monday movie report 
Monday Movie Report: When It Rains, It… Snows(0)
As if the flailing economy weren’t bad enough, it’s snowing across wide swaths of the country, where people aren’t even getting out of the house, for Christmas shopping or movies.
The weekend numbers were down 44 percent from this time last year. Jim Carey’s Yes Man got top honors with $18 mil, followed by another debut, [...]
Monday Movie Report: Here’s…. Hugh!
Hugh Jackman (Australia, Wolverine) has been tapped to host the Academy Awards this year! It’s a big change from the comedians who have hosted in the past, but Jackman has experience as an emcee, hosting the Tonys for three (very popular) years. Expect some singin’ and dancin’, but the opening monologue will likely be cut [...]
Monday Movie Report: What Recession?
November has been a long string of weekends finishing ahead of last year’s numbers.
In movies, that is.
The Thanksgiving long weekend was no exception, with audiences flocking to see a range of new releases, from the treacly (Four Christmases, $32 mil ) to the teen-y (Twilight, $27 mil) to the family-friendly (Bolt, $26 mil) to the [...]
Monday Movie Report: Bite Me!
In case you hadn’t heard, Twilight completely sucked at the box office. Yes, it sucked the young, female blood of American capitalism in the dark, cool night of the weekend to the tune of $71 million. This is, in the land of Hollywood power brokers, big news. More on that, as Marketplace says, “after the [...]