MCN Weekend Archive for August, 2010
Wilmington on DVDs: The Magnificent Seven, Date Night, Little Women, Chicago and more …
PICK OF THE WEEK: Blu-Ray The Magnificent Seven (Three and a Half Stars) U.S.; John Sturges, 1960 (MGM) Akira Kurosawa’s classic 1954 battle epic, Seven Samurai was originally distributed in the U.S. under the title The Magnificent Seven. So that’s the title MGM used when John Sturges made the seemingly inevitable Western remake — in…
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Box Office Hell – August 6
The Other Guys|35.6|26.4|27.0|36|38 Inception|18.2|19.3|18|19|18.5 Step Up 3D|17.5|22.8|19|18|19 Dinner for Schmucks|12.4|11.4|13|11|12.2 Salt|11.1|10.2|n/a|10|11.5
Read the full article »Critics Roundup – 8/6/10
The Other Guys|Yellow|Green||| Step Up 3D||Yellow||| The Disappearance of Alice Creed||||| Middle Men|||Yellow||Green The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest||||| Flipped|Green||||Green Lebanon|Green|Green|||Green Cairo Time|Yellow||Green|Green|
Read the full article »Friday Estimates – 8/6/10
The Other Guys| 12.8| 3651| New| 12.8 Step Up 3D| 6.3| 3435| New| 6.3 Inception| 5.4| 3418| -34%| 214.5 Dinner for Schmucks| 3.3| 3004| -61%| 39.5 Salt| 3.2| 3317| -46%| 84.1 Despicable Me| 2.8| -40%| 202.8 Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Killy Galore| 2.1| 3705| -50%| 21.6 Charlie St. Cloud| 1.7| 2725| -70%| 20.5 Toy…
Read the full article »Weekend Estimates – 8/6/10
The Other Guys| 35.7| New| 35.7 Inception| 18.5| -33%| 227.6 Step Up 3D| 15.4| New| 15.4 Salt| 10.9| -44%| 91.8 Dinner for Schmucks| 10.4| -56%| 46.7 Despicable Me| 9.4| -40%| 209.4 Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore| 6.8| -44%| 26.4 Charlie St. Cloud| 4.6| -63%| 23.4 Toy Story 3| 3.0| -42%| 396.2 The Kids…
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: Sweetgrass, A Prophet, Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music, The Ghost Writer … and more
CO-PICKS OF THE WEEK: NEW Sweetgrass (Four Stars) U.S.; Lucien Castaing-Taylor/Ilisa Barbash, 2010 (Cinema Guild) In Sweetgrass, named for the lushly beautiful Montana country in which it takes place, we see the last summer pasturing of the vast sheep herd that once belonged to the Allested ranch in Big Timber: thousands of sheep blanketing the…
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With all due respect for the lives of the guards and inmates slaughtered by New York State Police at the Attica Correctional Facility in 1971, it’s reasonable to assume that American prisons are more hospitable places to spend a few years of incarceration than those in, say, Turkey, Thailand, China, Brazil, South Africa and Northern…
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It was déjà vu all over again as funny buddy cops and stereoscopic hip hoppers joined the summer box office fray. The cruiser bruisers of The Other Guy debuted at the top of the movie charts with an estimated $35.7 million while the foot stompers of Step Up 3D slotted third overall with a disappointing…
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