Box Office News
Get Ready for Clash of the Titans 2
by Erika Olson | September 1st, 2010 | Filed under: NewsLess than thrilled with Clash of the Titans’ post-production 3D conversion? Sick of Greek mythology? Bitter about the remake’s pithy dismissal of Bubo, the coolest mechanical owl ever? Well, that’s just too darn bad, because Clash has now earned almost $500 million worldwide, and that means there’s absolutely no stopping a sequel. (For the record, [...]
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UPDATED: Takers Edges Exorcism at Box Office
by Locke Peterseim | August 29th, 2010 | Filed under: Box Office News, NewsUPDATED: When the actual “actuals” came in Monday afternoon, Takers sneaked out in front of The Last Exorcism, winning the weekend with $22.5 million to Exorcism’s $22.3 million. Ooooh, box-office ties are soooo exciting! Can’t you just feel the excitement? No really, can’t you? No? Hmmm, maybe I just had too much candy and caffeine today… [...]
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Poor Jen
by Erika Olson | August 26th, 2010 | Filed under: Hollywood Chatter, In My Humble OpinionIt seems Jennifer Aniston just can’t win these days. Even though The Switch was actually a decent film and her performance in it was significantly better than what she gave us in, say, the thoroughly dreadful Bounty Hunter (still in redboxes – I dare you to sit through it!), nobody’s ever going to realize this [...]
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It Was Inevitable, Really: Angry Birds, the Movie
by Erika Olson | August 25th, 2010 | Filed under: NewsWhen I left Corporate America to start a freelance writing career in mid-2007, one of the hardest things I had to do was give up my CrackBerry. I went without any sort of PDA — yep, you heard me — for the subsequent two years. Then last August I finally broke down and got an [...]
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The Return of Avatar: Does Anybody Care?
by Erika Olson | August 24th, 2010 | Filed under: In My Humble Opinion, NewsAs you may or may not know, James Cameron’s Avatar is returning to 3D screens this Friday — this time it’s being called: Avatar: Special Edition. What’s so special about it? It’s got nine extra minutes of action. Hmm. I enjoyed the movie, but it feels like I just saw it. I’m not sure I’m [...]
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Stallone and Pals Fend Off Bloodthirsty Horde
by Locke Peterseim | August 23rd, 2010 | Filed under: Box Office News, NewsDespite five–count ‘em five–new wide releases this past weekend, The Expendables remained on top of the box office. Sylvester Stallone’s cinematic equivalent of a raw red-meat platter brought in $16.5 million on its second weekend, a fairly average drop of 53% from its opening. And in what is surely proof that in the dog days [...]
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The New Lisbeth Salander is Cast!
by Locke Peterseim | August 17th, 2010 | Filed under: Hollywood Chatter, NewsThe last of the summer’s big unanswered questions–right after “Will they get that oil thingy stopped?” and “Can Lindsay survive hard time?”–has finally been answered. Twenty-five-year-old U.S. actress Rooney Mara will play Lisbeth Salander in director David Fincher’s English-language (but with Swedish accents!) version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. (Daniel Craig is playing [...]
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Fists Triumph Over Food and Funky Hipsters
by Erika Olson | August 16th, 2010 | Filed under: Box Office NewsMy, oh my… who woulda thunk it? The Expendables delivered an all-out smackdown to both Eat Pray Love and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World this weekend — a true triumph of brawn over brains. Actually, I bet a lot of redblog readers were not surprised in the slightest by the box-office race outcome that seemed [...]
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Rumors from the Heart of Hobbiton
by Erika Olson | August 12th, 2010 | Filed under: Behind the Scenes, NewsAs you may remember, in 2006 I was lucky enough to be able to travel to New Zealand and go on a bunch of different Lord of the Rings filming location tours, including one that went to Matamata, a.k.a. Hobbiton/The Shire. That’s me in Bag End! I have a friend who’s done the same tour, [...]
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Can There Be Another Hangover… for Women?
by Erika Olson | August 12th, 2010 | Filed under: Movies, NewsSeeing as how it’s Weddings & Funerals week here at redblog, I figured now was an appropriate time to chat about not one, but two upcoming films that revolve around getting married. They’re both literary adaptations, and they both star the same actress — an actress whose comedic chops Locke and I have debated more [...]
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