Archive for November, 2008
Assessing The Weekend: I Was A Teenage Emo Vampire
I guess my prediction of the second biggest weekend of the year was wrong. Overall, $156,677,936 was spent at the box office this weekend, making the it eight biggest of the year.
Tags: audience, box office, budget, competition, estimate, marketing, opening, prediction, vampire, weekend
Gattaca: Beware The Man With Dirty Genes
As long as there have been people, there’s been a desire to change the way we are. We’ve found ways to manipulate some of these things- dye our hair, wear colored contacts, exercise to get stronger, train to run faster. But wouldn’t it be nice if we were just born that way? We could have the inate ability to run a four minute mile or grow to exactly six feet five inches or have strawberry blond hair. And not only tweak our physical traits, but be born disease-free and without the chance of developing disease later in life. It’s every parent’s dream- to have a physically perfect child molded to their own specifications.
Tags: ability, death, disease, DNA, identity, money, Society
Public Domain Movie Of The Week: The Fast And The Furious
The first The Fast and the Furious is about a man named Frank Webster who escapes from prison after being convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. He kidnaps Connie, a race car driver, who was recently banned from a California to Mexico race because, like most exciting things in 1955, the race was deemed too dangerous for women.
Tags: budget, car, Chase, crime, driver, prison, race, Roger Corman
Weekend Predictions: 11-21-08
I think we’re in for the second biggest movie weekend of the year, with Bolt and Twilight opening and Madagascar 2 and Quantum of Solace still out there.
Tags: box office, budget, business, Harry Potter, opening, prediction, release, screens, vampire, WALL-E, weekend
Lost Genre: Mad Dash
A Mad Dash is easily identified- it’s a comedy with a cast full of famous actors, celebrities, and comedians who are all frantically chasing after some prize.
Tags: athlete, cameos, car, Comedy, Hollywood, premise, race, Run, three stooges, zany
Assessing The Weekend: Quantum Of Box Office
For the first time since the middle of August, moviegoers spent more than $100 million at the movies on back-to-back weekends.
Tags: box office, James Bond, opening, prediction, release, screens, series, ticket, weekend
Public Domain Movie Of The Week: Night Of The Living Dead
The modern zombie, the mindless, shambling, flesh- and brain-eating undead ghoul, was born in Night of the Living Dead.
Tags: Dead, Horror, remake, splatterfest, zombie
4 Totally Awesome Movies Based On Board Games, And 1 Crappy One
In honor of the announcement that Ridley Scott is going to direct a movie based on Monopoly, I’ve compiled a list of the greatest movies based on board games.
Tags: award, death, disgust, Dragon, game, Horror, Monopoly, monster, parody, prodigy, War
Weekend Predictions: 11-14-08
The title says predictions, but there’s really only one prediction to make. This weekend’s lone, lonely new wide release is the 22nd entry in the James Bond pantheon, Quantum of Solace.
Tags: character, commercial, formula, James Bond, opening, prediction, series, weekend
Ridley Scott To Roll The Dice On Monopoly
It is with total WTF stunned puzzlement that I pass along that Scott is attached to direct a movie based on the Monopoly board game.
Tags: adaptation, artist, board, director, game, money, Monopoly, precedent, studio
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