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Chris P. Bacon: Alpha and Omega

19 November 2008 11:53 PM, PST | From Upcoming Film Scores | See recent Upcoming Film Scores news

Following the success of Space Chimps, his first feature film score as a composer in his own right, James Newton Howard scoring team member Chris P. Bacon has been hired to write the music for Alpha and Omega, an animated adventure produced by Crest Animation for release by Lions Gate in 2010. Ben Gluck, who made Brother Bear 2 for Disney, is directing the film which tells the story about two mismatched wolves who are forced to embark on an adventure together. Voice cast includes Justin Long, Christina Ricci and Dennis Hopper.

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"Space Chimps" DVD clips!

15 November 2008 1:15 PM, PST | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

DVD clips from "Space Chimps," the animated sci-fi family comedy from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment are here! "Space Chimps" which, if you missed it on big screen from July 18th, comes out on DVD and Blu-ray on November 25th and features the voice talents of Andy Samberg ("Hot Rod," "Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist"), Cheryl Hines, Jeff Daniels, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth and Ken Thompson. Kirk De Mico, writer of "Racing Stripes" which, unfortunately I loathed, makes his directorial debut and writes here too. Still, "Stripes" star Hayden Panettiere is...or should I say "was" doing well as a cheerleader needing saving in NBC's "Heroes." The show needs the same deal now...

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Here are the 14 Films Up for an Animated Oscar

11 November 2008 3:35 PM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Photo: Disney / Pixar I just watched Kung Fu Panda again last night and just received the Blu-ray copy of Wall.E today, which is to say I am going to be watching that flick tonight, which means I am getting a double dose, two nights in a row, of the best animated films of the year just as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveils the list of the 14 features that have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 81st Academy Awards. They are each listed below in alphabetical order, but I can tell you right now I don't think any film stands a chance against Wall.E unless Bolt ends up being cinematic genius. I have seen Waltz with Bashir and while it's tragic and quite impactful, as well as being a very impressive piece of animation, it isn't up to snuff with Pixar's mammoth.

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'Wall-e' retains Aussie top spot

2 October 2008 7:54 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Pixar animation Wall-e has retained the Australian box office top spot for a second week. Shia Labeouf action thiller Eagle Eye is this week's number two, while Journey To The Centre Of The Earth enters at three. Elsewhere, Anna Faris comedy The House Bunny debuts at seven and CG children's film Space Chimps climbs three spots to eighth. The top ten in full: 1. (1) Wall-e -$$5,345,101

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Box Office Report September 15th 2008

14 September 2008 8:00 PM, PDT | From MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news

Dude here again. I have a whole lot of movies, and a whole lot of numbers to start your Monday (or late Sunday, or later, depending on if you even read this) off right. This weekend, Four wide releases! I can stop talking about Batman and the other movie that did well last month! And a month to be free of Space Chimps references! (Starting now). Let's go to the numbers, shall we? (All in millions, remember, and these are the studio estimates. The actuals will be available on Monday). 1. Burn After Reading (Focus) - $19.4, 2651 screens, week 1, $19.4 total 2. Tyler Perry's The Family That ...

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Can Superheroes Save 20th Century Fox From Itself?

10 September 2008 8:02 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Box Office, Fandom, 20th Century Fox, Diy/Filmmaking, Newsstand, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels

Fox has not had a good year -- and as with most drama-filled issues, they really have only themselves to blame. Variety points out that they were the only studio this summer that didn't have a $100 million domestic earner. What they did have was a lot of widely-derided flops like The Happening, Space Chimps, and Meet Dave. They also had films that might have done well, had they chosen to actually sell them, like The X-Files: I Want to Believe. They were also dealt a bit of bad luck when it came to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which was supposed to come out this summer, making it the greatest superhero year ever, but was delayed due to Hugh Jackman's commitment to Australia. (A film which

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On DVD Today: September 9, 2008

9 September 2008 12:22 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

DVD Links: Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed A quick note before we get started, Blu-ray.com is reporting "that at least one company will offer a limited number of Blu-ray Disc players for under $200 this holiday season." They do suspect these will be the "door buster" style players that aren't exactly the top-of-the-line and will be sold the day after Thanksgiving to make way for the newer players come December. Also, I had a mistaken release date back in August when I said How the West was Won (Ultimate Edition) was released on August 26. In fact it hits stores today and I linked to it in the "Even More" section below and the link will take you to the Amazon page with all three versions of the film that are hitting stores today. You can read my original write-up for the release right here or my DVD review here.

