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Normally April is one of the weakest box office months of the year, as the season take a breath between the March hits and the big summer movies that start the first week of May. But not this year. The Evil Dead remake leads a crowded field of strong performers this weekend, and with Oblivion and Pain and Gain, we...
It's no surprise that G.I. Joe: Retaliation topped the box office, it was going to make some money when it was released. The big thing for the movie is that it's already popular overseas, where it made an additional $80 Million, and that puts its grand total near $130 Million (which is the reported budget). Which means Paramount absolutely did the right thing with the...
If G.I. Joe Retaliation had opened on its original launch date of June 29, 2012, we'd probably have already forgotten about it by now. It's also possible it would have been seen as weak next to Ted, would have fell hard in the face of The Amazing Spider-Man and would have died by the time The Dark...
The plot of the relentlessly mediocre Olympus Has Fallen is this: former Secret Service agent Gerard Butler pulls a Die Hard and acts as a one man army as terrorists take over the White House. And the plot of White House Down is as follows: former Secret Service agent Channing Tatum pulls a Die Hard and acts as a one man...
Though last year this weekend saw the release of The Hunger Games - which made a boatload of money by itself - the same weekend a year later proved to do pretty good without a gigantic blockbuster. Not only did The Croods open better than expected, but Olympus has Fallen bucked the trends of recent action movies and...
There's nothing particularly awful about Antoine Fuqua's Olympus Has Fallen, mainly because it does what it's supposed to do. It's a very loud, action-packed thriller that never relieves you of the constant tension built in the narrative. But at the same time the wow factor leaves the film shortly after the half hour mark and leaves you antsy for more, which is never...
Though often there are films that succeed because of their inherent draw, just as often a film can win by being in the right place at the right time. Though Oz: The Great and Powerful was kids friendly, the only animated movie in recent weeks was Escape From Planet Earth. So The Croods has a very good shot of making...
A director is captain of their movie ship. There's a lot they have to handle in order to keep it afloat. Luckily for Antoine Fuqua, director of Olympus Has Fallen, he had a spectacular cast behind him. Fuqua and actors Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart and Angela Bassett recently sat down and revealed how fun it was being part of such an...
Olympus Has Fallen has an amazing cast. You're dealing with a variety of talent with some impressive credits. One of the strongest actors in the bunch is Melissa Leo. She's a recent Oscar-winner for her fantastic supporting role in The Fighter. This time around she plays Secretary of Defense in one of the most action-packed movies of the year. We spoke to...
Hollywood has a knack for fictitiously obliterating important landmarks throughout the world, and they do it well. In the beginning of Olympus Has Fallen, we see an army of people -- and a few helicopters -- not only destroy the front of the White House but the Washington Monument. This got us thinking about other moments in Hollywood history where...
Not everybody can be a successful Hollywood actor. But some can easily transition in and out of film and television. One of the actors that's able to do that flawlessly is Dylan McDermott. He'll be appearing in Antoine Fuqua's latest intense action thriller Olympus Has Fallen co-starring alongside an all-star cast. He got to chat with us about working on the film,...
Villains can easily be misunderstood. Sometimes they're doing a warped form of good that most people don't understand. Kang, played by Rick Yune in Olympus Has Fallen, is one of those villains. He leads an attack against the White House and holds the President hostage to further his personal/political vendetta. We briefly spoke to Yune...
The story of the film adaptation of the 24 television series has been as convoluted as a season of the series itself. Star Kiefer Sutherland said filming would begin in 2011, 20th Century Fox then shot down the script but Sutherland promised the film was still coming, then the actor promised the film would happen in 2012, and then the film became delayed before a...
The trailer for Olympus Has Fallen is the latest in the long line of “Die Hard in a (insert location here)” films (other include Speed, Air Force One, all of the unnecessary Die Hard sequels, and this year’s White House Down, which looks identical to Olympus), featuring a down and out...
Already known for playing District Attorney Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, Aaron Eckhart is moving all the way up the political ladder as the President of the United States in his latest film, White House action movie, Olympus Has Fallen – one of two upcoming releases described as “Die Hard in the White House."
