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]
Your weekend box office top five:
1. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - $69 million, though the real profits lie in the rich Edward versus Jacob culture future anthropologists will one day discover when they unearth all that Burger King memorabilia.
2. The Last Airbender - $40.5 million, still finding reasonable success despite being acknowledged as unlikable by almost everyone. Much like the majority of high school bullies.
3. Toy Story 3 - $30.2 million, making the film the 7th fastest ever to reach $300 million, just under Shrek 2--which is what everyone down at DreamWorks is reminding themselves to feel better about making Shreks instead of Toy Stories.
4. Grown Ups - $19 million. Rob Schneider's adulthood continues to fascinate.
5. Knight & Day - $10.4 million, and the movie you will most likely see on TV in a few years, assume is a Mission: Impossible or something, and immediately stop watching once you realize what it is (though you still can't recall the name).
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
The Last Airbender
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Dev Patel
Good if you want to see: the popular Nicktoon turned into Shyamalan's worst-reviewed film yet. Even worse than The Happening, somehow! This guy's a real Downhill Daisy.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (technically opened earlier this week, but if you cared, you already knew that)
Director: David Slade
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
Good if you want to see: Bella still deciding if she'd rather not have sex with a vampire or a wolf, because, yes, that's still the central conflict.
Love Ranch (limited)
Director: Taylor Hackford
Starring: Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci
Good if you want to see: a husband/wife brothel-running team. Meanwhile, my wife and I can't even agree on which channel to watch the news! - Ray Romano
Great Directors (limited)
Director:Angela Ismailos
Good if you want to see: conversations with talented directors Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater, and John Sayles. Brett Ratner was unavailable.
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector (limited)
Director: Vikram Jayanti
Good if you want to see: Phil Spector's story of the wall of sound, his wall of hair, his relationship with The Beatles, how he's a murderer, etc.
Excited for this movie with the bald magic kid with the arrow on his head? Apparently some of you are, because you keep sending in this new The Last Airbender clip. It's a part where the Fire Nation shows up and all the guards along the wall are like, "Ut oh, this is going to be like that really good fight in the one Lord of the Rings movie."
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Thanks to IGN, we now have two more posters from that movie about the NickToon show--one of the bald kid and one of Slumdog Millionaire. Here's BOTH, you lucky dog.
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Plus: it has a talking dragon, like the one in the 1996 Dennis Quaid fantasy adventure Dragonheart, featuring the voice of Sean Connery as Draco! What more can you ask of a movie than that it be slightly Dragonheart-esque? Probably nothing.
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The simplicity of just sitting down and watching a film without putting on special goggles has again been disrupted. Reports say The Last Airbender and The Green Hornet have become the latest films getting converted to 3-D after-the-fact. Neither film was shot on 3-D cameras, so, like, Clash of the Titans, the three-dimensionalization will be done in post-production and will likely add nothing but the dull sense some things are slightly closer to you than others. If only the directors had known earlier, so they could have added some baseballs or something being arbitrarily thrown out of the screen.
Personally, I'm pretty excited about the news, because I've been told 3-D is really hot right now so I automatically like it. Twitter, too!
(More here and here.)
The trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender is here. Time to scrutinize it, compare it to the Nickelodeon cartoon, and figure out what mysterious forces have caused "The Happening":
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See one of those "Super Bowl" commercials everyone fucking talks about before the big "game"! UGO has for you the first look at M. Night Shyamalan's adaptation of The Last Airbender.
I don't know much about the original cartoon, but I do really like how the narration in this seems to be delivered in the second person. It's like I'm watching a Choose Your Own Adventure video game.
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From Yahoo Movies, here are the first posters for Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (formerly known as Avatar: The Last Airbender, until James Cameron decided he owned that word). And it appears we have a frontrunner for largest, most prominent incense stick of summer 2010.
Below the cut: another poster, of Slumdog Millionaire as Fire Guy!
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