MCN Weekend Archive for March, 2013
The DVD Wrapup
Twilight, Wreck-It Ralph, Schindler, Intouchables, Samson & Delilah, Satan’s Angel, Repligator, Gypsy Wedding and more.
Read the full article »The Weekend Report
Jack the Giant Slayer cut a sufficient swath estimated at $27.2 million to emerge the top weekend attraction at the box office. The frame’s other new national releases were considerably more modest. Barely legal 21 and Over bowed to $8.9 million while shocker sequel The Last Exorcism II opened with $7.7 million. And running well beneath sonar, submarine thriller Phantom took a dive with $462,000 at 1118 locales.
Read the full article »Friday Estimates
$14.1 million is a pretty good opening Friday. Unfortunately, it took three new films combined to hit that figure, led by Jack the Giant Writedown.
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: Holy Motors; Chasing Mavericks
HOLY MOTORS (Three and a Half Stars) France: Leos Carax, 2012 (Indomina) Holy Motors is a film of shadows and false faces, of traveling players. of humans and machines, of mirrors and makeup. Behind this bizarre picture — a quitessentially French, perverse and quite entertaining new film by longtime “bad boy” Leos Carax…
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: Macbeth
William Shakespeare, like many another astonishing genius, including the young Orson Welles, was universal in his gifts. He could break your heart, make you laugh, make you think, and chill you to the absolute, desolate bone — never more so than in his terrifying masterpiece “Macbeth.“
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