Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category
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Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending January 24, 2010
The people have spoken! They love Gerard Butler's Gamer. The action flick was not only last week's top selling DVD, but also the most rented. Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself reign at the top was short lived and fell to second. The more impressive feat was Gamer knocking The Hangover out of the top slot for most rented DVD. The smash-hit comedy had a tight grip on that spot for quite a while. Below is the list of DVD sales and rentals for the week ending January 24, 2010: Rentrak...
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AC/DC To Release ‘Iron Man 2′ Soundtrack
AC/DC announced that they will release the official soundtrack to the upcoming film, Iron Man 2, on April 19. "Shoot to Thrill", the first video from the AC/DC: Iron Man 2 album, was released earlier this week. ABC News is reporting that the soundtrack won't include any new tracks from the band, but 15 classic songs, including "Let There Be Rock," "Thunderstruck," and the recent "War Machine." Just in case you missed the video you can check it out below. There is new footage from the film as...
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More Upcoming Blockbuster Movies Going 3D
Today more news on how Hollywood is shifting towards incorporating 3D more regularly as theaters continue to increase the number of digital 3D capable screens available. The success of not only Avatar but other 3D movies before it has created a perception that it is the best way to capture an audience all the while being able to charge more for the tickets. While Warner Brothers has not yet commented officially word is that Clash of the Titans and the both parts of Harry Potter and the Deat...
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Avatar Passes Titanic to Become Biggest Movie Ever
Many considered Titanic's record of $1.835 billion made worldwide to be unbreakable. Today Avatar surpassed that amount and did so in less than six weeks of release to become the highest grossing film of all time. It will soon cruise past $2 billion and there are no indications it will be dropping off any time soon. Domestically Avatar still trails Titanic by $46 million which sets it up to break that record of $600 million by the end of next weekend. It will likely even see a slight boost ...
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New on DVD: Week of January 25
It looks like we have another solid week of movie releases. The much anticipated Michael Jackson's This Is It will hit stores this week, and will most likely sell well. Although ticket sales didn't go as predicated, DVD sales should be pretty high. Other notable releases include Bruce Willis' Surrogates and Ellen Page's Whip It. I enjoyed Whip It, and thought Drew Barrymore did a solid job in her directorial debut. Here is the full release schedule broken up by standard DVD and Blu-ray: ...
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‘Mortal Kombat’ Reboot In The Works
It seems like we have another franchise reboot on our hands. With all comic movies getting reboots, it was only a matter of time before video games did the same. Bloody-Disgusting.com is reporting that Warner Bros. Pictures has been looking to re-make Mortal Kombat. Warner Bros. Pictures has been looking to redo Mortal Kombat with Oren Uziel in talks to write. Based on Midway's popular 1992 video game, the franchise follows the best fighters from around the globe who are summoned to an isla...
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Early Thoughts on Best Picture Race
The nominations for the Academy Awards will be announced on February 2nd and the show will take place on March 7th. In advance of that there is a lot of discussion around the chances for each of the top films to win Best Picture. Recent award shows have offered an opportunity to see how voters may be leaning but the results have only made the race appear to be more wide open than anticipated to begin with. A few weeks ago I looked at The Hurt Locker as being the favorite with Up in the Air ...
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Weekend Box Office Results 1/22-1/24
As expected Avatar easily cruised to its six straight weekend win but one of the new movies beat expectations and performed very well. Last week that was The Book of Eli and this week it was Legion. The two other new entries this weekend had disappointing starts. Avatar was able to make another $36 million which pushed it past The Dark Knight for the second highest grossing movie domestically ever trailing only Titanic. It has now totaled over $550 million. Worldwide though Avatar is expect...
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