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In production: info on the ‘Bunraku’ movie 2008-05-10 18:45:44 Some people have asked me ‘what the hell is up with that Bunraku movie
.’ Well, I must say I didn’t know much about it and I looked it up. So without further ado, here’s the first of hopefully many ‘in production’ posts.
Bunraku
Release date: TBA, 2009
Budget: unknown
Director: Guy Moshe
Actors: Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore, Ron [...]
Early ‘Speed Racer’ box office numbers 2008-05-10 12:20:52 I keep using my amazing ‘knife in SpeedRacer
tire’ photoshop, because well, it’s appropriate. ‘Speed Racer
’ is doing even worse than expected, going by the early box office
numbers. It only made $5.85 million Friday and might not even top $20 million for the weekend! That’s an amazing low for a $100 million project, [...] Read more:Early
This week’s box office roundup 2008-05-10 10:40:40 Iron Man: $123,134,395 ($186 million budget)
Made of Honor: $18,675,171 ($40 million budget)
Baby Mama: $12,613,110 ($30 million budget, second week)
A little later because of our server outage, but here’s the weekly roundup for the first week of ‘Iron Man.’
As expected ‘Harold & Kumar 2′ didn’t make the top 3 in its second week, but ‘Baby Mama’ [...] Read more:office
Warner naive about ‘Speed Racer’ tracking? 2008-05-09 13:05:10 Last week we already found out how ‘SpeedRacer
’ is tracking for a miserable opening, but Warner
Bros. doesn’t necessarily see it this way. They’re not only giving the funky movie a $6 million push in the UK, they’ve also planned a $100 million marketing campaign worldwide, in addition to $100 million in promotional deals [...] Read more:Speed Racer
Donnie Darko 2: ‘S. Darko’ shooting this month 2008-05-09 09:00:45 This is the first time I heard about a sequel to ‘DonnieDarko
.’ It’s interesting, but when was the last time a sequel to a cult hit really impressed? The only cast member to return seems to be Daviegh Chase, Donnie’s little sister, at the moment.
The $10 million ‘S. Darko’ starts shooting
May 18. It [...]
‘Bioshock’ game becoming a movie 2008-05-09 07:40:45 ‘Bioshock
,’ the Xbox 360 game which sold over 2 million copies last year, has been picked up for a movie
adaptation. It’s the first time Take-Two, the publisher of the game, went ahead with a movie. They previously turned down many options for a ‘Grand Theft Auto’ movie.
Why did they agree to do it now? [...]
Samuel L. Jackson to do ‘Unthinkable’ 2008-05-09 06:40:54 Senator Entertainment will produce the new Samuel
L. Jackson
vehicle ‘Unthinkable,’ which starts shooting this September in Michigan. The story follows an interrogator who has to find out where three nuclear devices are placed, just two days before they go off. He will be helped by a female FBI agent, surely to be selected on [...]
‘27 Dresses’ tops DVD charts 2008-05-09 05:40:02 Every week for the last couple of weeks, the newest DVD released topped the older ones. And this week is no exception. The two biggest DVD releases were the romantic comedy ‘27 Dresses
’ and the epic adventure ‘The Golden Compass.’
The $180 million ‘The Golden Compass’ did well, but was topped by ‘27 Dresses’ in both [...]
Motorola less greedy with movie contest 2008-05-09 04:30:26 It seems Motorola
has a better understanding of how to set up a contest than Microsoft and Trigger Street Productions. In the UK, Motorola is giving people a chance to win £10,000 for a movie
of just 90 seconds! That’s 111 quid per second, not bad ay?
Well, that’s actually not the whole truth. After creating [...] Read more:greedy
Time Warner shuts down two indie studios 2008-05-09 03:45:05 The people at Time Warner
already laid off 450 employees when they got their hands on New Line Cinema earlier this year. And now they are shutting down two independent studios to cut even more costs.
