Box Office Wrapup
Posted by: relativelyrealistic on: August 24, 2009
Inglorious Basterds had the glorious opening it deserved as it made $37.6M an outstanding amount and is Quentin Tarantino’s best debut so far in his career. Thanks to its mostly-European cast, plus the worldwide appeal of star Brad Pitt, the film did pretty nicely in the international market too and will certainly make quite a bit of profit by the time it ends its run.
The masterful District 9 held really well on its second weekend by making nearly $19M, which means that it should end its domestic run at over $120M pretty good considering it was made for about $30M. It has now cracked the all-time domestic Top 700.
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, for some reason unknown to me, continued doing solidly enough with $12.5M on its third frame, good enough for it to cross the $120M mark, and good enough to position itself to finish north of $150M. It’s now the 300th highest grossing film ever in the U.S.
The female-oriented films came in at fourth and fifth, as The Time Traveler’s Wife made $10M and Julie & Julia continued showing some kickass legs with a $9M gross, making it crack the Top 900.
The other wide release from the weekend, Shorts, did poorly with just $6.6M in grosses. Behind it was G-Force with $4.2M, and now cracking the Top 400. While Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince did $3.5M, and is now the 34th highest grossing movie ever stateside. At ninth was The Ugly Truth, and Alexis Bledel had a crappy debut with Post Grad.
Top 10 Combined Gross: $108M
Trailer: The Wolfman
Posted by: relativelyrealistic on: August 20, 2009
New Dancing With The Stars Cast Announced
Posted by: relativelyrealistic on: August 17, 2009
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So, the whole cast for Dancing with the Star’s ninth season has just been announced and, as per usual, it has some clear favs and some bizarre members, here’s the full list:
- Aaron Carter
- Natalie Coughlin
- Mark Dacascos
- Tom DeLay
- Macy Gray
- Ashley Hamilton
- Melissa Joan Hart
- Kathy Ireland
- Michael Irvin
- Joanna Krupa
- Chuck Lidell
- Debi Mazar
- Mya
- Kelly Osbourne
- Donny Osmond
- Louie Vito
Yeah. I know. Tom DeLay, I hope he leaves in the first ep, but then again, we know he won’t.
Box Office Wrapup
Posted by: relativelyrealistic on: August 17, 2009
Good job, America, for totally doing what was right this weekend. That of course being seeing District 9 which is one of my favorite films of the year already and which made a whopping $37M which is far more than most people predicted, pretty outstanding considering it only cost $30M to produce. Awesome stuff.
At second came G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra with $22M, which means it now has a total of nearly $99M, which is good enough for it to crack the all-time Top 500 and probably means it will end up with $150M or so domestically, and will be left to recuperate the rest of its $175M from abroad.
The Time Traveler’s Wife was the latest counter-programming film to open nicely against the male-oriented actionfest that the summer usually is as it opened with a very respectable $19M.
The other female-oriented film, Julie & Julia, did nicely enough with $12.4M on its second frame which means its total now sits at nearly $44M, not bad at all considering it only took $38M to produce.
G-Force also joined the all-time Top 500 club as it made nearly $7M, good enough for fifth place this weekend, and also means that it’s just a million short from crossing the $100M mark, and will probably do so by the day’s end.
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard meanwhile opened horribly with $5.4M at the box office, just ahead of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince which made $5.2M which means its total now sits at $284M, good enough for 38th in the all-time list, but obviously its enormous worldwide appeal has to be factored in and the global tally so far is a completely outstanding $860M.
Rounding up the Top 10 were, The Ugly Truth, Ponyo and my favorite film of the year so far, (500) Days of Summer. Mind you that nowhere to be seen was the other debut of the weekend, Bandslam, which I actually thought was a pretty good film.
Top 10 Combined Gross: 119.5M
Trailer: When In Rome
Posted by: relativelyrealistic on: August 17, 2009
Oscar Predictions – August
Posted by: relativelyrealistic on: August 16, 2009
As I said, I would be making Oscar Predictions on a monthly basis now, starting with the ones I made in June, and here come the August ones.
