This week brings one of the best films of last year (from the Criterion Collection, no less) some of the bigger disappointments of of 2012 so far, one of the best TV shows going today, and a collection of the Lethal Weapon films. Not a bad week for DVD and Blu-ray. Check it out…
We watch a lot of movie trailers here at ScreenCrave, and, as we inch closer to summer with its ever-increasing torrent of new films, we’re seeing more and more previews with each passing day. As we do so, we can’t help but notice some similarities, repetitions, and clichés among them. Here at Trailer Park, we’ll be offering a rundown of those clichés, where they come from, and which trailers share them. For our first installment, we’ll be breaking down one of summer’s most ever-present previews: The Horror Movie Trailer.
It is a holiday weekend – at least for some government employees and students – so it’s worth looking at the four day numbers, though there’s very little difference. The big winner is last week’s Safe House, which managed to hold stronger than The Vow, while Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance proved a weaker draw than expected. Let’s look at the numbers, shall we?
Despite the Super Bowl, the box office enjoyed another successful weekend. Both Chronicle and The Woman In Black opened to more than $20 million each, far more than we predicted. 20th Century Fox’s Chronicle was expected to make $12.5 million, but instead the superhero flick shocked with $22 million, debuting at No. 1. Daniel Radcliffe‘s first major role in a film outside of the Harry Potter franchise, The Woman In Black, also got off to a good start and came in at No. 2 with an estimated $21 million. Last weekend’s winner The Grey dropped to third place and brought in $9.5 million. Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski‘s Big Miracle didn’t do as well as the other new releases, but still managed to exceed our expectations with $8.5 million. And finally, rounding off the top 5 was Underworld Awakening, which brought in an additional $5.6 million.
Check out the numbers…
When you look at a list of the lowest grossing box office weekends of all time, you’ll find that the two months that pop up the most are January and September (and it’s often the last weekend of January, specifically). The reason for this is simple: The Superbowl. And it’s for film fans too – years ago, people would have just fast-forwarded through the commercials, now there are people who fast forward through the game. Last weekend The Grey trumped all, but now there are three new pictures to contend with it. Let’s see how it might shake out…
Piles of bits and pieces for the day:
- Mickey Rourke is getting his handprints immortalized at Grauman’s Chinese Theater. The theater has recently been offering more people to get their prints in their cement, with the Twilight Cast also recently were announced to be hand dippers as well. Part of this is trying to bring new life to the theater, which has been eclipse fiscally by the Arclight theater down the street.
- Daniel Radcliffe‘s got a new movie that isn’t Harry Potter, and there’s a teaser for it. The film is called The Woman in Black. Check it out…
As we reported last summer, Daniel Radcliffe’s first post-Harry Potter film would be The Woman in Black, in which he portrays “a young lawyer who is ordered to travel to a remote corner of the UK and sort out some papers of a client who’s recently died. While ‘sorting’ he uncovers secrets and discovers that the local village is held hostage by the ghost of a scorned and vengeful woman.” And today, the trailer for the film was released.
Leaving a franchise after a decade (and eight pictures) has to be hard. Daniel Radcliffe is Harry Potter, and will be Harry Potter (fortunately he and the primary cast were paid very well). But Radcliffe is also an actor, and his most recent non-Potter film is The Woman in Black, which is a ghost story produced by Hammer and directed by James Watkins. Take a look…
Daniel Radcliffe will forever be loved. The guy has been the face of one of the most popular book and film series of all time and after 10 years in the role of Harry Potter, he’s finally moved on. His newest character calls for him to alter his wardrobe, color his hair, and take off those ridiculous spectacles, not glasses, spectacles!