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Batman Breaks $500 Million Barrier

1 September 2008 11:56 AM, PDT | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

The summer box office ended anemically although The Dark Knight did as expected, and sailed past the $500 million domestic box office mark.  By doing so in just 45 days puts it on a faster pace than the #1 champ, Titanic. With $11 million for the four-day weekend, the film stands at $504,696,000. Add in the $416,700,000 from foreign receipts and the film has earned Warner Bros. $919,121,000 (this despite our report that it’s tanking in Japan).

Warner Bros. has recently revised their estimate of the film’s final domestic number to $530 million, down from the $550 million it announced in mid-August. On the other hand, adjusted for inflation, the film rises from 49th on the All-Time chart to 30th as of this weekend and will likely climb a little higher before all is said and done. Not bad for a sequel to a super-hero movie.

To put this into additional perspective, The Dark Knight alone will

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I've Got a Hunch You Might Like These New 'Igor' Pictures

23 August 2008 9:13 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

On September 19th, we'll get our next animated family movie when Igor hits theaters. It's been an up and down couple of months for animated film, with Wall-e and Kung Fu Panda soaring to great heights and Space Chimps and Fly Me to the Moon never exactly taking off (pun intended).

Igor (John Cusack) is an assistant to a mad scientist who has his own aspirations of winning the annual Evil Science Fair, only Igor's not really evil at all. These new computer animated spins on classic genres can work or they can backfire. For example, Hoodwinked was good fun, but Happily N'Ever After is one of the worst cartoons I've ever endured.

Based on the trailers, Igor looks fun, and it's written by Chris McKenna, who previously gained some experience writing for American Dad, so we'll continue to hold out hope for it. And based on a series

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D-minus for 3-D

21 August 2008 5:15 PM, PDT | From blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news

As it happens, I missed the press preview for "Fly Me to the Moon." It was a stupid misunderstanding, too boring to describe. My fault. I admit I was not inconsolable. After "Space Chimps," I had launched enough animated creatures to the Moon without starting on the insect kingdom. But even more to the point, "Fly Me to the Moon" was in 3-D, and I could all too easily imagine being "startled" by flies buzzing, ohmigod! straight at me!

Faithful readers will know about my disenchantment with 3-D. My dad took me to see the first 3-D movie, Arch Oboler's "Bwana Devil," in 1952. Lots of spears thrown at the audience. Since then I have been attacked by arrows, fists, eels, human livers, and naked legs. I have seen one 3-D process that works, the IMAX process that uses $200 wrap-around glasses with built-in stereo. Apparently that process has been shelved,

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Update: 'X-Files 3' Going Straight to DVD?

21 August 2008 1:21 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Update: This rumor has been squashed by Spotnitz himself only a mere hours after it's inception. Remember X-Files: I Want to Believe? What? You don't? it was released in theaters less than a month ago. Yes, I am serious. You didn't hear about it? Well damn, it still might be showing somewhere, perhaps in a double feature with Midnight Meat Train. Don't worry too much though, Fox didn't even give it as much money as it gave the folks to make Space Chimps and they were probably right to do so seeing how Space Chimps made $7 million more than X-Files did at the theater. While bad timing never allowed me a chance to get to see the sequel news has surfaced that even though I Want to Believe was a huge box-office failure the franchise may not be over. Dread Central received the following bit of information: I understand -

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Brad Brevet

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Movie Review: Baghead

20 August 2008 11:26 PM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Oh baghead man with man titties, you get me so hot!

Photo: Sony Pictures Classics I can't help but wonder if movies should always be graded on the same scale. Should Godfather Part II be graded on the same scale as Space Chimps? When I review Step Brothers should I look at it the same way as Hostel? I have always looked at movies from a perspective of pure entertainment in my eyes, is there really any other way? Should I look at Mamma Mia! and give it a better grade than it actually deserves in my eyes just because the target audience is going to enjoy it even though I did not? To these questions I say, "No." In the case here with Baghead, should I give it a pass because it was made by a couple of guys that are trying their hardest to become big-time filmmakers even

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Box Office Report August 11th

10 August 2008 8:00 PM, PDT | From MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news

Dude here again. I've returned to normal, linear narrative this week. (And no, I did not do that specifically so I could be in a world where Space Chimps tops a list). However, because I've become mildly obsessed with Christopher Nolan in the past few weeks, I've decided this week should be written in the style of Nolan's 2002 film Insomnia. By which I mean this is a reasonably done adaptation of a Norwegian original. This weekend, yet another contender steps up to the plate to take down the winged one. And once again, there is a failure to do so. But it was close, and it looks like next wee...

