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Monday, July 11, 2016

Box Office

From cinemablend, 2016 is turning out to be the year of the animated feature, with entries from multiple studios breaking records, banking top dollars, and now outgunning the comic book movie genre.

The Secret Life of Pets scratched out an impressive $103 million opening, joining just five other animated features to open above $100 million. Not only is that one of the highest ever animated openings in general, it's the highest for an original (non-sequel or spinoff) animated movie.

While The Secret Life of Pets was breaking into the number one spot, Finding Dorywas slipping into a different kind of number one: highest grossing movie of the year to date. After three weekends at number on the animated sequel added $20 million on its fourth weekend, bringing its domestic total to $422 million, well past Captain America: Civil War's $406 million and Deadpool's $363 million. If it can hold on to the position, it will mark the third time a Pixar movie as ranked the top grossing movie of the year (Toy Story, 1995 and Toy Story 3, 2010).

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates opened in fourth place with $16 million against a $33 million production budget. That's not a resounding endorsement for director Jake Szymanski's freshman feature length theatrical release, but it's enough to avoid being labelled a box office failure.

Sultan, the latest offering from Yash Raj Studios, opened in fewer than 300 venues but manages to sneak into the top ten with $2 million. That's the second largest North American opening for the Indian production house, and only the latest in a string of Indian movies that have been finding a growing audience in US theaters.

Thursday, July 07, 2016

"Rogue One" To Get A New Trailer Next Week

From darkhorizons, It has been two months since the release of the first trailer for "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" with many fans keenly awaiting the next one sometime soon. To date the best bet has been that the second trailer will launch with the 'Rogue One' panel at the Star Wars Celebration convention in London which kicks off next Friday afternoon, July 15th, in the UK.

Well that guess is looking pretty solid as Making Star Wars reports that U.S. TV network ABC has announced the hourlong special " Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey" to air on Friday, July 15th at 8pm. It's indicated that the special will also include a "three-minute trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story."

'Rogue One' is the first "Star Wars" live-action movie to fall outside the Skywalker saga storyline, this one going back to a time right before the events of 'A New Hope'. Since that first trailer there's been some big reveals as well from the confirmation of Darth Vader's presence to other franchise news such as casting of Alden Ehrenreich as the new Han Solo who may (not yet confirmed) cameo in 'Rogue One'.

"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" opens in December.

Pixar Ready To Cool It with the Sequels for a While

From iwatchstuff, Though the next few years will see Pixar busting out the much anticipatedIncredibles 2, the dubiously merited Toy Story 4, and fucking Cars 4, after that, the company claims, if you can make it through this sea of familiarity, it's all originals for the foreseeable future.

Speaking to EntertainmentWeekly, Pixar president Jim Morris said that, though the sequel Finding Dory is on track to become his studio's highest-grossing film ever, "Everything after Toy Story [4] and The Incredibles [2] is an original right now."

It's said, following the second Incredibles' June 21, 2019 release, we'll get new, all-original properties on March and June of 2020. After that, Morris explained, it's "highly likely" that two more original films that are in early development will hit screens. And, more notably, EW reports:
No other sequels are planned at the moment, Morris says.

That means you'll have to wait another decade, at least, for any follow-ups to old favorites like Ratatouille and WALL-E

But if nothing else, at least the future children of 2026 still have hope for Cars v Planes: Fall of Mater.

'Ash vs Evil Dead' season 2 trailer

If you did not watch the first season of Ash vs Evil Dead, shame on you! You're missing a terrific, hilarious, gory show with Bruce Campbell at the top of his game. Check out the season 2 trailer above.

Monday, July 04, 2016

Happy Fourth of July everybody!

Hey guys! Most of the day has passed but I'm still waiting for the fireworks to start. I hope everyone had a great day with no unscheduled explosions. Cheers!