Ted Reviews, Interviews & More
This has been a huge pivot point for movies in how they're made and distributed. 2012 was the year where the film industry turned its back on 35 millimeter film (which has been the standard for well over a century), with digital projection no longer just an option but the standard. At the same time a filmmaker like Paul Thomas Anderson shot a movie on 70mm - a format that hadn't been used...
It looks like we’re getting some of the last of the big summer movies this week in the hopes of making some holiday coin. This week Christopher Nolan joins the Criterion Collection, one of TV’s most talked about show hits disc, one of the year’s biggest comedies, and one of its most successful old school oddities street.
Get this—Seth MacFarlane, creator of such animated fare as Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show, as well as the director and writer of the surprise hit Ted, has been named as the host of the 85th Annual Academy Awards telecast next February. Because if there’s one thing the Oscars need, it’s a series of...
Though there are three wide releases this weekend, who cares? Summer's over. Labor Day weekend is here. So let's talk about the winners of the summer, and general trends. Cause that's fun. And you'll never guess who won the summer (Hint: it was The Avengers)
Universal, who've had a number of misfires this summer (Battleship, Savages), may have won this weekend by moving The Bourne Legacy to August 10. Originally the film was going to open on Friday, and here we've seen what happened: The Dark Knight Rises did better business than the...
While most films released this summer don’t really need a sequel (unless you count The Amazing Spider-Man, which needs a sequel simply for Sony to maintain rights to the franchise), Ridley Scott’s Prometheus may be one of the only films that could possibly be enriched a sequel to explain away some glaring plot holes/ character motivations/ muddled questions. So...
There was word that a good quarter of the movie-going public were scared because of the shooting that happened last weekend. So scared they probably wouldn't go to movies this weekend. Looking at the numbers, it shows. Looking at headline news, it appears their worries were unfounded.
There's a pall over this weekend's box office because the release of The Dark Knight Rises was marred in tragedy. It's hard to say if the events from the midnight screening hurt the film's grosses, but thinking about that is ghoulish. Here are the numbers.
This summer took its time launching its kids films (partly because the summer season for movies starts before most kids get out of school), but we've seen some winners in the bunch, and Ice Age: Continental Drift took this weekend. But - as I said Thursday - it gets a week until Batman, and this feels like the calm before the big movie.
You know what happens next weekend, right? Yup, The Dark Knight Rises hits theaters, and often when there's an absolute must-see, there's the possibility it will lay waste to everything in its path. That's what happen last time there was a Batman movie, so Fox - which has already released Ice Age: Continental Drift internationally - is hoping...
About two weeks back Sony called their shot, and said that they were thinking they'd get to $125 Million for their six-day opening of The Amazing Spider-Man. They were wrong. They underestimated.
Over the past two days The Amazing Spider-Man has already grossed nearly $60 Million stateside. Calling it the weekend winner doesn't take much work. It's going up against Katy Perry: Part of Me, and Savages and if it can't take both it's because it completely collapsed.
This weekend was about counter-programming, but both Ted and Magic Mike opened bigger and stronger than many of the summer's supposed blockbusters. Ted exceeded all expectations, as is a monster hit, which paves the way for more Seth MacFarlane movies. Timing is everything.
Ted is Seth MacFarlane unleashed. The writer, actor, and producer is making an R-rated splash with his feature directorial debut. He takes all the crude, yet hilarious jokes cut from Family Guy and puts them on the big screen. On the surface, Ted is a raunchy comedy but at its core there's a heartfelt story about two...
So, this weekend would look to be the quiet before the storm. Next week is dominated by Spider-Man (Amazing or not), then comes the Ice Age, and then a little film called The Dark Knight Rises. But Warner Brothers has smartly targeted women for Magic Mike, and it went from little awareness...
Summer 2012 is beginning to feel like a game of “release date musical chairs." After Paramount’s surprise move to push back action sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation from June 29th to 2013, Universal has decided to make hay while the proverbial sun shines by shuffling Seth McFarlane‘s R-rated comedy Ted as well. Ted has now...
Imagine your favorite doll as a little kid. Now imagine that you wished he could come to life and be your best friend—what a fun childhood that would make, right? Now imagine that it’s 30 years later, you’re tickling middle age, and your walking, talking, sentient and foul-mouthed teddy bear is still living with you, getting high, sleeping around and working at the local grocery...
The cast for Seth MacFarlane's Ted just got a little bigger. The comedy's roster features Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Adam Scott, and now according to Variety, Giovanni Ribisi has just joined the cast. The movie will mark MacFarlane's directorial debut for the big screen. He's best known for his work on Fox's "Family Guy," "The Cleveland...
"Family Guy's" Seth MacFarlane will make his directorial debut with an "R" rated comedy entitled Ted. According to Deadline, the film is about a man and his teddy bear and will feature a mix of live and computer generated action.
