Universal Pictures’ “Hop” is apparently…still hopping. The top weekend box office “Hop” earned over $21 million, a drop of 42.2 percent from the previous weekend. The earnings brought its total gross to $68 million over the past weeks. The Warner Brothers Pictures’ comedy remake “Arthur” earned $12.6 million for the second position. The remake film starred Russell Brand, Helen Mirren and Jennifer Garner. It is the remake of the 1981 film that starred Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli about an irresponsible heir who falls in love with a woman his family doesn’t approve. The action film “Hanna” received $12.3 million for the number three spot this weekend. The Focus Features’ action film is about a young teenage assassin who is being tracked by ruthless government agents. The film starred Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett. “Soul Surfer” earned $11.1 million for the number four position. The film based is based on a true story...
- 4/10/2011
- LRMonline.com
By Christopher Stipp
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The Phoenix Film Festival Contest
It’s back again for those of us living in the land of cacti and oppressive heat. Time to break out the lanyards and the program guide to find out which upcoming film needs to be seen. One of the benefits of this festival being here in the valley is that unlike Sundance and Tribeca the lines and weather aren’t an impediment to seeing some great films from some great filmmakers.
From big to small, this festival is a nice cheese plate when comparing it to heavyweight entrees like Cannes or Toronto. And if you’re interested in going gratis to see four films at no cost then please e-mail me at Christopher_Stipp@yahoo.com...
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Check out my other column, This Week In Trailers, at SlashFilm.com and follow me on Twitter under the name: Stipp
The Phoenix Film Festival Contest
It’s back again for those of us living in the land of cacti and oppressive heat. Time to break out the lanyards and the program guide to find out which upcoming film needs to be seen. One of the benefits of this festival being here in the valley is that unlike Sundance and Tribeca the lines and weather aren’t an impediment to seeing some great films from some great filmmakers.
From big to small, this festival is a nice cheese plate when comparing it to heavyweight entrees like Cannes or Toronto. And if you’re interested in going gratis to see four films at no cost then please e-mail me at Christopher_Stipp@yahoo.com...
- 4/4/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
Here's a look back at Christmas weekend through the years: 5 Years Ago - 2005 Eight movies entered nationwide release, but King Kong and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe still packed a one-two punch. Kong's second weekend showed some relative weakness by beating Narnia's third weekend by $1.5 million: Kong made $21.3 million (down 58 percent), while Narnia generated $19.8 million (off 38 percent). Fun with Dick and Jane was the biggest new release with $14.4 million, followed by Cheaper by the Dozen 2 at $9.3 million. Memoirs of a Geisha expanded unmemorably to $6.8 million, The Ringer plopped down with $5.2 million, and Munich was unspectacular with $4.2 million (at 532 venues). Three movies had only one day of nationwide play, due to opening on Sunday, Christmas day, and all three were modest: Rumor Has It at $3.5 million, Wolf Creek at $2.8 million and The Producers at $1.6 million. * Weekend Report: 'King Kong' Clings to Christmas...
- 12/26/2010
- by Brandon Gray <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
• Celine Dion has announced that she is pregnant with twins. Wonder if they'll inherit those pipes? (Wonderwall) • Ali-Ollie Woodson of the Temptations passed away this weekend at 58. The Memorial Day Weekend of Death has mercifully come to an end. (PopEater) • Paul McCartney's tour bus was stormed by a rabid mob in Mexico. If our celebrities can't even travel safely in Mexico, how do we expect normal people to be safe? (Starpulse) • Lost star Naveen Andrews has split from his longtime girlfriend Barbara Hershey. It's a sad day for cougar relationships. (Hollywood Life) • Bad news for Middle Earth: director...
- 6/1/2010
- by Celebuzz
- Celebuzz.com
Big Love star, Bill Paxton, recently spoke with that online outlet Bullz-Eye to promote the new season of HBO’s hit series. In the interview he mentioned that he recently had a meeting with producer Kathleen Kennedy about making Twister 2, a direct sequel to the original Twister that also starred Helen Hunt in 1996. The idea began to percolate with Paxton when he visited the Ozarks with Scott Thomson who played Preacher in Twister. Here is what Paxton had to say about the project:
“We spent the night, and the next morning we got up and we started tracking the trail of the most famous tornado that ever hit the country, which was the Tri-State Tornado of 1925. It still holds all of the records. It was called the Tri-State because it was a mile wide when it came down from the sky on the afternoon of March 16, 1925, and it was a rural area,...