So yeah, the 9 main categories will be listed here with my personal five picks for them (or ten in the Best Picture category), obviously these are bound to change radically from month to month since the vast majority of these films haven’t even been released and many don’t even have a trailer to account for either, so I’m basing my decisions on buzz, trailers (when available), and just sheer gut feeling. My picks will be in order of preference, and my picks for the Screenplay categories will be pretty much just guesses since I haven’t read most of the scripts nor seen the films cause they haven’t been released yet. Here we go,
Note: After each nominee I will put, in italics, a number which represents where I had it at last month’s predictions.
BEST PICTURE
- The Lovely Bones (1)
- Nine (2)
- The Hurt Locker (3)
- Invictus (4)
- Up (6)
- An Education (5)
- Shutter Island (7)
- Avatar (8)
- Bright Star (N/A)
- Where The Wild Things Are (N/A)
Other favorites: Precious, Public Enemies, The Road
Dropped out out Top 10: Precious, The Road
BEST DIRECTOR
- Peter Jackson (The Lovely Bones) (2)
- Rob Marshall (Nine) (1)
- Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) (3)
- Clint Eastwood (Invictus) (4)
- Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island) (5)
Other favorites: James Cameron (Avatar), Jane Champion (Bright Star)
BEST ACTOR (LEAD)
- Morgan Freeman (Invictus) (1)
- Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) (3)
- Peter Sarsgaard (An Education) (2)
- Leonardo DiCaprio (Shutter Island) (4)
- Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) (N/A)
Other favorites: Daniel Day-Lewis (Nine), Johnny Depp (Public Enemies), Sam Rockwell (Moon)
BEST ACTRESS (LEAD)
- Carey Mulligan (An Education) (N/A)
- Hilary Swank (Amelia) (3)
- Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones) (4)
- Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) (N/A)
- Michelle Pfeiffer (Chéri) (1)
Other favorites: Abbie Cornish (Bright Star), Penélope Cruz (Los Abrazos Rotos), Emily Watson (Within the Whirlwind)
Dropped out of Top 5: Amy Adams (Julie & Julia), Emily Watson (Within the Whirlwind)
BEST ACTOR (SUPPORTING)
- Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones) (1)
- Matt Damon (Invictus) (2)
- Alfred Molina (An Education) (3)
- Christopher Waltz (Inglorious Basterds) (5)
- Richard Gere (Amelia) (N/A)
Other favorites: Richard Kind (A Serious Man), James McAvoy (The Last Station), Paul Schneider (Bright Star)
Dropped out of Top 5: James McAvoy (The Last Station)
BEST ACTRESS (SUPPORTING)
- Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia) (1)
- Mo’Nique (Precious) (3)
- Rachel Weisz (The Lovely Bones) (2)
- Marion Cotillard (Public Enemies) (N/A)
- Leslie Mann (Funny People) (5)
Other favorites: Emily Mortimer (Shutter Island), Michelle Williams (Shutter Island)
Dropped out of Top 5: Emily Mortimer (Shutter Island)
BEST SCREENPLAY (ORIGINAL)
- (500) Days of Summer (N/A)
- The Hurt Locker (2)
- Up (3)
- Bright Star (N/A)
- Funny People (1)
Dropped out of Top 5: Away We Go, Los Abrazos Rotos
BEST SCREENPLAY (ADAPTED)
- The Lovely Bones (1)
- An Education (2)
- Precious (3)
- Nine (5)
- Invictus (4)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
- Up (1)
- The Princess And The Frog (2)
- The Fantastic Mr. Fox (3)
Other favorites: Coraline, Ponyo
Trailer: The Fourth Kind
Posted by: relativelyrealistic on: August 16, 2009
This Weekend At The Movies
Posted by: relativelyrealistic on: August 16, 2009
This weekend at the movies will see the last bit of the summer session and five of the last contenders for the season will be thrown into the ring to battle some of the recent leftovers.
