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Bruno Helps Himself to Weekend Box Office Win

12 July 2009 11:47 PM, PDT | From TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news

Universal's Bruno surprised no one by strutting away with an easy weekend box office win to the tune of an estimated $30.4 million. The win is not sugarcoated for the flamboyant fashionista. A big $14.2 million opening on Friday dropped 39% into Saturday and again into Sunday. With Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince poised to strike, Bruno's anticipated run to $100 million may be cut short by the boy wizard. The other newcomer this past weekend, I Love You, Beth Cooper with Hayden Panettiere, flailed to an unimpressive $5 million opening and the number 7 spot overall. Fox will have to hope for strong DVD and Blu-ray business for additional Beth Cooper revenue. The rest of the field remained intact from last weekend with Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs narrowly topping Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, while comedies The Proposal and The Hangover continue to impress with minimal drop-off. The complete box office results

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Bruno On Top In America

12 July 2009 6:46 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Sacha Baron Cohen's outrageous Bruno movie has topped the U.S. box office with an opening weekend of $30 million (£20 million).

The comedy ended the summer stranglehold on the top of the film charts by Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which slipped into second and third place, respectively.

Johnny Depp's Public Enemies and romantic comedy The Proposal round out the new top five.

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'Bruno' Not as Brawny as 'Borat'

12 July 2009 6:08 PM, PDT | From Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news

Bruno strutted to the top of the box office but wasn't quite in vogue, leading to a relatively slow July session. Overall, the weekend was the least attended for the timeframe in 18 years and down five percent from last year. Striking approximately 3,400 screens at 2,756 venues, Bruno donned a solid estimated $30.4 million, which was less than I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, another July homosexual-themed comedy from 2007. Despite a higher-grossing debut, Bruno didn't make a statement like Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen's previous mockumentary. That picture opened to $26.5 million at only 837 theaters, and then made $28.3 million in its second weekend, when it expanded to 2,566 theaters, culminating in a $128.5 million final tally. Breaking the weekend gross down, Bruno had one of the steepest Friday-to-Saturday drops on record, slipping 39 percent from $14.4 million on Friday to $8.8 million on Saturday. For the most part, movies with such Saturday slides do not hold up well in the long run,

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Box Office: Bruno Wins the Weekend, Opens to $30 million

12 July 2009 6:03 PM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news

As expected it was the weekend of Bruno at the box office, as a $14.4 million opening on Friday night powered the Sacha Baron Cohen flick to a first place finish at $30 million. That's better than the $26 million opening for Borat. What I find interesting is that even though Bruno had a big Friday night, it promptly fell back to third place on Saturday and Sunday, with Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs reclaiming top spot for those two days. Now, that I did not expect. But I really do get the impression that all the stories about how "hard-r" the movie is are having an impact. This is a movie designed to make audiences squeamish, that's the style of humor we've come to expect. And it's not for everyone, and the box office is reflecting it. As for I Love You Beth Cooper, it went down the tubes at $5 million, but

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Bruno sexes up the Us box office

12 July 2009 5:33 PM, PDT | From TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news

Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest comic character to hit the screen – Bruno – has topped the box office charts across the pond with $30 million. While it just nudged ahead of Borat’s figures, it was released much wider, which means it’s likely not going to be quite as popular. Still, its first weekend put it ahead of Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs ($28.5 million) and Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen ($24.2 million). In fourth place, Public Enemies held up decently, while The Proposal snatched...

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Bruno Takes First This Weekend

12 July 2009 5:00 PM, PDT | From WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news

"Bruno," starring Sacha Baron Cohen, grossed over $30 million in its domestic debut from only 2,756 theaters, beating the $26 million opening weekend of Cohen's "Borat." 20th Century Fox's holdover "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" did strong business in its second week, grossing an estimated $28.5 million from 4,102 screens and jumping the $100 million mark domestically. Film, sporting a total of $120.6 million, came in No. 2 for the weekend. "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" took third place with $24 million. The film has now earned $340 million domestically for a worldwide total of $672 million. The sequel is only $36 million from surpassing the worldwide take of the first movie. Teen comedy "I Love You, Beth Cooper," starring Hayden Panettiere, grossed an estimated $5 million from 1,858 theaters to place No. 7 for the weekend. Click here to read our "Bruno" review.

