Jul 21 2008 'Dark Knight' Deemed Best Movie Ever by Internet Populace, Money
Weekend box office figures, you lucky dogs!
1. The Dark Knight - Apparently some sort of Batman thing opened this weekend, and it made $155.3 million, breaking every record for everything. Also, according to the distinctive group known as "people with the internet," it's the best movie ever made.
2. Mamma Mia! - $27.6 million, because your mom saw it.
3. Hancock - Some people refuse to believe anyone but Will Smith could be mankind's hero. These people saw Hancock, earning it $14 million.
4. Journey to the Center of the Earth - $11.9 million, because your illegitimate child saw it.
5. Hellboy II: The Golden Army - $10 million. Bad month to come out, everything that isn't Batman.
Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]
Jul 14 2008 'Hellboy' Heats Up Weekend, Because Hell is Typically Depicted as Very Hot
Weekend box office numbers!
1. Hellboy II: The Golden Army - $35.9 million, beating the first film's opening by over 12 million despite not using any of my brilliant advertising strategies.
2. Hancock - $33 million, but it could have been so much more if only "Big Willy" had made a bland rap for this one. Is he done with that?
3. Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D - $20.6 million, surely missing the top spot due to its bigoted, cyclops-excluding marketing campaign. One should not need binocular vision to enjoy a film.
4. Wall-E - $18.5 million. Has the summer's cute robot bubble burst???
5. Wanted - $11.6 million. Wait a minute.... where's Eddie Murphy Alien inside Eddie Murphy Ship?
Oh...
7. Meet Dave - $5.3 million. Yeah, that's right. Eff you, Meet Dave.
Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]
Jul 9 2008 What's With All the Eagle Apparel in This Japanese 'Hancock' Poster?
I still haven't seen Hancock, so someone will have to help me with this one. Does Will Smith derive his powers from the flight of eagles? Is Japanese box office success contingent on the presence of matching, bird-themed t-shirts and pendants? It just seems like a strange decision to so consciously make. "For the Japanese poster, put him in the eagle shirt. Oh, and also find a gold pendant that has that exact same eagle on it. We really want this thing to scream 'eagle.'"
And does the movie end with the world ending in some grandiose, biblical way? Because that also appears to be happening.
Hancock Poster [IMPA]
Jul 7 2008 Will Smith Shows He's Still Got It ('It' Being the Ability to Draw Crowds with Mediocrity)
It's weekend box office result time!
1. Hancock - In his version of a fireworks display, Will Smith dropped by once again this July 4th to deliver some primal entertainment to the waiting masses that ultimately left them saying, "Is that it?" ($66 million weekend, $107 million since Wednesday.)
2. WALL-E - $33.4 million as audiences flocked to see the riveting trailer to Fly Me to the Moon.
3. Wanted - $20.6 million for the Jolie-Pitt baby fund!!! (James McAvoy and Common probably also get a cut.)
4. Get Smart - A $11.1 million gross, finally earning back all the money spent on covertly adding mandarin orange artificial flavoring to Sierra Mist.
5. Kung Fu Panda - $7.5 million for the Jolie-Pitt baby fund!!! (Jack Black and computers probably also get a cut.)
Jun 3 2008 'Hancock' is Poignant, Particularly on 'Ellen'
Hancock may be getting billed as an action-comedy about a drunk, homeless superhero, but it also has a dramatic, poignant side. So when Will Smith visited Ellen last week, he brought a dinner scene clip sure to make those dance-happy ladies in the audience personally hand him an Oscar--if they could see him through their tears! In it, Hancock explains that he's an amnesiac, how he got his name (a Which Founding Father Are You? Facebook quiz), and that he stopped aging 80 years ago, at precisely the current age of Will Smith. The previously-reserved-for-homemakers clip is under the cut.
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May 2 2008 New 'Hancock' Trailer, Hancock
One of the largest oversights in comic book history is that, despite writers and artists creating some of the most memorable, enduring characters in pop culture, no one ever bothered making a superhero whose power was acting exactly like Will Smith. We can hardly blame them. Who could have anticipated the success of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, or the limitless potential of its young star? But sadly, it has meant that Will Smith has never been granted the opportunity to act in a blockbuster superhero movie, and get all sassy up in it. Writer Vincent Ngo and director Peter Berg have corrected the blunder with Hancock, in which Smith plays a down-and-out superhero with the powers of flight, super-strength, super-invulnerability, and super-acting-like-Will Smith. He may also have the power to make people say his name a ridiculous number of times, if this new trailer is any indication.
Jan 28 2008 Will Smith Wearing Leather for 'Hancock'
From the trailer, I was never clear on whether Will Smith would don a traditional costume in his hobo-superhero flick, Hancock, or if they considered it funnier to have him fight crime exclusively in filth. This shot from Ropes of Silicon has cleared that up, revealing that Smith will wear a fashion mash-up of the biker leather of X-Men and the bespectacled smugness of Kanye West. Try to figure out what equivalent line to Men in Black's "I make this look good" they'll come up with.
First Look at Will Smith's Superhero Outfit [Ropes of Silicon]
Jan 2 2008 AM Poster Post: 'Hancock' Explores Hobo/Hero Duality
You can tell Will Smith is a superhero because he has the gold-tinged reflection of a metropolis in his goggles, just like the old Spider-Man posters. And you can tell he's homeless because he's filthy and unshaven, like all bums.
Hancock Poster [IMPA]
Dec 17 2007 'Hancock' Teaser Trailer Sure To Depress Hopeful Homeless Population
I'm a fan of mocking and exploiting the homeless for personal amusement as much as the next insensitive, non-homeless person, but with Hancock, Will Smith may have pushed it too far. As funny as the idea of a homeless guy with superpowers may be, if a homeless guy were to see it on-screen (like with his face pressed against your living room window, watching it on your TV), it would surely break what little spirit remains in his hollow, filthy cavern of a soul. I mean, he probably gave up on the idea of getting a job, or even winning the lottery, long ago. Just one insane, utterly implausible hope remains: "maybe I'll get superpowers, and fly out of homelessness." The thought probably never occurred to him that he could be both superpowered and homeless. Nice job, Will.
And, let's be honest, you know if you gave a bum superpowers he'd just waste them on drugs and alcohol.
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