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Box Office Weekend: Box Office Gain for Mild Critical Pain as Michael Bay’s Caper Takes Top Spot
To say that Pain & Gain is getting mixed critical praise is perhaps an understatement; it is Michael Bay’s best reviewed movie since Transformers, but then, Transformers was not a critical success. Bay, however, can make money despite critics, and his newest true story crime caper is no exception. On a low (for Bay anyway) budget of only $26 million, Pain & Gain has already made an estimat...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Up, Up and Away with Man of Steel
With the release of Iron Man 3 less than two weeks away, the beginning of the 2013 summer movie season is almost in sight. Apart from some occasional bright spots, this has been a pretty boring spring for movies, so the beginning of summer can’t get here soon enough. And this week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ takes another look at one of my most anticipated films of this sum...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Living in Oblivion Not Such a Bad Thing
Tom Cruise may have been the best thing going for the science fiction action film Oblivion, which has only been getting lukewarm critical reception, but it still took the box office weekend easily. Costing $120 million, it made an excellent head start against its costs domestically with an estimated $38.2 million, though foreign box office has already made it a success with an additional $112 mill...[Read More]
Enter to Win Passes to An Advance Screening of Pain & Gain!
CinemaNerdz readers have a chance to receive complimentary passes to a preview screening of Pain & Gain, the new film from director Michael Bay, starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. For your chance to receive complimentary passes to see the film at the Emagine Novi in Novi, Michigan (Emagine Novi, 44425 W. 12 Mile Rd., Novi, MI 48377) on Tuesday, April 23rd at 7:00 PM, just sc...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Neill Blomkamp is Back with Elysium
We’re midway through April, and I hope that everyone made it through tax day with their sanity intact. And there’s only about two weeks left before the summer movie season finally gets underway. This week’s Trailer Trashin’ examines our first look at one of my most anticipated lower-profile films of the summer, writer/director Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium. Premise: In the...[Read More]