Your weekend box office:
1. Inception - $27.5 million, taking first place for the third week straight. Meaning "the guys who brought you Meet the Spartans" are probably already a month into writing Dream Movie.
2. Dinner for Schmucks - Steve Carell shouts his way to $23.3 million.
3. Salt - $19.3 million. New mohawks for all the Jolie/Pitt children!
4. Despicable Me - Steve Carell also does an unplaceable accent to $15.5 million.
5. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - $12.5 million--a slim win over Zac Efron: Yachter/Ghost Whisperer. Children must not have appreciated the title's hilarious reference to James Bond/vaginas.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Your weekend box office:
1. Inception - $43.5 million, putting the film's total gross at over $143 million--more than Grown Ups has made! But if you knew how very little more, you'd still be depressed.
2. Salt - $36.5 million. It just hardly seems worth paying attention to Angelina Jolie if she isn't naked or legally adopting something.
3. Despicable Me - $24.1 million, officially making this film "The New Shrek" in terms of making a lot of money and having a comedian do a funny accent for an hour-and-a-half.
4. The Sorcerer's Apprentice - $9.7 million; still completely unprofitable and nearing Next in the ranking of films starring Nicolas Cage that I'll forget happened.
5. Toy Story 3 - $9 million. Let's add a new something-whimsical to the Pixar campus!
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
The box office got incepted so hard this weekend. Here's your top five:
1. Inception - $60.4 million. And people said you couldn't make money on a complex film based on dreaming and constant gunfire.
2. Despicable Me - $32.7 million, pretty much guaranteeing that those little yellow guys will get a primetime sitcom in CBS's fall lineup.
3. The Sorcerer's Apprentice - $17.3 million. It turns out people would still rather enjoy this tale with Mickey and music than Nicolas Cage and the nasally voice of Jay Baruchel.
4. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - $13.5 million, and a few million more people who now have an actual, informed opinion on the Edward/Jacob debate.
5. Toy Story 3 - $11.7 million, because your kid still insisted on seeing this even though you pointed out to him that he saw that the last four weeks straight--and wouldn't you like to try something else out, champ? No, no, don't cry. Toy Story 3 it is.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
If you didn't notice, last weekend Despicable Me pulled in over $56 million--enough to win the top spot at the box office, and, it turns out, nearly twice what Universal reportedly expected it to make. You know what that means: time to make some sequels. According to Deadline, producer Chris Meledandri and writers Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio are already starting on Despicable Me 2, while, at the same time, work on two shorts starring those little yellow turds has also begun. And now the world awaits Despicable Forever After.
1. Despicable Me - $60 million. Everyone realized the movie looked mediocre, but, when faced with ordering a ticket, few could resist the catharsis of saying such a self-deprecating title.
2. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - While "Twihards" already saw the film last week, this week grossed another $33.4 million with increased ticket sales from Twimoderates.
3. Predators - $25.3 million--not a huge take, but enough to put the sci-fi sequel on its way to make back its relatively meager $40 million budget, which just goes to show that Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, and That '70s Show still don't really make that much.
4. Toy Story 3 - $22 million. Does anyone else find it mildly unsettling to see all the commercials for Toy Story toys? Just think about it.
5. The Last Airbender - $17.1 million, putting the film at over $100 million and proving that no one seems to care whether or not every reviewer says a film is misery on screen.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
You have so many new movie choices, guys. Including a Grease sing-a-long, if you hate yourself:
Predators
Director: Nimród Antal
Starring: Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Danny Trejo
Good if you want to see:Adrien Brody's Brodyquest continue into the world of Predators--specifically, if IMDb's cast list is accurate, the world of Berserker Predator, Tracker Predator, Falconer Predator, Black Super Predator, Falconer Super Predator, and Classic Predator. That's so many Predators for your movie dollar.
Despicable Me
Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Starring: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand
Good if you want to see: Steve Carell do an accent for an animated villain that has children and awful little Nerf pills as sidekicks.
The Kids Are All Right (limited)
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Starring: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson
Good if you want to see: lesbian moms forced to come face-to-face with their loser sperm donor when their children, in an act of rebellion, demand to meet their biological father. Isn't that about the most "sitcom premise" movie premise ever?
The Girl Who Played with Fire (limited)
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Starring: Noomi Repace, Michael Nyqvist
Good if you want to see: the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo saga continued--unless you just want to wait for David Fincher to remake them all so you don't have to read all those subtitles.
[Rec] 2 (limited)
Director: Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza
Starring: Jonatham Mellor, Manuela Velasco, Oscar Zafra
Good if you want to see: the [Rec] saga continued, unless you just want to wait for an undetermined American director to remake it so you don't have to read all those subtitles.
Winnebago Man (limited)
Director: Ben Steinbauer
Starring: Jack Rebney, Ben Steinbauer
Good if you want to see: what that insane swearing Winnebago salesman from that famous internet video is up to now (spoilers: he's being insane in the wilderness).
Grease Sing-a-Long (limited)
Director: Randal Kleiser
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John
Good if you want to see: the film Grease, only this time, God help us, with a group of shameless people singing along like a nightmarish group karaoke, apparently.
Yup. Christ's resurrection and the surrounding traditions now play a role in the marketing of computer animated films! I'm not sure if this is insulting, offensive, or just pathetically pandering, but it does get me excited for Shrek HaShanah.
Below the cut: Easter Greetings from Toy Story 3 for some reason!
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Here's a Despicable Me trailer to introduce you to the supervillain protagonist's gross little Twinkie minions. For some reason the entire thing is based around those cans you can tun over to make a cow mooing sound, so I guess the film has a product placement deal with the general store section of Cracker Barrel?
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How long have we waited for a film villain to combine equal parts Tiny Tim and Nosferatu?
TOO LONG. Don't wait any longer. He is risen:
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Universal has released a trailer for Despicable Me, what appears to be another CGI comedy that crams a huge, impressive comedy cast (including Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Kristen Wiig, Danny McBride, Will Arnett, and Jemaine Clement) into "a cute one for the kids." Carell plays Gru, a character apparently self-aware of his despicable-ness, who takes a cue from the G.I. Joe trailer and starts effing with the world's great landmarks. And for some reason he imitates the opening of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I guess that's considered a despicable thing in cultures that shun arbitrary parody.
Here it is:
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Sorry, trained voice actors, an all-celebrity roster led by Steve Carell is once again dominating the cast of a new animated film called Despicable Me:
Illumination Entertainment topper Chris Meledandri has kicked off his Universal Pictures-based family film unit with "Despicable Me," a 3-D CG-animated film that has Steve Carell voicing the title character.
Jason Segel, Kristen Wiig, Will Arnett, Danny McBride, Russell Brand, Jemaine Clement ("Flight of the Conchords"), Jack McBrayer ("30 Rock") and Julie Andrews are providing the other lead voices. The film will be released in 2010.
Carell's title character is a deplorable man known as Groo who masterminds the mother of all heists when he plots to steal the moon. Egged on by an evil mother (Andrews), Groo finds one obstacle in his way: a trio of orphan girls who temporarily come under his care and won't leave.
I'm normally pretty skeptical about any computer-animated family comedy that isn't a Pixar, but I'll give this a pass for now because:
- This is a really good cast of mostly genuinely funny people, not Angelina Jolies.
- It isn't a sequel.
- I like the plan of stealing the moon. It's like Chairface Chippendale's plan to carve his name in the moon, but even more grandiose. How do you steal the moon? I'm willing to find out for now.
But so help me, first mention of anything equivalent to liking to "move it" and I'm done.
Steve Carell to voice 'Despicable' [Variety]
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