Flight
Box Office Weekend: Skyfall Rises Back to the Top of a Tepid Weekend
With the wide release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey due next weekend and little new to talk about, box office returns are down significantly from the previous week, though James Bond is certainly not frowning. Skyfall returned to the number one spot for the weekend, having been displaced after its opening by The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 for three weeks. Though receipts are expect...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: No Sunset for Twilight
Critics might not have agreed, but there was no stopping the juggernaut finale…The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 held the top spot for the third week in a row. Though its estimated $17.4 million is far below its previous weekend totals, it has not suffered a bit for it, having earned $254.6 million domestically and $702.4 worldwide. If its fortunes continue it could be not only be the highes...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Thanksgiving Weekend Grateful for Some Big Hits
Note: Any estimate given in brackets represents how much the movie made over the five-day weekend; all other estimates represent the three-day weekend. While revenue over the three-day weekend may have been down from last week overall, Thanksgiving added a nice bit of revenue to the box office, with both The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 and Skyfall helping this weekend to be the highest ear...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Breaking Dawn Part 2 Rides Off Into the Sunset With Big Opening Weekend
What more can be said? While The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 did not rise to the opening weekend numbers of New Moon, it certainly came close: the latest (and last) film in the series earned an estimated $141.3 million, more than enough for the series to end on a financial high note (having cost $120 million to make and $199.6 million in foreign box office alone). Critics may have been kin...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Sky’s the Limit for Skyfall as Bond Gets Big Numbers
It has been four years since James Bond last appeared in Quantum of Solace, and while it could not be said the last entry was any less than a box-office smash ($586 million worldwide) and got generally good reviews, MGM’s bankruptcy put the future of the franchise on hold for quite some time. However, it appears it was worth the wait…amid a flurry of good reviews, Skyfall also made good at the box...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Wreck-It Ralph Punches Up Box Office
After last weekend’s lull, the box office returned to the sort of numbers typical for the year, thanks in part to a solid debut for Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph. The animated film brought in audiences in a way that the likes of Cloud Atlas (which landed at sixth this week and an estimated $5.3 million) and Silent Hill: Revelation (which came in tenth with an estimated $3.3 million) failed to do a week ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Flight
The movie Flight is a film you should fly to see. Denzel Washington is of course, nothing less than phenomenal. The nearly 58 year old sexy and suave actor, takes you on an emotional roller coaster in which he reveals nearly all, and by all I mean just short of his entire aging body. Will fans be turned off by this? I don’t think so. If I had to sum up his performance in one word it would be, “hon...[Read More]