Nov 17 2008 Bond is a Popular, Money-Making Franchise
1. Quantum of Solace - $70.4 million--the best opening ever for a Bond movie or any other film with the words "quantum" and "solace" in the title.
2. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - $36.1 million. Every1 luvs escaping to theaters 2 C talking animals!
3. Role Models - $11.7 million, and it's all going to Big Brothers/Big Sisters! (No it isn't.)
4. High School Musical 3: Senior Year - $5.9 million. Who says people won't pay to see teenagers sing and dance in a Disney production, week after week? I think I said that, but I was dead wrong.
5. Changeling - $4.2 million, bringing the Clint Eastwood-directed film to just over $27 million in four weeks. I'm so confident it could have made a lot more under my title, Anglina Jolie and the Baby Switcheroo.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Nov 10 2008 'Madagascar 2' Moves the Weekend Box Office!
And the weekend box office results were...
1. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - $63.5 million. Once again, I've underestimated the public's desire to move it (move it).
2. Role Models - $19.3 million. Stifler may not have the same box office pull he did in 2000, but he still does OK if you give him a Rudd for support.
3. High School Musical 3 - $9.3 million. This ordering just goes to show that as much as people love singing, dancing adolescents, they will always more love singing, dancing computer-generated animals.
4. Changeling - $7.3 million, most of that money coming from tickets Brad Pitt bought to support his wife. THEY ARE THAT IN LOVE.
5. Zack and Miri Make a Porno - $6.5 million, bringing its domestic total up to nearly $21 million. Is that enough to warrant an actual porn spoof film? I want to see how that would work.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Nov 3 2008 'High School Musical' Still Most Publicy Viewed Moving Picture
For all you film statisticians: weekend box office numbers!
1. High School Musical 3: Senior Year - $15 million. Now that Disney has figured out their television programming can make so much money in theaters, the studio's production schedule has been cleared and replaced with plans for five The Suite Life of Zack & Cody films.
2. Zack and Miri Make a Porno - $10.7 million, proving that watching pornography creation will never replace staying home, enjoying already-made pornography.
3. Saw V - $10.1 million, a significant drop as many people decide to just wait and see Saw VI next weekend.
4. Changeling - $9.4 million. You know how this could have made more? If instead of the LAPD replacing Angelina Jolie's child with another boy, they replaced him with a talking, CGI rabbit, and the title was Somebunny Else's Baby.
5. The Haunting of Molly Hartley - $6 million. Usually a Halloween weekend horror movie would have bigger numbers, but in this case, High School Musical 3 was a more chilling option.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Sep 24 2008 Angelina Jolie's Giant Head Promotes 'Changeling' in France
Somewhere, there's a vorarephilic kid getting so turned on right now.
Changeling Poster [IMPA]
Sep 12 2008 'Changeling' Trailer Does Not Contain Awesome CGI Morphing
When the LAPD returns Angelina Jolie-character's lost son to her, she thinks it's a dream come true. That is, until she realizes, "Wait a minute, LAPD, this isn't my kid! This is a trained dolphin you've put in a special land suit and boy costume!" But, of course, the corrupt LAPD is like, "No, that is definitely your son, and even if it were a dolphin in a special land suit, dolphins are very intelligent creatures, and you should be marveling that we've found a way to make it walk on land as if it's a boy." This argument goes back and forth for the length of a movie, and that's the movie, Changeling.
Sounds good, right? Except that they took out the dolphin part. It's just a lady whining about having the wrong human son. Isn't that a let down? Even though Clint Eastwood directed this, so it will probably be decent and up for some awards, it's always going to have that "why isn't there a dolphin in a land suit?" cloud looming over its accolades. Here's the trailer:
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Oct 16 2007 Angelina Jolie Being Old-Fashioney in 'Changeling'
It's common knowledge that, within a decade, Angelina Jolie will find a way to travel back to the '20s and rescue all of the little newsy-style orphan street urchins of the era, forever ending the desperate cries of "Extra, Extra!" But until that time comes, here is a teaser in the form of shots from the set of The Changeling. The Clint Eastwood picture sees Jolie as a '20s dame whose child is abducted. After its safe return, she begins to suspect the LAPD has replaced her infant with another, like a prohibition-era Punk'd.
With a name like The Changeling, is anyone else disappointed the child doesn't start morphing into different people and animals?
JOLIE DEBUTS NEW LOOK [Faded Youth]
