Cloud Atlas
Box Office Weekend: No Films are New Films; Newcomers Can’t Topple the Favorites
With three major new releases, it is a little surprising that only one ended up in the top three, and barely at that. Cloud Atlas, with an estimated $9.4 million, was the highest grossing of the new releases, but the ambitious multi-era epic only placed third overall, behind the current favorites Argo (an estimated $12.4 million) and Hotel Transylvania (an estimated $9.5 million). While grosses ar...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Sci-Fi Meets the Surreal in Cloud Atlas
Another week brings another new trailer to dissect and analyze. In this week’s column, I turn my cold, bespectacled gaze onto the second trailer for the upcoming sci-fi/drama epic Cloud Atlas. Premise: An epic story of humankind in which the actions and consequences of our lives impact one another throughout the past, present, and future, as one soul is shaped from a murderer into a savior, ...[Read More]
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