Apr 22 2008 'Forbidden Kingdom' Not Forbidden from Winning Weekend Box Office, Because It Did

The Forbidden Kingdom - After taking in $21.4 million, I'd say this Jet Li/Jackie Chan team-up really jump-kicked the competition, alluding to their martial arts skills.

2. Forgetting Sarah Marshall - $17.7 million, hinting that the close friends and co-workers of the talented Judd Apatow may also have talent of their own?

3. Prom Night - $8.7 million, helped in part by me going with a big group of friends. I mean, I definitely could have gone to Prom Night with a date, but I just thought I'd have more fun without all the pressure. It's not because I couldn't get a girl to go with me. Because I could have.

4. 88 Minutes - $7 million, which is pretty good for something that is, by all accounts, terrible.

Nim's Island - I was thinking, the whole fantasies-becoming-reality-on-an-island would be great as an entirely inappropriate softcore porn, but what would it be called? All I could come up with was Nip's Island. I'm sure there's a better option. Anyway, it made $5.7 million.

Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]

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]

Jan 7 2008 'Prom Night' Trailer Sadder Than My Actual Prom Night

As much as I could rant about how awful this slasher remake looks, nothing embodies the overriding theme of Prom Night painfully unnecessary pop-punk cover of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" playing through the trailer. The point of it all seems to be "it's possible to re-do this, so why not?" With none of the campy '80s slasher fun of the original, this version instead focuses on the question of how old a man can be and still play a high schooler (about 30, it seems). Then again, with so much of the movie focusing on high school being the greatest time of one's life, the audience that agrees with that sad sentiment will probably be more than eager to see this pitiful remake, if only that gives them hope they too may one day get to "remake" that failed final play against the Jonesville Panthers.

Thanks for the tip, Kyle.

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