If you know your mafia history, you know of The Gallo Brothers. (No, not the wine guys.) And you may know of their effect on movies like The Godfather. In the 1960s, as members of the New York Profaci family, the three brothers attempted a “cosa nostra” uprising against their own. No surprise Joey Gallo […]
They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Maybe. But when the hype has its own hype, that’s just a pain in the ass.
The latest case-in-point begins with the grandly overrated trailer for Cloverfield (a fake title… oooooh!), the new film from Lost creator J.J. Abrams, directed by TV helmer Matt Reeves. The trailer […]
After our Tuesday summer box office report, we received requests for the Top 10. No problem.
We’ll have to update later to accommodate what should be a massive opening weekend for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. As we mentioned, Variety reported a $44 million gross for Wednesday alone.
Top Ten Summer Movies
1. Spider-Man 3: […]
FIVE-DAY OPENING BOX OFFICE UPDATE:
$140 million (Variety report estimate)
Best five-day opening in history (non-holiday)
$330 million worldwide
#3 foreign opening ever
DAY ONE BOX OFFICE UPDATE: $44.2 million (Variety report estimate)
#1 Wednesday opening ever
#5 one-day box office of all timeWe’ll offer some perspective this weekend…
Wizardry is always more fun after midnight…Variety reports that yesterday’s 12am screenings of […]
The Bronx Is Burning — Episode #1
Once I got past Daniel Sunjata’s lack of Reggie Jackson physique and John Turturro’s massive Billy Martin ears, this was really a lot of fun.
Sunjata has all the silly swagger to play Reggie — or at least the myth of Reggie. And Turturro is something else, playing Martin […]
On the eve of the summer’s last giant movie release — Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — let’s look at the box office and see which films have hit bingo… and which have come up short. (Numbers as of July 10, courtesy The Movie Times.)
THE THREE BIG 3s
No surprises here. 2007’s highest […]
