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‘Fockers’ Beats Out ‘Grit’ in Christmas Box Office

Trendy — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:43:41 +0000

Happy Holidays!

It was a very light affair at the Christmas box Office when it comes to new releases. Usually this time of year brings about numerous films vying for your holiday spirit, but this year it was a light affair.

I guess Yogi Bear and Gulliver’s Travel could be seen as box office failures with neither winning over the kid audience. As much as I like Jack Black the best version of Gulliver’s Travels and probably the most familiar version is that of Dave Fleischer in 1939.

Weekend Box Office Estimate Dec. 24-26

Title	Engagements		Estimated Weekend Box Office
1.	Little Fockers (Universal)	3,536	$34,000,000
2.	True Grit (Paramount)	3,047	$25,600,000
3.	Tron: Legacy 3D (Disney)	3,451	$20,100,000
4.	Chronicles of Narnia…Dawn Treader (20th Century Fox)	3,532	$10,800,000
5.	Yogi Bear 3D (Warner Bros.)	3,515	$8,800,000
6.	The Fighter (Paramount)	2,511	$8,500,000
7.	Gulliver’s Travels (20th Century Fox)	2,546	$7,200,000
8.	Black Swan (Fox Searchlight)	1,466	$6,600,000
9.	Tangled ( Disney)	2,582	$6,500,000
10.	The Tourist (Sony)	2,756	$5,700,000
in millions of dollars Variety

Changing Hosts Again/No New Posts

Trendy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:52:15 +0000

Hopefully done before the weekend.

MTV Movie Awards Tonight!

Trendy — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:17:14 +0000

Don’t forget to tune into the 2009 MTV Movie Awards airing live tonight at 9 p.m. on MTV.

Audiences Became 'Obsessed' This Weekend

Trendy — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:07:37 +0000

Surprisingly Beyonce’s ‘Obsessed’ took over the #1 spot at the box office this weekend bringing in over 28 million dollars. This mark’s Beyonce first non film musical role. Zac Efron’s ’17 Again’ is still holding strong at #2. The Soloist starring Jamie Foxx came in at #4 with dismal showing of over 9 million while Disney’s Earth rounded up the top five.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE ESTIMATE
April 24 – 26
Title Engagements Estimated
Weekend
Box Office
1. Obsessed (Universal) 2,514 $28,500,000
2. 17 Again (Warner Bros./New Line) 3,255 $11,665,000
3. Fighting (Universal) 2,309 $11,441,095
4. The Soloist (Paramount) 2,024 $9,715,000
5. Earth (Disney) 1,804 $8,554,000
6. Monsters vs. Aliens (Paramount/DreamWorks Animation) 3,538 $8,524,000
7. State of Play (Universal) 2,807 $6,891,185
8. Hannah Montana: The Movie (Disney) 3,231 $6,372,000
9. Fast and Furious (Universal) 3,566 $6,062,200
10. Crank: High Voltage (Lionsgate) 2,223 $2,400,000
in millions of dollars

Variety

Back To Regularly Scheduled Blogging.

Trendy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:20:02 +0000

When life throws you lemons you make lemonade…

Writer's Guild of Great Britian

Trendy — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:08:52 +0000

Their award show takes place this Sunday. Below is the nomination list. Also the Writer’s Guild of Great Britian is supporting the WGA protests over this side of the pond at the ceremony. I am sure that it is much appreciated.

ORIGINAL DRAMA (TV)
Victoria Wood – “Housewife, 49″
Peter Morgan – “Longford”
Neil McKay – “See No Evil: The Moors Murders”

SOAP/SERIES (TV)
Chris Chibnall, Paul Cornell, Russell T. Davies, Stephen Greenhorn, Steven Moffat, Helen Raynor and Gareth Roberts – “Doctor Who,” Series 3
Joe Ainsworth, Lisa Holdsworth, Nigel McCrery, Charles McKeown, Roy Mitchell, J.C. Wilsher and Richard Zajdlic – “New Tricks,” Series 4
Chris Chibnall, Mark Greig, Matthew Graham, Guy Jenkin, Tony Jordan, Ashley Pharoah and Julie Rutterford – “Life on Mars,” Series 2

COMEDY/LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT (TV)
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche – “The Thick of It”
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant – “Extras”
James Corden and Ruth Jones – “Gavin & Stacey”

PLAY (THEATRE)
Gregory Burke – “Black Watch”
Peter Morgan – “Frost/Nixon”
Tom Stoppard – “Rock ‘n’ Roll”

SCREENPLAY (FEATURE FILM)
Tony Grisoni – “Lives of the Saints”
Paul Laverty – “The Wind That Shakes the Barley”
Jeremy Brock and Peter Morgan – “The Last King of Scotland” (based on the book by Giles Foden)
Shane Meadows – “This Is England”

RADIO PLAY
Charles Wood – “Conspiracy at Sevres”
Mark Lawson – “Expand This”
Steve Gooch – “McNaughton”

VIDEOGAME SCRIPT
Charles Cecil and Neil Richards – “Broken Sword: Angel of Death”
Dan Houser and David Bland – “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories”
Dan Houser and Jacob Krarup – “Canis Canem E

Are we running out of movie ideas?

Trendy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:09:11 +0000

‘Earth’ welcomes Jennifer Connelly

Keanu Reeves attached to Fox’s sci-fi remake

By TATIANA SIEGEL, TATIANA SIEGEL, MICHAEL FLEMING

Connelly

Reeves

Jennifer Connelly has signed on to star in “The Day the Earth Stood Still” for 20th Century Fox. Keanu Reeves has already boarded the sci-fi remake.Scott Derrickson will direct the pic as his follow-up to “The Exorcism of Emily Rose.” Ryne Douglas Pearson wrote the screenplay; David Scarpa penned a recent draft.

