Mar 17 2008 'Horton Hears a Who', Sees Cartoon Dollar Signs
1. Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! - After a $45.1 million weekend, sounds like Horton heard a cha-ching! Like a cash register. For all the money it earned.
2. 10,000 B.C. - $16.4 million, I assume because rushed theater-goers see it at the top of the alphabetical movie listings. Hopefully?
3. Never Back Down - $8.6 million, and I won't!
4. College Road Trip - That magical medley of Martin Lawrence, Raven Simone, Donny Osmond, and driving, proves impossible to resist, earning another $7.9 million.
5. Vantage Point - Another $5.4 million as audiences rush to see how the timeless romance between tennis stars Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst somehow leads to political assassination. (Note: Well, I just realized I was mixing up the titles of Wimbledon and Match Point. That's just the way it goes sometimes. So replace the names with Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, if you care.)
Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]
Dec 13 2007 10,000 B.C. (or so) Trailer
It takes a special kind of talent to combine massive, over-the-top action scenes with historical accuracy of The Flintstones. Unsurprisingly, it's the same kind of talent that combined Ancient Egypt with portals and lasers, unpatriotic aliens with computer viruses, and giant lizards with stupidity.
That's right, Roland Emmerich, director of Stargate, Independence Day, and Godzilla, has a new one on the horizon, and it looks right up there with all his best. Called 10,000 B.C., it could have more accurately been named Anything That Seemed Sort of Cool in a Fairly Large Window of the Past, Across an Impossibly Diverse Geography. Riding wooly mammoths in an empire at-par with the Aztecs? Yeah, I think I remember that segment in VH1's I Love the 10,000 B.C.s. Classic scene of the time.
Jul 11 2007 10,000 BC Teaser Trailer
Even months after working with Emmerich, many of his actors find that they can scarcely look at a green screen without bursting into tears.
IESB has a teaser trailer for Roland Emmerich's upcoming 10,000 B.C. It's hard to infer much from this - it sort of looks like it's about a sabre tooth tiger who eats electricity. But judging by Emmerich's track record (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow), I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's going to be expensive and shitty.
Yahoo!'s supposed to have the full trailer tomorrow, so stay tuned. Or don't, what the f*** do I care.
