Jun 9 2008 'Kung Fu Panda' Messes with 'Zohan', Thus Winning Box Office
1. Kung Fu Panda - That this is both making a lot of money and getting pretty decent reviews confuses and angers me. ($60 million.)
2. You Don't Mess with the Zohan - The second-place, $40 million gross could have been much higher had Zohan opened last week, before Sandler's remaining fan base graduated middle school.
3. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - The addition of another $22.8 million brings Indiana Jones to a total gross of $253,026,000. So yeah, George Lucas will order the deluxe veggie burger.
4. Sex and the City - $21.3 million and untold gallons of estrogen.
5. The Strangers - $9.2 million, easily topping competing horror movies The Loose Acquaintances and Let's Get Out of Here: I Think I Met That Dude at a Party, But I Really Don't Want to Talk to Him Again.
Jun 2 2008 'Sex and the City' Seen by Many, Many Women
1. Sex and the City - $55.7 million--and they're spending it all on shoes! Here we go again!
2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - $46 million, a drop in profit that reflects just how frightened the Indiana Jones fans were of the Sex and the City fans.
3. The Strangers - $20.7 million, falling short of the expectation that it would somehow beat two extremely well-known and popular franchises whose fans have waited years for a movie.
4. Iron Man - $14 million, with many re-watching the film to see the after-the-credits scene where Robert Downey Jr. rolls around in money laughing.
5. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - Families looking to avoid sex and violence turned to Prince Caspian, which only contains a couple scenes of an undead lion smiting non-believers, earning $13 million.
May 20 2008 Yet Another 'The Strangers' Poster, Stranger
The new The Stangers poster: giving you something to gesture at when you tell the ticket vendor, "I want to see that one with the bleeding, traumatized woman."
New Strangers poster! [JoBlo]
May 14 2008 'The Strangers' Poster Provides the Motive
"Because you were home" seems like a pretty loose reason to kill. Here are some other nearly-as-arbitrary reasons the strangers might murder you:
- Because we live below you, and you were playing Dance Dance Revolution all night.
- Because you've been sitting on our Facebook friend request for like a week; as if you haven't been online.
- Because you didn't pick up your wiener poopie. You were warned.
- Because we had these masks sitting around, and we've had a few wine coolers.
- Because Scrubs was a rerun tonight, giving us an open half-hour.
- Because Jersey Girl was shit, Tyler.
- Rap music.
The Strangers Poster [IMPA]
Apr 24 2008 'The Strangers' Poster is Scarier Than Sitting on Your Hand for 20 Minutes and...
We tell ourselves there's nothing to fear... but sometimes we're wrong. Sometimes, when we're standing stiffly in the middle of the living room, pointing at our bare feet, the Scarecrow is hiding behind us in the shadows, right by the upright piano we have in our vacation cabin. It's a terrifying thought.
The Strangers Poster [Worst Preview]
Mar 14 2008 'Strangers' Trailer Becomes an Acquaintance
I just got back from the Harvey Dent campaign trail, so there will be a full report coming shortly. In the meantime, here's a trailer for The Strangers, a new horror film in which Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman are terrorized by three masked assailants. To make things worse, they don't even know these perpetrators! (They're strangers.)
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