"Look, we got it covered. We’re just trying to find a place to put Mike’s yogurt while we do the job." - Sam, Burn Notice
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.
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.
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.
Mike brought us the new poster for the new Woody Allen flick, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, yesterday. The studio followed the poster up with a brand new movie trailer to get everyone excited (yeah, I mean it in that way).
The buzz surrounding Woody Allen’s latest film called Vicky Cristina Barcelona has been growing since the trailer was released and then people at Cannes got to be the first to see the entire movie.
It’s the tale of two girls on holiday in Spain, both fall for the same guy, who at the same time has an ex-wife about to re-renter the picture. Scarlett Johannson, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Rebecca Hall all star in the film.
We told you guys about Vicky Cristina Barcelona awhile ago for a few reasons. One, I like Woody Allen a lot, and while I haven’t seen all of his pictures, I’ve loved the few I have been able to watch.
Second, the movie is full of screen beauties, like Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz and Rebecca Hall. Somehow Javier Bardem was the lucky guy cast for the lead role in this film in which he pretty much sleeps with all of them, and I’m not sure if that also includes a few at the same time.
There is a new Woody Allen film coming out sometime this year called Vicky Cristina Barcelona with Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz as the main cast members.
The movie appears to be about two American tourists (Johansson and Hall) visiting Spain who become amorously involved with Cruz and Bardem.
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