Is it wrong for a well-regarded biopic to win the weekend over a comedy that was not even screened for critics? Well, of course not, though to say the abysmally reviewed Scary Movie 5 is a bomb is not exactly true. While the Jackie Robinson movie 42, starring Chadwick Boseman in the title role and veteran actor Harrison Ford, made a comfortable estimated $27.3 million, it has yet to make good on i...[Read More]
Hello again, dear readers, and I hope you all got out to see Evil Dead and/or Jurassic Park 3D this past weekend. It’s almost the middle of April, and the beginning of the summer movie season proper is mere weeks away. But this week’s Trailer Trashin’ column takes a look at a very different upcoming summer movie, the Nicolas Winding Refn-directed crime drama Only God Forgives. Pr...[Read More]
This contest has ended! Congratulations to our winner! CinemaNerdz readers have a chance to win a prize package celebrating the release of THE LORDS OF SALEM. To coincide with the release of the new Rob Zombie horror film on April 19th, CinemaNerdz is giving one lucky reader a prize package consisting of: T-shirts, mini posters, nightlights, bumper stickers, wrist bracelets, and luggage tags (see ...[Read More]
Having missed the weekend in which G.I. Joe: Retaliation took charge of the box office thanks to a horrific flu (though to be fair, no movie was responsible for that condition), Box Office Weekend returns only to report that the sequel has been upended, both critically and financially, by the remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror classic Evil Dead. Scoring a strong estimated $26 million in revenue, th...[Read More]