Oct 5 2009 Weekend Box Office: Zombies Still Popular Subject Matter
Sorry, Drew Barrymore, no Whip It this week:
1. Zombieland - $25 million. Killing zombies will always be a big crowd pleaser. At least until the zombies populations take over; then we'll probably pander more to them with brain-centric plots.
2. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - $16.7 million. As school cafeterias have proven time and time again, even a chance of meatballs is enough to pull in crowds. The chance of a flimsy Mexican pizza is pretty good, too.
3. Toy Story/Toy Story 2 3D - $12.5 million. Not too shabby, considering humankind had long ago experienced the Toy Stories.
4. The Invention of Lying - $7.4 million. Lying??? Was this about BUSH/OBAMA??? [Whichever you prefer is] NOT MY PRESIDENT! Political.
5. Surrogates - $7.3 million. Why see a movie about surrogates when you can stay in and explore the world of Azeroth on your noble mount?
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Sep 28 2009 'Cloudy with Meatballs' Has Same Stay-With-You Power of Ikea Meatballs
Your weekend box office top five:
1. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - $24.6 million, only dropping 18.8%. I bet Chef Boyardee is kicking himself right now for not working out some kind of tie-in.
2. Surrogates - $15 million. And thus, Bruce Willis loses his shot at becoming a big-name action star.
3. Fame - $10 million. You know how there's that Fame song where the kids sing about how, through being famous, they could live forever? These kids are not going to live forever.
4. The Informant! - $6.9 million. Did you remember to shout the title when asking for your ticket?
5. Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself - $4.8 million. Phew, I'm glad this was in the top five again as a reminder: I was about to offer Tyler Perry bad assistance! I sure would have looked silly.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Sep 25 2009 The Weekend in Film Releases
This weekend, know what movie you're going to see before you dash into a cinema to escape an evil gang of karate experts. Study this list:
Surrogates
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Starring: Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Radha Mitchell
Good if you want to see: Bruce Willis vs. our new robot population of surrogate people; Bruce Willis with Craig Kilborn's hair for a while, then back to standard Bruce Willis Bald.
Fame
Director: Kevin Tancharoen
Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, I assume the rest of the cast of Frasier
Good if you want to see: kids singing and dancing and doing drama stuff, because Glee just isn't enough to sate your singing/dancing kid needs.
Pandorum
Director: Christian Alvart
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet
Good if you want to see: something like Event Horizon, I think? Maybe more like a shitty Alien, or Sphere?
Sep 11 2009 New 'Surrogates' Trailer: Putting All Those Obnoxious Android Model Bus/Subway Ads in Context
Haven't you always wanted to live the life of a Powerade commercial? Everyone has! That's why, in the future, we'll probably live through surrogate, robot bodies that can mountain climb, skydive, and have Craig Kilborn's hair better than any human (besides Craig Kilborn). But what if someone figures out how to MURDER the real humans behind the surrogates??? That's a Bruce Willis movie is what:
Jul 2 2009 Bruce Willis Being Bruce Willisy in 'Surrogates' Poster
Bruce Willis-with-goatee is being concerned in a tube while, below him, Bruce Willis-sans-goatee action figures are manufactured. That's Surrogates. I guess.
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May 22 2009 'Surrogates' Trailer: 'Minority Report' with Androids
If Bruce Willis lived in a future where humans experience their lives by proxy through surrogates--androids that let you become "anyone you want to be"--who would Bruce Willis choose to be?
a. Brad Pitt.
b. Christian Bale.
c. Ashton Kutcher.
d. Himself with Craig Kilborn's hair.
Answer in this trailer for Surrogates:
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