Monday, April 6, 2009

Box Office Results and Weekly Movie News

Movies coming out this week!

Hannah Montana: The Movie - As Hannah Montana's popularity begins to take over her life, Miley Stewart (Miley Ray Cyrus), urged on by her father (Billy Ray Cyrus) takes a trip to her hometown of Crowley Corners, Tennessee to get some perspective on what matters in life the most.

Observe and Report - Bi-polar mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt (Rogen) is called into action to stop a flasher from turning shopper's paradise into his personal peep show. But when Barnhardt can't apprehend the culprit, a surly police detective (Liotta), is recruited to close the case, bringing out the worst in Ronnie's temperamental personality.

Dragonball Evolution - Upon discovering he was sent to Earth to carrying out a sinister plan, a humanoid alien named Goku (Chatwin) looks to fulfill his dying grandfather's wish: Prevent the evil Piccolo (Marsters) and his alien forces from collecting seven mystical artifacts which would allow him to take over our planet. In order to fend off the attackers, Goku must find Master Roshi (Chow), who is the one person who can set him on the right path.

Movies coming out on DVD and Blu-ray!
Doubt
The Tale of Despereaux
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Yes Man
Not So Easily Broken

Box Office results for the weekend!

1 Fast & Furious$72.5 M

2 Monsters vs. Aliens $33.5 M

3The Haunting In Conneticut $9.5 M

4 Knowing $8.1 M

5I Love You, Man $7.8 M

6 Adventureland $6.0 M

7 Duplicity $4.3 M

8Race to Witch Mountain $3.3 M

912 Rounds $2.3 M

10 Sunshine Cleaning $1.8 M

Holy Box Office madness! "Fast and Furious" has had the biggest opener for 2009 yet, beating out both "Watchmen" and the previous contender from last week, "Monsters vs. Aliens." "Fast and Furious" is also the biggest April opener EVER! Previous contender was 2003's "Anger Management" with $42 million.
"Fast & Furious" also had the franchise's best opening weekend (2001's "The Fast And The Furious" $40.1M, 2003's "2 Fast 2 Furious" $50.5M, 2006's "Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift" $24M). It was also the best debut for a car-themed movie (passing "Cars" $60.1M).
Big money for Universal on this movie.
"Adventureland" didn't have the best opening and that might be because of the R rating. Not many fangirls could go see Kristin Stewart not be Bella.
Other films are petering out while "Monsters vs. Aliens" will probably entertain families until the start of summer. Then we hit May and the summer blockbusters come out!
Next week..."Hannah Montana." If it makes No. 1 I think that is one of the signs of the apocalypse.

5 comments:

bandito said...

Fast and Furious was actually a pretty good movie-or I enjoyed it anyway. Hannah Montana should die.

Head Hero said...

The franchise really did well and this kind of reboot has brought it back to life as well as helped the careers of Vin Diesel, Paul Rudd and Michelle Rodriguez. Expect a fifth one soon.

And yeah...Hannah Montana...

bandito said...

Latoya, Julio, Brandy, and I said the same thing about a fifth...

Head Hero said...

Is that the group that you went with to see the movie?
I assume so because LaToya mentioned the "Hangover" trailer when she was with you n' Julio (though she said Brulio, which is an amazing new term).
With the success of this film, there will be a fifth, especially since most of these actors really have nothing else going for them now.

bandito said...

Yeah, that's the group. I saw where she mentioned that. Latoya has been combining names of couples for a little while now lol-Brulio seems to work well.