Sep 28 2009 'Cloudy with Meatballs' Has Same Stay-With-You Power of Ikea Meatballs
Your weekend box office top five:
1. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - $24.6 million, only dropping 18.8%. I bet Chef Boyardee is kicking himself right now for not working out some kind of tie-in.
2. Surrogates - $15 million. And thus, Bruce Willis loses his shot at becoming a big-name action star.
3. Fame - $10 million. You know how there's that Fame song where the kids sing about how, through being famous, they could live forever? These kids are not going to live forever.
4. The Informant! - $6.9 million. Did you remember to shout the title when asking for your ticket?
5. Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself - $4.8 million. Phew, I'm glad this was in the top five again as a reminder: I was about to offer Tyler Perry bad assistance! I sure would have looked silly.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Sep 25 2009 The Weekend in Film Releases
This weekend, know what movie you're going to see before you dash into a cinema to escape an evil gang of karate experts. Study this list:
Surrogates
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Starring: Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Radha Mitchell
Good if you want to see: Bruce Willis vs. our new robot population of surrogate people; Bruce Willis with Craig Kilborn's hair for a while, then back to standard Bruce Willis Bald.
Fame
Director: Kevin Tancharoen
Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, I assume the rest of the cast of Frasier
Good if you want to see: kids singing and dancing and doing drama stuff, because Glee just isn't enough to sate your singing/dancing kid needs.
Pandorum
Director: Christian Alvart
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet
Good if you want to see: something like Event Horizon, I think? Maybe more like a shitty Alien, or Sphere?
Apr 3 2009 These 'Fame' People Are Out of the Loop About Getting Famous
Fame worked well enough in 1980, but how am I supposed to believe these characters want to be famous now if they aren't even standing in a line outside Fox? When we have so many reality competitions that can make you famous with only marginal talent, the whole non-stop practice and dedication thing seems so outdated. I mean, from this trailer, the only thing I believe these kids want is to star in a really, really melodramatic Folgers commercial:
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Feb 23 2009 A Few Seconds of a Bunch of Upcoming Movies
If you made it to the end of the Oscars--or more likely, if you dozed off and were awakened by the credit sequence's jamming guitar--the night's reward was a three-minute movie preview sequence. For some of the films (Public Enemies, Whatever Works), it was a first look at scenes from highly-anticipated projects. For others (Old Dogs!), it was the warning: oh god, Robin Williams and John Travolta made some kind of boot camp comedy, and it's called Old Dogs. Here it is:
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