I feel like Avatar Day was only a few days ago (it was), and already midnight showings for Avatar on the morning of December 18th are selling tickets at AMC theaters, over four months away from the release of the film. Considering the relatively lukewarm reception that Avatar Day had — I’m basing this on the fact [...]

Critics be damned. Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen made $112 million over this past weekend, making it the first $100 million weekend winner of 2009. This brings the action extravaganza to a staggering total of $203.8 million domestically, but love of giant fighting robots isn’t only held by Yanks. Globally Transformers 2 has [...]

Many sorts beamed their way towards their local movie theater or IMAX in order to see the latest sci-fi romp of the ongoing franchise in J.J. Abram’s Star Trek, and boy did they prove it. Not only did Star Trek beat out The Dark Knight in the highest box office gross for IMAX showings across [...]

Paramount and Dream Works have gone ahead and announced Transformers 3 will have a release date of July 11, 2011. This is the first anyone is hearing of a sequel when the sequel of the first one isn’t even out yet. Paramount insiders have downplayed the importance of the movie. The studio apparently wanted to [...]

Although Watchmen is an adult-orientated comic book adaptation about a masked vigilante called Rorschach who delves into the mysterious murder of Edward Blake, it still managed to rake in $55.7 million in the box office. Opening up to a rivaling record amount of sold out IMAX theatres next to The Dark Knight, it was purely predictable that [...]

Variety is reporting that Leonardo Dicaprio will star in “Inception”, the next film from director Christopher Nolan. Nolan is the director of such films as “The Dark Knight” and “The Prestige”.  Shooting on the film will not begin until later this year and the film is due for a summer 2010 release date. The contract [...]

The Thought Pot will be a weekly news column bringing you the latest in tinseltown news. From more geeky news about the upcoming project The Expendables to the latest on our beloved Dark Knight, here it is! Its All About The Billions Just announced on Friday, The Dark Knight hit the prestigious billion dollar club. [...]

It’s no mystery that many found 2008 to be a relatively lackluster year, with the majority of the films released receiving mediocre reviews at best.  So, whenever a really good or truly great movie came along, it was a real delight.  Such movies included titles like Iron Man and of course, The Dark Knight.  But [...]