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One of the best movies that no one saw last year has returned to a theater near you. Powered by an outstandingly profound and insightful screenplay, as well as unforgettable performance by the beautiful British actress Carey Mulligan, “An Education” is one of this year’s most deserving Best Picture nominees. Read more…
| Movie |
Weekend Gross 4-day (est.) |
% Change |
Total Gross (est.) |
| 1. Dear John |
$32,400,000 |
NEW |
$32,400,000 |
| 2. Avatar |
$23,600,000 |
-24.6% |
$630,093,000 |
| 3. From Paris with Love |
$8,120,000 |
NEW |
$8,120,000 |
| 4. Edge of Darkness |
$7,005,000 |
-59.3% |
$29,097,000 |
| 5. The Tooth Fairy |
$6,500,000 |
-35% |
$34,333,000 |
| 6. When in Rome |
$5,504,000 |
-55.4% |
$20,899,000 |
| 7. The Book of Eli |
$4,835,000 |
-45.7% |
$82,163,000 |
| 8. Crazy Heart |
$3,650,000 |
+58.1% |
$11,188,000 |
| 9. Legion |
$3,400,000 |
-52.6% |
$34,678,000 |
| 10. Sherlock Holmes |
$2,630,000 |
-41.8% |
$201,579,000 |
| 11. The Blind Side |
$2,600,000 |
-13.9% |
$241,626,000 |
| 12. Up in the Air |
$2,350,000 |
-16.1% |
$76,681,000 |
Source: BoxOfficeMojo.com
With the Super Bowl and some heavy snowstorms on the East Coast affecting the box-office it is no surprise that the Top 12 cume of $102.6 million was the lowest of this year so far, down an estimated 6.6% from the last weekend and a hefty 21.9% from the same weekend last year when He’s Just Not That Into You broke out and led the charts. In particular the holdovers suffered under the unfortunate circumstances. Read more…
Categories: Box Office, News, Oscars Tags: avatar, box-office, crazy heart, Dear John, Oscars, projections, recap, Super Bowl, weekend
| Movie |
Friday Gross (est.) |
Total Gross |
| 1. Dear John |
$13,800,000 |
$13,800,000 |
| 2. Avatar |
$6,200,000 |
$612,693,000 |
| 3. From Paris with Love |
$3,000,000 |
$3,000,000 |
| 4. Edge of Darkness |
$2,315,000 |
$24,407,000 |
| 5. When in Rome |
$2,000,000 |
$17,396,000 |
| 6. The Tooth Fairy |
$1,650,000 |
$29,483,000 |
| 7. The Book of Eli |
$1,515,000 |
$78,843,000 |
| 8. Crazy Heart |
$1,075,000 |
$8,613,000 |
| 9. Legion |
$1,060,000 |
$32,338,000 |
| 10. Sherlock Holmes |
$785,000 |
$199,734,000 |
| 11. The Blind Side |
$770,000 |
$239,796,000 |
| 12. The Lovely Bones |
$735,000 |
$39,958,000 |
Source: BoxOfficeMojo.com
The Superbowl weekend kicked off with a huge surprise as Dear John defied all expectations and might deliver the biggest opening weekend since Sherlock Holmes. Overall business on Friday was solid, but expect the movies’ internal weekend multipliers to be greatly deflated by Superbowl on Sunday and the terrible weather hitting the East Coast. Read more…
The Corner Cinema’s Jay debates the hits and misses of this year’s Oscar nominations.
Terry Gilliam is one of the biggest hit/miss directors out there. His last film prior to Parnassus, Tideland, fell into the “miss”-category. While ambitious, the film felt very misconceived, pretentious and borderline offensive at times. However, it is hard to deny that Gilliam is a very creative mind. Whether his films are bad, good or great, they usually have one thing n common – they are different. They take a viewer into other worlds. Sometimes these worlds are pleasant, sometimes less so, but they’re always full of imagination. Imagination is always a great part of Gilliam’s work and is the main focus of many of his films. Imagination (or the lack thereof) played a large part in The Brothers Grimm, it was the device that drove the story in Tideland. Gilliam’s newest film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, encapsulates a lot of Gilliam’s themes dealing with imagination. This is probably his most thorough examination of his favorite topic which becomes obvious by the film’s title already. Read more…
Let the battle for worstdom begin! (and yes, everything in this picture is to scale...)