After an impressive Comic-Con panel District 9 will attempt to win over at the box office, the sci-fi pic has no real starpower but does count with Peter Jackson as producer, and they’re obviously relying on his name to sell quite a bit of stubs. And if you remember a very similar situation came last year when Cloverfield came out with nothing but the name of J.J. Abrams attached. Hopefully this one will be able to make about $25M.
In the meanwhile, The Time Traveler’s Wife will also premiere and that one does have some starpower going for it what with Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana starring in an adaptation of a best-seller romance novel, those ingredients should make this one good for a debut north of $15M.
Bandslam is Summit’s option for the weekend which is attaching the trailer for New Moon to it to get some extra audience which should pay off a bit, but still, this one won’t play to that big an audience and I’m guessing it won’t do more than $7M this weekend.
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard is also premiering this weekend, and even though Jeremy Piven’s fuckin’ awesome this summer’s already had its fair share of comedies, and this one doesn’t look at though it’s anything special, so I’m guessing it’ll have trouble surpassing the $5M mark.
Ponyo, the latest film of genius Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki will finally be released stateside this weekend and even though they tried to bring in some new appeal adding a rather neat voicecast this one shouldn’t do more than $5M or so.
As for the leftovers: Look for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra to make about $25M, Julie & Julia should do solidly with $12M, G-Force should do $5M and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince should do around the same amount.
Review: Patrick Wolf’s The Bachelor
Posted by: relativelyrealistic on: August 12, 2009
Patrick Wolf is sorta like the British Conor Oberst, wouldn’t you agree? Completely tortured and yet awesome and here comes his fourth album, The Bachelor, which is as bitter as we should have learned to expect from him by now, this guy has seriously become one of the moodiest cats around and it’s something that fits him wonderfully as he has crafted one helluva an album with songs about stuff such as minotaurs, songs that are celtic folk music, and a spoken-interlude narrated by Tilda Swinton, who I adore.
So yeah, just thought I’d say that I really really liked this album of his.
Grade: A-
Box Office Wrapup
Posted by: relativelyrealistic on: August 10, 2009
Apparently being a crappy film was no problem for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra as it made a very solid $56M for its first weekend, good enough to make it enter the Top 1000 club in just three days and make it the fourth biggest opening weekend ever in the month of August.
Opting for something better than mindless action were those who picked Julie & Julia over the action-fest, with nearly 70% of the audience being female this one really played to its strengths and made about $20M, a great thing considered it was produced for less than $40M. Look for this one to enjoy some healthy legs.
G-Force continues to position itself to break past the $100M mark, as it made nearly $10M this weekend nearly cracking the all-time Top 500.
While, at fourth, with about $9M grosses was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince which is now the 40th highest grossing movie ever in the U.S. and a domestic finally tally of about $300M could certainly result. Overseas the kid wizard continued performig greatly as the global total stands at about $815M.
Funny People fell harshly as it made just $8M this weekend, for a disappointing cume of $40M in its first ten days, sucks that this will be the film that will break Adam Sandler’s record of seven consecutive years with $100M+ films, especially when it was thought to be a sure hit some months ago.
The Ugly Truth did $7M, good enough to give the flick about $69M a very solid final result for a film that took just $38M to produce and now entered the Top 750 all-time charts.
Universal’s debut, A Perfect Getaway, wasn’t a perfect getaway at all for moviegoes this weekend making a weak $6M, however since it was made for just $14M it won’t be that bad of a business.
Aliens in the Attic continued doing poorly with just $4M grossed this weekend while there was a tie for ninth place between Orphan and my favorite movie of the year thus far (500) Days of Summer, both of which made $3.7M.
At eleventh and twelveth we had two of the years biggest hits, The Hangover and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which now seat at 42nd and 9th in the all-time domestic charts, respectively.
Combined Top 10 Gross: $127M
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