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'Dawn of the Dinosaurs' grabs $97M overseas

12 July 2009 3:53 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

"Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" topped the international box office for the second consecutive weekend with a solid $97.9 million in ticket sales, according to early estimates Sunday.

The third installment in the popular animated series lifted its overseas total to $327.1 million. The film is currently playing in 102 territories. Domestic total stands at $120.5 million.

At No. 2, Michael Bay's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" collected another $32.5 million, bringing its foreign total to $364.5 million. Following in third place was Sacha Baron Cohen's "Brüno," which picked up $25 million in 28 markets.

Meanwhile, Michael Mann's "Public Enemies" finished at No. 4 this weekend, taking home $8 million for a total haul of $16.7 million. In the crime drama, Johnny Depp plays American bank robber John Dillinger.

"The Proposal" and "The Hangover" tied for fifth place based on early estimates. They each pulled in $7 million, with Sandra Bullock's comedy "Proposal" reaching $40.7 million while "Hangover" reached $74.1 million.

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Interview: Brian Geraghty of ‘The Hurt Locker’

12 July 2009 2:09 PM, PDT | From Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news

Three viewings in, and I still believe The Hurt Locker is the best film of the year, and maybe last year too. Kathryn Bigelow has crafted a film that is perfectly paced, acted, directed, and features the action scene to beat this year. It’s the first film of the year that makes a strong case for being a Best Picture nominee and it’ll likely be there once it’s all said and done. Plus, how cool would it be to have the director of Near Dark and Point Break accept an Oscar for Best Director?

I’m getting ahead of myself but I love this film (as evidenced by my review here) and was fortunate enough to get a chance to chat with Brian Geraghty who plays Specialist Owen Eldridge in the film. Brian does an excellent job conveying a guy who really shouldn’t be in war

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Megan Fox sluts it up in Gorezone Magazine Aug issue

12 July 2009 2:07 PM, PDT | From Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news

On sale Ausgust 9th '09, the new issue of U.K. horror rag Gorezone Magazine features Megan Fox (Toe Thumb, Transformers 2) wearing a swimsuit and saying really pretentious, vapid things about Michael Bay and Shia LeBeouf that she thinks are brilliant. There's also an in-depth discussion about her new role as 'Jennifer' in the Diablo Cody-written, Karyn Kusama-directed, Jason Reitman-produced (did I ever mention that I went to high school with Jason, and that the only reason he's a director now is because his father is, er, 'Ivan' Reitman, the rich famous director? Anyway) horror movie Jennifer's Body (yes, that's stolen from a Hole song).

Gorezone is a great magazine - and if you're going to be inundated by Megan, best that it be done through them...

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‘Bruno’ Still Fabulous At #1 In The Sunday Box Office Report

12 July 2009 1:56 PM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news

1. “Bruno” ($30.4 million)

2. “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” ($28.5 million)

3. “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” ($24.2 million)

4. “Public Enemies” ($14.1 million)

5. “The Proposal” ($10.5 million)

“Bruno” has beaten “Borat” at the box office. The fabulous fashionista scored a $30.4 million debut as of Saturday, a more impressive take than Sacha Baron Cohen’s other social satire, which opened to $26.5 million in November 2006. Of course, “Borat” also went on to take an estimated $128.5 million. Moving from Friday night sales to Saturday night, “Bruno” saw box office receipts decline by 39%.

“Bruno” is at the center of more than just a shaky box office performance. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has criticized the film for “decreasing the public’s comfort with gay people” by “reinforcing some damaging, hurtful stereotypes.”

According to Deadline Hollywood Daily, GLAAD president Jarrett Barrios saw the film on Friday and found his worst fears confirmed. “Unfortunately, the scenes that we had the biggest

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Elisabeth Rappe

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: July 12, 2009

12 July 2009 1:06 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

This week:

Bruno is the box office king; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle’s want You; Hollywood loves Hooker; Jason Statham goes on a Blitz; Zooey Deschanel is Your Highness and Robert DeNiro and Paul Schrader see The Dying of The Light.

