This week I am going to look at the trailer for the first mainstream North American staring role for British comedian Simon Pegg. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People When I first heard of this film, I was willing to see it based solely on Pegg’s involvement, as well as its title. Looking at […]
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The Dark Knight is still going strong at the box office, topping it for the forth straight week with an estimated gross of $26M. This brings its grand total to a staggering $441M. Pineapple Express was not good enough to knock Dark Knight from the top, however it made a respectable gross of an estimated
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Boy, it really has been a sad year for celebrity deaths. I just found out today that Bernie Mac just died of complications from pneumonia at the age of 50. I first heard of Bernie Mac when The Bernie Mac Show started in 2001. However, my real first experience was when he was part of
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First sorry for not posting a “Classic Thoughts” yesterday, since I was away all day. Anyways, today we will look at the teaser trailer for the sixth Harry Potter film. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince This short trailer demonstrates how the next film is going to provide backstory for the villain Voldemort. That obviously
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Sorry for the delay of this week’s Box Office Thoughts. Starting this week, I will just include my analysis, while the current numbers will now be always shown in the sidebar (thanks to Box Office Mojo). The Dark Knight is at the top of the box office for the third week in a row and
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Since I usually talk about about trailers for films I want to see, I decided that today it would be fun to talk about the trailer for a film I am avoiding at all costs. Disaster Movie For those who don’t know, writer/directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are two of four guys credited along
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Will Ferrel and Mulder and Scully were not enough to put an early end to The Dark Knight’s reign. Here are the estimates: The Dark Knight – $75.6M Step Brothers – $30M Mamma Mia! – $17.9M The X-Files: I Want to Believe – $10.2M Journey to the Center of the Earth – $9.41M Hancock –
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This week we will be taking a look at the first trailer for the graphic novel adaptation Watchmen, which debuted in front of The Dark Knight. Watchmen The film adaptation of Alan Moore’s Watchmen has been in development hell since the graphic novel came out over 20 years ago. The film finally got going a
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I was saddened to learn today (even though it was first reported Monday) that Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper will no longer be involved with the review show At the Movies. It was announced that Disney is replacing the duo with Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz and that the show is being reformatted with a
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As expected, The Dark Knight ruled this week with a record breaking weekend. Let see by how much shall we? The Dark Knight – $155M Mamma Mia! – $27.6M Hancock – $14M Journey to the Center of the Earth – $11.9M Hellboy II: The Golden Army – $10M WALL·E – $9.81M Space Chimps – $7.35M
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