The Amazing Spider-Man
Trailer Trashin’: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is Back in The Amazing Spider-Man 2
We’re another week closer to Christmas, and I was very happy to see Frozen take the top spot at the box office this past weekend. In the meantime, this week’s new Trailer Trashin’ examines yet another of next year’s big upcoming films – The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Premise: Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) continues to struggle with balancing his life as a high school student an...[Read More]
The Five Best Marvel Movie Stan Lee Cameos
With the theatrical release of Iron Man 3 this week, fans of all ages will be flooding the multiplexes to witness the return of everyone’s favorite comic book hero. No, I’m not talking about Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. Instead, I’m talking about “The Man” himself, Stan Lee! Stan has been making cameos in just about every Marvel movie since 2000’s X-Men. While these cameos are mainly little no...[Read More]
Weekend Box Office: A Legacy Continues as The Bourne Legacy Opens On Top
Could the Bourne series survive without star Matt Damon? Quite possibly…though rising star Jeremy Renner has proven himself quite handily in other films (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and The Avengers), his The Bourne Legacy has not performed as well with critics as the previous Bourne films. It did have the third highest opening of the four films, earning an estimated $40.3 million, and he...[Read More]
Weekend Box Office: The Dark Knight Need Not Rise; Stays Well Ahead of Competition
While it was not the Avengers-killer that DC was hoping it would be, director Christopher Nolan still brought in big numbers with The Dark Knight Rises, which, with an estimated $36.4 million this weekend, puts its on solid footing as the third most domestically successful film of 2012, and at $733 million in worldwide sales is doing well pretty much everywhere it is being shown. Total Recall, the...[Read More]
Weekend Box Office: Batman and Mammoths Hold Off Ben Stiller and Dancing
It has been a week since the horrific shooting in Aurora, Colorado that turned what was meant to be an exciting night at the movies into a weekend of grieving and sorrow, and the studios decided to avoid releasing their box office estimates in response so as not to capitalize on the event. It’s hard to discuss going back to “business as usual” at a time when the shooter is still splashed across na...[Read More]
Weekend Box Office: Ice Age: Continental Drift Off to Glacier Start
American audiences apparently have decided they’ve had their fill of talking cartoon animals for a little while, as Ice Age: Continental Drift, the fourth in the 20th Century Fox franchise, earned an estimated $46 million, about $14 million shy of DreamWorks’ Madasgascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’s opening weekend (which landed in tenth place this weekend for an estimated $3.5 million). However, th...[Read More]
Weekend Box Office: Big Take for Marvel, McFarlane, and Pixar
Talk about winning streaks…Marvel, already rolling in dough with its major success of The Avengers, opened The Amazing Spider-Man on an off-kilter Tuesday debut. Turns out they may not have needed it: even without that extra cash, it entered at number one on the list with an estimated $65 million. But besides breaking records for Tuesday openers, it actually managed to best its reported $230 milli...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man
There are those that will never be happy with reboots or changes to beloved franchises. Already, The Amazing Spider-Man has been attacked for starting Spider-Man’s story anew once again, despite only ten years having passed since Sam Raimi first helmed Spider-Man and five years since the final entry with Tobey Maguire in the lead role (never mind that no one complained about Christopher Nolan’s Ba...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: The Amazing Spider-Man Fails to Live Up to Its Title
Now that The Avengers has been released – it’s awesome, go see it if you haven’t – and the summer movie season has officially begun, the new trailers will be coming in fast and furious. Attached to Marvel’s comic book opus are the final trailers for the other big superhero films of the summer: The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man. With two such high-profile trailers b...[Read More]