The ballots are in and the overwhelmingly fame driven nominees are…
Worst Picture
- All About Steve
- G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
- Land of the Lost
- Old Dogs
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
|
Worst Actor
- All Three Jonas Brothers – Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience
- Will Ferrell – Land of the Lost
- Steve Martin – Pink Panther 2
- Eddie Murphy – Imagine That
- John Travolta - Old Dogs
|
Worst Actress
- Beyonce – Obsessed
- Sandra Bullock – All About Steve
- Miley Cyrus – Hannah Montana: The Movie
- Megan Fox – Transformers 2 and Jennifer’s Body
- Sarah Jessica Parker – Did You Hear About the Morgans?
|
Worst Supporting Actor
- Billy Ray Cyrus – Hannah Montana: The Movie
- Hugh Hefner – Miss March
- Robert Pattinson – New Moon
- Jorma Taccone – Land of the Lost
- Marlon Wayans – G.I. Joe
|
Worst Supporting Actress
- Candice Bergen – Bride Wars
- Ali Larter – Obsessed
- Sienna Miller – G.I. Joe
- Kelly Preston – Old Dogs
- Julie White – Transformers 2
|
Worst Screen Couple
- Any Two or More Jonas Brothers – Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience
- Sandra Bullock & Bradley Cooper – All About Steve
- Will Ferrell & Any Co-Star, Creature or “Comic Riff” – Land of the Lost
- Shia LaBeouf & EITHER Megan Fox OR Any Transformer – Transformers 2
- Kristen Stewart & EITHER Robert Pattinson OR Taylor Whatz-His-Fang – New Moon
|
Worst Director
- Michael Bay – Transformers 2
- Walt Becker – Old Dogs
- Brad Siberling – Land of the Lost
- Stephen Sommers – G.I. Joe
- Phill Traill – All About Steve
|
Worst Screenplay
- All About Steve
- G.I. Joe
- Land of the Lost
- Transformers 2
- New Moon
|
Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
- G.I. Joe
- Land of the Lost
- Pink Panther 2
- Transformers 2
- New Moon
|
Worst Picture of the Decade
- Battlefield Earth
- Freddy Got Fingered
- Gigli
- I Know Who Killed Me
- Swept Away
|
Worst Actor of the Decade
- Ben Affleck
- Eddie Murphy
- Mike Myers
- Rob Schneider
- John Travolta
|
Worst Actress of the Decade
- Mariah Carey
- Paris Hilton
- Lindsay Lohan
- Jennifer Lopez
- Madonna
|
Read more…
Well, the day has come and almost passed and we now know the nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards. The nominees included a lot of expected titles, a few mildly pleasant and unpleasant one, but also a couple of real “What the hell?!” mentions. Some of the surprises strongly boosted some films’ chances, while others turned out to be quite hurtful. There were also surprises, however, that were just there – unexpected, but didn’t change anything about the overall picture. Here’s the quick rundown of the winners, the losers and the surprises of the day. Read more…
This morning’s Oscar nominations have come and gone. You can find the complete list of nominees here
Out of 106 nominees, I correctly predicted 80. A score of 75% (77.3% with alts) Read more…
In addition to the already posted predictions of what the Oscar ballot might look like tomorrow, here’s another, slightly different take on the whole thing. One thing that everyone should keep in mind is that the Academy Awards never cease to surprise us and thus I am certain that neither this nor the other ballot will be 100% correct – but that’s part of the game. Surprises over the past years range from small ones (like Revenge of the Sith missing a Best Visual Effects nomination) over mid-sized (Clint Eastwood or Tommy Lee Jones being nominated for Million Dollar Baby and In the Valley of Elah respectively) to huge ones (Dreamgirls being snubbed for a Best Picture nominations after a terrific run with the guilds and despite leading all nominees). Sometimes the surprises are pleasant, sometimes less so. Usually it’s a good mixture of both and I expect no less tomorrow. Without further ado, here are my predictions for all categories except for the short films: Read more…
I don’t profess to be an expert at this. In the past I’ve been wrong about Dreamgirls, The Dark Knight, and King Kong being nominated for Best Picture, just to name a few recent examples.
When deciding who would or wouldn’t make the Best Picture 10, I thought long and hard about the options. Would the AMPAS go pop and nominate exploding Prawns and sexy Vulcans in District 9 and Star Trek? Or would it be business as usual and we’d see the old Oscar standbys, like Invictus, Crazy Heart, and Nine? After all, Avatar, Up, Inglourious Basterds, and Up in the Air account for over 1 Billion dollars in ticket sales. In 2005 the year of Crash and Brokeback, the 5 nominees made a total of $245 Million.
At the end of day, I deferred to my lovely mum. 69 years of old, two years older than the average AMPAS voter. How would she fill in her 10 Best Picture spots? She’s about as cool and hip as most 70 year olds.
My complete ballot, minus the categories for short films. Read more…
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