Lionsgate’s decision to split up the final Hunger Games movie seemed to be met with at least some backlash as The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 finished its opening weekend with $123 million. That number is about 22 drop off from the previous films which both opened with more than $150 million. Of course, … Continue reading
With the on-going trend of turning beloved classics into live-action films, the latest to get the big screen re-telling is Disney’s Cinderella. Turns out her name was really just Ella. Disney released the first trailer for the film which will be arriving in theaters in March. Lily James stars as the title character with Cate … Continue reading
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 director Francis Lawrence took to Twitter Monday morning to answer fan questions. The third film in the planned four-film franchise arrives in theaters Thursday night and is expected to exceed $150 million at the domestic box office through its opening weekend. Here are a few of Lawrence’s answers … Continue reading
Harry and Lloyd ruled the box office once again while Disney’s Big Hero 6 and Interstellar performed well in their second weeks. Nearly 20 years after audiences were first introduced to bumbling morons Harry and Lloyd, Dumb & Dumber To finished in first with a $38.05 million opening weekend. The sequel was Jim Carrey’s biggest … Continue reading
This time next week, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 should be well on its way to a monster opening weekend. If you haven’t purchased your tickets yet, your local theater is likely sold out. In the countdown to the latest Hunger Games movie, I constructed a behind the scenes slideshow of The Hunger … Continue reading
It’s been a couple weeks since a Friday Five was posted up, but we’re back. The past couple weeks saw Comikaze and a rather slow week in the entertainment industry. Things certainly picked up this week and the list of this week’s big events can be found below. Also, if you haven’t seen it yet, … Continue reading
Marvel has followed up their recently released first trailer for Avengers: Age of UItron with a longer extended trailer which includes previously unseen footage. This new trailer clocks in at just over two and a half minutes. We see more Hulkbuster Iron Man suit vs. Hulk, more Black Widow, Thor choking Tony Stark and an … Continue reading
Big Hero 6 edged out the top spot at the box office over Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi movie Interstellar this weekend. The latest Disney movie finished the weekend with $56.2 million while Nolan’s epic finished at $50 million. Disney’s latest also had the second highest opening for an animated movie this year behind only The LEGO … Continue reading
Nearly two decades after Pixar Animation Sutdios created the world’s first computer-animated feature film with Toy Story, the studio revealed plans a fourth Toy Story movie. John Lasseter, director of the first two Toy Story movies will direct the film, which will “open a new chapter in the lives of Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the … Continue reading
The Weinstein Company is on a roll today. Earlier they revealed that Mark Walhberg would be playing the Six Billion Dollar Man in an adaptation of the 1970s TV show. Now, the studio has revealed the full cast for Quentin Tarantino‘s western, The Hateful Eight. Here is the cast: Samuel L. Jackson as Major Marquis … Continue reading
Perhaps Disney learned its lesson from promoting Frozen (although with $1.275 billion in worldwide box office gross perhaps “lesson” isn’t the appropriate word). Disney essentially hid the fact that there was a good chunk of singing in Frozen including songs that would become worldwide hits that would linger in our ears for months. They’re not … Continue reading
Mark Wahlberg is teaming up with Peter Berg again for a film adaptation of the 1970s TV show The Six Million Dollar Man. The film version will be titled The Six Billion Dollar Man. Nice to see they took inflation into account. Wahlberg will star as former astronaut Steve Austin (not the 3:16 WWE Steve … Continue reading
Cinemaniax 