Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Box Office Weekend: Lego Movie Builds Big Opening Weekend
Lego fans rejoice! The Lego Movie has arrived, and with it much to be thankful for. With high critical praise and an estimated $69.1 million in the domestic box office bank, it has already turned a profit against its $60 million production costs. It was enough to put more traditional Hollywood fare to shame, as George Clooney’s war film The Monuments Men fell apart financially and critically. Dire...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Ride Along Keeps Pace With Third Week on Top
Ride Along may not have appeared to be a likely candidate to break a box office record or hold the first-place spot for three weeks (considering its critical reception), but it certainly has done so, and with an estimated $12.3 million pushes close to the $100 million domestic mark, leaving the door closed shut on any other new debuts. It was the only film in the line-up this week to make it into ...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: All Others Take Back Seat to Ride Along
Some things in January do not change. While Ride Along managed to defy the odds and make a record-breaking score in its debut weekend (and continued to do so this weekend with an estimated $21.2 million at the box office), the only big new release fell amid the typical path of January “blockbusters.” I, Frankenstein, did not even breach the top five, landing in sixth with an estimated $8.3 million...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Ride Along Overtakes Lone Survivor
While it has still made out big and done massive business, the audience and critical favorite Lone Survivor fell to second place at the box office with an estimated $23.2 million. Its successor? The buddy cop comedy Ride Along, which did not make the critics happy, but did some nice business for itself with an estimated $41.2 million at the box office…especially nice business considering that is t...[Read More]
Enter to Win Passes to a Preview Screening of Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit
CinemaNerdz readers have a chance to be one of the first to see the new film from director Kenneth Branagh and starring Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner, and Kenneth Branagh Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. For your chance to receive a pair of the fifty (50) complimentary passes we have to see the film at the AMC Livonia in Livonia, Michigan on Wednesday, January 15th at 7:00PM, just scroll do...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Tom Clancy’s Hero Returns to the Big Screen in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
We’re two-thirds of the way through October, and Gravity has just had its third straight week atop the box office, which I think qualifies it as succeeding beyond anyone’s expectations. In the meantime, this week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at this Christmas’ upcoming thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Premise: Jack Ryan (Chris Pine), a young CIA a...[Read More]