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Category: Movies

  • Weekend Box Office- November 22-24, 2013

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    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire opened at #1. We knew it would. The only question was what kind of records it would set. How about the biggest November opening ever and the fourth biggest weekend take in history? That is what $161.1 million will get you. It trailed only The Avengers, Iron Man 3 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. For more perspective the second film in the franchise has almost equaled Thor: The Dark World’s three week take in one weekend.

    The final Hunger Games Book, Mockingjay, will be split into two movies with the first opening November 21, 2014 and the second a year later in November 2015. Just consider it your new Thanksgiving tradition. Turkey, cranberry sauce and Jennifer Lawrence.

    1. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire- $161.1 million/ $161.1 million

    2. Thor: The Dark World- $14.1/ $167.8

    3. The Best Man Holiday- $12.5/ $50.3

    4. Delivery Man- $8.2/ $8.2

    5. Free Birds- $5.3/ $48.5

    6. Last Vegas- $4.4/ $53.9

    7. Bad Grandpa- $3.4/ $95.4

    8. Gravity- $3.4/ $245.5

    9. 12 Years a Slave- $2.8/ $29.3

    10. Dallas Buyers Club- $2.7/ $6.4 

  • Only The Muppets Can Bring Tom Hiddleston And Danny Trejo Together

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    The new trailer for Muppets Most Wanted brings together some of the biggest icons in the world. No, I am not talking about the Muppets. I mean the fact that Loki and Machete are in the same movie together. It is a feat only Kermit and company could pull off. If they actually have screen time together the internet may explode with the amount of gifs created.

    Muppets Most Wanted releases March 21, 2014.

  • Channing Tatum Takes On Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Epic Split

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    You knew it was only a matter of time before the Van Damme impersonators came out. I am just glad that it was Channing Tatum, who I may not like as a dramatic actor, but I’ll be damned if he isn’t a funny bastard. He made this video on the set of 22 Jump Street in an attempt to match Van Damme’s feat.

    How does it compare to the original?

  • The New Trailer For Need For Speed Wants To Go Fast

    After the first trailer went a different path -to my delight- the second trailer for Need For Speed veers back on the Fast & Furious track. Revenge factor: check. Group of random racial profiles teaming up: check. Howard Stark being villainous and killing a friend: yep. Totally insane car stunt involving a helicopter: you know it. Aaron Paul’s voice proving he could be Batman if he wasn’t 5’7″: a gravely voiced yes.

    Need For Speed releases March 14, 2014.

  • Weekend Box Office- November 15-17, 2013

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    Thor got more competition than was expected this weekend. The God of Thunder remained in first with $38.4 million and in two weeks has already passed the first film’s worldwide gross. The total now stands at $479 million.

    The Best Man Holiday is a sequel to the 1999 film, The Best Man, and it played like it had only been a few years since its release and not fourteen. It nearly doubled its expected take bringing in $30.6 million. We can assume that there won’t be another long wait before another movie in the franchise is released.

    Gravity kept is amazing run going crossing half a billion dollars worldwide.

    This weekend will be huge with the release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire which is looking to set records for November opening and how many times I can see a movie because Jennifer Lawrence is in a wetsuit.

    1. Thor: The Dark World- $38.4 million/ $149.9 million

    2. The Best Man Holiday- $30.6/ $30.6

    3. Last Vegas- $8.8/ $46.9

    4. Free Birds- $8.3/ $42.2

    5. Bad Grandpa- $7.6/ $90.2

    6. Gravity- $6.2/ $240.5

    7. Ender’s Game- $6.2/ $53.7

    8. 12 Years a Slave- $4.7/ $24.9

    9. Captain Phillips- $4.5/ $97.6

    10. About Time- $3.6/ $11.5

  • The First Noah Trailer Is Way Better Than It Should Be

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    Photo courtesy projectcasting.com

    He has been Superman’s father, Robin Hood and a gladiator. Now Russell Crowe is taking on the role of Noah in Darren Aronofsky’s new film. The first trailer has just been made available and it is as big as you think it will be.

    I am going ahead and giving pre-warning to religious people who think they are going to go to the theater next year and see a big epic telling of their favorite flood story of the Bible. Go and watch some of Aronofsky’s other movies (Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan, etc.) and prepare yourself for a completely different story than you know.

    I am excited to see what Aronofsky will do with his first big budget movie and see how mad the church will get when it releases.

    Noah releases on March 28, 2014.

  • Independence Day 2 Pushed To 2016

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    It looks like we will have to wait another year before aliens return to destroy us all. The sequel to Independence Day has been delayed a year from to July 3, 2015 to July 1, 2016.

    This move works for the movie in two different ways. First, it will move the sequel out of the overcrowded summer of 2015 which will see the release of The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Batman vs. Superman, Terminator 5 and Pirates of the Caribbean 5. Second, it will have the film releasing almost twenty years to the day of the first one. Independence Day released on July 3, 1996.

    Director Roland Emmerich has said that there are two scripts written for the movie depending on if Will Smith signs on for the sequel or not.

  • Teaser Trailer For Maleficent

    Disney has released the first trailer for next summer’s Maleficent. Angelina Jolie stars as the evil mistress who sets out to curse Princess Aurora. The movie will show how her character transforms from protector to villain which lead to the events in Sleeping Beauty.

    The trailer looks beautiful and already looks like it will be better than this year’s Oz, The Great and Powerful with its dark tones.

    Maleficent releases on May 30, 2014.

  • First Maleficent Poster Shows What Brad Pitt Wakes Up To

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    Disney has released the first poster for next summer’s Maleficent starring Angelina Jolie as the Sleeping Beauty villain. The trailer for the movie will be released tomorrow but until then you can stare at this poster and wonder just what she is hiding under that costume.

    It’s children. The answer is small African children.

     

  • Kevin Smith’s Official Batfleck Costume Review: “Holy Sh**”

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    You knew when Ben Affleck was cast as Batman that long time friend Kevin Smith would be privy to some inside information and true to form the lucky bastard has seen Affleck’s Batman costume. He revealed his thoughts about the new look on his Hollywood Babble-On podcast which I believe is the 33rd podcast he does a week…which is cool.

    “I saw the Batman costume. More than that I saw a picture of him (Affleck) in the costume. Now, I don’t want to give anything away ’cause that is up to them and stuff, but I am going to say this, I instantly bear hugged him (Snyder). You have not seen this costume in a movie on film before, and for a comic book fan it was mind bending. I was like ‘Get out of here, only you have enough power to pull this off.’ Because everyone always like does this Matrix/X-Men black armor…It was fantastic. I’m already a flag waver for this movie, but the costume, it blew my mind. I think everyone is just gonna be like ‘Holy ****!’ It’s its own thing, man. It’s like we haven’t been down this path at all. I was so elated….Even the hardest core “**** all this” person will be like ‘alright, I’m ready.”

    Thanks for keeping my expectations low there Kev. There were already rumors that the new look was going to be based on the Batman: Noel graphic novel so reading Smith’s thoughts makes me think we will finally get a grey and black costume like the comics. If that is true, I will bearhug Zack Snyder too.