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I'll agreee that it's about time a movie topped Avatar, but seriously Dear John. You couldn't have spent your money more wisely on the Wolfman and make it an epic dethroning? Oh well another sappy teen love fest spoils the fun, and another dud from Lassee Hallstrom. John Travolta had one of his worst openings with From Paris with Love, but sadly he was going up against Avatar and Dear John. Even though the movie really wasn't very good I still would have preferred that over Dear John.
Anyway here is the box office round up for this week.
Box Office Charts
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Weekend Box Office Estimates (U.S.)
Feb 5 - 7 weekend
1 - Dear John Sony Pictures Releasing $32,400,000 $32,400,000 1 2969
2 1 Avatar 20th Century Fox $23,600,000 $630,093,000 8 3000
3 - From Paris With Love Lionsgate $8,120,000 $8,120,000 1 2722
4 2 Edge of Darkness Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $7,005,000 $29,097,000 2 3066
5 4 Tooth Fairy 20th Century Fox Distribution $6,500,000 $34,333,000 3 3218
6 3 When in Rome Walt Disney Studios Distribution $5,504,000 $20,899,000 2 2456
7 5 The Book of Eli Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $4,835,000 $82,163,000 4 2820
8 14 Crazy Heart Fox Searchlight Pictures $3,650,000 $11,188,000 8 819
9 6 Legion Sony Pictures Releasing $3,400,000 $34,678,000 3 2339
10 8 Sherlock Holmes Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $2,630,000 $210,579,000 7 2250
Mel Gibson looks pissed because he just read the box office results on dunk films.
For the seventh week in a row, Avatar remains on top of the box office world as it managed to beat Mel Gibson's return film in Edge of Darkness. While edge of darkness was a perfectly decent film despite mixed reviews from critics, i was honestly expecting it to gross a little more if not beat Avatar. However, the popularity of Avatar continues to shoo through the roof and more box office gold goes to James Cameron as well as a greater chance of winning the best picture at the Academy Awards. Sorry Hurt Locker. Hopefully Hurt locker actually wins the best picture, but I'll be perfectly fine with Avatar winning if it does. For once the academy actually has some good choices for best picture as long as Inglorious Basterds doesn't win best Picture. I wonder what the ten films will be that are nominated for best picture. We already know about most of them from the Golden Globes, and the critics choice awards.
Anyway here is the box office round up for this week.
Box Office Charts
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Wks # of
Theaters
1 1 Avatar 20th Century Fox $30,000,000 $594,472,000 7 3074
2 - Edge of Darkness Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $17,120,000 $17,120,000 1 3066
3 - When in Rome Walt Disney Studios Distribution $12,065,000 $12,065,000 1 2456
4 - Tooth Fairy 20th Century Fox Distribution $10,000,000 $26,106,000 2 3345
5 3 The Book of Eli Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $8,770,000 $74,373,000 3 3075
6 2 Legion Sony Pictures Releasing $6,800,000 $28,646,000 2 2476
7 5 The Lovely Bones Paramount Pictures $4,735,000 $38,014,000 8 2638
8 6 Sherlock Holmes Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $4,510,000 $197,596,000 6 2250
9 7 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel 20th Century Fox Distribution $4,000,000 $209,297,000 6 2526
10 9 It's Complicated Universal Pictures $3,720,000 $104,027,000 6 2096
Yes that's right Titanic has finally lost it's record at the hands of it's own creator james Cameron. I'm sure this will give it a huge advantage at the Oscars. Even though James Cameron deserves recognition for this film and especially it's technology since he made it basically, but I'm still betting that the Hurt Locker will pull through as best picture. Even if you don't give The hurt locker best picture despite the clear and obvious fact that it is best picture, at least have enough courtesy to honor Kathryn Bigelow with the best director award. She truly deserves this honor.
Anyway, it seems that Avatar is still the king of the box office and James cameron is still the king of the world in terms of film.