 

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Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno took the top spot over the weekend with a gross of $30 million. It’ll need legs like a supermodel to reach the coveted $100 million mark.

Crossing the century mark this weekend is Ice Age 3-D: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs $28 million this weekend the animated pics total now stands at $120 million. Expect an Ice Age 4.

Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen banked another $24 million giving the Michael Bay action epic a grand total.

After breaking records last year with The Dark Knight, it has been a disappointing summer for Christian Bale. Terminator Salvation underperformed at the start of the summer and

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Niall Browne

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Box-Office Wrap-Up: Jul. 10 - Jul. 12, 2009

12 July 2009 11:17 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Bruno coming in at $30.4 means the mysteriously named "Br" came in closest with a call of $29.3m. Only one other commenter was under my prediction of $33.1m, a fellow named Athar. So what happened? After a massive $14m Friday night Bruno fell quickly. Was it word of mouth? Too sexual? Let's break it down. #1 movie predicted correctly: 1 Week In A Row 1. Bruno My take is that while Borat was silly, Bruno was overtly sexual. Which had to have hurt it. Most of the commenter predictions were in the $30s and $40s, heck there was even a call for $50m on the board. So we can definitely say it didn't live up to box-office expectations. However, the studio has still got to be pretty happy as you can make a film like Bruno very cheaply, spending most of the dollars on marketing. It has a decent shot at $100m domestically, provided

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Laremy Legel

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I'm a proud Brainiac

12 July 2009 11:16 AM, PDT | From blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news

Roger Ebert is a moron! Transformers 2 is the best action movie ever. Don't listem to that moron! He is only into slow boring romantic movies. That is his type of movies. Michael Bay did a great good. Roger... your an old fart! John C

Having now absorbed all or parts of 750 responses to my complaints about "Transformers," I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that most of those writing agree with me that it is a horrible movie. After all, look where they've chosen to comment. There have, however been some disagreements that I thought were reasonable. These writers mostly said they had a thing about the Transformers toys of their childhoods, or liked the animation on TV, or like to see stuff blowed up real good. In that case. Michael Bay is your man. If you enjoyed the movie, there is no way I can say you're wrong. About yourself,

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Box Office Review – July 12, 2009 – Brüno – Wins

12 July 2009 10:27 AM, PDT | From The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news

Weekend Top 5 Studio Estimates, July 10-12, 2009

Rank. Movie Title – Weekend Gross | Theaters | Total Gross | Week #

1. Bruno – $30.4 million | 2,756 | $30.4 million | 1

2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs – $28.5 million | 4,102 | $120.6 million | 2

3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – $24.2 million | 4,293 | $339.2 million | 3

4. Public Enemies – $14.1 million | 3,336 | $66.5 million | 2

5. The Proposal – $10.5 million | 3,158 | $113.8 million | 4

Source: boxofficemojo.com

It didn’t exactly crush the competition, but Brüno took the top spot at the box office this weekend.

We have two reviews of the film on The Scorecard Review …

Click Here to read Nick Allen’s take on Bruno

Click Here to read Jeff Bayer’s take on Bruno

Click Here to read Jeff Bayer’s take on I Love You, Beth Cooper

Click Here to watch Kptv Film Critic Jeff Bayer’s Reel Reviews of Brüno & I Love You, Beth Cooper

You’ll notice Hayden Panettiere wasn’t enough to get I Love You, Beth Cooper in the top 5. Thank goodness. Next week, Harry

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Brüno melts Ice Age's hopes of number one as pic earns a big $30 million.

12 July 2009 8:52 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

"Brüno” destroyed the number one hopes of 20th Century Fox’s “Ice Age: dawn of the Dinosaurs,” surprising some news outlets but in reality, Sacha Baron Cohen’s presence in the film industry is a force to be reckoned with. Cohen’s follow-up to the smashing “Borat” success debuted in 2,755 venues posting an estimated $30 million at an average of $11,040.00. “Ice Age” had to settle for second place for two weekends in a row after narrowly losing to box office magnet “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” in its opening weekend. Film posted $28.5 million in its sophomore run and has accumulated around $120 million thus far.

