War Horse
Weekend Box-Office: Mark Wahlberg Smuggles in a Win for Contraband
It may not be the traditional holiday weekend, with few getting time off for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday as, say, Memorial Day…but for the three day take, the “one last job” crime film Contraband walked away the winner with an estimated $24.1 million. Though this is a definite drop in overall take from last week, perhaps it says something about the current crop of films that the next ...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: The Devil Inside Possesses Box Office, If Not Much Else
If reports are to be believed, many who bought tickets to see The Devil Inside may claim the Devil made them do it, as the film has scored poorly with critics and theatergoers alike. Nevertheless, that didn’t stop it from making a killing in its weekend debut, earning an estimated $34.5 million on a paltry $1 million budget. Things dropped off a bit for the second and third place films, Mission: I...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Continues the Impossible
With two holiday weekends in a row, it’s been a good time at the theaters…maybe not as much as the studios would like, but the green has still been good to the big hits of the season. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol continues to earn top marks, with an estimated $38.3 million for the top spot once again, and in three weeks has nearly earned back its $145 million budget in domestic revenue alo...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Sneaks Its Way to the Top
This Christmas weekend almost had an unhappy ending, but an extra fourth day spelled good news for this year compared to last; an estimated $184.7 million was made this weekend, almost $70 million of it from this Monday alone (as compared to 2010, which made $20 million more in the three day weekend than this year did). Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows fell to second with an estimated $31.8 mill...[Read More]
Movie Review: War Horse
It’s a curious thing to think that an award-ready Steven Spielberg World War I epic based on a raved-about stage play that is being released at Christmas could somehow still be considered under-the-radar. Coming just one week after his collaboration with Peter Jackson’s special effects team, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse may suffer from this rare double release feat by being the more modestl...[Read More]