Box Office Results and Weekly Movie News

Movies coming out this week!

Couples Retreat - Four couples settle into a tropical-island resort for a vacation. While one of the couples is there to work on their marriage, the others fail to realize that participation in the resort's therapy sessions is not optional.

Movies coming out on DVD and Blu-ray!

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Year One
My Life in Ruins
Trick 'r Treat

Box Office results for the weekend!

1 Zombieland$25.0 M

2 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs $16.7 M

3 Toy Story / Toy Story 2 (3-D) $12.5 M

4 The Invention of Lying$7.3 M

5 Surrogates $7.3 M

6 Capitalism: A Love Story $4.8 M

7 Whip It$4.8 M

8 Fame $4.7 M

9 The Informant! $3.8 M

10 Love Happens $2.7 M

A rated-R horror/comedy film made it to the top? Heck yeah! I love zombie films. And I love comedy films. Heck, I love "Shaun of the Dead." So will I love "Zombieland"? Most likely.

The Kid Factor also helps win out the weekend by serving "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" a big box office push along with the "Toy Story 3-D" double feature. You wouldn't think people would flock to see older films reformatted into a new dimension for three hours, but they will.

Drew Barrymore's directorial debut starring her and Ellen Page did not Bring It to movie theaters, and neither did Ricky Gervais' new film either (or Michael Moore's new documentary).

So what will win next weekend? Nothing really good coming out. Can we expect "Zombieland" to win two weeks in a row? We'll have to wait and see.

Box Office Results and Weekly Movie News

Movies coming out this week!

Year One - When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Black and Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through their ancient world.

The Proposal - A publishing executive (Bullock) forces her assistant (Reynolds) to marry her so she can avoid deportation back to Canada.

Whatever Works - An eccentric older man (David) encounters a Southern belle (Wood) and promptly falls in love. But how will the couple, her family, and his New York City friends mix?

Movies coming out on DVD!

Friday the 13th
The Seventh Seal
Madea Goes to Jail

Box Office results for the weekend!

1 The Hangover $33.4 M

2 Up$30.5 M

3 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3$25.0 M

4 Night at the Museum: Night at the Smithsonian $9.6 M

5 Land of the Lost $9.1 M

6 Imagine That$5.7 M

7 Star Trek $5.6 M

8 Terminator Salvation $4.6 M

9 Angels & Demons $4.2 M

10 Drag Me To Hell $3.8 M

"The Hangover" fell only about 25 percent from last weekend. I just recently saw the film myself and thought it was quite funny, but the word of mouth on this film must be amazing.

"Up" passed "Monster vs. Aliens" this weekend for domestic dollars. It might do as well internationally. If "Up" can make another $45 million domestically, than it will be passing "Star Trek."

What movie has made the most money for 2009? Surprisingly it is "Angels and Demons."
It has made $123 million domestically, but in its foreign markets the film made almost $291 million. It right now sits at around $414 million worldwide ("Star Trek" is at $344 million worldwide while "Up" hasn't been out too long oversees yet to make a dent in its earnings).

'Year One' Not R

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Sony's 'Year One,' the new Jack Black comedy from producer Judd Apatow and director Harold Ramis, has been rated PG-13 after the filmmakers made some cuts to the film.

The MPAA's Classification and Rating Appeals Board on Tuesday upheld the R rating originally given to the movie in which Black and Michael Cera play a couple of barely out-of-the-cave men who travel through the ancient world.

Apatow and Ramis appeared before the board to argue for a more lenient rating, but the appeals board still opted for the R, which requires moviegoers younger than 17 be accompanied by an adult, because of 'some sexual content and language.'

The filmmakers then made cuts to the film, and as a result, the ratings board has now given it a PG-13 'for crude and sexual content throughout, brief strong language and comic violence.'

Sony will release the film domestically June 19."

Since the debut of its trailer the film has received little attention online and I believe the budget of the film is somewhere over $75 million. Smacking this with an R rating would lose lots of money, so cutting it down to PG-13 is more profitable.

Don't worry though! Those of you that want to see all the raunchy jokes that were cut out can expect to see them in some form on the Unrated DVD. Always expect Unrated DVDs for comedies.

More news to come! Catch ya' later!

Trailer for Year One

When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers named Zed and Oh (played by Jack Black and Michael Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.



"Year One" is directed by comedy mastermind Harold Ramis, who played Egon in "Ghostbusters" and both wrote and directed comedy classics like "Caddyshack," "Groundhog Day," "Multiplicity," "Analyze This," and "The Ice Harvest." The screenplay was co-written by Ramis as well as "The Office" writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg.
Sony Pictures is bringing "Year One" to theaters everywhere on June 19 this summer.