Box Office Results and Weekly Movie News

Movies coming out this week!

The Princess and the Frog - A fairy tale centered on a young girl named Princess Tiana who lives in New Orleans French Quarter during the Jazz Age.

Invictus - A look at life of Nelson Mandela (Freeman) after the fall of apartheid in South Africa during his first term as president when campaigned to host the 1995 Rugby World Cup event as an opportunity to unite his countrymen.

The Lovely Bones - Young Susie watches over her family from "the in-between" as they deal with the aftermath of her brutal rape and murder.

The Slammin' Salmon - Cleon Salmon (Duncan), a former prizefighter turned restaurateur, hatches a plan to repay his debts to a Yakuza gang: for one night, the waiter who sells the most food wins $10,000 -- the loser, however, gets a beating from Cleon himself.

Movies coming on on DVD and Blu-ray!

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Public Enemies
Julie and Julia

Box Office results for the weekend!

1 The Blind Side $20.4 M

2 The Twilight Saga: New Moon $15.7 M

3 Brothers $9.7 M

4 Disney's A Christmas Carol $7.5 M

5 Old Dogs $6.9 M

6 Armored $6.6 M

7 2012 $6.6 M

8 Ninja Assassin $5.0 M

9 Planet 51 $4.3 M

10 Everybody's Fine $4.0 M

In its third week, "The Blind Side" managed to take over the box office and finally topple "New Moon" to become No. 1 over the weekend with $20.4 million. So far it has earned $129 million domestically (a hit for Warner Bros.), but "New Moon" has earned almost $500 million dollars worldwide. Oh the power of teen angst.

"Brothers" had a decent debut but for being so depressive might not survive for very long. "Everybody's Fine" and "Armored" pretty much tanked while ""Ninja Assassin" and "Planet 51" dropped miserably. Other films will keep petering out, but expect "2012" and "A Christmas Carol" to probably be in the lower numbers next weekend.

Box Office Results and Weekly Movie News

Movies coming out this week!

Armored - A newbie guard for an armored truck company is coerced by his veteran coworkers to steal a truck containing $42 million. But a wrinkle in their supposedly foolproof plan divides the group, leading to a potentially deadly resolution.

Brothers - Sam Cahill (Maguire) returns from being held as a prisoner-of-war in Afghanistan to find that his ex-con brother (Gyllenhaal) has become the man, of sorts, of the household where Sam's wife, Grace (Portman) had been living under the assumption that she was a widow.

Everybody's Fine - A widower (De Niro) takes an impromptu road trip in order to reconnect with his grown children, only to discover that his family members are living far from perfect lives.

Transylmania - A horror comedy that follows a group of college kids who travel to Transylvania for a semester at Razvan University, which isn't as picturesque (or safe) as it appeared on its brochure.

Movies coming out on DVD and Blu-ray!

Terminator Salvation
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
A Christmas Tale
Paper Heart

Box Office results for the weekend!

1 The Twilight Saga: New Moon$42.5 M

2 The Blind Side$40.1 M

3 2012 $18.0 M

4 Old Dogs$16.8 M

5 Disney's A Christmas Carol $16.0 M

6 Ninja Assassin $13.1 M

7 Planet 51 $10.2 M

8 Precious $7.0 M

9 The Fantastic Mr. Fox $7.0 M

10 The Men Who Stare at Goats $1.5 M

"New Moon" almost lost the holiday weekend as "The Blind Side" hit from...well...the blind side. But the vampire/werewolf romance flick stayed on top, but ended up falling over 70 percent from last weekend. Still, it is just under $475 million worldwide on a projected budget of only $50 million.

"The Blind Side" improved its numbers from last weekend, as did "A Christmas Carol." But "Old Dogs" and "Ninja Assassin" fell through the ranks. Heck, "The Road" didn't even make it on the Top 10 list.

Can "New Moon" stay on top for three weekends in a row or will another film take its place? If it does fall, what film do you think will win the weekend?

More news to come! Catch ya' later!

Box Office Results and Weekly Movie News

Movies coming out this week!

2012 - An academic researcher leads a group of people in a fight to counteract the apocalyptic events that were predicted by the ancient Mayan calendar.

Pirate Radio - A 1960's comedy about an illegal radio station run by a band of rogue DJs on a ship in the middle of Britain's North Sea. By defying the tastes and laws of the ruling government, the disc jockeys hooked their listeners on pop music and its attendant ideas of love and free will.

Movies coming out on DVD and Blu-ray!

Up
The Ugly Truth
Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut
Spread

Box Office results for the weekend!

1 Disney's A Christmas Carol$31.0 M

2 Michael Jackson's This Is It $14.0 M

3 The Men Who Stare at Goats $13.3 M

4 The Fourth Kind$12.5 M

5 Paranormal Activity $8.6 M

6 The Box $7.8 M

7 Couples Retreat $6.4 M

8 Law Abiding Citizen $6.1 M

9 Where the Wild Things Are $4.2 M

10 Astro Boy $2.5 M

"A Christmas Carol" had a pretty high budget (between $150-185 million) and that is not a bug opening weekend. Disney probably won't be making back lots of profit from this technology-filled film.