CEO Jeff Bewkes is shutting down Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures to stop duplicate costs for production, marketing and distribution. [...]
The upcoming weekend in quotes 2008-05-09 02:45:07 This weekend two low rated movies are coming up. ‘What Happens in Vegas’ with a metacritic.com score of 4.0 and ‘Speed Racer’ with an even lower 3.6. Here’s what the critics had to say:
‘Speed Racer’
Philadelphia Inquirer (7.5): “Speed Racer offers a crazy, turbo-charged mix of cartoon kitsch, gamer action, and a wild new way to [...]
‘GTA IV’ beats film industry record 2008-05-09 01:45:26 No, it didn’t keep the crowd from going to ‘Iron Man,’ but ‘GTA IV’ did manage to shred the record set by ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End’ last year. It also didn’t make the $1 billion some wildly expected, but $500 million in one week isn’t a bad figure either if you ask [...] Read more:industry
David Chase getting ready for first movie 2008-05-08 21:40:11 ‘The Sopranos’ creator David
Chase has made a deal with Paramount to shoot his first feature film. And as long as the movie
isn’t going to drag on like the last seasons of ‘The Sopranos,’ I’m happy about it. Chase will be writing, directing and producing the movie, so don’t expect this to come out [...] Read more:ready
Criterion going Blu-ray this fall 2008-05-08 21:10:06 Blu-ray might not be as hot as Sony wants it to be at the moment, but Criterion is jumping on the bandwagon anyway. The company is famous for releasing high quality classics and indie films onto different formats. They not only regularly add unique extras on the discs, but also restore and touch-up old pictures. [...]
Microsoft supporting filmmakers and Vista 2008-05-08 19:00:25 In a (desperate?) attempt to create some buzz for their Vista
Ultimate operating system, Microsoft
is holding a ‘Ultimate Video Relay’ contest on ultimatevideorelay.com. It challenges amateur filmmakers
to create the second act of their movie about a black box, which director Kyle Newman started.
All fine by me, if you can win some ‘ultimate’ prices. [...]
Pirate Bay to owe MPAA $15 million 2008-05-08 14:00:42 In addition to the $111 million
approved by the court below, the MPAA wants another $15 million from The Pirate
Bay in damages for copyright infringement.
The Pirate Bay is one of the most used illegal download site and says to have over 2.5 million users. Among the most popular movies are ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘The [...]
Pirating site ordered to pay MPAA $111 million 2008-05-08 12:40:02 That’s a big ‘oops’ for Torrentspy, the download site that went down last March because of the ongoing court battle. If you ever thought it would be a good idea to start up a torrent site and have some fun, this should make you think otherwise. Torrentspy juts got ordered to pay the MPAA $111 [...] Read more:million
‘The Forbidden Kingdom’ storms Chinese box office 2008-05-08 10:00:19 We already knew ‘The ForbiddenKingdom
’ was doing well in Asia during its opening weekend, but it’s now beating every expectation in China. With its $75 million budget it wasn’t expected to need the Asian audience and it wasn’t targeting it either. The story is written for the Western audience and a Hong Kong magazine [...] Read more:office
, Chinese
‘Iron Man’: the week after 2008-05-07 21:55:30 Was the movie really that good or did ‘Iron Man
’ just wake everybody up after all those slow weeks? Whatever the reason is, the balls are rolling and this is what came out of the success of ‘Iron Man.’
First, the confirmed sequel. Set for release in 2010, but who is involved? Robert Downey Jr. has [...]
