‘Transformers’ tops $200 million
June 29, 2009
Paramount’s action sequel “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” capped its dramatic debut with a vengeance, ringing up $112 million in estimated weekend box office for a competition-crunching domestic cumulative of $201.2 million since storming theaters Wednesday.
Matched against the first five days of all previous film releases, the “Transformers” tally falls below only that of last summer’s “The Dark Knight,” which debuted with $203.8 million during a Friday-to-Tuesday span. With another $181.6 million coming from overseas, the global gross for the second “Transformers” now stands at $363.2 million. Read more
Movie Review: My Sister’s Keeper
June 25, 2009
Remarkable in concept and utterly exquisite in its execution, My Sister’s Keeper is a domestic drama at the deeply conflicted crossroads of family wounds and medical healing, that would have baffled even Solomon as to the ultimate value of a child. Along with the enduring dilemma of how far science should go, in prolonging patient suffering, disregarding human self-determination and quality of life issues, and challenging the inevitability of death. Read more
Movie Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
June 25, 2009
In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, a Decepticon — one of those evil robots that looks like a junk heap of pewter shards designed by H.R. Giger — floats around in space, where it sends a ball of fire rocketing to Earth. The asteroid-like object hits the ocean, where it emerges as a prancing metallic cougar, which then vomits out a mass of ball bearings, which somehow assemble themselves into a super-thin droid that’s like a Calder sculpture made entirely of jackknives. And it’s this dude who gets down to business, attempting to steal the shard that will animate the dormant Decepticons hidden on Earth. The sheer velocity of all this shape-shifting is dizzying and funny and zigzag cool. The sequence serves no real purpose beyond dazzle for dazzle’s sake, but when you’re watching it, that’s purpose enough. Revenge of the Fallen has a number of dead spots, but every time the movie hits one, you can sit back in eager, childish anticipation of the next feat of industrial whirligig diversion. Read more
New Movies in Theaters June 26, 2009
June 25, 2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Movie Website: Transformersmovie.com
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures (Paramount)
Director: Michael Bay
Screenwriter: Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Actors/Actresses: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Benjamin Hickey, Ramon Rodriguez, Isabel Lucas, John Turturro Read more
Movie Trailer: The Road
June 24, 2009
The Road
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Yet Available
Director: John Hillcoat
Screenwriter: Joe Penhall, Nick Wechsler
Movie Website: TheRoad-movie.com
Actors/Actresses: Viggo Mortensen, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Kodi Smit-McPhee Read more
Katherine Heigl to Star in “Life as We Know It”
June 24, 2009
Katherine Heigl (“Grey’s Anatomy”) will star in the romance film Life as We Know It for Warner Bros., says Variety. Greg Berlanti will direct and Barry Josephson and Paul Brooks are producing.
The story follows two unattached adults whose worlds are turned upside down when their mutual best friends die in an accident and name them as caregivers for their orphaned daughter. Read more
Movie Trailer: Bandslam
June 23, 2009
Bandslam
Release Date: August 14, 2009
Genre: Family, Musical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Todd Graff
Screenwriter: Josh A. Cagan, Todd Graff
Movie Website: Bandslam-movie.com
Actors/Actresses: Alyson Michalka, Vanessa Hudgens, Gaelen Connell, Lisa Kudrow Read more
New Halloween 2 Poster
June 23, 2009
Here is the latest poster art from Hallween II that Rob Zombie premiered on his MySpace Music page. Check out the larger image below. Halloween II opens everywhere on August 28, 2009. Read more
Movies Opening June 19, 2009
June 19, 2009
The Proposal
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Studio: Touchstone Pictures (Disney)
Director: Anne Fletcher
Screenwriter: Peter Chiarelli
Movie Website: myspace.com/proposalmovie
Actors/Actresses: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Denis O’Hare, Malin Akerman, Mary Steenburgen Read more
Brad Pitt Poster Art for Inglourious Basterds
June 18, 2009
We received some new poster art for Quentin Tarantino’s movie Inglourious Basterds featuring Brad Pitt. The larger image of the Brad Pitt poster is below. The movie opens in theaters nationwide on August 21, 2009. Read more