And lots of people must not be into new movies! Michael Jackson's documentary continues to make money for people who wish to profit from his death while "Paranormal Activity" continues to keep people up at night.

Films on the lower ends of the list will continue to peter off to DVD land.
What film will win next weekend?
Probably the epic disaster movie "2012."

Box Office Results and Weekly Movie News

Movies coming out this week!

A Christmas Carol - An animated retelling of the Charles Dickens novel about Ebenezer Scrooge (Carrey), a Victorian-era miser who is taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

The Fourth Kind - n investigator (Jovovich) is dispatched to Nome, Alaska to puzzle out a 40-year-long mystery involving an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances in the town. Her videotaped evidence looks to present the most convincing evidence of alien abduction ever documented.

The Box - A young couple is gifted with a mysterious box that promises them a handsome windfall with deadly consequences.

The Men Who Stare at Goats - In Iraq, reporter Bob Wilton (McGregor) meets Lyn Cassady (Clooney), whose seemingly wild claim - that he's a member of the U.S. Army's First Earth Battalion, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions - causes Wilton to join Cassady's hunt for the battalion's founder, whose gone missing.

Movies coming out on DVD and Blu-ray!

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
The Taking of Pelham 123
I Love You, Beth Cooper
Food, Inc.

Box Office results for the weekend!

1 Michael Jackson's This Is It$21.3 M

2 Paranormal Activity $16.5 M

3 Law Abiding Citizen $7.3 M

4 Couples Retreat$6.0 M

5 Saw VI $5.5 M

6 Where the Wild Things Are $5.0 M

7 The Stepfather $3.4 M

8 Astro Boy $3.0 M

9 Amelia $3.0 M

10 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant $2.8 M

Michael Jackson's return from the dead has earned him a fair amount of money ($101 million over the full five days), but not as much as the studio estimated (which was $250 million). That is why the limited two-week engagement of the film has been lengthened until Thanksgiving. I say stop dragging the corpse around to earn money and bury the guy already (last sentence meant to be metaphorical, not literal).

"Paranormal" still has lots of activity as it stays near the top for Halloween weekend (and it will be up there for a few more weeks at least).

Lots of films just keep falling except for "Couples Retreat" getting an extra boost and "Amelia" actually made the Top 10 as it opened in more theaters the past weekend.

What do you think will win the next weekend?

New 'A Christmas Carol' Clips

Ever since Comic Con, Disney has been pushing their Robert Zemeckis-directed version of the Charles Dickens’ classic story "A Christmas Carol." They’ve done everything they can to ensure that as many people as possible know about the film and go see it. Of course, that is the whole point of marketing but I fear they may be over doing it a touch. The 7-month-long "A Christmas Carol" train journey was almost overdoing it but now I think they are showing way too much of the film two weeks before its release.

Below you can watch six new clips of the film that Collider assembled into one 5 minute video. The audio doesn’t seem to be all that impressive but hopefully it will be better in theaters.



More news to come! Catch ya' later!
Source: Screen Rant

New 'A Christmas Carol' Featurette

A new featurette just hit the web today for Robert Zemeckis' new 3-D animated film "A Christmas Carol." The featurette not only includes a lot of great new footage in it, but also includes some interviews with Jim Carrey and Robert Zemeckis. It's not truly a behind-the-scenes featurette per se, because it doesn't show us how this made, but instead features the two talking about their collaboration in bringing the Charles Dickens' tale to life.

"A Christmas Carol" is both written and directed by Robert Zemeckis ("Back to the Future" "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Forrest Gump"). It's based on Charles Dickens' classic story. Jim Carrey stars as at least four different characters in the film, alongside of Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn, Colin Firth, Cary Elwes, and Bob Hoskins.

Disney will debut "A Christmas Carol" in theaters on November 6.
More news to come! Catch ya' later!
Source: First Showing

Trailer for 'A Christmas Carol'

Disney has finally debuted the official trailer for Robert Zemeckis' "A Christmas Carol." This is the very same trailer that they've been playing in theaters for some time now, but it just hasn't showed up online until today.



"A Christmas Carol" is both written and directed by Robert Zemeckis ("Back to the Future," "Forrest Gump," "The Polar Express"). It's based on Charles Dickens' classic story. Jim Carrey stars as four different characters in the film, alongside Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn, Colin Firth, Cary Elwes, and Bob Hoskins.

Disney will debut "A Christmas Carol' in theaters on Nov. 6.
More news to come! Catch ya' later!
Source: First Showing

A Christmas Carol Train Tour

Thank Latino Review and Guapo Cam for footage of the tour!
One thing Disney is great at is promotions, and they've pulled out all the stops with Robert Zemeckis' upcoming holiday movie A Christmas Carol.

