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Friday Report: 'Transformers' Sequel Dominates

27 June 2009 1:12 PM, PDT | From Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news

In its third day, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen maintained its blockbuster run, raking in an estimated $36.7 million on approximately 10,000 screens at 4,234 sites. That stands as the tenth highest-grossing Friday ever, but all movies ahead of it had Friday openings, giving the action sequel the record for biggest non-opening Friday gross. It ranks ahead of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Spider-Man 2 and The Matrix Reloaded on that front, although each of those pictures had higher attendance. Revenge of the Fallen's Friday included an estimated $2.6 million from 169 IMAX runs, and the picture has thus far made $8.9 million in the format. With a $125.9 million total in three days, Revenge of the Fallen slotted in as the fourth highest-grossing three-day opening on record, behind The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, but, again, among movies that didn't open on a Friday, it grabbed the top spot.

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Big Thursday for 'Transformers' Sequel

26 June 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | From Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news

On Thursday, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen continued to dominate with a $28.6 million haul at 4,234 sites, lifting its total to $89.2 million in two days. It was the highest-grossing non-opening Thursday ever. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, The Matrix Reloaded and Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones each had bigger Thursdays, but those were opening days. Revenge of the Fallen retreated 53 percent from Wednesday to Thursday, which was a typical drop for such a massive mid-week, non-holiday opening. It was also a smaller fall than Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which was off 58 percent at the same point. The first Transformers made a bit more on its second day, $29.1 million, but that was on an Independence Day Wednesday, and its first Thursday came in at $19.2 million for a three-and-a-half day tally of $84.9 million. Included in Revenge of the Fallen's gross was

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Brandon Gray

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First Look: Monica Bellucci in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

19 June 2009 8:46 AM, PDT | From /Film | See recent /Film news

SpoilerTV has the first set photos showing Monica Bellucci (Passion of the Christ, The Matrix Reloaded) in costume on the set of Jon Turteltaub's The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Loosely adapted from the classic story from Fantasia, and based in modern-day Manhattan, Nicolas Cage plays Balthazar Blake, a sorcerer who recruits and trains a young protege (Jay Baruchel) to help fight the forces of darkness. Bellucci plays Veronica, a sorceress and the long-lost love of Cage's character. More photos after the jump. Warning: possible spoilers. Possible spoiler: Celebrity illusionist Drake Stone (Toby Kebbell) joins forces with an evil sorcerer named Horvath (Alfred Molina), to "gain ultimate powers." The film, which has been shooting in New York for the last two months, also features Teresa Palmer (Bedtime Stories) as Baruchel's love interest.  The Sorcerer's Apprentice is set to hit theaters on July 16th 2010.

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First Look at The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

19 June 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

I haven’t been really keeping tabs on The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the upcoming film from director John Turteltaub and his National Treasure bud, Nicholas Cage. The first set photos from Tsa recently hit the net and I gotta say, they are not exactly thrilling me. In fact, as I write this, I don’t even know why I’m bothering to write this but I already started typing so here we go…

These first photos from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice mainly show Nic Cage and co-star Monica Bellucci (The Matrix Reloaded) doing the wizard-in-love thang. See for yourself:

 

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Did you see that hair on Nic Cage??? Wtf???

In an age where filmmakers can use CGI to create everything from realistic transforming robots to tear-inducing animated dramas, you think Somebody in a CGI F/X department Somewhere would’ve been tasked with providing

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Kofi Outlaw

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eBay find: The Matrix Reloaded screen-used 1967 Pontiac Firebird

19 June 2009 4:03 AM, PDT | From Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news

This week we’ve set our net a little wider for our eBay find, wandering into the wild unknown of eBay motors. And look what we’ve found, only the 1967 Pontiac Firebird as driven by Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith) in action blockbuster The Matrix Reloaded. The vintage muscle car is attracting plenty of bids (15 as of this blog being published) and all proceeds from its sale will be donated to DonorsChoose.org, an online charity that helps school students in need. So if you’re in the market for a classic car, an incredible piece of movie memorabilia or are feeling particularly charitable, click over for more…

The mint condition black car comes with a letter of authenticity penned by Andy Wachowski, no less than The Matrix trilogy’s co-creator/ writer/ director and producer. In it he writes: “Niobe’s (Jada Pinkett Smith) muscle car was cast to contrast Morpheus

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So Far, the Blockbuster Season Isn't As Blockbustery As Usual

1 June 2009 9:03 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

On Friday, Star Trek reached an important milestone when its U.S. box office total passed the $200 million mark. It's the first film of 2009 to cross that barrier, and that fact got me thinking: Friday was May 29. Isn't that later than usual for the first $200 million film of the year? I did some poking around at Box Office Mojo and found that my suspicions were correct.

