Monday, April 14

• Weekend Box Office: Prom Tops Vegas
  

  Brittany Snow's critically maligned horror remake, Prom Night, tooks tops at the box office this weekend with an estimated $22.7 million. The weekend's other new wide release, the urban thriller Street Kings, hit second place with a $12 million take. 21 scored strong numbers for the third straight weekend to take third place with $11 million. This brings 21's total gross up to $62 million making it one of 2008's most successful films thus far. Rounding out the top five were Nim's Island with $9 mil and Leatherheads with $6.2.

  Source: boxofficemojo.com

  
  

  Posted 04/14/2008 by Jeff

  Brittany Snow | Prom Night | Street Kings | 21

Monday, April 7

• Weekend Box Office: 21 doubles down; Leatherheads punts

  Vegas card-counting flick 21 took first place at the box office for the second week in a row with a $15.1 million tally, pulling off a minor upset over Leatherheads. The George Clooney football comedy earned a disappointing $13.5 million in its opening weekend, barely edging out third-place finisher Nim's Island's $13.3 million gross. The Dr. Seuss animated comedy Horton Hears a Who! placed fourth with $9.1 million, bringing its overall tally to a stellar $131 million. Rounding out the top five was the killer vine horror flick The Ruins, which earned $7.8 million in its underwhelming debut.

  Source: boxofficemojo.com

  
  

  Posted 04/07/2008 by Thomas

  21 | Leatherheads | Nim's Island | Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who | The Ruins

Monday, March 31

• Weekend Box Office: 21 takes Horton down

  Vegas card-counting flick 21 cashed in over the weekend, earning $23.7 million and unseating Horton Hears a Who! from the top spot at the box office. The Dr. Seuss animated flick still earned an impressive $17.4 million in its third week in release, well ahead of third-place finisher Superhero Movie's $9.5 million debut. Rounding out the top five were Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns and Drillbit Taylor, which earned $7.8 million and $5.8 million, respectively.

  Source: boxofficemojo.com

  
  

  Posted 03/31/2008 by Thomas

  21 | Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who | Superhero Movie | Meet the Browns

Friday, March 28

• 21 Movie: Early Fan Reviews

  We caught fans' first reaction to last night's midnight screening of 21, starring Kate Bosworth and Kevin Spacey.

  Next week we'll be at the first showing of Leatherheads starring George Clooney and Renee Zellweger.
  
  
  
  

  
  

  Posted 03/28/2008 by Dack

  Kate Bosworth | Kevin Spacey | 21

• 21 review

  Hollywood heads to Vegas once again for 21, a new flick based on the true story of six M.I.T. students who made millions by mastering the art of card counting at blackjack. Check out our interview with producer and star Kevin Spacey to learn more about 21's long road to the big screen, then read our 21 review to find out if it's a winner.

   

  
  

  Posted 03/28/2008 by Thomas

  Kate Bosworth | Kevin Spacey | 21

Monday, March 17

• Spider-Man: The Musical coming to Broadway. Seriously.

  When it was announced that Across the Universe director Julie Taymor was developing a Broadway musical based on Spider-Man, many of us dismissed it as some sort of practical joke. When it was revealed that Bono and The Edge from U2 would be writing the music, we dismissed it as a really elaborate practical joke. But the joke's on us, it seems, as Spider-Man: The Musical is increasingly close to becoming a reality. Taymor even recently brought in Universe stars Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood to workshop an early version of it. At a recent press event for his new card-counting flick 21, Sturgess recounted the experience:

  "We just kind of saw it as a fun thing to do for two weeks in New York City, writing songs with Bono and The Edge about Spider-Man. By the end of the two weeks we'd performed an entire structure of what the play is going to be to Marvel Comics and people from Sony and stuff like that. So it's there and Julie's definitely gonna make it. Whether I'll be in it or not, I have no idea."

  No word yet on how the musical's story will differ from the Spider-Man movies, but we're hoping Emo Spidey at least gets a cameo. We loved his moves in Spider-Man 3.
  

  
  
  Next Showing: 21 opens March 28th.

  Posted 03/17/2008 by Thomas

  Julie Taymor | Jim Sturgess | 21 | Across the Universe

Thursday, March 13

• Spacey still game for Superman sequel

  Hopes for a sequel to Superman Returns, Bryan Singer's 2006 reboot of the fabled comic book franchise, received a welcome shot in the arm recently when Singer announced that he's moving forward with a follow-up, ending speculation that he might be finished with the Man of Steel. The project's still in its infancy, but if it does indeed take flight, star Kevin Spacey is down to reprise his role as the follicular-challenged archvillain Lex Luthor:

  "I'm scheduled to come back, meaning that I made a deal to do a second film, and I think Kate (Bosworth) did as well," said Spacey today during press conference to promote his new gambling flick 21. "Bryan and I spoke last spring and I knew he was gonna do this film in Germany and then he was talking about doing another film after that. My suspicion is that if they are moving forward, it probably wouldn't start shooting until sometime in the spring of 2009 to be released in 2010."

  Spring of 2009 -- that'll give producers more than enought time to find a replacement for Brandon Routh.

  
  

  Posted 03/13/2008 by Thomas

  Bryan Singer | Kevin Spacey | 21 | Superman Returns