Box Office Weekend: The Butler Scores a Four-Day Three-Peat - CinemaNerdz - Part 160
Box Office Weekend: The Butler Scores a Four-Day Three-Peat
Taking out Labor Day earnings, Lee Daniels’ The Butler would have fallen to a respectable second place finish. But some extra income gave it a second (or third) life and the top spot for the third week in a row with an estimated $20 million. It’s nearest competition, the concert film One Direction: This is Us would have been the top finisher if not for the holiday weekend, earning an estimated $18...[Read More]
Win Tickets to an Advance Screening of Insidious: Chapter 2
CinemaNerdz readers have a chance to receive complimentary passes to a preview screening of Insidious: Chapter 2, the new film starring Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne. For your chance to receive complimentary passes to see the film at the Uptown Palladium in Birmingham, Michigan on Wednesday, September 11th at 7:30 PM, just scroll down to the “Enter to Win” link further down on this pag...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Mount Vesuvius Goes Boom in Pompeii
It’s the last week of August, and that means the end of the summer movie season is finally here. But as any educated consumer of film can tell you, movies that emphasize spectacle over substance are in no way limited to the summer months. And this week’s Trailer Trashin’ is a great example of this, with our first look at this coming February’s historical action-adventure Po...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: The Butler Buttles to the Top Once More
Well, perhaps “buttle” is not a real word, but the money Lee Daniels’ The Butler is bringing in at the box office most certainly is. At an estimated $17 million, it won the weekend handily, seconded only by We’re the Millers, which made an estimated $13.5 million. Nothing else even came close; falling well short of the $10 million mark (a bad sign considering three of them are new). The Mortal Ins...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: It’s Raiders of the Lost Art in The Monuments Men
At long last, this Friday sees the American release of The World’s End, my last must-see film of the summer. And with the end of August less than two weeks away, it’s high time we start looking ahead to the movies coming our way in the fall and winter. In that spirit, this week’s Trailer Trashin’ column looks at what could be one of the big films of the Christmas season, Ge...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Other Debuts Get Served by The Butler
Despite (or because of) Oprah Winfrey’s recent controversy in Switzerland, her new film, Lee Daniels’ The Butler, made the strongest bid for the box office with an estimated $25 million, almost enough to give the $30 million film a profit over the weekend (and get in good with critics). However, the two other big new releases of the week fared much less successfully; Kick-Ass 2 received poor revie...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: The Mighty Avenger Returns in Thor: The Dark World
Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium opened this past weekend, and while it hasn’t received the near-universal acclaim of its predecessor District 9, by most accounts it is pretty good. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get out to see the movie over the weekend, but I plan to see it sometime this week. This week’s new Trailer Trashin’ column takes another look at one of my most ant...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Filmgoers Give Their Halves to the Have-Nots as Elysium Steals the Box Office
Although not receiving quite the high praise lavished on his previous District 9, director Neill Blomkamp still did well enough with his next outing Elysium, taking the top spot and earning an estimated $30.4 million. It still has much ground to make up, its $115 million budget perhaps as far out of reach as the film’s space station, but it was still enough to hold three other debuts to second pla...[Read More]
The Five Greatest Pre-J.J. Abrams Star Trek Movie Scenes
With the release of the second Star Trek feature from director J.J. Abrams, Star Trek Into Darkness, earlier this summer it seems like as good a time as any to have some fun and remember the best Star Trek movie scenes from earlier films that are, well, just plain fun. I would assume that by now, you’ve at the very least seen one of the Abrams-helmed Star Trek films. Critical reaction for Star Tre...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: They Messed with the Wrong Mexican Again in Machete Kills
First off, let me apologize to you, dear readers, for getting this week’s column to you so late – it’s been crazy busy on my end, and this got away from me. In happier news, over the weekend, I finally saw The Wolverine, and I have to say that I liked it more than I thought I would. More importantly, this week finally sees the release of Elysium, which I am planning to see as soon as I...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: 2 Guns Beats Two Claws
Though it is getting only middling reviews, 2 Guns made the top spot at the box office, making a good bid on its $61 million budget with an estimated $27.4 million. It was not as good a debut as The Wolverine, which had to settle for second and a heavy drop-off, earning an estimated $21.7 million. While already a money maker worldwide, it remains to be seen (though likely) if it will be a domestic...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Keanu Reeves Leads Japanese Warriors in 47 Ronin
[dropcap]I[/dropcap] spent a lot of time at the movies this past weekend. On Friday, I finally got to see Pacific Rim again, and it was just as much fun seeing it a second time. And on Sunday, I saw The Conjuring with a friend, and while I’m certainly not an authority of any kind on horror films, I thought it was quite good. We’re almost to the beginning of August, and the summer movie...[Read More]