Apr 14 2008 'Prom Night' is Prom King! (Of the Weekend Box Office!)
1. Prom Night - After nearly doubling the profits of its closest competitor with a $22.7 million weekend, I'm ready to concede to the rest of the committee: fine, maybe Slasher Horror was a better Prom Night theme than A Night Beneath the Stars.
2. Street Kings - Coming in a distant second with $12 million, apparently being king of the streets doesn't translate to being king of the box office! Or king of anything else, for that matter. Just the streets.
3. 21 - Falling to $11 million, I'll now likely never get the chance to point how funny and coincidental it is that a movie named 21 made $21 million in a weekend.
4. Nim's Island - $9 million, and I just realized they're pretending "Nim" is a legitimate name. No it isn't. Is it?
5. Leatherheads - A weak $6.2 million leads me to believe there may be a smaller cross-over group between "romantic comedy fans" and "old fashioney football fans" than originally thought.
Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]
Apr 7 2008 '21' Wins Weekend Box Office Again
1. 21 - Another first-place week of $15.1 million paves the way for future odds-beating gambling movies, like Cracking Keno, or If You're Betting Last in Contestant's Row, You Should Probably Just Go with One Dollar.
2. Leatherheads - $13.5 million, which seems like a strangely high number for a movie about a minor Ninja Turtles supporting character.
3. Nim's Island - $13.3 million, the strongest opening ever for a family movie about crippling psychoses.
4. Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! - Dr. Seuss is surely rolling in his grave after this $9.1 million weekend put Horton at over $130 million. Especially since his estate just purchased that diamond-encrusted corpse rotisserie.
5. The Ruins - $7.8 million--the most made from ruins since the team of Chad Bosse and Jennifer Weeks won a pair of Huffy 10-speeds and a Sony Walkman on Legends of the Hidden Temple.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Jan 31 2008 'Leatherheads' Poster Attempt #2: Big Heads & Romance
Whereas the last Leatherheads poster confusingly left out all of the love-triangle elements to make it sports-centric, this one seems to be focusing exclusively on the romance between George Clooney and Renee Zellwegger, not even mentioning that co-star John Krasinski is a third romantic lead. Believe me, I wouldn't have decried the previous one had I know that my other option was seeing overly-airbrushed smugness beside a fourth-wall-breaking attempt at adorability.
New Leatherheads Poster [Empire]
Jan 30 2008 'Leatherheads' Poster Possesses No Rules
I'm confused as to why the marketing department for what appears to be a screwball romantic comedy set around early football decided to push the film's actual football playing as the sole selling point. Superbowl Fever? And now I'm torn which supplement would best finish the tagline: "...in love", "...until she came around", or "...actually, I guess there were still some rules."
The Leatherheads One-Sheet! [ComingSoon]
Dec 14 2007 Let 'Leatherheads' Trailer Take You to Platonic Male Crush Heaven
You think George Clooney's taking any cues from his work with the Coens? The goofy hairstyles, the period setting, the fisticuffs fighting stance and subsequent cross-eyed reaction all seem familiar. Considering the uproarious love triangle story line, Clooney probably just saw Sabrina and thought it would be better with the sensibilities of O Brother, Where Art Thou? And football. Added props for having his gentlemanly referee replicate Stephen Tobolowky's punch reaction from Groundhog Day flawlessly.
I'd say he robbed the fast-talking female reporter character from Hudsucker Proxy, but I doubt Georgie would even bother to watch the Coen movies he doesn't appear in. Besides, we all know that role for Renee Zellweger and the entire movie itself were conceived merely so Clooney here could get himself some steady ex-sex. He's probably immune to that post-coital shame, too. He IS George motherf***ing Clooney, after all.
Leatherheads Trailer [Yahoo!]
