Re-releasing a Disney movie to theatres, in theory, should be a fairly safe bet for attracting the attention of a princess-obsessed five year old, but I was still a little apprehensive about taking my daughter Charley to see the recent 3D re-release of Beauty and the Beast. Why? There are two reasons – first, even though my daughter has seen Beauty and the Beast on DVD and even met Belle at Disney...[Read More]
Vampires and werewolves won the weekend, but this time, Stephenie Meyer had nothing to do with them; the bloody Underworld: Awakening led the box office this time around, and though critics aren’t saying much good about it, moviegoers gave the $70 million budgeted film an estimated $25.4 million opening. While profits overall still continue to tumble since the beginning of the year, it was still a...[Read More]
It may not be the traditional holiday weekend, with few getting time off for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday as, say, Memorial Day…but for the three day take, the “one last job” crime film Contraband walked away the winner with an estimated $24.1 million. Though this is a definite drop in overall take from last week, perhaps it says something about the current crop of films that the next ...[Read More]