Monday, April 16

• Weekend Box Office: Good news for Spielberg, Lucas

  Looks like their new Indy 4 star Shia LaBeouf can open a movie after all. LaBeouf's Rear Window remake Disturbia took the top spot in this weekend's box office tally, raking in $23 million, according to boxofficemojo.com. The news wasn't nearly as good for the rest of this weekend's new releases, as holdovers Blades of Glory and Meet the Robinsons took second and third place with $14 million and $12 million, respectively. Halle Berry's thriller Perfect Stranger came in fourth with a disappointing $11.5 million take. Rounding out the top five was Ice Cube's family flick Are We Done Yet?, which made $9.2 million.

  
  

  Posted 04/16/2007 by Thomas

  Disturbia | Perfect Stranger | Blades of Glory | Meet the Robinsons | Are We Done Yet?

Monday, April 9

• The people have spoken...

  ...and for once, they agreed with me. Grindhouse tanked monumentally at the box office this weekend, bringing in just $11.6 million -- far short of analysts' expectations of around $25 million, according to Boxofficemojo.com -- barely enough to take fourth place.

  Compounding the humiliation, Grindhouse was beaten out by two of last week's releases, Blades of Glory and Meet the Robinsons, which took in $23 million and $17 million respectively. Ice Cube's family comedy Are We Done Yet? was the top debut, at $15 million.

  Explanations for Grindhouse's monumental flop range from the three-hour running time to the fact that younger audiences just didn't get the joke. Or maybe, just maybe, it wasn't that great of a movie.

   

  
  

  Posted 04/09/2007 by Thomas

  Grindhouse | Blades of Glory | Meet the Robinsons | Are We Done Yet?

Monday, March 26

• Cube Takes on Kotter

  At this weekend's press day for his new flick Are We Done Yet, Ice Cube talked about one of his upcoming projects:

  "I'm gonna do a version of Welcome Back, Kotter. We're taking the name, we're taking the concept of the 'sweathogs' and a bunch of kids nobody wants to teach and seeing them for their intelligence and things they do have to offer. We're taking that kind of feel and tailor-making it for me," said Cube, who described the project as a "dramedy. If you look at Welcome Back, Kotter, it was a lot of real social commentary in with the jokes. So we gonna do that too."

  The entire world wide web waits with giddy anticipation for casting news regarding the highly coveted role of Vinnie Barbarino. We'll keep you posted.

  
  
  

  Are We Done Yet? Trailer

  Ice Cube returns in the follow up to Are We There Yet?

  Posted 03/26/2007 by Thomas

  Ice Cube | Are We Done Yet?