Feb 5 2008 Either Miley Cyrus or Hannah Montana Wins Weekend
1. Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour - Wait, so are the two worlds the real world and the fictional world of Hannah Montana, finally converging in a post-modern fusion of crappy pop and nepotism? Is this like the Garth Brooks/Chris Gaines thing mixed with Bratz? I don't know how this made $31.1 million, but then again, I'm not a 12-year-old girl or Billy Ray Cyrus.
2. The Eye - $12.4 million, sending a clear message that any Asian movie about pale, eyelinered ghosts will be attended as long as there's someone attractive in it.
3. 27 Dresses - $8.5 million, or about $460k per dress.
4. Meet the Spartans - $7.3 million, paid by largely the same people that will be voting today.
5. Rambo - $7.1 million and countless dead.
Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]
Jan 28 2008 'Meet the Spartans' Wins a Lame Parody of the Weekend Box Office
1. Meet the Spartans - I think we need to sit down and have a serious discussion about how this possibly made $18.7 million this weekend, and I think that discussion should be littered with shallow references to pop culture that might be mistaken for actual jokes.
2. Rambo - Stallone's body count easily bested 27 Dresses' dress count, earning $18.2 million.
3. 27 Dresses - $13.6 million, or almost $504,000 per dress.
4. Cloverfield - With a 68% drop to $12.7 million, it's still alive, but barely.
5. Untraceable - Your parents' combined fear and lack of understanding of this "internet" thing cost them a cumulative $11.2 million, though the mental damages could still rise as they continually ask you, "Could that really happen?"
Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]
Jan 21 2008 'Cloverfield' Wins Weekend Box Office
1. Cloverfield - With $41 million, it really stomped the competition! Or how about, a monstrous win for Cloverfield? Or maybe, Cloverfield's weekend not as shaky as its camera? Cloverfield doesn't need its hand-held to win weekend? Whichever is most ridiculous.
2. 27 Dresses - $22.4 million, or about $830,000 per dress.
3. The Bucket List - Another $15.2 million proved it's the hot destination for baby boomers looking for something without "that awful shaky camera."
4. Juno - With another $10.3 million, next year's "this year's Little Miss Sunshine" will now be "this year's Juno," which is this year's Little Miss Sunshine.
5. National Treasure: Book of Secrets - Y'say Ghos' Rider is back hunnin' fer treasure?! Shoot, I'd collectively pay $8.1 million t'see that, y'all!
Conspicuously absent, but deservedly so: Mad Money, Alvin and the Chipmunks (finally).
Weekend Box Office Estimates [Box Office Mojo]
Oct 16 2007 AM Poster Post: '27 Dresses' Poster is a Dress. Get it?
Taking a cue from media analyst Marshall McLuhan, the medium is truly the message in this insightful poster for 27 Dresses. With the textual elements of the movie forming the very threads of this quite-theoretical gown (one cannot help but notice there is no border to this dress; it is purely a fabric of word and thought), the viewer is forced to connect a story--this light-hearted romantic-comedy--to an article of clothing, reminding us that all of our attire--from the tuxedo to the thread-bare, tattered t-shirt of a favorite band--is woven with the history of both its creator and wearer.
Or, you know, it's cute how the words are the shape of a dress.
27 Dresses Poster [IMPA]
Oct 4 2007 '27 Dresses' Trailer Teaches Important Values
As an actor, how do you follow-up a fun, raunchy take on the romantic-comedy genre like Knocked Up? If you're Katherine Heigl, the answer is simple: with an obnoxious, typical romantic-comedy that reminds women they'll only ever find validation through marriage.
In the trailer for 27 Dresses, the old adage "always the bridesmaid, never the bride" is stretched as far as humanly possible, with Heigl playing a woman who's been a bridesmaid in 27 weddings but still can't find a man to quit her job and cook dinner for. Instead of showing us the more interesting story of what mental or physical dysfunction is keeping this seemingly attractive woman from reaching her life's goal, we're tortured with clip after clip of people speaking in redundant plot-points or stilted, asinine dialog we're meant to take as flirting. It's awful.
Also, does anyone know what this "hot hate sex" referred to in the trailer is? Two of those words make sense together, but the whole "hate" part is new to me. Is that hating someone so much you f*** them, like Leia with Han Solo, or is it just more punching during the act?
27 Dresses Trailer [Yahoo!]
