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]
The videogame-to-movie adaptation Doom bombed at the box office. One of the major factors was that the game on which it was based, a solitary marine fighting wave after wave of demons that had come to Mars through a portal from Hell, was turned into a squad of marines fighting mutants. Essentially, what made the game worth playing was completely stricken from the plot. So, is it any wonder that on...[Read More]