"New Moon Breaks Records" While Other New Movies Including "Bad Lieutenant 2" & "Planet 51" & "Blind Side" Will Bomb At Movie Box Office November 20. 2009
Summit Entertainment's sequel "New Moon" has set box office history in breaking all records for midnight runs, grossing a whopping $26.3 million.
That easily beats the $22.2 million collected by "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" this summer.
In addition, the re-issue of "Twilight" on screens Thursday night grossed $1.3 million from 2,057 theaters nationwide.
But, does all of this news that mean that "New Moon" will become the highest grossing movie of all time - first weekend - at the movie box office?
"The Dark Knight," featuring the late Heath Ledger holds that title.
Perhaps, if Robert Pattinson dropped dead this weekend, the movie "New Moon" would blow away the movie box office gross results of "The Dark Knight." ($156 million first three days).
Barring that, it's a movie that will most likely earn the most ever for a movie - FIRST DAY - but not first weekend.
Wild About Movies predicts that "New Moon" will take in between $80 - $100 million its first three days in theaters.
The first in the "Twilight" saga, "Twilight," earned a pretty good $70 million its first three days in theaters, but well below half of what the record breaking "The Dark Knight" grabbed its first three days in theaters.
If you want to grab FREE PASSES to "Fantastic Mr. Fox" - in many cities - around the nation, click here. The movie opened huge in LA and NYC last weekend.
There are a couple of movies going head-to-head with "New Moon" this weekend; the animated Sony Pictures - in 3D - flick - "Planet 51" and the what we're sure will be a DOA "The Blind Side," featuring an obese alternate to "Precious," a homeless black male teen. The obese big screen black character of the century will without a doubt go to "Precious." Don't get in her way. (Because Oprah produced her, if not from her own vaginal canal, from her pocketbook).
Also new in theaters AND VIDEO ON DEMAND this week - "Red Cliff" - from IFC Films. (Imagine, being able to watch the movie on your 60 inch plasma television in the comfort of your own home, next to a fireplace, instead of in the midst of 300 Swine Flu infected creatures at the local multiplex).
To go Behind The Scenes of all new movies in theaters - including "Bad Lieutenant 2" - and to watch the movie trailers of everything currently in theaters... (continue) First Look: DVD & Blu Ray "My Sister's Keeper" - Review November 20, 2009
"My Sister's Keeper" - DVD & Blu Ray - Director Nick Cassavetes collaborates with screenwriter Jeremy Leven (The Notebook) for this drama about a pair of parents who resort to unorthodox methods in order to save their young daughter's life, only to find their decision coming back to haunt them in a manner neither could have ever foreseen. Sara (Cameron Diaz) and Brian (Jason Patric) are coasting through life with their young son and daughter when tragedy threatens to tear the family apart. Suddenly, their baby girl falls ill, and her only hope for survival rests in her parents' ability to find a compatible bone marrow donator. Desperate to save their daughter's life at any cost, Sara and Brian conceive another child in hopes that the baby will be a genetic match. But that decision raises a series of moral and ethical questions that rapidly begin to erode the foundation of the once-happy couple's relationship. Incensed upon learning that she was brought into this world for the singular purpose of prolonging the life of her ailing older sister, the young girl (Abigail Breslin) ultimately decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body. Alec Baldwin, Sofia Vassilieva, and Joan Cusack co-star...
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Today's "First Look: Big Screen" is: "The Last Song" - Based on best selling novelist Nicholas Sparks' ("The Notebook") novel, the movie of the same name, "The Last Song" is set in a small Southern beach town where an estranged father (Greg Kinnear) gets a chance to spend the summer with his bratty teenaged daughter (Miley Cyrus, "Hannah Montana"), who'd rather be home in New York.
He tries to reconnect with her through the only thing they have in common - music - in a story of family, friendship, secrets and salvation, along with first loves and second chances.
