Moviegoers were not in the mood to celebrate 2012 early this weekend or go to any movies at all as New Year's Eve [NYEVE] led the slowest weekend box office since September 2008. The star-studded romantic comedy tallied just $13.7 million from an audience that was 70% female.
The Sitter [SITER] opened in second place at an estimated $10.0 million. The R-rated comedy attracted an older crowd at 63% over the age of 25.
After a three week reign, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1...
Sony Screen Gems has released the first trailer for the ensemble romantic comedy Think Like A Man [TLKAM]. A group of men face new challenges in their romantic lives when the ladies they are after use the advice in Steve Harvey's real-life how-to book "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man" to turn the table on the men. Kevin Hart [KHART], Michael Ealy [MEALY], Chris Brown [CHBRO], Romany Malco [RMALC] , Taraji P. Henson [TPHEN], Meagan Good [MGOOD], Regina Hall [RHALL] and Gabrielle Union...
Universal has dropped a second trailer for sci-fi action adventure Battleship [BTSHP] on Apple. "From Hasbro the Company that brought you Transformers", the feature adaptation of the board game looks exactly like a seaborne version of Transformers replete with metalic alien robots engaging in loud, wanton destruction of cities. It's noisy, scattershot and incomprehensible, just like the accompanying dubstep music.
Lionsgate has premiered the teaser trailer for the ensemble comedy What to Expect When You're Expecting [WTEXP] based on the best-selling how-to book. In the same vein as He's Just Not That Into You which examined at dating through multiple characters, What to Expect When You're Expecting follows different couples as they experience the pleasure and pain of new parenthood. The all-star cast includes Elizabeth Banks [EBANK], Cameron Diaz [CDIAZ], Jennifer Lopez [JLOPE], Brooklyn Decker...
After a slow weekend at the box office, business is about to pick up with two new releases. Warner Bros. has compiled an all-star cast for the ensemble romantic comedy New Year’s Eve [NYEVE], the spiritual follow-up to Valentine’s Day which opened to $63.1 million, a record for the 4-day President’s Day weekend. Directed once again by Garry Marshall [GAMAR], the PG-13 rated New Year’s Eve boasts three Oscar winners in Robert De Niro [RDENI], Hilary Swank [HSWAN], and Halle Berry [HBERR] as...
After revealing bits of the trailer in a featurette, Warner Bros. has now unveiled the official trailer for the romance The Lucky One [LUCON] on Apple. Zac Efron [ZEFRO] plays a military veteran who finds a photograph of a woman while serving in Iraq and upon returning home goes to find her. He then proceeds to stalk her until she falls in love with him, that is until her former flame complicates matter by revealing his possession of the photograph.
DreamWorks Animation has released the teaser trailer for the animated sequel Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted [MADG3]. The escaped zoo animals continue their homeward bound journey, which takes them to Europe where they join a traveling circus Really? DreamWorks Animation should really just stop doing sequels at 2, or send them straight to DVD where they really belong.
The Weinstein Co. has revealed the full, theatrical trailer for the biopic The Iron Lady [IRNLD]. Meryl Streep [MSTRE] takes on another iconic role in Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . The film tells the story of how she came out of nowhere to beak down the barriers of gender and class into a male dominated British government and then rose to become one of the most influential leader of the world during the late 20th Century. The Iron Lady opens in...
Universal has debuted the first trailer for the comedy The Five-Year Engagement [5YENG], which tries to piggy-back off the goodwill from The Bridesmaids. Rather, the film comes from the team behind Forgetting Sarah Marshall, writer/star Jason Segel [JSEGE] and writer/director Nick Stoller. Segel and Emily Blunt [EBLUN] play a couple who get engaged only to experience constant obstacles that delays them from actually tying the knot. The Five-Year Engagement opens on April 27th, 2012.
Fox has unleashed the teaser trailer for the comedy adaptation of The Three Stooges [3STOG] on Apple. Directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly [FARRE], the film stars, and that's using the term loosely, Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes and Will Sasso as Moe, Larry and Curly. While their slaspstick antics and familiar sound effects are a fair imitation of the Stooges, the production looks more fitting for television than a feature film that could have to star the likes of Benicio Del Toro...