In 2008, Iron Man hit $200 million on May 17. In 2007, Spider-Man 3 did it on May 12. In fact, since 2001, a film has always made it to $200 million before May 29, with only two exceptions: In 2006, X-Men: The Last Stand didn't achieve it until June 11, and in 2001 it was Shrek, on June 19.

To look at it another way, in some years there have been Two $200 million films by the end of May. The reason for the deficit this year, obviously, is that the early "summer" (i.e., early

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Eric D. Snider

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[DVD Review] Eden Log

25 May 2009 9:47 AM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

I once spent a summer during which I watched about 250 films, and have been watching films steadily throughout the better part of my twenty-three year life. That may be pitiful to many of you (I know that there are many people who have bested whatever claims to film-watching glory I have made here), or you may think that I’ve all but totally wasted my life. But the point is, I’ve seen a lot. Not everything, but a lot. And I can state beyond the shadow of a doubt that Eden Log is in the bottom five five films I have ever seen in terms of watchability, coherence, and entertainment value. I hate this movie. I hate it.

The plot, as best as I could tell, involved a man (Clovis Cornillac) waking up in the middle of a cave, breathing heavily into the soundtrack in a way reminiscent of

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Sorcerer’s Apprentice Still Adding Cast Members

18 May 2009 9:34 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

Sorcerer’s Apprentice has been in production for the past two months and they are still hiring actresses. When Screen Rant mentioned the film before, it didn’t have the incredibly beautiful Monica Belluci (The Matrix Reloaded) attached to it. She has since joined cast members Nicolas Cage, Alfred Molina and director Jon Turteltaub (Cool Runnings) in Disney’s big screen adaptation.

 

Sorcerer’s Apprentice is loosely (read not at all) based on the original poem by Johann Wolfgang Goethe; Disney drew its inspiration from the poem for the famous scene in the animated classic Fantasia. Based in modern-day Manhattan, Cage is sorcerer Balthazar Blake who is fighting the forces of darkness with the help of his young protégé (Jay Baruchel). Molina plays evil sorcerer Horvath who teams up with Drake Stone (Toby Kebbell) to “gain ultimate powers”.

Bellucci takes on the role of sorceress Veronica, who is Blake’s long-lost girlfriend.

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Monica Bellucci casts a spell for The Sorcerer's Apprentice

15 May 2009 6:59 AM, PDT | From The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news

Monica Bellucci is to star alongside Nicolas Cage in The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

The 44-year-old Italian actress will play Veronica, a sorceress who is the long-lost love of Cage's character Balthazar Blake.

The Disney film revolves around a sorcerer who recruits and trains a young protege to help him fight the forces of darkness in modern-day Manhattan. Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer and Toby Kebbell round out the cast.

Variety says the movie is shooting in New York City with Jon Turteltaub at the helm and is set for release on July 16, 2010.

Bellucci played Persephone in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, Mary Magdalene in The Passion of the Christ and a vampire seductress in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

She will next be seen in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and also in the French film Ne Te Retourne Pas (Don't Look Back), which debuts on Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival.

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David Bentley

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Action-packed Opening Scene for Jeff Lew’s Killer Bean Forever

7 May 2009 11:44 PM, PDT | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news

Animation director Jeff Lew has posted the entire opening scene for Killer Bean Forever, an independent animated film that took him five grueling years to produce just by himself.  Best known for his sensational short film Killer Bean 2 in 2000, he has since gained an impressive resume working on X-Men, The Matrix Reloaded and the highly anticipated Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.  The first scene comprised about 6 minutes of crazy action goodness and silly humor that no self-respecting animation fan can afford to miss.  It got break-dancing.  It got gun-fu. And it even got a Vince Carter slam dunk.  What more can you ask for?  This is more fun than a barrels of monkey.

