Frankenweenie
Box Office Weekend: Paranormal Activity 4 On Top, But Only Finds Ghosts of Its Former Success
For a movie costing only $5 million, a weekend estimate of $30.2 million would normally be a phenomenal thing…and to be fair, it still is…but for Paranormal Activity 4, that is a drop from the record-setting October release of the previous film, which did $52.3 million during the same weekend last year. Despite the lackluster reviews and diminished returns, the fourth film in the franchise stood a...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Taken 2 Holds Box-Office Captive for Second Week
The critics say Taken 2 is a simplistic rehash, but that has not stopped the movie-going public from making the Liam Neeson-helmed actioner top at the box office for a second week in a row. Its estimated $22.5 million puts the film into a domestic total of $86.8 million, a strong performance not only over its reported $45 million budget, but against almost any film during this quarter…with the exc...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Taken 2 Abducts Box Office
With October underway, it may be a little surprising that the horror film season kicks off with the first-place winner at the box office being an action thriller whose only horrific element may be its reviews. Taken 2 stood tall over the rest with an estimated $50 million, enough to already show net earnings over its $45 million budget, despite being much less well-received than the original film....[Read More]
Movie Review: Frankenweenie
There may seem to be glut of scary-themed animated movies this fall – we’ve already had ParaNorman and Hotel Transylvania – and now we have Frankenweenie, Tim Burton’s comparably modest addition to a genre he had a significant hand in popularizing (with a hat tip to Rankin-Bass, et al). Frankenweenie’s first life was as a thirty-minute live-action short in 1984 by the morbid auteur during his slav...[Read More]