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By Furious, on April 14th, 2009
 With this past Sunday being Easter, it finally provided the ultimate showdown we’ve all been waiting for: Hannah Montana versus Jesus. You’d think that if The Beatles were more popular than Jesus, well Hannah Montana was a shoe-in. As it turns out, God’s kid is still more popular than Disney’s.
Hannah Montana the Movie got off to a relatively big $17.5 million Friday, but by Sunday had dropped to a scant $4.5 million, a drop so precipitous that it takes the record for the most front-loaded opening weekend away from Twilight. I’m not exactly sure what comment this makes about the world or movies, but having the two most front-loaded movies in history occur this year has [...]
Continue reading Weekend Report: Hannah Montana Not As Popular As Jesus
By Furious, on April 10th, 2009
To celebrate Easter this weekend, Hollywood is giving us three new family movies, if, that is, kids can drag their parents to see Hannah Montana, parents can drag their kids along to see Observe and Report, or anyone at all wants to see Dragonball Evolution.
Hannah Montana the Movie is the biggest release this weekend, being crammed into 3,118 theaters. Last year, Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour (which might win the contest for most descriptive title ever) set the record for the highest per theater average for a wide release in the history of the world, a totally asinine $45,561 per theater on the opening weekend. However this time around, the hype isn’t near as big and the movie isn’t advertised as [...]
Continue reading Weekend Predictions: 04-10-09
By Furious, on March 13th, 2009
For the first time since the last Friday the 13th, we’ve got three new wide releases for the weekend. We got another Disney family movie, another horror remake, and another sex comedy made by a bunch of people no one has ever heard of. What a great time to be alive!
The Rock, or as most people know him- Dwayne Johnson, is back again with more family-friendly entertainment in Race to Witch Mountain. It first seemed like The Rock’s career was targeted towards entertaining the WWE hoodlums that geeked out whenever he raised his eyebrow, but at some point it shifted towards entertaining the kids that his old fans probably used to beat up. The Game Plan, Gridiron Gang, and soon Tooth Fairy, where he indeed [...]
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By Furious, on December 17th, 2008
December 17th, what more can I say? Maybe it’s because it’s near the end of the year, but there’s all kinds of good stuff about December 17th.
First, the birthdays:
Milla Jovovich, the first lady of zombie movies, was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1975
Giovanni Ribisi, whose father’s name is Gay, was born in 1974
Writer/director/producer/editor/cinematographer Gregg Araki was born in 1959
Rhode Island-obsessed director Peter Farrelly was born in 1956
Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione was born in 1930
Prolific supporting-actor Ernie Hudson was born in 1945
Cherokee actor Wes Studi was born in 1947
Bill Pullman, who is somehow often confused with Bill Paxton, was born in 1953
There were a slew of older movies released on this date that have especially dirty sounding names: The Taint (rereleased 1916); Making a Man [...]
Continue reading This Date In Movie History: December 17th
By Furious, on December 1st, 2008
If you hadn’t noticed, I passed on making a prediction for this past weekend. Aside from making changes to the site, I just wasn’t sure how to approach the long weekend- four days for most of us, but five days as far as movies are concerned. Maybe Thanksgiving day would be especially high or low, maybe Wednesday and Thursday would be big and the rest of the weekend would peter out. And my uncertainty wasn’t totally unfounded: Wednesday the 19th made $6,526,023 while the 26th pulled in $33,325,833, yet Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were nearly the same as the previous week.
 Somehow 4.4 million people went to see Four Christmases. That was enough to win the three-day [...]
Continue reading Assessing The Weekend: Holiday Crapshoot
By Furious, on October 29th, 2008
It looks like everyone’s favorite farting dog will be paired up with the Jonas Brothers, who are making the jump from Disney to Fox for their big screen [...]
Continue reading The Jonas Brothers And Farts- A Perfect Match
By Furious, on October 25th, 2008
This weekend looks to be a two horse race to the bank between High School Musical 3: Senior Year and Saw [...]
Continue reading Weekend Predictions: 10-24-08
By Furious, on October 14th, 2008
Who would’ve thought Beverly Hills Chihuahua could dominate a second weekend? I dismissed it as an opening weekend beast that would flame out rather [...]
Continue reading Assessing The Weekend: Never Underestimate The Power Of Chihuahuas
By Furious, on October 7th, 2008
The latest news on the new Alice in Wonderland movie is the casting of woman-Tim-Burton-will-have-kids-with-but-won’t-marry Helena Bonham Carter and girl-with-the-Photoshopped-face Anne [...]
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By Furious, on October 3rd, 2008
So, this is a big weekend for movies, with six debuting on, and one expanding to, 1000+ screens. That’s actually pretty unusual- there haven’t been seven movies on 1000+ screens since January 12, [...]
Continue reading Weekend Predictions: 10-3-08
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