Apr 6 2009 Fast/Furious Combination Still Successful
1. Fast and Furious - $72.5 million? That's ridiculous. I swear, it's like no one's seen Vin Diesel drive a sweet car before.
2. Monsters vs. Aliens - $33.5 million, a 44% drop since last week, probably in response to the lackluster ending. The monsters using a laptop to upload a virus into the alien mothership was pretty far fetched. If Macs and PCs aren't even fully compatible, what are the chances we could plug in a Powerbook and upload a functioning virus?
3. The Haunting in Connecticut - $9.6 million. It's just so hard to take a haunting in Connecticut seriously when we now know Connecticut's greatest threat is its psychotic ape population.
4. Knowing - I am slightly disappointed that Adventureland only made $6 million but Nicolas Cage-predicts-disasters-with-numbers still pulled in $8.1 million in its third week. Such is Cage's power.
5. I Love You, Man - Male-on-male non-sexual affection earns another $7.9 million.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Mar 30 2009 'Monsters vs. Aliens' Had a Great Weekend, Thanks for Asking
1. Monsters vs. Aliens - $58.2 million That expensive 3-D SuperBowl ad seems to have worked out better for Monsters vs. Aliens than it did for whatever Sobe drink those geckos were dancing about.
2. The Haunting in Connecticut - $23 million. Connecticut is to this haunting as New York is to Seinfeld. Believe it.
3. Knowing - $14.7 million. Come on, down to third place in it second week? Do you guys not realize how often Nicolas Cage gives intense, dumbfounded stares in this one? You need to keep seeing it every weekend if we're going to make it our national movie.
4. I Love You, Man - $12.6 million, BRO.
5. Duplicity - $7.6 million, meaning this film is officially not successful enough to warrant creating a cute combination nickname for the hypothetical coupling of Julia Roberts and Clive Owen.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Mar 23 2009 Audiences Just Knew to See 'Knowing'
Your weekend box office results:
1. Knowing - The proven formula of Nicolas Cage running around with a really, really concerned look has paid off yet again: $24.8 million.
2. I Love You, Man - $18 million--a fairly lucrative weekend for bromance, if bromance is a term you use and track the success of.
3. Duplicity - $14.4 million. An American spy played by an attractive American star in a love affair with a British spy played by an attractive British actor is too intriguing a concept not to see (except when obligated to first see the new Nic Cage movie).
4. Race to Witch Mountain - $13 million. Poll: would you rather... a) race to Witch Mountain? b) take your time and enjoy each others company to Witch Mountain. c) don't care.
5. Watchmen - $6.7 million. This is probably my last chance for a really good "Who Watches the Watchmen" joke, and I've got nothing.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Jan 30 2009 'I Love You, Man' Recruitment Poster
First I thought I liked the stylish minimalism of this poster, but now I'm starting to think I just like the familiarity of Jason Segel having my 7th grade haircut. I wonder if his character is also really into Warcraft 2.
I Love You, Man Poster [IMPA]
Jan 19 2009 'I Love You, Man' RED-BAND-DIRTYTIME Trailer
Speaking of J.K. Simmons in things: here's the new trailer for I Love You, Man, this time R-rated--meaning more references to putting mouths in swimsuit sections!
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Dec 17 2008 Nice Try, 'I Love You, Man' Trailer
Be careful watching this trailer: it's deceptive. You see Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Thomas Lennon, and J.K. Simmons reprising his Juno role of "Dad", and you naturally start to believe this should at least be reasonably funny. But once you look back and think about it again, it's just another broad, high concept comedy that's only tolerable because it's somehow not starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as the budding friendship. I feel like I'm a dog and this movie is a pill wrapped in cheese the producers are trying to coax down my throat. Luckily I caught that hint of medicine just before I was going to swallow, so they'll be finding this buried in a couch cushion in a few months.
