The Mid-Week Box Office Time Machine
So the top spot of the weekend was a surprise and disappointment , as it went to Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself, which made $24 million. The second spot went to 9, which opened with $10.9 million. Inglourious Basterds fell a spot to third with $6.5 million.All About Steve fell a spot to fourth with $5.8 million and The Final Destination fell from first to fifth with $5.5 million. Sorority Row opened at sixth with $5.3 million, and Whiteout opened at seventh with $5.1 million. District 9 fell from fifth to eighth and Julie & Julia fell from sixth to ninth. Gamer rounded out the top ten, dropping from four and making a meager $3.2 million in its second week.
What’s opening this weekend? First off you’ve got Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, the animated adaptation of the children’s book which I have never heard of. Second is The Informant!, Soderbergh’s latest starring Matt Damon which looks like it will be fairly entertaining all around. Third is Jennifer’s Body, Megan Fox’s latest, this time a horror movie about a teenage girl who goes around killing guys. We’ll see if Fox’s recent bouts of incredible stupidity deter audiences at all. And finally, Love Happens, starring Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart, the sappy movie of the weekend, but it’s a strong cast, so we’ll have to see. So take your pick!
R.I.P Patrick Swayze (1952 – 2009)
Actor Patrick Swayze, who went from Broadway dancer to Hollywood star in box-office hits like Dirty Dancing and Ghost, died on Monday after a two year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.
“Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” said a statement released Monday evening by his publicist, Annett Wolf.
Swayze was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, one of the most deadly forms of the disease, in January 2008. He said at the time that the cancer had already spread to his liver. Since then, he starred in the TV series “The Beast.”
Swayze became a pop culture icon with 1987’s Dirty Dancing, which earned Golden Globe nominations and spawned the Oscar-winning hit single “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.” The film earned $214 million worldwide. Swayze co-wrote and performed the song “She’s Like the Wind” for the movie’s soundtrack, which went to No. 3 on the pop music charts.
In 1990 Ghost was an even bigger hit than Dirty Dancing earning $505 million around the world.
His breakout roles came in 1983’s The Outsiders and 1984’s Red Dawn in which he and future Dirty Dancing co-star Jennifer Grey played teenagers fighting invading Russians.
Swayze’s credits also included Steel Dawn, Road House, Point Break, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, and the TV mini-series “North and South.”
A sad day for Hollywood indeed, although one we knew was coming soon. He was battling cancer for a long time and there’s only so much a person can do sometimes, and he wasn’t looking particularly well for a while. May he rest in peace.
Harrison Ford Talks a Little Bit About Indiana Jones 5
Harrison Ford told France’s Le Figaro (via People) that “the story for the new Indiana Jones is in the process of taking form. Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and myself are agreed on what the fifth adventure will concern, and George is actively at work. If the script is good, I’ll be very happy to put the costume on again.”
The fourth film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, was released on May 28, 2008 and earned $786.6 million worldwide. It was made for about $185 million.
No surprises here, and no real news, either. Ford will be in this movie no matter what he says about the script having to be good or anything. If he won’t do it they’ll change it until he will do it. It’s just a matter of what the story is and when they get the ball rolling. Hopefully it comes soon; I was never as opposed to the last one as others were (every Indiana Jones movie is ridiculous, that’s one of their marks) and I’m looking forward to seeing where they go next.
New Surrogates Trailer
Touchstone Pictures has released the new trailer for director Jonathan Mostow’s Surrogates, opening in theaters on September 25th. The graphic novel adaptation stars Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, James Francis Ginty, Michael Cudlitz, James Cromwell and Ving Rhames.
In the film, people are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates—sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It’s an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don’t exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer (Willis) discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.
Originally posted 2009-09-25 19:53:20. Republished by Old Post Promoter
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