Burn After Reading Takes Top Spot in Strong Weekend Box Office
This weekend, for the first time ever, four new films opened to double digit grosses in the same weekend in September. The four new films accounted for 77% of the top ten films, but no one is complaining as the four films seemed to offer something to almost everyone.
Pop Critics’ Top 10 Summer Movie Predictions Results
Way back in April Mike and I responded to an EW article that listed their predictions for the biggest movies of the summer with some predictions of our own. Now with Labor Day officially closing out the summer movie season we felt it was time to revisit our predictions and see how we fared.
Nic Cage Has Embarrassing #1 Opening With Bangkok Dangerous
This weekend moviegoers decided there were better things to do than actually go to the movies. The top ten movies slumped to the lowest gross in five years and got the fall movie season off to a horrible start. Nicolas Cage will get to claim another number one opening, but this one is nothing to brag about.
Tropic Thunder Stays On Top Of Labor Day Weekend
Labor Day weekend is the traditional close of the summer movie season and this Labor Day saw no shortage of new films being dumped into the marketplace for a last ditch effort at making a few summer dollars. Most of the new films met with failure, however, enabling Robert Downey, Jr., who opened the summer at number one with Iron Man, close out the summer at number one with Tropic Thunder.
Tropic Thunder Retains The Top Spot At The Weekend Box Office
Tropic Thunder took advantage of strong word of mouth, a softening box office, and a host of weak contenders to stay at the top of the weekend box office charts for a second week in a row. The four films opening against it were all hit-and-miss.
Movie Review: Tropic Thunder (2008) by Jason
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film. But after ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.
Tropic Thunder Unseats The Dark Knight from Top Spot at the Box Office
With a slew of new movies opening this weekend it seemed almost impossible that The Dark Knight could hold on to the top spot at the box office for a fifth week. Indeed, it was not able to as Tropic Thunder muscled its way to a top opening and forced Batman to settle for a still impressive second place finish. Five other movies also opened to varying results.
Robert Downey, Jr. Trashes The Dark Knight
Maybe Robert Downey, Jr. is saying it because he’s out promoting Tropic Thunder which opens today. Or maybe he said it because he’s bitter that his summer superhero flick, Iron Man, was the toast of the town until The Dark Knight arrived. Or maybe Robert Downey, Jr. was just being completely honest. Either way, he just totally dumped all over The Dark Knight and the people who made it.
The Pineapple Express Can’t Overtake The Dark Knight As The Batman Flick Becomes The Third Highest Grossing Movie Of All Time
With the summer starting to wind down a bit, the weekend box office was at its lowest tally of the season. However, there was still enough business to send The Dark Knight to number one again and help it become the third highest grossing movie of all time. The stoner flick, Pineapple Express, gave up the weekend when the studio moved the opening to Wednesday, but it still managed to take a solid silver. Meanwhile, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 showed there’s a market for used jeans as it debuted to respectable numbers.
“Tropic Thunder” red band trailer
We’ve posted a few trailers for the upcoming comedy Tropic Thunder, starring Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black, but now we have the mother of all previews to pass your way.
The movie involves three actors who are a bit too full of themselves, so the director of the war film they are shooting decides to drop them off in the middle of the jungle to help them learn humility.
Pop Critics Top 10 Summer Movie Predictions and Preview
We’ve analyzed and gone over all of the summer’s biggest and most highly anticipated summer movies. We’ve given you our predictions for the 10 movies we think will be the most successful films of the summer and we’ve told you why. We’ve gone month by month and compared each weekend’s biggest box office battles. There’s nothing left to do now, but actually see the movies…and read this article.
“Tropic Thunder” Full Trailer with Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey, Jr.
Tropic Thunder is about a group of spoiled actors who think they’re filming a movie about the Vietnam war must fight for actual survival when their fed-up director and writer decide to dump them in the middle of a real war.
“Tropic Thunder” Teaser Trailer with Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey, Jr.
In Ben Stiller’s first directed film since Zoolander, Stiller stars alongside Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. as a group of spoiled actors in Tropic Thunder. Through a series of freak occurrences, this group of actors, while shooting a big-budget war movie, are forced to actually become the soldiers they are portraying.
“Star Trek” Pushed Back To 2009
Variety is reporting the sad news that the release of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek (official site) has been pushed back to 2009. Originally scheduled for release on December 25, 2008, Star Trek will now bow on May 8, 2009.
Star Trek fans everywhere moan.
Paramount has their reasons, of course. They apparently believe in the film so [...]
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