MCN Weekend Archive for July, 2011
Friday Estimates: July 8, 2011
Transformers 3, already over $500 million worldwide, hold well in the US. Newcomer Horrible Bosses looks like it has a big enough lead over the more family-oriented Zookeeper to stay in the #2 slot for the weekend.
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Zookeeper (Two Stars) U.S.: Frank Coraci, 2011 Zookeeper is a Kevin James comedy of almost stupefying dopiness; a movie that, at its worst, makes you feel (to succumb for a moment to Zookeeper’s own vice of ludicrous exaggeration), as if you were sinking slowly, slowly into a huge steaming vat of vanilla pudding, while…
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Our Players|Coming Soon|Box Office Prophets|Box Office Guru|EW|Box Office . com Transformers: Dark of the Moon|46.0|52.1|43.0|46.0|47.0 Horrible Bosses|27.8|23.2|29.0|27.0|25.0 Zookeeper|23.5|27.8|23.0|21.0|23.0 Cars 2 |13.0|13.3|13.0|15.0|15.0 Bad Teacher |8.0|8.4|n/a|n/a|8.3
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: The Rest. Season of the Witch, Hobo With a Shotgun, The Fearmakers, Rope of Sand, The Cocoanuts
Season of the Witch (Two and a Half Stars) U.S., Dominic Sena, 2011 ( 20th Century Fox ) It’s good, or at least encouraging, to find a big movie super production that has at least a little literary-dramatic ambition — and the new Nicolas Cage show, Season of the Witch, certainly has some of that. Produced to a…
Read the full article »Critics Roundup — July 7
Horrible Bosses |||||Red Zookeeper |Red||||Red Septien (NY) ||||Green| Project Nim (limited) |Green||Green|Green|Green The Sleeping Beauty (limited) ||||| Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest (limited) |||Yellow|| John Carpenter’s The Ward |Yellow||||
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs. Pick of the Week: Classic and Blu-ray. Three by Pixar: Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up
PICK OF THE WEEK: CLASSIC AND BLU-RAY Three from Pixar (Blu-ray) For the past few years, the jewels in the Disney Studio’s animated crown have usually been the Pixar movies: those wittily written, brilliantly characterized, wildly popular, critically hailed (well, as long as it’s not Cars 2) feature-length gems from Disney head John Lasseter’s brainchild…
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PICK OF THE WEEK: NEW “13 Assassins” (Three and a Half Stars) Japan: Takashi Miike, 2010 (Magnolia) 13 Assassins. The sons of the Seven Samurai? In an abandoned mountain village that they have turned into a huge, ingenious booby trap, 13 samurai, or free-lance fighters, assembled by an idealistic master warrior, await their enemy:…
Read the full article »DVD Wrapup: Of Gods and Men, Oblivion, Transformers Headmasters, People of Sunday, Trailers From Hell, BloodRayne …
Of Gods and Men: Blu-ray At a time when people who believe they’ve been washed in the blood of the lamb can manipulate the words of Jesus Christ to justify blowing up abortion clinics, sexually abusing children and protecting the predators, denying marriage to same-sex couples and harassing the families of soldiers killed in combat,…
Read the full article »Weekend Estimates – July 4, 2011
NOTE: 4 day Estimates Transformers: Dark of the Moon|116.2 (28,960)|NEW|180.9 Cars 2|31.9 (7,750)|-60%|122.8 Bad Teacher|17.7 (5,800)|-54%|63.1 Larry Crowne|15.7 (5,290)|NEW|15.7 Super 8|9.6 (3,100)|-35%|110.1 Monte Carlo|8.8 (3,570)|NEW|8.8 Green Lantern|8.0 (2,440)|-64%|103.7 Mr. Popper’s Penguins|6.8 (2,370)|-46%|51.8 Bridesmaids|4.4 (3,150)|-31%|153.8 Midnight in Paris|4.3 (4,980)|-15%|34.5
Read the full article »The Weekend Report (4 day) – July 4, 2001
Transformers: Dark of the Moon certainly had an effect on other business with last week’s leader Cars 2 taking a 60% hit and most of the other holdovers dropping at least by half. The newcomers both performed at the low end of projections even if they attracted their target audiences. Larry Crowne not unexpectedly had exit demos that translated into 64% female and 81% older than 35 years of age.
Read the full article »Wilmington on Movies: The Makioka Sisters; Live Today, Die Tomorrow; Onibaba
The Makioka Sisters (Four Stars) Japan: Kon Ichikawa, 1983 Kon Ichikawa’s 1983 film of the famous ‘40s novel by Junichiro Tanizaki — with its subtle and exquisite dramatization of a crucial period in the lives of four beautiful, upper-class sisters living in Osaka — is one of the great Japanese films, and perhaps one…
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The Cars That Change and The Cans That Don’t are #1 and #2 as expected. Cameron Diaz’s bad teacher beats out Julia Roberts’ cranky middle-aged teacher for the #3 slot, somewhat unexpectedly.
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“Larry Crowne” (Two and a Half Stars) U.S.: Tom Hanks, 2011 In Larry Crowne — a romantic comedy with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts that should have been a timely, funny show, but isn’t — Hanks plays the title character, an up-from-working-class managerial guy suddenly cut adrift from his life, and forced to try to find…
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