Thanks to the success of He's Just Not That Into You, New Line is back with another movie's guide to love with Valentine's Day [VSDAY]. Why have just one storyline in a romantic comedy when you can cram a dozen in two hours? Directed by Garry Marshall [GAMAR], Valentine's Daystars most of Hollywood's beautiful people including a trifecta of Jessicas, Alba [JALBA], Biel [BIEL] and Garner [JEGAR], who shockingly can't land a date.
Sony Animation gets into the 3D business with Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs [CWCMB]. Based on the popular children’s book, the animated comedy has a high concept story that appeals to kids of all ages. With no competition for the family audience, the PG-rated film should easily finish atop the box office with about $27 million from 3119 locations.
The R-rated horror film Jennifer’s Body [JBODY] will test the starpower of Megan Fox [MEFOX] in her first lead role. Fox marketing has...
Miramax has released the trailer for the comedy Everybody's Fine [EBFIN]. Robert De Niro [RDENI] plays a widower not unlike what his character Jack from the Meet the Parents series would become in a few years. After being stood up by his grown children during Christmas, he decides to visit them and discovers their lives haven't been all picture perfect. Drew Barrymore [DBARR], Sam Rockwell [SROCK] and Kate Beckinsale [KBECK] co-star in the dysfunctional family holiday film in the vein of...
Premiering last night during the MTV Video Music Awards, the full trailer for The Twilight Saga: New Moon [TWLI2] reveals more of the story to the non-Twilighters among us. Apparently, the message to young women who get dumped by their boyfriends is not 'be strong and move on', but to commit suicide so you can be reunited in the afterlife. Alas, the Chris Weitz [CWEIT] directed sequel does look better visually than Twilight. Michael Sheen [MISHE] and Dakota Fanning [DFANN] also appear...
One can't help but feel for the loss of the King of Pop after watching the trailer to Michael Jackson's This Is It [JACKO]. Compiled from more than a hundred hours of rehearsal footage, the documentary takes a behind the scenes look at Michael Jackson's creative process as he puts together the song performances for the This Is It concert. The film looks to reveal a side of Jackson that many have not seen before. I have a feeling MJ fans will keep the documentary playing beyond the "2...
The Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol [CAROL] is arguably the most popular Christmas story of all times. The tale of Ebenezer Scrooge has been adapted countless times in every entertainment medium. I still remember watching one version or another in grade school every holiday season. Now Robert Zemeckis [RZEME] has directed a 3D animated retelling based on motion-captured performances that will surely become the definitve adaptation shown to school children every year going forth.
Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself [ICDBA] did good with a $24 million weekend to easily out-distance the competition. The opening is the third best for Tyler Perry [TPERR] behind Madea Goes to Jail’s $41 million and Madea’s Family Reunion’s $30 million. As usual, older African-American women made up the majority of the audience for the seventh Perry film released by Lionsgate.
The animated sci-fi film 9 [9NINE] earned nearly $10.9 million to debut in second place. That brings...
During the first annual D23 Expo, Disney announced to the fans in attendance target release dates for some of their upcoming movies. The stop-motion animated Frankenweenie [FRNKW] from Tim Burton [TBURT] is slated to hit theaters in 2011. The fourth Pirates of the Caribbean [PIRT4] looks to wash ashore during Summer 2011 under the new subtitle "On Stranger Tides". Interestingly, that name is also the title of a fantasy novel by Tim Powers about pirates, voodoo and Fountain of Youth. ...
Sony Screen Gems loves the concept of a heist film involving armored cars and Matt Dillon [MDILL] so much that they made two different movies. Replace Laurence Fishburne [LFISH] with Idris Elba [IELBA], Columbus Short [CSHOR] with Michael Ealy [MEALY], Milo Ventimiglia and Skeet Ulrich with Paul Walker [PWALK] and Hayden Christensen [HCHRI], add a couple of hip-hop singers Chris Brown [CBROW] and T.I. [THARR] and Armored [ARMRD] becomes Takers [TAKER].
Multi-hyphenated talent Tyler Perry [TPERR] has become a brand name at the box office. His films are consistent box office draw with those featuring Perry as Madea out-performing those that do not. Perry’s latest film I Can Do Bad All By Myself [ICDBA] is based on his first stage play, which incidentally introduced the world to Madea. Taraji P. Henson [TPHEN] stars as the lead in the life affirming drama that appeal to his target audience of African-American women. Opening in 2255...
