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 21 2009 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' Outshines Megan Fox's Physical Form
Your weekend box office report:
1. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - $30 million, a strong debut that reflects America's love of both abundant food and things falling on people's heads.
2. The Informant! - $10.5 million. The Sorderbergh/Damon collaborative team is becoming the new Scorsese/DiCaprio. Except not really as acclaimed.
3. I Can Do Bad All By Myself - $10 million. With the continued success of Tyler Perry proving the viability of play adaptations, I really hope this doesn't lead to someone ever making the popular musical Shrek into some sort of feature film.
4. Love Happens - $8.5 million. You couldn't expect it to make much with such a controversial title.
5. Jennifer's Body - $6.8 million. Diablo Cody should stay out of horror and stick to what she writes best: illegitimate child comedy spoken over hamburger phone.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Sep 18 2009 New Releases: Food Precipitation v. Love Occurring v. Megan Fox's Body v. Informant v. Poet
Would it kill you to get out of the house and see a movie this weekend? Here are some options:
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Starring: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Bruce Campbell
Good if you want to see: falling food; fat kids squealing in delight.
Love Happens
Director: Brandon Camp
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart
Good if you want to see: love happen; the heirs apparent to the Hanks/Ryan throne; the prequel to Affection Exists.
Jennifer's Body
Director: Karyn Kusama
Starring: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody, Johnny Simmons
Good if you want to see: Megan Fox in demon mode; Megan Fox in standard babe mode; what new catchphrases Diablo Cody has in store ("Tweet all about it"?)
The Informant! (limited)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Matt Damon, Buster Bluth, Quantum Leap, The Soup
Good if you want to see: corporate thriller as madcap comedy; fatter Matt Damon.
Bright Star (limited)
Director: Jane Campion
Starring: Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw
Good if you want to see: if John Keats in Love can match Shakespeare in Love's Oscar bait quotient.
Jul 30 2009 'Informant' Poster: Whistle-Blowing Goes Retro
Empire has the new poster for The Informant, Steven Soderbergh's latest that stars Matty D as a bumbling whistle-blower. I feel like the image is imitating a specific movie poster from decades past, but I don't know what movie that would be, so I'm going to say it's imitating when a Looney Tunes character would be tip-toeing into a spooky situation carrying a candle, and their shadow would start moving independently from them. Great reference, Soderbergh.
Jul 1 2009 'The Informant' Trailer: See Matt Damon Bumble in a Mustache
Ever wanted to see Matt Damon's Ocean's Eleven character, incognito in one of his famous disguises, in a movie about a high-level executive-turned-whistle blower? Good, because you'll love Steven Soderbergh's new comedy The Informant, which appears to be pretty much that.
Judging by the trailer, large sections of the script must read "Matt Damon once again makes it blatantly obvious that he is recording conversations":
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Apr 1 2008 The Bakster Joins Soderbergh's 'Informant'
Somehow, despite his turns at romancing Murphy Brown, piloting a starship, and inhabiting the bodies of strangers to right their past mistakes, Scott Bakula's star has never really risen above his hirsute brow. Maybe that will finally change with news the actor has been cast as a lead opposite Matt Damon in Steven Soderbergh's The Informant. Bak will play "Brian Shepherd, an FBI agent who exposes an international price-fixing scheme with the help of biochemist Mark Whitacre (Damon)." Ziggy shows a 95% chance he will continue being popular only among sci-fi nerds and lonely middle-aged women who haven't yet discovered Patrick Dempsey.
Bakula joins Soderbergh's 'Informant' [Variety]