For more about - "The Last Song" - and to go Behind The Scenes of all movies currently in movie theaters - and coming soon to movie theaters - and for a look at thousands more movie trailers and movie posters of movies now in movie theaters and movies coming soon to movie theaters, including the many long delayed movies: "The Road" and Zac Efron naked but not in "Me And Orson Welles"... (continue)
By Tim Nasson, Wild About Movies publisher
November 20, 2009
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Today's Wild About Movies "Behind The Scenes" is: "New Moon" - Following Bella’s ill-fated 18th birthday party, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and his family abandon the town of Forks, Washington, in an effort to protect her from the dangers inherent in their world. As the heartbroken Bella sleepwalks through her senior year of high school, numb and alone, she discovers Edward’s image comes to her whenever she puts herself in jeopardy. Her desire to be with him at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks.
With the help of her childhood friend Jacob Black (17 year old sex symbol Taylor Lautner), Bella refurbishes an old motorbike to carry her on her adventures. Bella’s frozen heart is gradually thawed by her budding relationship with Jacob, a member of the mysterious Quileute tribe, who has a supernatural secret of his own.
When a chance encounter brings Bella face to face with a former nemesis, only the intervention of a pack of supernaturally large wolves saves her from a grisly fate, and the encounter makes it frighteningly clear that Bella is still in grave danger. In a race against the clock, Bella learns the secret of the Quileutes and Edward’s true motivation for leaving her. She also faces the prospect of a potentially deadly reunion with her beloved that is a far cry from the one she’d hoped for.
"New Moon" howls into over 4000 movie theaters in North America, alone, Friday but we take you Behind The Scenes of the most anticipated movie of 2009 today. Join us, now... (continue)
Technically, "Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland" is "Walt Disney's Alice In Wonderland," as Walt Disney Pictures financed the live action film based on their 1951 classic animated film of the same name.
The Walt Disney film "Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland," starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen and Mia Wasikowska as Alice, will be released to IMAX theaters simultaneously with the film's wide release on March 5, 2010. The special IMAX 3D release is digitally remastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience with IMAX DMR (Digital Re-Mastering) technology.
Johnny Depp, though not playing Alice, (but looking a bit like her in the poster below), gets top billing in "Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland."
Tim Burton's wife, er, significant other, Helena Bonham-Carter, plays The Red Queen. And everyone's favorite American actress, Anne Hathaway, plays the white queen.
Michael Sheen, who has appeared in two of the best movies of the past three years, "The Queen," (as Tony Blair), and "Frost/Nixon," as David Frost," rounds out the cast as The Cheshire Cat... (continue)
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And 2009 and 2010 movies that were originally scheduled for release in 2008; The Sam Raimi movie, "Warcraft" and Peter Jackson movie "The Lovely Bones," and "The Road."
Some of our favorite directors back on the big screen; Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton and his "Alice In Wonderland." Guy Ritchie with "Sherlock Holmes." Sam Raimi with "Spiderman 4" and James Cameron's "Avatar." And Martin Scorsese, with his "Shutter Island." Also, Clint Eastwood, who directs Oscar winners Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon in the bio pic "Invictus."
Widely considered the most important American playwright of the post-WWII era, Tennessee Williams wrote the "The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond" screenplay at the height of his late-50's heyday, amid such classic plays, (which themselves were adapted into classic films) as "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Suddenly, Last Summer," "Sweet Bird of Youth," and "Orpheus Descending." Set in the Roaring Twenties in Williams' home town of Memphis, the film tells the story of Fisher Willow (Bryce Dallas Howard) a headstrong young heiress who chafes under the constraints of proper Southern society, and who rebels by asking the impoverished but handsome son of her father's caretaker, Jimmy Dobyne, (Chris Evans) to escort her to the major social events of the season. The relationship is purely a business arrangement at the outset, with Fisher paying for Jimmy's time and attention, but when she discovers that she really loves him, she finds it impossible to rewrite the rules and earn the affection she tried to buy... (continue)
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