Story kicks off as aliens land on Earth carrying a message for all humans: Live in peace or be destroyed. Connelly is set to portray Helen Benson, the role Patricia Neal played in the 1951 original.

Fox has set a December start date in Vancouver.

Erwin Stoff is producing alongside Derrickson’s partner Paul Boardman, who also produced “Emily Rose.”

Connelly is shooting the ensemble comedy “He’s Just Not That Into You” for New Line. She will then segue to “Day the Earth Stood Still.”

Both sides looking for end to strike.

Trendy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:06:19 +0000

Is this a strike that could have been prevented?Both producers and writers are angry over the way talks collapsed Sunday night, with both sides creating a Rashomon atmosphere of disagreeing over who did what — and when. But pretty much everyone agrees that action must be taken in the next 48 hours if Hollywood is going to avoid a long and costly strike.

The question: Who will take the initiative to get talks to resume? Producers believe it’s up to the writers to make the first move; the WGA says it’s ready, willing and able to resume talks at any point.

“I think both sides want to continue negotiations,” WGA West exec director David Young said Monday. “We are not getting a divorce.”

But with a full-fledged strike started and lingering acrimony between the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, prospects for resuming talks are dimming. Many already believe that the Directors Guild of America will end up riding in like the cavalry to make a deal that could lead to labor peace — even though WGA leaders have already asserted that they won’t look favorably at such an outcome.

The confusing outlook could get especially ugly by Thursday, when the Writers Guild of America has given as the deadline for its Script Validation Program, whereby writers must turn in drafts of their current works. Studios and networks have demanded the guild cease and desist from enforcing that program.

Sources close to talks said that five key sticking points were on the table at the start of talks Sunday, and those had been whittled down to just two by the dinner break. Many in both camps feel that they could have made serious progress if the talks continued.

But AMPTP president Nick Counter said the talks collapsed when the companies were in caucus ater 9 p.m. PST and discovered that the WGA East website was declaring the strike had started. The AMPTP reps then asked WGA East topper Mona Mangan if that was indeed the case, and she said it was.

“We asked the WGA if they’d be willing to put a pin in the strike so we could continue negotiations and Mona and David Young said ‘no’,” Counter said. “We were having dialogue and making some progress and then we hit a brick wall.”

But Young said that he had told the AMPTP at noon Sunday that the WGA was willing to talk all night but that it would not call off the strike. He also admitted that there had been some progress during the session.

“If it were Oct. 10, I would be hopeful and happy,” he added. “But here we are at 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 4 and they still have not made an economic proposal. We had gotten some movement but nothing on their economic package.”

WGA negotiators were infuriated by what they perceived as a lack of movement by the AMPTP once they had taken their proposal to double DVD residuals off the table. Negotiating committee member and showrunner Shawn Ryan (“The Shield,” “The Unit“) sent out an angry email afterward after spending nearly 12 hours in the Sunday session.

“I watched our side desperately try to make a deal,” Ryan said. “We gave up our request to increase revenue on DVDs, something that was very painful to give up, but something we felt we had to in order to get a deal made in new media, which is our future. I watched as the company’s representatives treated us horrendously, disrespectfully, and then walked out on us at 9:30 and then lied to the trades, claiming we had broken off negotiations.”

The key sticking points remain residuals for new media, payment for work for the Internet and use of streaming video. Counter painted a grim future on Monday.

“The outlook for future WGA negotiations is pretty bleak,” he admitted. “The only guideline we have is that the 1988 strike by the WGA lasted five months.”

Less than 24 hours after the strike began, TV studios have sent letters to all of their producers with overall deals informing them that, effective immediately, their pacts are being suspended. That means no more paychecks, effective immediately.

Writers who have projects actively in production — and who are still rendering services — will still get paid.

Variety

You Know It's Election Time…

Trendy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:34:34 +0000

when presidential candidates comment on the writers strike. Then again these two both happily accepted Hollywood dollars, so they better care.

From the Hollywood Reporter:

“I stand with the writers,” Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois said from his campaign headquarters in Chicago. “The guild’s demand is a test of whether media corporations are going to give writers a fair share of the wealth their work creates or continue concentrating profits in the hands of their executives.”

Said Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York: “I support the Writers Guild’s pursuit of a fair contract that pay them for their work in all mediums. I hope the producers and writers will return to the bargaining table.”

Read the entire article here.

Weekend Box Office Results Nov. 4th

Trendy — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:00:29 +0000

American Gangster and The Bee Movie boost box office.

TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Theater Count / Change Average Total Gross Budget* Week #

1 N American Gangster Uni. $43,565,115 – 3,054 – $14,264 $43,565,135 $100 1
2 N Bee Movie P/DW $38,021,044 – 3,928 – $9,679 $38,021,044 $150 1
3 1 Saw IV LGF $10,348,646 -67.4% 3,183 – $3,251 $50,398,835 – 2
4 2 Dan in Real Life BV $7,870,196 -33.4% 1,925 +4 $4,088 $22,695,653 – 2
5 4 The Game Plan BV $3,931,491 -35.9% 2,844 -498 $1,382 $82,035,100 – 6
6 3 30 Days of Night Sony $3,741,763 -45.5% 2,627 -232 $1,424 $33,970,509 $30 3
7 N Martian Child NL $3,376,669 – 2,020 – $1,671 $3,376,669 – 1
8 6 Michael Clayton WB $2,785,133 -43.4% 2,107 -478 $1,321 $33,083,619 – 5
9 5 Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married LGF $2,604,119 -53.9% 1,403 -494 $1,856 $51,059,398 – 4
10 7 Gone Baby Gone Mira. $2,237,915