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Weekend Box Office August 8–10, 2008

10 August 2008 10:46 AM, PDT | From HollywoodOutbreak.com | See recent Hollywood Outbreak news

1 1 The Dark Knight WB $26,030,000 -39.0% 4,025 -241 $6,467 $441,541,000 $185 4 2 N Pineapple Express Sony $22,400,000 - 3,072 - $7,291 $40,474,000 $27 1 3 2 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Uni. $16,113,000 -60.2% 3,778 +18 $4,264 $70,671,000 $145 2 4 N The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 WB $10,770,000 - 2,707 - $3,978 $19,712,000 $27 1 5 3 Step Brothers Sony $8,900,000 -46.1% 3,182 +88 $2,796 $80,903,000 $65 3 6 4 Mamma Mia! Uni. $8,081,000 -35.9% 3,194 +132 $2,530 $104,017,000 $52 4 7 5 Journey to the Center of the Earth WB (Nl) $4,855,000 -27.1% 1,970 -315 $2,464 $81,759,000 $60 5 8 7 Hancock Sony $3,300,000 -35.1% 2,258 -524 $1,461 $221,709,000 $150 6 9 6 Swing Vote Bv $3,106,000 -50.1% 2,213 - $1,403 $12,002,000 $21 2 10 8 Wall-e Bv $3,045,000 -33.9% 2,144 -411 $1,420 $210,112,000 $180 7 11 10 Space Chimps Fox $1,650,000 -39.3% 1,631 -503 $1,011 $25,447,000 $37 4

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'Dark Knight' retains UK top spot

6 August 2008 1:37 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Batman sequel The Dark Knight has retained the UK box office top spot. The top three remains the same as last week, with Mamma Mia! and Wall-e at second and third. Chris Carter's big screen adaptation of The X Files debuted at four. Elsewhere, animated children's movie Space Chimps entered at seven, while Mike Myers's comedy vehicle The Love Guru is eighth. The top ten in full: 1. (1) The Dark Knight - £6,737,306

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Knight Crosses $400-Million Mark in 18 Days

5 August 2008 10:32 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Warner Bros.' The Dark Knight on Monday sprinted past the $400-million mark in ticket sales 18 days after it was released, thereby setting a new box-office record and beating the 43-day record set by Shrek 2 in 2004 in reaching that milestone. The film earned $6,287,429 on Monday to bring its total gross to $400,038,494, according to Media By Numbers. Earlier, the box-office tracking group had indicated that the actual results for the weekend had not been so hardy as studios had estimated. Knight, which had been expected to earn $43.8 million, actually came in at $42.6 million, and Universal's The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, which had been expected to earn $42.5 million, actually came in at $40.5 million. Meanwhile, on MSNBC.com, film commentator Erik Lundegaard argued that there is little chance that The Dark Knight will be able to challenge Titanic for the title of the highest-grossing movie in history. Suggesting that from here on out the movie will depend on repeat business if it is to gross $600 million -- as Titanic did -- Lundegaard commented, "Fanboys are fanboys, but there are no repeat customers like teenage girls in love with Leonardo DiCaprio." Lundegaard noted that the fall-off in ticket sales for Knight closely mirrors that of last year's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. If it continues to do so, he observed, Knight will probably end up with a domestic total of $515 million.

The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Media by Numbers (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date):1. The Dark Knight, Warner Bros., $42,664,219, 3 Wks. ($393,751,065); 2. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Universal, $40,457,770, (New); 3. Step Brothers, Sony, $16,506,526, 2 Wks. ($63,172,026); 4. Mamma Mia!, Universal, $12,615,515, 3 Wks. ($87,470,125); 5. Journey to the Center of the Earth, Warner Bros., $6,662,406, 4 Wks. ($72,927,314); 6. Swing Vote, Disney, $6,230,669, (New); 7. Hancock, Sony, $5,087,756, 5 Wks. ($215,883,222); 8. Wall-e, Disney, $4,603,179, 6 Wks. ($204,078,076); 9. The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Fox, $3,385,878, 2 Wks. ($17,021,373); 10. Space Chimps, Fox, $2,720,177, 3 Wks. ($21,971,016).