When things go bad in Beantown, top assassin Killer Bean is called to clean-up the mess. Detective Cromwell finds himself in the middle between Killer Bean and mob boss Cappuccino. But to make matters worse, Killer Bean

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20 Years of Summer Movies, A Love/Hate Relationship

7 May 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

With the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the 2009 summer movie season has begun. A cursory glance at the upcoming slate of summer releases looks pretty weak this year, but I’m not here to look ahead. Instead, I noticed that we’ve reached the twenty-year anniversary of the “true” summer movie age. Sure, Jaws and Star Wars were the godfathers of the movement, and the close-following summers since that time often saw two or three big releases looking to cash in on the popcorn-munching crowd, but it was 1989 when the summer movie calendar started to become bloated. The large number of crowd-pleasing titles (and bevy of sequels) included the following: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Ghostbusters II, License to Kill, Star Trek V, Lethal Weapon 2, The Abyss, Honey I Shrunk the Kids and, to a lesser extent, The Karate Kid: Part III. So on the Platinum Anniversary of the summer flick phenomenon,

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Matt Medlock

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'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' Rips Off North American Box Office

3 May 2009 7:25 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" has livened up to its expectation at the North American box office over the weekend. Projected to nab more than $70 million upon its release on Friday, May 1, the Gavin Hood-directed film has torn its way to the top spot at the ticket sales chart with $85.1 million after three days of screening at 4,099 sites.

Kicking off the summer season, the action fantasy movie starring Hugh Jackman opened lower than "X-Men: The Last Stand" which collected as much as $102.8 million when it was debuted in 2006. If ticket price inflation is taken into consideration, it also scored lower than 2003's "X2: X-Men United". However, it did pull in a higher number than the original "X-Men".

While scoring a relatively big bow over the weekend, "Wolverine" landed on the 15th slot among the top opening movies in summer, following "Spider-Man 2", "The Matrix Reloaded" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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The Matrix 10th Anniversary - A Look Back On The Trilogy

31 March 2009 5:09 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

One of the greatest and most memorable movies ever made celebrates its 10th anniversary today. That movie is The Matrix.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been ten full years since The Matrix opened on the big screen on March 31, 1999 to great reviews, a plethora of film awards and an incredibly strong fan base. The movie sits at #29 on IMDb’s top 250 movies as voted by users with over three-hundred thousand votes and it has 86% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The movie, written and directed by Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski, set new standards in special effects for action and gunplay, martial arts choreography, sound and music style all the way to cinematography and editing. On top of that, they took a geeky concept and made it insanely popular and cool amongst mainstream moviegoers. It was an action movie that was both intelligent and stylistic and it did pretty much everything right.

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'Watchmen' Rules North American and Overseas Box Office

9 March 2009 7:21 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

Off to a decent-but-not-spectacular start with an estimated $4.6 million, "Watchmen" followed it through by securing both the #1 slot at the North American as well as the overseas box office. The highly-anticipated live-action movie from director Zack Snyder opened solidly with $55.2 million from the U.S. and Canadian markets, and with $27.5 million from the overseas market.

While "Watchmen" sales was far behind Snyder's another impressive movie "300" on its first weekend, the Warner Bros. Pictures film has secured the 12th place for the highest-grossing opening weekend for a comic book movie, trailing behind "Fantastic Four", at the North American box office. Still, if ticket-price inflation is calculated, it will be in the 20th position.

In addition to that, it has become the sixth-highest grossing R-rated start, behind "The Matrix Reloaded", "The Passion of the Christ", "300", "Hannibal" and "Sex and the City", before the inflation adjustment. It also doubled the openings of "V

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Weekend Report: 'Watchmen' Rages in the Top Spot

9 March 2009 12:03 PM, PDT | From Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news

Watchmen clocked in with a vibrant $55.2 million on approximately 7,500 screens at 3,611 theaters, handily topping a weekend where overall business was up nine percent over last year but cooled down from 2009's prior blistering pace. The $150 million adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel notched the 13th highest-grossing opening weekend for a comic book movie, behind The Incredible Hulk (though it drops to 21st when ticket-price inflation is factored). With the biggest theater count ever for an R-rated movie, Watchmen had the sixth-highest grossing R-rated start (though, again, adjusting brings it down to 14th), behind The Matrix Reloaded, The Passion of the Christ, 300, Hannibal and Sex and the City. Among Alan Moore adaptations, it doubled the openings of V for Vendetta and ...

