Apr 13 2009 Either Hannah Montana or Miley Cyrus Win Box Office
I know what you were watching at the theaters this weekend!
1. Hannah Montana The Movie - $34 million. I'm sort of proud I have such a vague understanding of the multiple personas of Miley Cyrus, but at the same time, it's so enormously popular that I also feel really out of touch. This is Tamagatchis all over again.
2. Fast and Furious - $28.8 million. Vin Diesel fans are legion.
3. Monsters Vs. Aliens - $22.6 million. Not every kid wanted to see Hannah Montana. That shit's for girls, dude.
4. Observe and Report - $11 million--now the second highest grossing mall security guard movie in America!
5. Knowing - $6.7 million, meaning, even in its fourth week, Nicolas Cage interpreting worrying numbers beat:
8. Dragonball Evolution - $4.7 million. Yikes!
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
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]
Dec 12 2008 Nicolas Cage Makes Nicolas Cage Faces in 'Knowing' Trailer, Stills
In Knowing, Nicolas Cage has found a pattern of numbers that predicts every major disaster that has or will happen, and you can really tell he's concerned about this discovery. Just look at the Nicolas Cage expressions in these new production photos. Such intensity. Could this simple door (above) be one of the disasters foretold in the numbers? With such a look of chiseled consternation, you can tell Nicolas Cage isn't going to dismiss the possibility.
Here's a new, acting-filled trailer for the film:
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Jun 11 2008 First Look at 'Knowing,' Nic Cage Emoting in Wreckage
USA Today has the above first look at Knowing, the newest piece of overacting and hair-loss-denial from Nicolas Cage, directed by I, Robot's Alex Proyas. In the film, Cage finds a letter in a time capsule buried near a school; in it, a series of numbers identifies prior catastrophes (like 9/11!) and predicts future ones. In this photo, Cage is trying to stop the disastrous finale of Lost: "Seriously, a second plane crash, and Jack saying, 'Here we go again'? That's a terrible ending!"