“We spent the night, and the next morning we got up and we started tracking the trail of the most famous tornado that ever hit the country, which was the Tri-State Tornado of 1925. It still holds all of the records. It was called the Tri-State because it was a mile wide when it came down from the sky on the afternoon of March 16, 1925, and it was a rural area,...
- 1/8/2010
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
Curious George. Harold and the Purple Crayon. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. Classics each and every one. Call it a babysitter in a box or call it a great tool for educating your children, either way what we have on our hands here is 19 hours of story books new and old converted to a digital medium. Some of these genuinely are treasures reincarnated in an animated medium while others are newer stories that have yet to prove their heirloom mettle. However, your average tot won’t care as much about the legacy of a given story as they will about the presentation. A majority of the stories found on these 16 discs have received the full animation treatment from the humble illustration origins, but there are a few in the collection which are little more than scans of the pages being panned over by the camera. Depending on the age...
- 10/31/2009
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
He’s been called everything from the Maestro of the Macabre and the Master of Italian Horror to the “Garlic Flavored Hitchcock”, but true horror fans know him as simply Argento. Last weekend at Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors, Manhattan’s Jacob K. Javitz Convention Center was abuzz over the mere notion of his pending presence, even overshadowing the likes of horror visionaries Tobe Hooper and Guillermo Del Toro.
Dario Argento took the stage at 1:30pm on Sunday June 7th, accompanied by a translator and the woman who literally wrote the book on the Italian filmmaker, author of Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams Of Dario Argento and Film Critic Maitlan McDonagh. McDonagh led the director through a slightly disappointing interview/Q&A that merely managed scratch the surface of the artist’s genius. The lack of depth and substance seemed to be mostly due to McDonagh’s...
Dario Argento took the stage at 1:30pm on Sunday June 7th, accompanied by a translator and the woman who literally wrote the book on the Italian filmmaker, author of Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams Of Dario Argento and Film Critic Maitlan McDonagh. McDonagh led the director through a slightly disappointing interview/Q&A that merely managed scratch the surface of the artist’s genius. The lack of depth and substance seemed to be mostly due to McDonagh’s...
- 6/13/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (The Horror Professor)
- Fangoria
- Ioncinema.com's Weekend Rental feature is our way to connect with film history's past by pulling a title from the vault, revisiting it and relating it to an item in this week's headlines. David Carradine's accidental death reminded us that his career wasn't solely "Kung Fu" related. 1972's Boxcar Bertha featured the actor in a rare Scorsese film that I've yet to see, and in a role that has often been compared to that of the gun-tooting bank robber from Arthur Penn's 1976 Bonnie & Clyde. Click on the box cover for more info on the DVD. From The NYTimes...produced by Roger Corman and directed by Martin Scorsese, Boxcar Bertha is a Bonnie and Clyde-like yarn set during the Depression. The title character, played by Barbara Hershey, links up with union organizer David Carradine (Hershey's real-life lover at the time) after the death of her father. Running afoul of anti-union forces,
- 6/6/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- Weekend Top 10 # Title Gross % Chg. Theaters Weeks Avg Total Distributor 1 Baby Mama $18.3M New 2,543 1 7,184 $18.3M Universal 2 Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay $14.6M New 2,510 1 5,804 $14.6M New Line 3 The Forbidden Kingdom $11.2M -47.5 3,151 2 3,563 $38.3M Lionsgate 4 Forgetting Sarah Marshall $11.M -37.9 2,799 2 3,934 $35.1M Universal 5 Nim's Island $4.5M -20.4 2,977 4 1,519 $39.M Fox 6 Prom Night $4.4M -49.3 2,821 3 1,559 $38.1M Screen Gems 7 21 $4.M -27.5 2,952 5 1,355 $75.8M Sony 8 88 Minutes $3.6M -48.3 2,168 2 1,660 $12.6M Sony 9 Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! $2.4M -31.4 2,159 7 1,116 $147.9M Fox 10 Deception $2.2M New 2,001 1 1,111 $2.2M Fox Though summer doesn’t officially begin until June 21 here in North America, this is widely considered by Hollywood as the last weekend of spring. I guess in Hollywood, summer doesn’t begin with the solstice but rather with Iron Man. And how did people choose to spend this last weekend before the inevitable explosions? Why they decided it was a good time to laugh. Two high profile comedies playing to two
- 4/27/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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