Monday, July 15, 2013
Box Office
From ew, In a close race that saw each of the top three films swap places between Friday and Sunday, animated smashDespicable Me 2 once again won the weekend at the box office. The $76 million family film from Universal and Illumination Entertainment fell 46 percent from its debut weekend to $44.8 million, pushing its total all the way to $229.2 million after only 12 days.
Despicable Me 2 has easily asserted its dominance over Disney’s Monsters University in the last two weekends. Though Monsters has been in theaters twice as long (it opened June 21), its $237.8 million domestic total is only $8.6 million more than Despicable Me 2. Universal’s minion-filled comedy should easily overtake its rival release sometime this week. Worldwide, Despicable Me is about to surpass Monsters University as well, as the films have earned $472.4 million and $474.2 million, respectively.
In second place, Adam Sandler’s first-ever sequel, Grown Ups 2, opened to a great $42.5 million. The $80 million Sony comedy started off slightly better than its 2010 predecessor, Grown Ups, which debuted with $40.5 million on the way to a $162 million domestic finish. If estimates hold up, Grown Ups 2 will stand as Sandler’s second-best opening ever behind 2005′s The Longest Yard, which debuted to $47.6 million.
Sandler has proven himself to be one of the most consistent box office draws in Hollywood over the last 15 years, during which time he has accrued 12 live-action hits that grossed more than $100 million, as well as the animated winner Hotel Transylvania, which topped out at $148.3 million. But after back-to-back live-action misfires with 2011′s Jack & Jill ($74.2 million) and 2012′s That’s My Boy ($36.9 million), many questioned whether Sandler’s brand of comedy was still viable at the box office. Grown Ups 2‘s impressive debut should mitigate those concerns — and put the comedy on track to become Sandler’s 14th $100 million movie.
According to Sony, audiences for Grown Ups 2 were 53 percent female (this follows White House Down andWorld War Z — two other films with unexpectedly majority-female audiences), and 54 percent below the age of 25. Crowds surveyed by CinemaScore issued the film a ho-hum “B” grade, and critics were largely dismissive.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Saturday, July 13, 2013
"The Pixar Theory"
"Jon Negroni claims that the last 14 Pixar movies all exist in the same universe."
Check out this very cool theory on Buzzfeed.
The timeline begins with Brave, set in the Dark Ages...
Friday, July 12, 2013
Happy Birthday, Desroc!
A very Happy Birthday to my darling desroc! He has been working like a fiend at his new job and was up and out this morning at 5am - so not the kind of birthday we used to have! I guess that's how it goes as you get older. But that's okay because he still looks like he's 30.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
New ‘Day of the Dead’ Reboot Rises
From latimes, Two of the producers behind January’s successful reboot of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” have snapped up the remake rights to George A. Romero’s 1985 zombie classic, “Day of the Dead.”
Lati Grobman and Christa Campbell, who produced “Texas Chainsaw 3D,” which grossed $34.3 million early this year, said they acquired the rights from James and Robert Dudelson, whose Taurus Entertainment produced an earlier "Day of the Dead" remake in 2008 with Mena Suvari and Nick Cannon.
Grobman and Campbell said their company, Campbell Grobman Films, is now holding meetings with screenwriters about the best way to adapt the 1985 original about a group of military personnel and scientists hiding from the undead in a bunker.
The producers said they expected the remake, a collaboration with Millennium Films, to have a budget of between $10 million and $20 million and be in theaters next year.
“Zombie movies are really popular right now, and we feel we could do this right,” said Campbell, a former genre movie actress who is currently producing the Kate Beckinsale psychological thriller “Eliza Graves." Campbell, whose acting credits include "2001 Maniacs" and "Drive Angry," actually had a small role in the 2008 remake.
Grobman said she and Campbell wanted to prove that "Texas Chainsaw 3D" was not a fluke. "Everybody in town was claiming they were behind its success," she said. "We wanted to show that we didn't just get lucky. It was a very calculated production."
The two said they had very few specific ideas about their "Day of the Dead" remake except that it would try to honor Romero's original, which was a follow-up to the filmmaker's seminal horror films"Night of the Living Dead" in 1968 and "Dawn of the Dead" in 1978.
"We want to keep it as close to the Romero version as possible," Campbell said, "to make sure that his fans are happy. These are not going to be zombies climbing walls and doing back flips like in 'World War Z.'"
In addition to Grobman and Campbell, the movie's producers will include the Dudelsons and Millennium executives Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson and Mark Gill.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
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