Sep 22 2008 People Were Loving 'Lakeview Terrace' This Weekend
People paid to see these movies over the weekend:
1. Lakeview Terrace - $15.6 million. Maybe we should start making every Lifetime Original Movie concept into a Samuel L. Jackson film.
2. Burn After Reading - $11.3 million--the best take ever for a movie about ocular chlamydia.
3. My Best Friend's Girl - Congratulations, Dane Cook, you got people to pay you for playing an even worse version of yourself again. ($8.3 million)
4. Igor - Sorry, Igor 2: HumpBack 2 the Castle, you just got cancelled. ($8 million)
5. Righteous Kill - $7.7 million. That's fine, though. The studios will make all their money in merchandising when Righteous Kill shirts become the Scarface shirts for the old, retired thug crowd.
Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]
Sep 15 2008 Coen Brothers Beat Women, Tyler Perry
On a weekend with four new wide releases, audiences saw each of them to varying degrees.
1. Burn After Reading - $19.4 million, the kind of mediocre results you'd expect from a country that hates reading but loves burning things.
2. Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys - A Tyler Perry-possessive $18 million.
3. Righteous Kill - $16.5 million, shaming all those people who said De Niro and Pacino couldn't fill up half to three-quarters of a theater anymore.
4. The Women - I knew this would be pretty big when I went to the theater and saw all those people in line dressed as women. ($10.1 million)
5. The House Bunny - How is this the only non-new release left in the top five? No one wants to see Bangkok Dangerous twice? ($4.3 million)
Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]
Aug 18 2008 'Righteous Kill' R-Rated Trailer: Pacino and De Niro Do Whatever They Want
Here's the new effin' & jeffin'-filled trailer to Righteous Kill, a film only notable for the presence of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, two actors once considered impressive to watch. I like how you can tell both of them have completely abandoned the idea of taking direction. Just from this trailer, you get a pretty clear image of what the set was like: Pacino shouting at the camera guy, "You, with the picture machine, keep up, 'cause Bobby and I are gonna be quick, and we don't do take-twos!" The director just sits there with his head in his hands, "God, why do they keep reasserting how much they like guns? We know they like guns."
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Mar 11 2008 'Righteous Kill' Trailer: De Niro, Pacino Acting Tough
You ever wonder what it would be like to get modern screen legends Robert De Niro and Al Pacino to star as partners in a classic cop story? From this trailer, it looks like it's a lot like when you let two old guitar legends improvise--producing a meandering, two-hour long riff that no one wants to listen to--except with more acting like a tough guy.
The director probably said something like, "You guys freeform, do your schtick, whatever you want--we'll give Leguizamo or 50 Cent some lines that will sort it out in the end." We'll see how that works out, but still, nice call throwing the Rolling Stones song in the trailer, giving the vague impression this might be a sub-par Scorsese film.
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Nov 8 2007 'Righteous Kill' Preview - With De Niro and Pacino!
Speak of the devil (the devil being corrupt cop thrillers), it's another corrupt cop thriller! But Righteous Kill, as its preview will shove in your face, holds the distinct honor of starring screen legends Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, together for probably the last time until they found a Godfather II-themed retirement home.
The preview also features 50-Cent and a thumping backing track of some kind of electro-metal, and screaming. It's like they're trying to pull in fans of the greatest actors of a generation, but also don't want to lose that coveted angsty 8th grader demographic.
Thanks for the tip, Adam.
Righteous Kill Preview [Cinema Notizie]
Nov 7 2007 'Righteous Kill' Recreates 'Heat' With Old Guys
As seen with Sylvester Stallone pumping his decrepit frame into a muscled, steroid-filled, grunting mass to reprise roles in Rambo and Rocky Balboa, and with Harrison Ford proving that, with the proper medications and pulley arrangements, he can, in fact, still crack a whip in Indiana Jones, there's nothing an aging actor likes more than to show the world "I've still got it! (though it's now grossly wrinkled.)"
Now, desperate to reclaim the glory of Heat, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro are again sharing the screen in Righteous Kill, and sharing another private drink.
"You think we're too old to sit comfortably across from each other at a table? Wrong. Though our faces now look like loose rubber masks, here we are, just like in Heat! Remember?"
"What year is it, 1995? Might as well be, from the looks of us! Still got it!"
First Official 'Righteous Kill' Pics! [Cinematical]
Oct 26 2007 Pacino and De Niro Together for 'Righteous Kill', Dude
Isn't it great to see two of cinema's greatest actors, stars of Heat, together again, fat and old, in a movie no one will remember? It's called Righteous Kill, about two NYC detectives hunting down a vigilante on the force, and it was apparently titled by a ninja turtle.
