Two actors, two faces and a two sided story. I smell an Oscar nod for Gosling…I see audience rejection of the film.
It’s October. A time when Ghoulies, Ghosties and Long-Legged Beasties roam the earth. But if you start seeing the ghost of a World War II Japanese kamikaze fighter pilot, you’re probably Enoch Brae, the central character of Restless. And that’s not a bad place to be. Enoch is an odd kid. If your name is Enoch [...]
“Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots” get their day on the big screen in Real Steel, a movie that transcends the one-joke premise and is instead a heartwarming, fist-pumping mechanized fairy tale of a father and son coming together amid some of the baddest technology you’ll ever wish was really available. Not to bad for a [...]
With less than a month left until the release of his film Shutter Island, director Martin Scorsese is already hot on the trail of a new project. Scorsese is currently in talks to direct a screen adaptation of the children’s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which follows Hugo, an orphan living in a train [...]
Disney recently announced that every Wednesday from now until Alice in Wonderland is released on March 5th will be “Wonderland Wednesdays,” where the studio will reveal clips, featurettes, and concept art from the film. The studio followed through on this, and the first Wonderland Wednesday item was a snippet of scenes featuring the Mad Hatter [...]
Although James Cameron’s Avatar may continue to sweep the box office and garner stellar word-of-mouth reviews, there remain those who are less than pleased with the visually stunning pic. While most of the world’s cinemas have released Avatar with a PG-13 rating attached, Fox will be releasing the film in Italy with unrestricted access. Generally, [...]
Actor/Comedian/Producer Chris Rock has seen a decent amount of success in the past few years, thanks largely to the well-received TV show Everybody Hates Chris. The show is based on Rock’s life growing up, focused on his family and the goings-on in their working-class neighborhood. In his newest project, Rock won’t be straying too far [...]
It’s been almost 30 years since the original Clash of the Titans hit the big screen, and now we’re only a few months away from the release of the new version of the film. As with all movies, we have to satisfy our curiosity about Clash of the Titans with trailers and images until it [...]
According to a recent press release by the IMAX Corporation, the company’s current draw, Avatar, is absolutely shattering IMAX box office records. In just ten days, the film has already taken in $39 million worldwide, making $8.8 million domestically and $3.6 million internationally in its second weekend. The $8.8 million from IMAX showings counts for [...]
While 20th Century Fox may have cleaned up as far as international sales went in 2009, it was Warner Bros. that swept the competition domestically. Despite starting the year off with several films that saw lukewarm success–Watchmen, Observe and Report, Terminator:Salvation–the summer’s big hits of The Hangover and the most recent Harry Potter both brought [...]
2009 was a pretty good year for 20th Century Fox, and the release of Avatar in the final weeks of the year gave the studio an extra boost in profits. While Fox did well domestically, it was overseas that they really knocked out the competition. Thanks partially to the $405 million brought in internationally by [...]