The post-weekend box office drop 2008-05-07 17:05:41 Ok, ‘Iron Man’ had an amazing weekend, but how hard was the usual drop after the weekend. Was it a bad one or was it a drop with potential? This is what the two new released movies did in and after the weekend:
‘Iron Man’:
Saturday and Sunday: $63,384,307 million
Monday and Tuesday: $13,440,352 million
Drop: 78.8%
‘Made of Honor’:
Saturday [...] Read more:office
‘Speed Racer’ burns at overseas box office 2008-05-12 15:20:05 ‘Iron Man’ has such a dominating personality. He stayed on top in the US and he’s not letting go overseas
either. The box office
hit made another $39 million this weekend in 61 territories. ‘What Happens In Vegas’ made the second place with $23 million in 36 markets and ‘SpeedRacer
’ had an amazingly slow [...] Read more:Speed Racer
Photos: ‘Synecdoche, New York’ 2008-05-12 14:15:42 The Cannes Film Festival brought us these new ‘Synecdoche, New York
’ pictures, the directorial debut of Charlie Kaufman.
‘Prince Caspian’ tracking for good opening 2008-05-12 13:15:31 ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: PrinceCaspian
’ is tracking for a good opening. The family fantasy will open this Thursday and is expected to top the $65.5 million opening by its predecessor ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ in 2005.
The $100 million ‘Prince Caspian’ is particularly tracking well with women above 25, with 25% compared [...]
Photos: ‘The Fast and the Furious 4′ 2008-05-12 12:15:07 Starting today I will start posting production photos, images and posters when they come out. I hope you will find it a nice addition to the normal posts. I know ‘The Fast and the Furious 4′ isn’t the most anticipated movie of them all, but I had to start somewhere.
These are some pictures taken (secretly) [...]
IMAX reports loss and new deals 2008-05-12 11:15:12 IMAX is getting ready to storm the theaters this year, but hasn’t done so yet. The company reported a $10.3 million loss for the first quarter this year. IMAX said the results “reflect the transitional nature of 2008 from a financial perspective as we continue implementing our key joint venture revenue sharing and digital initiatives.” [...]
Spielberg to take up Abraham Lincoln biopic 2008-05-12 09:30:48 Steven Spielberg
will be doing AbrahamLincoln
after finishing his ‘Tintin’ animation. He earlier announced he won’t be working on ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7′ for the time being, because of the potential actors’ strike. He plans to film ‘Lincoln’ in 2009, so “that it can also open in the same year as Lincoln’s [...] Read more:Abraham Lincoln
‘Speed Racer’ box office weekend totals 2008-05-12 08:50:31 I will refrain myself from using the word ‘crash’ in this post, but I think you know where I’m going with this. ‘SpeedRacer
’ didn’t manage to pick up speed. ‘Speed Racer
’ wasn’t fast enough. ‘Speed Racer’ passed by ‘Iron Man.’
In short, ‘Speed Racer’ just didn’t meet Warner Bros’ expectations, on Read more:office
Directors: Takashi Miike does ‘Crows Zero’ sequel 2008-05-14 02:00:22 Maybe you didn’t notice, but he just looked at you. Takashi Miike is not described as the fastest guy in Asian cinema for nothing. IMDB shows he has made a whopping 76 movies in just 18 years.
Miike will direct the sequel
to his ‘Crows
Zero,’ which has been out of the theaters for just a [...] Read more:Directors
Directors: Jan De Bont to do ‘Point Break 2′ 2008-05-13 23:15:27 Another news bit from pre-Cannes. Action director Jan De Bont has taken it upon himself to shoot the sequel to ‘Point Break
,’ which came out in 1991.
‘Point Break: Indo’ will take place 20 years after the original surfer crime movie. Involvement of Patrick Swayze or Keanu Reeves wasn’t announced. Why they want to make [...] Read more:Directors
Actors: Nicolas Cage in ‘Bad Lieutenant’ 2008-05-13 21:50:30 Nicolas Cage will help Werner Herzog with his remake of the 1992 cult hit ‘Bad Lieutenant
.’ Originally played by Harvey Keitel, he will play a corrupt cop who spends most of his time doing drugs and having sex. Doesn’t sound too bad right?
Pressman Film Corp. will produce the new picture for financier Nu Image / [...] Read more:Nicolas
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