Thursday, October 20, 2011 5:00PM - By Damon Houx
Going into Halloween, Paranormal Activity 3 has the prime slot, with ten days left to generate horror-filled bucks at the box office. It’s got a weak field competition, as it should easily trump the leftovers, and the newer films. Both The Mighty Macs and Johnny English Reborn appear to be contractually obligated releases, while The Three Musketeers seems dusty and cheap. Let’s take a look at the box, shall we?
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Monday, October 17, 2011 10:00AM - By Laura Aguirre
Two big remakes hit theaters on Friday, Paramount’s Footloose and Universal’s The Thing, but neither managed to outsell Real Steel. Still, it was a slow weekend at the box office. Hugh Jackman‘s robot boxing movie brought in $16.3 million, Footloose followed with $16.1 million, and The Thing came in third with $8.7 million. With numbers like this, the big question is, will movie moguls ever understand that audiences want new, original movies, and not old 80s remakes? Check out the numbers below.
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Friday, October 14, 2011 10:40AM - By Damon Houx
It would have been great if The Big Year, which stars Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson was also a remake of a 1980′s movie just so it’d be a trifecta, right? I guess you could make the case that Steve Martin peaked as a film actor in the 80′s, so we could pretend every big release this weekend was recycling. Regardless, it will be The Thing - a prequel to a 1982 film – versus Footloose - a remake of the 1984 film – battling for the top spot come Sunday, unless Real Steal surges.
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Monday, October 10, 2011 9:06AM - By Laura Aguirre
Real Steel easily topped the box office this weekend. The Hugh Jackman robot-boxing film grossed $27.3 million, knocking down last week’s winner Dolphin Tale. Ryan Gosling and George Clooney‘s The Ides of March came in at No. 2 with a solid gross of $10.4 million, we predicted $13.7 million. The family film Dolphin Tale took the third place with $9.2 million, bringing its total to $49 million. Brad Pitt‘s Moneyball followed with $7.5 million, raising its total to $49.3 million in three weekends. And finally, rounding off the top five is 50/50. The cancer comedy beat out movies like The Lion King and Dream House with $5.5 million.
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Friday, October 7, 2011 10:57AM - By Damon Houx
And that’s not a spoiler (or is it?) After a couple of weekends of older pictures, either in days (Dolphin Tale took the #1 slot a week after release) or years (the reissue of The Lion King), the first week of October promises to deliver new movies can top the box office. Shawn Levy‘s Real Steel is a genuine crowd pleaser, while George Clooney‘s The Ides of March is a smart political thriller. Both use star power (Hugh Jackman, Ryan Gosling) to their advantage. But both also have strikes against them.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 1:00PM - By Damon Houx
Anthony Mackie has had a long road to real success, and he was open to talk about that journey when promoting Real Steel. Mackie got his big break in Spike Lee‘s She Hate Me, which was under-seen and did little for his career. But Mackie kept working, and it was one of those pictures, The Hurt Locker, that really brought Mackie to the fore. We talked about the system, Real Steel, his goals, Ryan Gosling, his future projects and more. Check it out….
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011 1:00PM - By Damon Houx
Hugh Jackman was – at first – the replacement Wolverine. Stepping in for the contractually tied-up Dougray Scott, Jackman got the key role in the X-Men franchise that would come to define his career. Now with Real Steel, Jackman’s star-charisma is being used outside of Wolverine for a feel-good robot-boxing movie, that is an against-the-odds winner of a movie. Jackman has a repuation of being a class act, and he couldn’t have been more gracious in our interview, as he talked about the film, his continuing role in the X-Men franchise, and more. Check it out…
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 3:00PM - By Damon Houx
Shawn Levy has made a number of commercial successful films, all leading to this point in his career. He’s taken the seemingly ridiculous idea of robots fighting each other, and turned it into a rousing, Rocky-fied night at the movies, and uses Hugh Jackman‘s star power at its highest wattage. Levy sees this movie as a turning point in his career, and he talks about the advice given to him by Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis in our interview. Check it out…
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Thursday, April 14, 2011 1:09PM - By Damon Houx
Real Steel, the Shawn Levy-directed, Hugh Jackman-starring, Robots-fighting movie comes out October 7, and is still deep in post-production. But DreamWorks executives are so thrilled with what they think they have they’ve hired the original writer – John Gatins – to start work on a second, according to Deadline Hollywood. they are also already contacting (according to this report) the main cast and crew for their possible return.
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