Jacob Hall
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Weekend Box Office Report: ‘The LEGO Movie’ Constructs Big Opening
And here we are: five weeks into the new year and we already have our first major blockbuster of 2014.
Early estimates had 'The LEGO Movie' opening big, but the animated adventure shattered all expectations this weekend, with universally positive reviews and word of mouth sending the film to a massive opening.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman Will Be Digitally Recreated For His Final ‘Hunger Games’ Scene
Philip Seymour Hoffman's tragic death occurred while he was nearing the end of his work on the two-part 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay' movies, and while he only had seven days of filming left, those days included at least one key scene. We initially thought that these final scenes would be rewritten to exclude the character of Plutarch Heavensbee, but according to the NY Post, the filmmakers are planning to recreate the late actor with special effects to keep his presence intact.
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‘Groundhog Day’ Bed and Breakfast is on the Market: $985,000
'Groundhog Day' is revered as one greatest films of '90s, and to celebrate its upcoming twenty-first anniversary it's the perfect time to own a piece of the film's legacy. But we're not talking about a prop or something small. Nah, we're talking about the house where many of the key scenes were shot. It can now be yours for the low price of $985,000
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Super Bowl Commercials: Radio Shack Resurrects Your Favorite ’80s Characters [Video]
Considering how Radio Shack has been out of the limelight for the past decade or so, it's amusing to see that the company has some level of self-awareness. The new Radio Shack 2014 Super Bowl ad is chock full of self deprecating humor and, in a crazy little turn, most of it comes courtesy of '80s film and TV characters.
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Oscar-Winner Philip Seymour Hoffman Dead at 46
Philip Seymour Hoffman, a towering icon of modern cinema, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment today according to the Wall Street Journal and New York Post. He was 46 years old.
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Weekend Box Office Report: ‘Ride Along’ Laps ‘That Awkward Moment’ and ‘Labor Day’
Unless you had a personal stake in a film being released this weekend, movies were far from the most important thing happening to you these past couple of days. You can blame the weekend's mostly anemic box office on one thing: the Super Bowl. Everyone spent their money buying snacks and preparing their parties and not going to see 'That Awkward Moment' and 'Labor Day,' both of which opened soft.
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Weekend Box Office Report: ‘Ride Along’ Leaves ‘I, Frankenstein’ Choking on Exhaust
Ah, a week at the box office where the new release flies completely under the radar and everything else feels like it's just hanging out because there's nothing else to push it off the charts. Welcome to January. Welcome to the home of movies like 'I Frankenstein,' which was dead on arrival this weekend and will vanish into dollar theaters within the next week or so.
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‘Gilligan’s Island’ Star Russell Johnson Dead at 89
Russell Johnson, the veteran TV actor best known for playing Professor Roy Hinkley on 'Gilligan's Island,' passed away from kidney failure on Thursday. He was 89.
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Weekend Box Office Report: ‘Lone Survivor’ Screens as Lone Victor
New releases have a habit of floundering in January, which tends to be one of Hollywood's biggest dumping grounds.
Even this year's big January horror release, which is commonly a sure thing, floundered.
What does tend to do well are the prestige pictures which opened late in the previous year (often in limited release) and expand in the new year, riding awards momentum to solid box-office receipts.
Peter Berg's "Lone Survivor" emerged from limited release last week to rise at the box office.
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Weekend Box Office Report: ‘Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones’ Gets ‘Frozen’ Out of No. 1
Over the past few years, "Paranormal Activity" series has established itself as one of the most inexpensive and reliable horror franchises around.
Produced for pennies, they've consistently opened strong at the box office, ensuring a fast and efficient turnaround. The latest film, "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones," accomplished that goal, and did so without grabbing the No. 1 spot.
While people may love found footage demons,it turns out that they love animated singing princesses more.
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Weekend Box Office Report: ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ and More Battle It Out
Although you'd think people would spend the holidays in their homes catching up with their families and what-not, they actually tend to go to the movies after opening gifts and having awkward conversations. And Christmas Day moviegoers had a bunch of options this week, with recent releases (and not-so-recent releases) still going strong and a whole bunch of new releases arriving to coincide with the holiday.
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‘Fleming’: James Bond’s Creator Gets a Little Spy Action Himself
It's no secret that James Bond creator Ian Fleming based many aspects of his legendary fictional spy on parts of himself.
However, the trailer for the upcoming four-part BBC miniseries "Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond" wants to believe that he actually was 007.
The footage from the series has enough action and seduction to make it look like an actual James Bond movie.