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Box Office Guru Wrapup: Brüno Struts To The Top Spot

12 July 2009 8:23 AM, PDT | From Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news

Sacha Baron Cohen scored another number one hit with his latest shockfest comedy Brüno which opened atop the North American box office bumping two-time champ Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen to third place. The hit toon Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs remained in second while the new teen comedy I Love You, Beth Cooper was rejected and debuted in seventh. Overall ticket sales slipped from a year earlier. Fans hit the multiplexes and drove Brüno to the top spot with an estimated $30.4M in tickets sold this weekend. Playing in 2,756 theaters, the fewest for a number one pic...

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Paramount Bo Vaults Past $1 Billion

12 July 2009 5:12 AM, PDT | From HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news

"This year has been marked by two great events for our studio..." reports Parmount Pictures Chairman/CEO Brad Grey. "...The rebooting of the Star Trek franchise under Jj Abrams and the immense performance of Michael Bay.s Transformers sequel." Record-breaking box office records from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Star Trek have now vaulted Paramount Pictures Corporation past the $1 billion mark in 2009 domestic box office revenue. Based on figures through July 7th, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen grossed $305.5 million domestic in 14 days and Star Trek grossed $250.3 million. "These tentpoles performed wonderfully for us this year," said Grey, "and we are excited for what they mean for our business in the years ahead..." Sneak Peek the Star Trek and Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen trailers...

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Bruno Eats Up Friday Box Office

12 July 2009 12:03 AM, PDT | From TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news

Universal and Sasha Baron Cohen are counting the coin after Bruno's impressive $14.2 estimated gross at the box office on Friday. In comparison, Borat rang up $9.2 million on its opening day but did so on roughly one-third the number of screens. If Bruno holds pace, a $30-$35 million opening weekend is likely and $100 million final tally not out of the question. The other newcomer, Chris Columbus' I Love You, Beth Cooper with Hayden Panettiere, registered $2.1 million its opening day. The low total comes as no surprise given the film's low scores across the board. Still playing strong is Fox's Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs who stomped over $100 million on Friday with second-place receipts of $8.4 million. Michael Bay's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen also continues to draw audiences with an additional $7.6 million bringing its rising cumulative domestic total to $322.6 million. Both of those films will be huge Blu-ray and DVD titles this fall.

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San Diego Comic-Con Schedule: Saturday, July 25

11 July 2009 2:40 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

The following information focuses on the 2009 Comic-Con schedule that is set for Saturday, July 25th. It’s not a full schedule - it only highlights TV and movie related panels and events.

Highlights for Saturday include Lost, Fringe, a screening of the pilot episode of ABC’s V, a first look at Heroes: Redemption, 2012 and a little film coming out next year you may have heard of: Iron Man 2.

 

10:00-11:00

Marvel: “Hero Up” with The Super Hero Squad Show!— Marvel’s first action-comedy series is a manic, mind-blowing, all-ages romp through the Marvel Universe. Coming to Cartoon Network in September, the animated show is loaded with superstar voice talent. Several of the actors will preview their characters in a live performance: Tom Kenny (Spongebob) as Iron Man and Modok, Charlie Adler (Cow and Chicken, Transformers features) as Dr. Doom, Steve Blum (Wolverine and the X-Men) as Wolverine,

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Vic Holtreman

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Trailer Park: Vampires and Aliens and Slashers (Oh My!)

11 July 2009 1:03 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Jennifer's Body

Diablo Cody wrote the script for this one in which Megan Fox plays a high school girl who is possessed by a demon and inflicts her wrath upon her male classmates. The trailer seems to imply that she's a vampire but most of the descriptions I've found are avoiding the "V" word. Amanda Seyfried plays Jennifer's best friend who must put a stop to the evil. You can check out Jennifer's Body on September 18.

District 9

There's a second trailer for this extraterrestrials as refugees flick produced by Peter Jackson. You see a little more of the aliens but they're quick glances. We do get come interesting glimpses of the alien technology and with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen making so much money I have to figure the public is going to like all the robots on display here. The aliens start slumming on August 14.

Giallo

Giallo is

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Matt Bradshaw

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