Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:05PM - By Damon Houx
Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:27AM - By Damon Houx
As of today, The Avengers is the eighth highest grossing picture of all time worldwide. By the end of this weekend it should be the fourth. There are only two movies to have grossed over two billion worldwide – Avatar and Titanic – and it’s looking unlikely that The Avengers will make it to that territory. But it should be able to capsize Battleship this weekend. Easily.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012 8:30AM - By Krystal Clark
There she blows! This weekend, Universal will dock Peter Berg‘s Battleship at a theater near you. The film is a live-action adaptation of the popular Hasbro strategy game. It stars Taylor Kitsch as a reluctant hero, who gets caught in the middle of an alien invasion. He’s supported by a cast of familiar faces including True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgard, and Oscar-nominee Liam Neeson.
Check out our review below…
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012 2:18PM - By Laura Aguirre
Battleship director Peter Berg has no problem expressing his feelings about war. In a recent interview for the movie, Berg went on a rant about the political situation in the Middle East and grilled a 25-year-old Israeli reporter for his lack of military service. It was awkward. Check out the video below.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012 8:05AM - By Bronwen Winter Phoenix
News broke this morning that “mockbuster” rip-off company Global Asylum is being sued by film giant Universal over a rip-off of their new release, Battleship. Oh, the shock! The horror! Well… not really. After all, it’s Asylum we’re talking about – you know, the company behind genius and uniquely original titles such as The Terminators and Transmorphers.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 9:23AM - By Travis Woods
Oh, Battleship. The “hey-this-is-just-how-Michael-Bay-makes-‘em-right?” potential blockbuster has the unfortunate duty of opening in the wake of The Avengers’ May release, and features a Transformers-like premise without any actual Transformers, just keeps dropping new clips and ads, and yet still looks like a bland rehash of everything from Pearl Harbor to Battle: Los Angeles. Today, we’ve got a new clip featuring a bar-hopping Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker and Alexander Skarsgard. Let the unnaturally orange skin tones begin!
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Friday, April 6, 2012 8:16AM - By Travis Woods
Because it just wouldn’t be summertime without at least one heavily CGI’d extravaganza of things loudly going ‘boom’ in an orgy of empty, lifeless action that we’ve seen hundreds of times before, all against a teal and orange canvas of depthless special effects, the film Battleship exists. Filling the void left by the lack of a Transformers flick this summer, Battleship features large CGI machines blowing up other large CGI machines, until only one side of large CGI machines are left. Want to see a full clip? Sure you do. It’s after the jump.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:27AM - By Travis Woods
The new Battleship trailer has all the beats of every modern action blockbuster trailer you’ve ever seen–let’s see: Overwhelming usage of the teal and orange cliché? Check. Minor breakout role by a pop music star? Check. A series of shots and music married together to resemble the nearly identical moments in the Transformers trailers, all in an effort to attract the same audience that finds it necessary to spend 2.5 hours at a time watching walking trucks from space punch each other? Check. Oh, and the Battleship board game didn’t involve a bunch of evil robotic creatures taking over Earth.
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Friday, February 3, 2012 5:24PM - By Damon Houx
Are you ready for (some ads during) Football? If you love movies, but aren’t so crazy about sports, the Super Bowl has become a time where some of the biggest films of the year drop $3.5 Million dollars for thirty seconds of your attention. Summer blockbusters looking to build buzz and get people excited about the year in film. So much so that there are now teasers for these ads. Trailers for trailers. Here’s a round-up…
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As the second contender to be swatted away like a fly, Battleship stood no chance against the mighty Avengers, which is now the sixth highest grossing film of all time, and will beat Stars Wars by Monday evening. The next big hurdle for the film’s domestic gross is $533 (aka The Dark Knight‘s take), which it may be able to clear by the end of the month. Really, the only question left is if it has enough steam to do over $600 domestic.
