Dear John, thanks for finally giving me something other then Avatar to write in the title. Now that I got that out of my system let me get down to business since I know you guys missed me last week, right, you did miss me, right?
Dear John becomes the new Lost in Space this weekend. You see, Lost in Space was the first movie 12 years ago to finally take Titanic down to second place in the weekend charts. At that time Titanic, like Avatar now, was the highest grossing movie of all time. Congratulations again for entering a very select club Dear John. This new Nicholas Sparks adaptation brought in $30.4 million over the weekend, making it by far the biggest opener for the best-selling author. This movie took many experts by surprise since most thought it was headed for a low $20 million opening (in plain English that means $20-23 million). After a very strong Friday ($13.7 million, the biggest for any new release this year) Dear John lost some steam over Saturday and a lot more on Sunday (because of the Super Bowl) but still managed to easily come on top with the second biggest opening of the year so far (Book of Eli made 32.7). continue reading »
With the Super Bowl comes many movie TV spots and trailers, and Disney decided to spend a few million advertising Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The TV spot doesn’t contain a lot of new footage, but it shows off the films special effects brilliantly, and that’s what people will no doubt be interested in. Watch below!
The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley and will be released in May.
News has been dry on the Batman 3 front lately as director Christopher Nolan is busy working on Inception, which will be released in a few months time. However Deadline Hollywood may have got a scoop which suggests a script for The Dark Knight sequel may be in the works.
Recently David Goyer left his position as showrunner on TV show FlashForward, which he said was due to his movie projects ‘ramping up’. We already know one of them is Ghost Rider 2, and another may possibly be Batman 3:
…Goyer’s feature career is really heating up, since he co-wrote Batman Begins, and penned the story for The Dark Knight, and is now writing the third Batman instalment with Chris Nolan’s brother Jonah.
If true that would suggest Warner Bros. want to get a script ready so that Christopher Nolan can start work soon after he has finished on Inception. It is also likely Nolan will be working with Goyer and his brother on the script, just like he did with the previous Batman films.
This week was home to quite a large amount of news on The First Avenger: Captain America. I guess there are some “spoilers” about the plot, and what characters will appear in the film, but you only need to avoid them if you want to stay absolutely clean. Given the state of most trailers today though, you’ll probably have seen the end of the film a good number of times before it’s actually released, so hearing about the beginning won’t be so bad…
Flickr user “justinvg” has created a set of minimalist posters for various planets in the Star Wars universe. (I got the tip from Collider, who was directed to Justin’s work via Super Punch.) His page features some pretty incredible non-movie related work as well, so I’d suggest taking a look if you’re into cool Photoshop jobs. These would make excellent desktops for Star Wars fans, so click on over to any of those other sites to check out Justin’s full set.
Over the past few weeks Universal has been busy hiring the leads for Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens, eventually signing Daniel Craig following Robert Downey Jr’s departure, and Tron Legacy actress Olivia Wilde. Now Universal has set a release date for the film: July 29, 2011.
Filming is expected to begin in June, which means Favreau will have hardly any time off after finishing up Iron Man 2. In the film we see what would happen if the traditional Old West enemies – cowboys and Native Americans – found the prairie attacked by aliens in mid-1800s Arizona. Craig will be playing a gunslinger who is joined by a woman named Ella (Wilde), and together they attempt to take on the alien invasion.
With the Super Bowl comes many movie TV spots and trailers, and Disney decided to spend a few million advertising Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The TV spot doesn’t contain a lot of new footage, but it shows off the films special effects brilliantly, and that’s what people will no doubt be interested in. Watch below!
News has been dry on the Batman 3 front lately as director Christopher Nolan is busy working on Inception, which will be released in a few months time. However 
Over the past few weeks Universal has been busy hiring the leads for Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens, eventually signing Daniel Craig following Robert Downey Jr’s departure, and Tron Legacy actress Olivia Wilde. Now Universal has set a release date for the film: July 29, 2011.