Sep 29 2008 The Shia LaBeouf Movie Made More Money Than Other, Non-Shia LaBeouf Movies
The amount of money (in dollars) earned by various films last weekend is as follows:
1. Eagle Eye - Someone asked me what this was about the other day and I told them I think it's Shia LeBeouf reenacting the first half-hour of the The Matrix as a full movie. Now that people have seen it, is that accurate? ($29.2 million)
2. Nights in Rodanthe - $13.6 million. Who knew there was such a market for menoporn? (Answer: lonely mothers.)
3. Lakeview Terrace - $7 million, thought I'm positive it would be making even more if they'd just gone with my title, Samuel L. Jackson's RACIST COP.
4. Fireproof - $6.5 million! The Fireproof Action Squads worked! How does that make you feel?
5. Burn After Reading - Despite a 44% drop to $6.2 million, it's still maintaining a hefty audience lead over actually reading.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Sep 22 2008 People Were Loving 'Lakeview Terrace' This Weekend
People paid to see these movies over the weekend:
1. Lakeview Terrace - $15.6 million. Maybe we should start making every Lifetime Original Movie concept into a Samuel L. Jackson film.
2. Burn After Reading - $11.3 million--the best take ever for a movie about ocular chlamydia.
3. My Best Friend's Girl - Congratulations, Dane Cook, you got people to pay you for playing an even worse version of yourself again. ($8.3 million)
4. Igor - Sorry, Igor 2: HumpBack 2 the Castle, you just got cancelled. ($8 million)
5. Righteous Kill - $7.7 million. That's fine, though. The studios will make all their money in merchandising when Righteous Kill shirts become the Scarface shirts for the old, retired thug crowd.
Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]
Sep 15 2008 Coen Brothers Beat Women, Tyler Perry
On a weekend with four new wide releases, audiences saw each of them to varying degrees.
1. Burn After Reading - $19.4 million, the kind of mediocre results you'd expect from a country that hates reading but loves burning things.
2. Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys - A Tyler Perry-possessive $18 million.
3. Righteous Kill - $16.5 million, shaming all those people who said De Niro and Pacino couldn't fill up half to three-quarters of a theater anymore.
4. The Women - I knew this would be pretty big when I went to the theater and saw all those people in line dressed as women. ($10.1 million)
5. The House Bunny - How is this the only non-new release left in the top five? No one wants to see Bangkok Dangerous twice? ($4.3 million)
Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]
Aug 15 2008 New 'Burn After Reading' Poster Has That 'Cowboy Leaning on a Barn' Appeal
Finally, a movie where it might make sense for a collection of commemorative yard silhouettes to come with the special edition DVD. And just in time, too, because Mule Boy is getting lonely.
New Burn After Poster [JoBlo]
Aug 8 2008 New 'Burn After Reading' Featurettes Show Impressive Idiot Characterization
Want to see Brad Pitt act like a dolt and George Clooney act like a womanizer (more than usual)? Believe me, you do, so watch these new Burn After Reading character featurettes. The variety and complexity of Pitt's dimwit expressions are guaranteed to impress.
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Jun 17 2008 'Burn After Reading' Poster is My Favorite
It's like the Coen Brothers unearthed Saul Bass, miraculously revived his decaying corpse, and made him design a poster for their new film before sending him back to the eternal slumber of his tomb. In other words, it's pretty awesome.
'Burn After Reading' Poster Premiere [Cinematical]
Apr 30 2008 Coens' 'Burn After Reading' Stills: Pitt is a Douche, Clooney Regrets Love-Making
Over at First Showing, the first production stills from the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading have popped up. Of course, being that it's a new dark comedy from the Coens, I'm ridiculously enthusiastic about these images, but I can't help but feel there's a bit too much winking at the audience going on with Brad Pitt's oafish gym employee character. Brad Pitt is a huge star, and People Magazine told me he's the sexiest man alive during certain years, but now he has ridiculous bleached tips and works at a gym!? That's crazy! Though, at the same time, if Brad Pitt weren't a huge star and occasionally the sexiest man alive, he probably would have bleached tips and work at a gym. So maybe this is just great casting.
More shots--including George Clooney hamming up post-coital regret in country-style patriotic bedding--here.
Jan 29 2008 George Clooney in 'Burn After Reading'/Theatre Ad
I think this new shot from the upcoming Coen Brothers comedy Burn After Reading may just be a reminder to silence our electronic devices and pick up some concessions before the film starts, and that with their massive screens and stadium seating, an AMC Theatres Night feels as magical as a night with George Clooney. But that doesn't stop me from geeking out about it like a freak. With all the No Country hoopla, I'd nearly forgotten--another new Coen Brothers movie is coming, M.F'ers!
First Picture of George Clooney from 'Burn After Reading' [FilmoFilia]