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Knight And Mummy In Tight Race

4 August 2008 10:33 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Warner Bros.' The Dark Knight remained the No. 1 movie at the domestic box office for the third weekend in a row, taking in an estimated $43.8 million and edging out the debut of Universal's The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor, which took in $42.4 million. Mummy bested Knight on a per-theater basis, however, coming in with an average of $11,303 at 3,760 theaters versus $9,939 for Knight at 4,266 theaters. The results left Knight sitting on the edge of $400 million at $395 million after 17 days in release. Many analysts predicted the film could cross the magic number by today (Monday), it's 18th day in release, thereby setting yet another record. Previously the record for hitting $400 million in ticket sales in the shortest amount of time is held by last year's Shrek, which did it in 43 days. Many analysts have also begun predicting that the movie has a strong possibility of surpassing Titanic, which holds the record as the biggest earner of all time with $601 million. The only other film to open wide over the weekend was Kevin Costner's Swing Vote, which audiences voted down with just $6.3 million.

The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers: 1. The Dark Knight, $43.8 million; 2. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, $42.5 million; 3. Step Brothers, $16.3 million; 4. Mamma Mia!, $13.1 million; 5. Journey to the Center of the Earth, $6.9 million; 6. Swing Vote, $6.3 million; 7. Hancock, $5.2 million; 8. Wall-E, $4.7 million; 9. The X-Files: I Want to Believe, $3.4 million; 10. Space Chimps, $2.8 million.

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Box-Office Wrap-Up: Aug. 1 - Aug. 3, 2008

3 August 2008 1:59 PM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

I've never been so happy to be wrong. It was an extremely interesting weekend as Dark Knight started $2.6m behind Mummy 3 before a giant rally on Saturday. I'm still not sure these numbers will stick, but for now let's give Batman his due. #1 movie predicted correctly: 0 Week In A Row 1. The Dark Knight That's a perfect prediction. I'm happy here. Dark Knight passed $523m worldwide this weekend, or half a billion (as I like to say). It will never ever catch Titanic, so stow that dream, but it still evidently had enough juice to beat a clearly inferior film. Result: 43.8 million (My rank: #2, $1.1m off) 2. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Disaster. The last Mummy cleared $70m on its opening weekend. The lesson: when Rachel Weisz tells you to work on the script... you should probably work on the script. Result: 42.4 million (My rank: #1, $9.8m off) 3. Step Brothers

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'Mummy' Poised to Spoil 'Dark Knight' Reign with Friday Box-Office Lead

2 August 2008 11:00 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Man, skeletons really don't make for a very good army... too fragile!

Photo: Universal Pictures It is already grown wearisome to see the same tired headline "Will Dark Knight Sink Titanic Record?" Come on, let's use our brain here folks. Titanic played in an era where it held box-office supremacy for 17 Weeks and grossed over $600 million domestically. Sure, The Dark Knight has performed admirably as it has earned $351 million after two weeks, but it still needs another $249 million to hit the Titanic mark. That is more money than every single release so far in 2008 outside of Iron Man and Indy IV with Hancock being the next best thing at $210 million. Sorry to say, but no, Titanic will not be losing its top spot at the all-time box-office and in this era of churn-and-burn film releases that mark will never be matched, at least not until box-office ticket prices make it possible,

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Brad Brevet

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Box-Office Oracle: Aug. 1 - Aug. 3, 2008

31 July 2008 2:44 PM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

#1 movie predicted correctly: 2 Weeks in a Row 1. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Yep, The Dark Knight gets two measly weekends as the box office champ and then it's done. Sure, they were record breaking weeks, and sure this film doesn't deserve to win. But there you have it. I don't make rules. Estimate: $52.2 million 2. The Dark Knight Still, it's hard to feel bad for Warner Brothers. This movie is at $462m worldwide and it hasn't even hit Germany yet. Or Japan. Or Norway. Something tells me those folks are going to be showing love too. Estimate: $42.7 million 3. Step Brothers This doesn't release until October 30th in Hong Kong. Doesn't that blow your mind? Aren't we living in an age where we all experience things simultaneously? Back to business though, clearly this will never hit triple digits domestically but $80m isn't of reach. After the $33m Semi-Pro put up they'll take it.

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Laremy Legel

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