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Box Office Guru Wrapup: Watchmen Scores $55.7 Million Opening

8 March 2009 9:02 AM, PDT | From Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news

The adult-themed superhero film Watchmen seized control of the North American box office posting the biggest debut of the year with an estimated $55.7M in ticket sales over the Friday-to-Sunday period. Directed by Zack Snyder (300, Dawn of the Dead), the R-rated film based on the acclaimed 1986 comic series averaged a muscular $15,413 from 3,611 theaters. It was the third best March opening ever trailing 300 ($70.9M) and Ice Age: The Meltdown ($68M) and the sixth largest bow for an R-rated film after The Matrix Reloaded ($91.8M), The Passion of the Christ ($83.8M), 300, Hannibal ($58M), and Sex and...

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Box office weekend summary - "Watchmen" posts sixth biggest R-rated opening of all time.

8 March 2009 | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

  "Watchmen" will finish off the weekend with an estimated $55.6 million box office take. The graphic novel adaptation helmed by Zach Snyder opened in 3,611 locations and averaged $15,412.63 per theatre, dispelling any negative opinions as to whether it would live up to the hype generated.   According to Media by Numbers, Thursday night previews generated $4.6 million and managed to sell out all 124 IMAX locations as well. Film then went on to chalk $25.1 million on Friday followed by $19.02 million on Saturday and an estimated Sunday gross of $11.5 million.   This is now the second biggest IMAX opener of all time with $5.25 million made; second only the Warners uber-successful “The Dark Knight” which grossed $6.3 million.   The fantasy actioner is adapted by David Hayter and Alex Tse, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Carla Gugino, Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Stephen McHattie, Matt Frewer,

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Friday Report: 'Watchmen' Busts Out on Opening Day

7 March 2009 10:16 AM, PST | From Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news

In its full opening day, Watchmen pulled in an estimated $25.1 million on approximately 7,500 screens at 3,611 theaters, including an estimated $4.55 million from its first midnight shows. That ranks as the eighth-highest grossing opening day for a superhero movie and 32nd among all movies. Adjusted for ticket price inflation, other comic book adaptations rate higher opening days, including the first X-Men and Hulk pictures, but Watchmen's first day wasn't far off from the first weekends of previous Alan Moore adaptations V for Vendetta and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Among R-rated movies, Watchmen's opening day was fifth behind The Matrix Reloaded, 300, Sex and the City and The Passion of the Christ. 300, the previous picture from Watchmen director Zack Snyder and the ...

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'Watchmen' Recruits Many at Midnight

6 March 2009 4:35 PM, PST | From Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news

In its midnight opening, Watchmen burst onto the scene with an estimated $4.55 million at 1,595 theaters. That compares favorably to 300, the movie Watchmen's marketing campaign cites, which racked up $2.5 million at 656 venues in its midnight opening two years ago. Watchmen's take, though, was less than a quarter of all-time champion The Dark Knight, which earned around $18.5 million at 3,040 sites in its midnight opening. Watchmen is the largest release of the year thus far, striking approximately 7,500 screens at 3,611 theaters (including 124 IMAX venues) this weekend, or about as saturated as the first Spider-Man. Its theater count of 3,611 is the highest ever for an R-rated movie opening, topping The Matrix Reloaded's 3,603. However, Matrix Reloaded had more screens, ...

Brandon Gray

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Watchmen is Already Breaking Records

5 March 2009 8:00 AM, PST | From WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news

At this point it is still unknown how much "Watchmen" will earn, but one thing is for sure, the 3,611 theaters that it will be playing in is the most ever for an R-rated film. Further aiding the film is that the movie will play in an impressive 1,600 locations starting at midnight Thursday. That's substantially more than the 656 midnight shows that helped Zack Snyder's "300" bring in an incredible $28 million in only the first day of its $71 million opening weekend in March 2007. The first-day haul for "300" was the second-highest ever for an R-rated pic, after the $42.5 million "The Matrix Reloaded" earned. The previous widest release for an R-rated pic was the 3,603-theater bow for "Reloaded." Warners distribution president Dan Fellman said "Watchmen" wasn't a tough sell with theater owners. "The reaction at our exhibitor screenings was terrific, and after the success of '300,' there wasn't an exhibitor in the country

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