Disney has decided to promote this film all across the country with a 40 stop, 16,000 mile train tour that showcases all of the fantastic new technology used in making A Christmas Carol. A full city list can be found at disney.com/christmascaroltraintour

Here's some more info about the tour:

ABOUT THE TOUR

*16,000 MILES – “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” Train Tour, sponsored by Hewlett Packard and Driven by Amtrak, kicks off Memorial Day Weekend 2009 at Union Station in Los Angeles, traveling across the country with stops in 40 cities big and small along the route, culminating in November at New York City’s Grand Central Terminal. Traveling more than 16,000 miles, the train will pass through 36 states, hitting cities like Chicago, Ill., Albuquerque, N.M., Portland, Ore., Fargo, N.D., Sacramento, Calif., Houston, Texas, Kansas City, Mo., Louisville, Ky., Jacksonville, Fla., Philadelphia, Pa., Albany, N.Y., and Charleston, S.C.

*SNEAK PEEK -- Visitors will be the first to see an exclusive sneak peek of “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” in Disney Digital 3D inside a state-of-the-art 48-foot-wide, 3D theatre—the first inflatable 3D theatre ever to go across the country—which will be erected onsite in each city. Dolby laboratories will be supplying Dolby Digital 3D equipment for the travelling 3D theatre.

*WINTER WONDERLAND -- Snow will “fall” in each of the 40 cities throughout this summertime event. The winter wonderland will be complete with holiday décor and Christmas carolers.

*BEHIND THE SCENES -- Visitors will be treated to a behind-the-scenes look at the magic, the spectacle and the cutting-edge technology of “Disney’s A Christmas Carol.” Four train cars will showcase immersive and interactive experiences, including:

*A first glimpse at the character development and character design of “Disney’s A Christmas Carol”

*Artifacts from the Charles Dickens Museum in London, England, including a first edition of “A Christmas Carol,” a portrait of Charles Dickens, his original writing tools and original letters written by Charles Dickens from his visits to the United States

*An inside look at the cutting-edge performance capture technique used to create the film

*Interactive kiosks where guests can explore Dicken’s London and morph their face into characters from the movie using HP TouchSmart PCs and get the image via email

*FREE FOR YOU AND ME -- This family event is fun for guests of all ages – and totally FREE!

*HOMETOWN MOVIE SURFERS SWEEPSTAKES - At every tour stop, Radio Disney will invite kids to enter for a chance to become a Movie Surfer representing their hometown. Each Hometown Movie Surfer will get a chance to appear on Disney Channel by filming their very own Movie Surfer’s segment! They’ll also receive a prize package of exclusive Movie Surfer and "Disney’s A Christmas Carol” gear.

*BOYS & GIRLS CLUB – To launch the event, Disney will present a check for $100,000 to Boys and Girls Club of America. Additionally, Boys and Girls Club kids from each city will take part in special activities.

*LOCAL TALENT -- Disney will hire locally in every stop to support the tour, fulfilling positions such as guest control, carolers and docents.

Along with the launch of the train tour and footage from the upcoming film, star Jim Carrey and "Back to the Future" director Robert Zemeckis were on hand to answer questions about the film and also present a check to the Boys and Girls Club of America.

Dick Cook, the chairman of Walt Disney Studios, came out and introduced Robert and Jim. I'm not quite sure what Jim is wearing...but is is interesting to look at.



And now the press conference, broken up into three parts.




Source: Latino Review (1,2)
I think Jim Carrey is pretty funny (in both his acting and in these interviews), so I am excited to see his performance in "A Christmas Carol."
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A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens' timeless tale of an old miser, Ebeneezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey), who must face Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, as they help to bring kindness to his otherwise cold heart. The Ghosts remind him of the man he used to be, the hard truth of what the world is today, and what will happen if he does not strive to be a better man. Set around Christmas, the most joyous day of the year, Scrooge realizes the sharp contrast of his own personality.

Carrey plays four separate roles in this updated version of "A Christmas Carol." Carrey portrays Scrooge, as well as the three ghosts (Past, Pesent, and Future). His dynamic character roles keep the four characters as diverse as being played by four actors.

Disney has released the following photo from Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol, showing Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge encountering a ghost. The trailer is set to debut by the end of this month sometime, and will most likely show in front of Pixar's "Up" starting on May 29.

"A Christmas Carol" is both written and directed by filmmaker extraordinaire Robert Zemeckis, of everything from "Back to the Future" to "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" to "Forrest Gump" his past CGI movies "The Polar Express" and "Beowulf" previously. This is based on Charles Dickens' classic story. Jim Carrey stars at least four different characters, alongside of Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn, Colin Firth, Cary Elwes, and Bob Hoskins. Disney will debut "A Christmas Carol" in theaters everywhere on November 6.
Sources: Latino Review, First Showing