MCN Weekend Archive for March, 2014
The DVD Wrapup
12 Years a Slave, Grandmaster, Hunger Games, New World, Free Fall, Chicken Wings, Fox Archive and more.
Read the full article »The Weekend Report
Industry trackers generally gave the edge to Non-Stop though frankly seemed adrift about how to gauge the opening appeal of Son of God. The high-flying tale of an air marshal pitting wits against a mysterious killer eight miles aloft seemed an ideal fit for the macho appeal of Liam Neeson and performed slightly better than anticipated.
Read the full article »Wilmington on Movies: Non-Stop
If you’d like to fly but you’re not in the mood for the aeronautical poetry of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises, if that’s just too arty and ambitious for you, there’s another airplane movie around now that, compared to Miyazaki‘s, is so non-artsy, so action-packed, so super-clichéd and so mind-bogglingly illogical, that it‘s almost entertaining.
Read the full article »Friday Box Office Estimates
Liam Neeson beats the Son of God into submission on a Friday. But which one will win Saturday… and then Sunday? Lego looks to cross the $200m mark before the Oscars start. Arthouse action is led by The Bag Man, a Cinedigm release with DeNiro and Cusack looking at about $15k per-screen on 2 for the weekend.
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