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Sunday, August 30
| Title | Weekend | Total | Analysis |
| The Final Destination | $28.3M | $28.3M | Neither heavily marketed nor screened for critics, 4th movie in series figures to do the best. We credit the casting of Krista Allen. |
| Inglourious Basterds | $20.0M | 73.8M | Critically acclaimed Basterds holds strong in 2nd week. |
| Halloween II | $17.4M | $17.4M | Hello? It's August. Halloween isn't for another two months! |
| District 9 | $10.7M | $90.8M | $30M budget now looks like a good investment for this unique sci-fi flick. |
| G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra | $8.0M | $132.4M | "Blockbuster" ekes out #5 spot with Julia and Julia nipping at its heels ($7.4M). |
Bomb of the Week: Who doesn't love Ang Lee? His resume is frankly one of the best in Hollywood (The Wedding Banquet, The Ice Storm, Brokeback Mountain), but neither critics nor fans seemed to care much for Taking Woodstock, his low-key take on the famed music festival earned just $3.8M on a budget of $30M.
Posted 8/30/2009 by reelz
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Monday, August 24
This Friday, both The Final Destination and Halloween II hit theaters, but Destination's series producer Craig Perry isn't worried. Perry told ShockTilYouDrop that the two horror movies sharing the same release date won't stop The Final Destination from stealing the weekend away from Halloween II.
I'm shocked that they haven't moved [Halloween II]. I think that they're being fools because we're going to beat them and we are going to hurt them tremendously.
Perry continued with a little trash talking.
I like Halloween, I've seen all of the movies, but for me, I feel like [Halloween II] just feels like the standard, grungy, dirty guy with a mask. It doesn't seem like it's done anything new with it, and it feels like it'll be scary, but it doesn't feel like it'll be fun. One of the strategic things that we've done in contrast is make [The Final Destination] feel like it's a fun movie.
To see if Perry has the right to brag, here are two new TV spots for The Final Destination. What do you think — is Perry's Halloween bashing warranted?
Next Showing: The Final Destination (and Halloween II) opens this Friday
Posted 8/24/2009 by Ryan
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Thursday, August 20
Two new clips have arrived online for The Final Destination (the latest from Bloody-Disgusting), which show off a few deadly and spoiler-filled moments from the movie. The Final Destination follows yet another teen with a premonition that saves his group of friends from a tragic accident only to find Death catching up to them anyway ... but this time Death arrives in sparkling RealD 3-D.
The Final Destination is set to arrive in theaters on August 28, for what may be the last time for the series. Producer Craig Perry has stated that this Destination is indeed the last and death will finally come for the popular horror franchise. Yeah, we're not buying it either.
Check out the clips below:
Posted 8/20/2009 by Ryan
Related: Craig Perry | The Final Destination
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Monday, August 17
New Line has just released 24 new pictures for their upcoming release The Final Destination, the fourth movie in the series and supposedly the last. The movie centers around a another teenager (Bobby Campo) with a premonition that saves his friends' lives, though death has a way of catching up with those that escape it.
The Final Destination arrives in 3-D on August 28. Krista Allen, Nick Zano and Mykelti Williamson star.
Posted 8/17/2009 by Ryan
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Thursday, August 13
When The Final Destination opens on August 28, it will be the first Final Destination in 3 years and the fourth in 10 years. But will this be the, dare we say it, the final Final Destinaton? ShockTilYouDrop spoke with producer Craig Perry and asked that very question.
Well, there's a lot of factors. When we started talking about Final Destination 4, any time you see a four next to something, it feels like you're pushing your luck and making Leprechaun. We all kind of realized that as much as we obviously have a lineage that we want to follow that this will probably be the last movie for a variety of reasons and why not just do it right and call it The Final Destination. Actually, the marketing department had that stroke of genius that I think actually speaks to both the sort of consummation of the franchise, delivering on everything the first three are sort of positing, because we had a really healthy budget and there were a lot of things we could do that we could never do in the other movies. Finally, I think that we have ... I won't say that we've worn out our welcome, as much as we've come home and sort of put this thing to bed in a great way.
So why come back for another Final Destination?
At the end of the day, New Line said, "You know what? Final Destination 3 was the mostsuccessful, most profitable and the biggest opening weekend [they] had that year." At that point they were like, "Okay, let's see if we can justify another one." They commissioned a script. Like any movie, there's no greenlight. There's no guarantee. It all comes down to the script and Eric Brest, who, with his partner, wrote Final Destination 2 and have since been been working on their own individual projects, he came on board this draft and it was distinctive and interesting enough, and it had one extra overlay that further distinguishes it from the predecessors in a good way. It adds a different dimension (no pun intended), as how to look at death interacting in our world.
The latest TV spot doesn't exactly show the new "dimension," but does offer a sneak peek at what kind of 3D movie The Final Destination is going to be.
Posted 8/13/2009 by Ryan
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Thursday, June 18
It's summer. Time for baseball, gin and tonics, and movies (not necessarily in that order). Here are 10 women who are getting us to ask theater managers: "Can ya turn up the air conditioning?"
Check out our list of the 10 Hottest Chicks from the Summer Flicks. Yes, Megan Fox made the list. See the other 9!
Posted 6/18/2009 by reelz
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Friday, June 5
With plane, car, and roller coaster crashes already scratched off the list of, well, destinations for the series, the fourth installment moves the premonition site to a racetrack where Nick (Bobby Campo) has that uneasy feeling and saves his friends from a fatal crash, thereby upsetting fate once again. The Final Destination will finally make use of 3-D, which originally was to be used for Final Destination 3 but was deemed too expensive.
The trailer can't fully reveal any 3-D moments, but it does offer hints about what audiences can expect to leap from the screen when the movie reaches theaters on August 28.
Posted 6/5/2009 by Ryan
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