Jul 27 2009 Talking Guinea Pigs Last Weekend's Most Popular Film Subject
Here's last weekend's box office top five. Rattle these numbers off at your next party to show your guests you assign some of your memory to remembering how well The Ugly Truth performed financially.
1. G-Force - $32.2 million. The CGI rodent + speech formula continues to work disgustingly well.
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - $30 million. The star that has all its fan see it opening night burns fastest, Harry.
3. The Ugly Truth - $27 million. Now we can stop those commercials where the characters' actions are arbitrarily assigned gender points? How does Gerard Butler winking earn a point for men?
4. Orphan - $12.8 million. I didn't see this, but I heard about the ending, and it's simultaneously both more out-there and more grounded than I ever would have thought.
5. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - $8.2 million. It seems unfair Orphan got flack for discouraging adoption but Ice Age didn't. Think about if you adopted a kid and had to take them to see Ray Ramano as a mammoth.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Jul 23 2009 It's Coming Attractions Time!
What film will you see with your significant other this weekend, prolonging your dying relationship with two more hours of mutual silence? Here are some options:
G-Force
Director: Hoyt Yeatman
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi, Zach Galifianakis, Tracy Morgan, Will Arnett, Bill Nighy, Sam Rockwell--in other words, people who, besides Nic Cage, you'd wish better for.
Good if you want to see: talking guinea pigs as spies, for whatever reason.
Orphan
Director: Jaume Collet-Sera
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, and introducing Isabelle Fuhrman as Orphan
Good if you want to see: a convoluted argument against adoption; an ending that, from what I've heard, will leave you somewhat confused and unfulfilled
The Ugly Truth
Director: Robert Luketic
Starring: Gerard Butler, Katherine Heigl
Good if you want to see: Romance! Comedy! Misogyny!
Answer Man
Director: John Hindman
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Lauren Graham
Good if you want to see: Romance! Comedy! Jeff Daniels as the eponymous answerer who actually doesn't have all the answers!
In the Loop
Director: Armando Iannucci
Starring: Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, James Gandolfini, Anna "MY GIRL Chlumsky
Good if you want to see: a Middle East war comedy of errors, of sorts.
Mar 16 2009 This 'Orphan' is Almost TOO Symmetrical
That she's only one half a human, split lengthwise, so she's secretly always standing lined up against the end of a mirror, giving the illusion of a full form? Is that what's wrong with Esther? I'm betting it's either that or that she's not biologically related to her adopted family. Anyone else want to take a stab at it?
Orphan Poster [IMPA]
Mar 13 2009 'The Orphan' Trailer: It's the Anti-Adoption Horror Film of the Year!
Scoot over, Damien and Macaulay Culkin; there's a new sadistic child in town, and this puritan-looking little girl is about to scare an entire generation of prospective parents out of ever adopting. Meet The Orphan:
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