HALLOWEEN BOX OFFICE FRIGHTENING
November 1, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Maybe the box office will just have to wait until next week when it won’t have to deal with the distractions of inclement weather, the final game of the World Series, and Halloween. All of those factors and others — the growing dissatisfaction with 3D (only about 51 percent of moviegoers were willing to pay […]
PUSS NICKED AS BOX OFFICE GOES TO THE DOGS (Updated)
October 30, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Blame the unseasonably snowy weather in the East. Blame the World Series. Blame Halloween parties. Blame the economy. Box office analysts were doing a little of each to explain the lousy weekend that saw blah openings for three new movies and mostly insipid performances from everything else. The No. 1 film, as expected, turned out […]
PUSS IN BOOTS SET TO CLAW ITS WAY TO THE TOP
October 28, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
A swashbuckling cat is likely to lay waste to a host of rivals this weekend, and analysts are expecting it to be rewarded with $35-40 million. DreamWorks Animation’s Puss in Boots, with Antonio Banderas providing the cat’s meow, appears to have little competition for family audiences. (Paramount, which is distributing the film, moved it up […]
MOVIE REVIEWS: IN TIME
October 28, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
The critics all seem to agree: the premise of In Time, the sci-fi movie starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried, is intriguing. It concerns a future time when time is literally money — when everyone stops aging at 25. They then receive a year in the bank, but they must buy time to live any […]
