Sunday, August 23, 2009

Box Office Results and Weekly Movie News

Movies coming out this week!

Halloween II - Laurie Strode (Taylor-Compton) struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.

Taking Woodstock - When Woodstock organizers have the plug pulled on their event, Elliot Tiber (Martin), a young man who is spending the summer working on his parents' farm, helps the event land a permit, and puts the organizers in touch with Max Yasgur (Levy), a dairy farmer whose plot of land could serve as a perfect spot for the concert.

The Final Destination - After Hunt's (Zano) premonition of a deadly race-car crash helps saves the lives of his peers, Death sets out to collect those who evaded their fate.

Movies coming out on DVD and Blu-ray!

Duplicity
Adventureland
Sunshine Cleaning

Box Office results for the weekend!

1 Inglorious Basterds $37.6 M

2 District 9 $18.9 M

3 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra $12.5 M

4 The Time Traveler's Wife $10.0 M

5 Julie & Julia $9.0 M

6 Shorts $6.6 M

7 G-Force $4.2 M

8 Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince $3.5 M

9 The Ugly Truth $2.8 M

10 Post Grad $2.8 M

"Inglourious Basterds" is the biggest Tarantino opening ever, by a hefty $12.5m over "Kill Bill Vol. 2" ($24.1 M domestically).

Other films dropped, but not by much given other releases this past weekend failed to make much of an impact on the Top 10. "Shorts" failed miserably and Robert Rodriguez should stay away from children movies from now on. "Spy Kids" is done with.

Somehow "G-Force" keeps going strong and "Harry Potter 6" is just about to crack $900 M worldwide. Now that made some money as "Post Grad" did not. Nor do I expect a lot of these lower numbered films to be here next weekend as two horror films come out as well as a nice hippie flick.

More news to come! Catch ya' later!

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