars in the Spanish-language film, yes it's in Spanish, as a Mexican rancher who gets caught up in his family's soap opera-esque affairs, not unlike those found in a telenovela on Spanish-language television. Pantelion plans to release the satire "everywhere" on March 16th.
