The Haunting of Hotel Transylvania When a series of strange happenings befall their resort, the Drac Pack sets out to uncover the mystery behind The...
Building on buzz from a last minute social media marketing campaign, Super 8 [SUPR8] prevailed in first place with an estimated $37.0 million at the weekend box office, with an additional $1 million from sneak previews on Thursday. Directed by J.J. Abrams [JABRA], the sci-fi film attracted an audience that was 56% males and 71% over the age of 25, an audience that grew up on similar Steven Spielberg films of the 1980s. With word of mouth already affecting opening weekend, the original...
Wedged in a weekend between the openings of two big-budgeted superhero films is an earnst, throwback film Super 8 [SUPR8] with a moderate budget and no stars in the cast. The PG-13 rated film set in 1979 is director J.J. Abrams’ [JABRA] homage to early films by Steven Spielberg such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T.. The first teaser was released a year ago before the film was even in production. However, Paramount’s marketing campaign has remained vague in order to shroud...
As part of its viral marketing campaign for the 1970s set monster film Super 8 [SUPR8], Paramount has sent out snippets of a black and white film reel to various websites over the past few months. The full clip has now been completed and released online, revealing a military video "Operation Belttrap" documenting secret government experimentations on an alien craft as well as its presumably extra-terrestrial creature.
Summit has released the teaser trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 [TWLI4] which premiered during the MTV Movie Awards. What more do Twihards need than Jacob ripping off his shirt upon getting a wedding invitation from Bella and Edward, headboard-breaking sex, and vampire pregancy.
Leading the weekend box office with an estimated $56.0 million, X-Men: First Class [XMEN4] scored the franchise's lowest opening since the first X-Men $54.5 million in 2000. The prequel set in the 1960s featured a new cast who are not established draws. Great reviews and word of mouth should help the film hold up in the long run.
Last weekend's champ The Hangover Part II [HNOV2] stumbled 62% to $32.4 million. The R-rated comedy has already amassed $186.9 million after 11 days.
Sony has unveiled the first trailer for the romance The Vow [THVOW] on Apple. Rachel McAdams [RMCAD] and Channing Tatum [CTATU] star as a newlywed couple who gets into a car accident. When the wife awakens from a coma, she has no recognition of her husband. Can he make her fall in love with him all over again? Is this a chick flick that opens on Valentine's Day 2012?
The second of the summer’s four superhero films rolls into theaters as this weekend’s lone wide release. X-Men: First Class [XMEN4] resets the franchise back to the 1960s with a new cast led by James McAvoy [JMCAV] and Michael Fassbender [MFASS] as young Professor X and Magneto when they were still friends. The previous installment X-Men Origins: Wolverine was also a prequel, but featured the same actor, Hugh Jackman, in the role of the series’ most popular character. Though it opened to...
Fox has unleashed the full, theatrical trailer for Rise of the Planet of the Apes [RSAPE]. James Franco [JAFRA] stars as a scientist who tests an experimental drug on a chimpanzee, which improves his intelligence to the level where he is able to lead his fellow apes to war against the human captors and eventually take over the world.
The green band teaser trailer for Sony's adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattooo [TGRLW] has found its way online. Set to a cover of Led Zepplin's 'The Immigrant Song' by Trent Reznor and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the trailer flashes quick glimpses of scenes that would be recognizable to those who have read the best-selling novel by the late Stieg Larsson and/or seen the original Swedish film adaptation of the Millennium trilogy. David Fincher directs the English-language...
Dimension Films has released the trailer for the fourth installment in their family film franchise Spy Kids: all the Time in the World [SPYK4]. Taking over for Anthonio Banderas and Carla Guigno are Jessica Alba [JALBA] and Joel McHale [JMCHA] as the parents of a new family of spies. With terrible acting even by the standard of a kids movie, this dreak looks like the worst movie Robert Rodriguez [RRODR] has ever made.