When you see a trailer that was as well crafted as Legion's was, it's very hard to doubt the quality of the film. It looked like it could be an epic religious action horror thriller with some decent stars, and an overall fun movie. Then you see the movie and you realize that this film suffered as much as GI Joe from a decent budget with a horrible script. I was ashamed by the crappy quality of this film.
Let me start with the script. How in the hell did the actors keep a straight face when they were reading this dialogue. They gave the angel Michael some decent dialogue, but everyone else had lame monologues throughout the film. Yes I'm serious, they go from shootout to slow 20 minutes of nothing but monologues that should have been edited and screened better instead of just shoved before and after every action scene. Most of the monologues had no feeling or true backstory so they literally did nothing for the film. I'll give Tyrese Gibson credit for putting up with some of the terrible and stereotypical dialogue he had to read. His opening dialogue for a movie was "When I was a Shawty,". Yes that's how lame the dialogue was for this film
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In terms of great apocalyptic films this is a must see. that's right another great adaptation of a classic novel from Cormac Mcarthy. Why these are almost as good as the odds of Orble not counting the amount of readers and writers that you have and instead displaying both of them as zero. Anyway this film is about a man who has lost his wife during an apocalypse and he now attempts to guide his son through the devastated world as they battle cannibals, and other dangers in order to survive.
Viggo Mortensen is absolutely amazing in his role as the father trying to help his son and teach him the ways of true humanity while in a dangerous and not human in character world. He is truly believable and grisly with his long messy, and dirty appearance. Charlize Theron is also just as excellent as his wife. despite the fact, that she is in longer than she is in the book, I still feel that she added a bleaker and more emotional resonance with the audience
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The Lovely bones and the Book of Eli failed to take down Avatar at the box office. Eli beat it on friday, but quickly lost momentum and Avatar continues it's winning streak. The Lovely bones was in theird place after being delayed for a long time due to mixed and generally negative reviews. It's budget in my opinion is the main reason for it's failure as the film was too overproduced which sucks for Peter jackson. Anyway as good as the trailer for Eli looked, Denzel couldn't beat out Avatar
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In the old tradition of Hollywood handing awards to those who serve it well with plenty of cash then look no further than Sandra Bullock. Her films have made millions and she is an audience favorite with her appeal of America's favorite sweetheart. however, with all the recent buzz over the Blind Side performance, I decided to see it for myself. It's more shocking than my punctuation error on my last blog on incorrectly spelling Spiderman. I will be changing this very soon. The shocking truth is that the performance is far from extraordinary, and while the feeling of the movie's inspiration may be able to fuel her performance. It is highly overrated to say the least.
I'll give Sandra Bullock some credit. She is a talented actress, and she has been in some great films, and entertaining popcorn films, but in my opinion she has not shown any performance that anybody else could have performed. Sure you can say that she starred in crash, but that was one of the worst best picture movies of all time. Somebody told me that she proved her oscar worthiness by out acting a major star named Keanu Reeves in speed. Well honestly who can't out act Keanu Reeves
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Spiderman could be stuck in that web very soon.
It appears that the studio has changed creative differences again and Raimi and Tobey Macguire will not be returning for Spiderman 4. This is really unfortunate as this is sounding to sound more and more like Dragonball Evolution. As much as most of us disliked what happened with Spiderman 3, you'll be even more disgusted with this new direction
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Here are my picks for the best films of 2009. Give me your thoughts as I'm eager to see what you think of my choices. Here they are:
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Avatar was once again the number one movie this week as it manages to earn 68.9 million dollars in the United States. That's nothing when you compare the fact that this movie has grossed over 1 billion worldwide when you compare the domestic and international box office. Avatar once again proves that the blockbusters with the reasonable amount of box office gold always seem to outpace the box offices that debut with over 100 million and then plummet. Avatar continues to rise.
This is groundbreaking because it officially makes James cameron a director of two billion dollar grossing movies. This means that we'll be waiting until 2019 for his next film and sit through more underwater documentaries of the deep
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