Oct 13 2008 Talking Animals Retain Popularity from Week to Week
Weekend box office results!
1. Beverly Hills Chihuahua - $17.5 million. Number one. For the second straight week. Nice job, everyone.
2. Quarantine - $14.2 million, which is worse than the talking dog movie's second week.
3. Body of Lies - $13.1 million--way less than the second week of the movie where dogs talk.
4. Eagle Eye - $11 million, suggesting the stars of this film were probably humans rather than, say, talking dogs in their second week of a movie's run.
5. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - $6.5 million. Infinite playlist? More like infinitely less popular than another week of talking dogs!
Sep 3 2008 'City of Ember' Poster a Little Too 'Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D'-ian for My Taste
Have we really reached a point where just knowing a kid or two will be underground at some point is enough of a sell for any children's fantasy film? Bill Murray is in this! You'd think they'd at least sell that up a little bit. "Co-starring your favorite sarcastic feline, Garfield, here playing a man," or something.
City of Ember Poster [IMPA]
Aug 4 2008 Bill Murray Makes 'City of Ember' Seem Palatable
Bill Murray is the Lawry's Seasoning Salt of movies. I'm not sure City of Ember will be at all worthwhile, but I am positive that Murray's presence will make it at least slightly more so--just like Lawry's Seasoning Salt makes that burnt popcorn just palatable enough (salty enough) to choke down so you don't have to go back to the store. Just look at that expression. Couldn't you force down the film equivalent of some week-old KFC with enough of that? Sure you could.
More new City of Ember shots here. Trailer here. Bizarrely sexual Lawry's commercial under the cut.
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