On a long weekend where Valentine's Day fell on Sunday, the perfectly timed romantic comedy Valentine's Day [VSDAY] bloomed an estimated $66.855 million to set a new record for the 4-day President's Day weekend. The previous high of $52.0 million was held by 2007's Ghost Rider. Warner Bros. put together an all-star ensemble cast that proved irresistable to couples and female moviegoers looking for love.
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief [PJALT] debuted in second place...
The Civil Rights era drama Blood Done Sign My Name is written and directed by Jeb Stuart, who broke into Hollywood scripting a little action film called Die Hard. Paladin will open Blood Done Sign My Name [BDSMN] in around 100 theaters on February 19th.
Universal has let loose the first trailer to the Judd Apatow produced comedy Get Him to the Greek [GHGRK] on Apple. A spin-off of the 2008 comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek brings back the character played by Russell Brand [RBRAN], British rocker Aldous Snow, as the lead in his own movie. Jonah Hill [JHILL] plays a lowly record company assistant tasked with ferrying Snow from London to a concert at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. Disasters ensue along the way. ...
After the success of last year’s ensemble romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You, Warner Bros. quickly cobbled together another reel of love vignettes for release this Valentine’s Day weekend called, wait for it, Valentine’s Day [VSDAY]. Starring every hot actor and actress in Hollywood, the Love, Actually - American Style is not so much a movie, but an excuse for a money grab on a weekend when lovers open up their hearts as well as their wallets. With the day of romance falling on...
Even though this is already the THIRD Toy Story, Disney*Pixar reminds you Toy Story 3 [TOYS3] is from the creators of Finding Nemo, Up and WALL-E, rather than Toy Story and Toy Story 2. The new trailer introduces the new character of Ken, voiced by Michael Keaton [MKEAT], in a blatant product placement for Barbie. Whatever happen to Bo Beep? You know, the character Pixar created in Toy Story because Mattel thought Barbie was too good for them.
Valentine’s Day is upon us this Sunday bringing a promise of love and coupledom. While the aptly titled film Valentine’s Day [VSDAY] angles to get people in the theaters, a hairy situation unfolds through Universal Studios. Directed by Joe Johnston [JOJOH], The Wolfman [WOLFM] is a remake of the 1941 classic horror film. After having been delayed for two years, Wolfman finally gets to reap the benefits of coming out this holiday weekend.
Benicio Del Toro [BDELT] plays Larry Talbot, the role...
Lionsgate has released the first trailer for the action film Killers [5KILR] and it looks like the exact same movie as Knight & Day [KNDAY]. A blonde meets a psycho secret agent and together they embark on an action adventure mixing gunplay with foreplay. Katherine Heigl [KHEIG] and Ashton Kutcher [AKUTC] play the same roles as Cameron Diaz [CDIAZ] and Tom Cruise [TCRUI] in each respective movie. Who will win? Killers hits theaters June 4th, a month before Knight & Day.
Filling out the bits of actions from the Super Bowl ad, the full trailer for The Last Airbender [BENDR] shows off the cast of mainly unknowns. Fans of the anime series will be coming for the story and special effects, but newcomer Noah Ringer still has to convincingly pull off the lead starring role of Aang from the Air Nation. While Twilight alum Jackson Rathbone [JRATH] who plays Sokka of the Water Nation may be the most recognizable to the young target audience, I'm most excited about...
The rights to the Terminator franchise has been won by Investment Fund Pacificor for $29.5 million, beating out a rival joint bid by Sony and Lionsgate. Halycon, the producers of Terminator: Salvation, had declared bankruptcy in a dispute with its financier Pacificor. Sony and Lionsgate are now in talks with Pacificor on producing the next Terminator movie [TERM5]. According to Deadline Hollywood, Lionsgate would like to reboot the series and start over from the original film, which was...
The buying power of teenage girls reared its head again as the romance Dear John [DEARJ] knocked off Avatar [HWAVA] after its seven weeks stay atop the box office. Lasse Hallstrom's [LHALL] feature adaptation of the novel by Nicholas Sparks ignited an estimated $32.4 million. The pairing of Channing Tatum [CTATU] and Amanda Seyfried [ASEYF] attracted an audience that was 84% female and 66% under the age of 21.
Avatar finished out of the top spot for the first time at $23.6 million, a 25%...
