Earning an estimated $16.3 million was enough for the boxing robots actioner Reel Steel [RSTEL] to repeat as the reigning champion. The family film declined 40% from its opening weekend bringing its cumulative total to $51.7 million.
The remake of Footloose [FTLOS] tallied $16.1 million to debut in second place. The audience turnout was dominated by the female gender at 75%.
The Thing [THING] finished third with a soft $8.8 million. The horror prequel skewed male at 57%.
At the fourth...
Fox has dropped a couple of new trailers for the family sequel Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked [ALVN3]. Thankfully, the domestic version is only 1 minute and 45 seconds long.
Here's the slightly longer International version, without the baggage fee joke:
The weekend box office flashes back to the 1980s once again with two titles taken from the Reagan era. Paramount remakes the 1984 film Footloose [FTLOS] starring Kevin Bacon and featuring a hit soundtrack. Newcomer Kenny Wormald and Dancing with the Stars’s Julianne Hough [JHOUG] take center stage in the PG-13 rated film targeted at teens who have turned out for dance-centric films such as the Step Up series. The film may also draw from older women nostalgic for the original. Paramount...
Fox has revealed the first trailer for the action comedy This Means War [TMWAR] on Apple. Chris Pine [CPINE] and Tom Hardy [THARD] play CIA operatives and best friends turned rivals when they find out both are dating the same woman, played by Reese Witherspoon [RWITH]. Using their covert skills and high-tech gadgets, they try to foil each other's attempt to win her hand in romance. Directed by McG [MCG], the story of This Means War and its tone in execution are reminiscent of Mr. and...
Walt Disney has released another trailer for the big screen return of The Muppets [MUPET]. Loaded with self-referential humor, this trailer reveals the actual storyline and introduces a new muppet named Walter as well as the Mooppets, the rival nemesis of The Muppets as Nintendo's Wario was to Mario.
Universal has downloaded a redband teaser for the fourth feature film in the American Pie franchise, American Reunion [AMPI4]. Years may have past, but the urge remains the same for Jim, played by Jason Biggs [JBIGG]. The gang's all back to collect a much needed paycheck.
Relativity Media has unveiled the first trailer for the action adventure Act of Valor [AOVAL] starring active duty Navy SEALS in a fictional narrative based on real life missions. Playing off like a live-action 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare' (or should I have said 'Battlefield 3'), the trailer sets the right tone in protraying the soldiers as regular Americans who sacrifice to protect our country without turning into a propaganda film for the military.
After attaching teasers to the end of their every previous Marvel superhero movie, Paramount has finally reached the payoff moment and dropped the official trailer for The Avengers [AVNGR] on Apple. Nick Fury has assembled the superhero team of Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America as well as super S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Hawkeye and Black Widow to protect earth from the destructive mischiefs of Loki, the archenemy of Thor. The Avengers team up on May 4th, 2012.
Sony Pictures Classics has released the domestic trailer for the drama Carnage [GCRNG] directed by Roman Piolanski [RPOLA]. Based on the play 'God of Carnage' by Yasmina Reza, the story centers on two sets of parents getting together after their boys had a fight in school. Jodie Foster [JFOST] and John C. Reilly [JCREI] plays the parents of the "victim" while Kate Winslet [KWINS] and Christoph Waltz [CWALT] plays the parents of the "bully". What began as a polite discussion soon escalates...
The Weinstein Co. has uploaded the domestic trailer for action drama Coriolanus [CORIA], a modern adaptation of the tragedy by William Shakespeare. Ralph Fiennes [RFIEN] stars as the titled character, a revered and feared Roman General who is disliked by the citizens of Rome. His ambitious mother, played by Vanessa Redgrave [VREDG], pushes him to seek the office of Consul, but the public refuses to vote for him. After getting exiled from Rome for instigating a riot, Coriolanus allies...
