With three major new releases, it is a little surprising that only one ended up in the top three, and barely at that. Cloud Atlas, with an estimated $9.4 million, was the highest grossing of the new releases, but the ambitious multi-era epic only placed third overall, behind the current favorites Argo (an estimated $12.4 million) and Hotel Transylvania (an estimated $9.5 million). While grosses ar...[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]