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The boxful office getsExorcisedand there are quite fewTakersforAvatar : Special Edition ; What happens when you mixA Clockwork OrangewithThe Dark Knight : Psychopomp;Angry Birds : The Movie ; the surfs up for Sam Worthington as he allow his careerDrift ; Jim Carrey ppppp clean up aPenguin ; Carey Mulligan goes for aDrivewith Ryan Gosling and more .
Box Office
It was all alteration at the box office over the weekend asTakerscaptured the top topographic point . The crime thriller which stars a slew of familiar font like Hayden Christensen , Chris Brown and Matt Dillon grabbed $ 20.5 million Charles Frederick Worth of moviegoer ’s Johnny Cash in its unexpectedly successful debut .
The Last Exorcismswooped into the number two stead over the three day . The Eli Roth produced frightener scared up $ 20.3 million despite ailment of a terrible end .
Sly and the kin Stallone miss to three . After two week at the topThe Expendablesbrought in another $ 9.5 million for an $ 82 million full - $ 100 million is now in its grasp .
Julia Roberts’Eat Pray Lovecame in at four after gross just under $ 7 million . The total for the film now stand at $ 60 million . It does n’t have a luck of reach $ 100 million , but it show that Roberts still has some hotshot wattage left .
The Other Guysshot up $ 6.5 million and upped their total to just under $ 100 million . Will Ferrell breathes a suspiration of relief and audiences require more Michael Keaton . All ’s fair in love and war .
lamia do indeed suck and so does ( I presume)Vampires Suck . It ’s a celluloid that I would n’t be caught ( un)dead watching , but someone is as the film only dip 55 % from last weekend ’s debut . I say only because that ’s a middling comme il faut decline for this sort of film . Another $ 5.5 for this frightening movie give it a respectable $ 28 million . tyke , keep open your money and go seeInception .
Speaking ofInception , it has now bring its sum up to over $ 270 million , after bank another $ 5 million .
Nanny McPhee Returnsgrossed another $ 4.7 million and up its total to $ 17 million . This picture has already made its money on the international circuit , so its US release is just a formalities . You may even expectNanny McPhee return Again … or something .
The Switchjust did n’t turn on moviegoers . The Jennifer Aniston/ Jason Bateman drollery has only brought in $ 16.4 million since its launch . It should n’t get to over $ 30 million .
Piranha 3Ddid what any good repulsion films does – and dropped by over 50 % in its 2d weekend . The horror remake/ reboot/ reimagining or whatever the blaze they ’re call it chewed up another $ 4.5 million . With just under $ 18.5 million in the bank a subsequence is on the way . I expect that this will make a killing when it hits DVD in an unrated bod .
Jim Cameron’sAvatar : Special Editionopened at figure eleven after scoring $ 3.8 million . The re - outlet of the highest grossing moving-picture show of all time supply an redundant 9 minutes of footage to the 3D epic poem . The film has now bring in a mind ( and eye ) shove along $ 753.5 million in the US alone . This Special Edition debut might be something of a disappointment for Cameron and Fox , however study that the moving picture is already out on DVD , with a double dip on the fashion – it ’s pretty much all gravy at this point .
Movie News
1 . Get ready forPsychopomp . “ What ’s that ? ” I get wind you say .
Well , according toThe Hollywood newsperson :
" Psychopompis the name of the rubric character , a foul - mouthed anti - hero who range international hot spot with nation - of - the fine art weapons and technology with the aim of destroy those who violate his code . The playscript has been described as deliver whole step similar toA Clockwork OrangeandThe Dark Knight . "
Hilary Shor one of the producers behindChildren of Menhas optioned the script in the hopes of bringing it to the full-grown screen .
Shor state :
" This is the evil twin of the Children of Men succeeding world Alfonso created . A lot of material I ’m well known for developing is ' weighty , ' for deficiency of a better Bible , but this really appealed to me . It ’s the graphical novel world and something I ’ve been interested in explore . "
Shor(ly ) not .
This sounds like one of those films that will go into development and never be made . Then again – what do I know ?
author : THR
2 . I do n’t have an iphone or an iPad , so I have n’t played the top - trade appAngry Birds . But it has deal over 6.5 million downloads . In Hollywood that can only have in mind one thing – movie ! The Finnish company behindAngry Birds , Rovio , contrive to turn the game into a enfranchisement .
There ’s really nothing more that I can say about that without destroy the PG environment ofScreen Rant . Nothing at all .
Source : form
3 . Since December ( if not before ) a calendar week does n’t seem to have conk out by that we have n’t written about Sam Worthington being confiscate to one project or another . hazard what ?
Yup . Worthington is now attached to a young Australian surfboarding drama calledDrift .
According toPlaylist :
“ The film will see Worthington — an zealous , lifelong surfer — play a photographer and journalist who is subservient in the evolution of surfing from a pastime into a spherical industriousness , as local surf wear manufacturer like Rip Curl and Billabong grow into iconic global brands . ”
Worthington had this to say about the $ 11 million film :
" I ’m a [ Western Australian ] son at heart and to go back there and put something back into my home town is something I am really take care frontwards to . There ’s something pure and truthful about surfing , and there is something pure and true about this script . "
The film is due to shoot next class and presumably it means that Worthington will be able to gibe in one or two of his other cinema before then .
origin : Playlist
4 . Disney has find fault up a pitch by writers Ahmet Zappa and Michael Wilson titledMonster Witness Relocation Program .
Monsterfoot Productions will bring out the picture show alongside Will Smith ’s Overbrook Entertainment . It ’s apparently being tooled as a potential starring vehicle for Smith ’s Word Jaden .
sound like this might be Smith Jr’sMen In Blackstyle franchise .
Source : Deadline
5 . Jim Carrey is prepare to asterisk in an version ofMr . Popper ’s Penguins .
fit in toDeadline :
“ The motion picture interlingual rendition takes the Koran into an upscale direction : a high - powered man of affairs suddenly inherits six penguin . As he gets acquaint with – and more and more attach to – his wing roommates , Popper ’s animation quick unravels : his swank New York apartment is turned into a snow-covered wintertime wonderland , the deal he ’s long been working on is derailed , and he almost land in jailhouse . But thanks to his Modern charges , Popper come to understand the grandness of family – human and otherwise " .
In the past Jack Black , Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller have flirted with the project which is being directed by Mark Waters , the man who brought usMean GirlsandThe Spiderwick Chronicles .
parole on the street is that 20th Century Fox got Carrey on the “ crummy ” . I thought that penguin made more of a squawk sound .
The Oscar nominated ( and BAFTA winning ) actress Carey Mulligan and Bryan Cranston are negotiations to join Ryan Gosling inDrive .
The pic follows Hollywood stuntman who work as getaway number one wood during robbery . When the obligatory bank job goes incorrect , he end up on the footrace with a contract on his promontory and an ex - con ’s gangster’s moll in his auto . Mulligan would bring the female lead in the film(obviously ) .
Nicolas Winding Refn directs the film , which originally being tooled as a Hugh Jackman starrer .
Mulligan will next be seen inWall Street : Money Never Sleepsalongside Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf which opens on September 24 .
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That ’s it for now . See you at the movies .
