The Amazing Spider-Man
Weekend Box Office: Batman and Mammoths Hold Off Ben Stiller and Dancing
It has been a week since the horrific shooting in Aurora, Colorado that turned what was meant to be an exciting night at the movies into a weekend of grieving and sorrow, and the studios decided to avoid releasing their box office estimates in response so as not to capitalize on the event. It’s hard to discuss going back to “business as usual” at a time when the shooter is still splashed across na...[Read More]
Weekend Box Office: Ice Age: Continental Drift Off to Glacier Start
American audiences apparently have decided they’ve had their fill of talking cartoon animals for a little while, as Ice Age: Continental Drift, the fourth in the 20th Century Fox franchise, earned an estimated $46 million, about $14 million shy of DreamWorks’ Madasgascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’s opening weekend (which landed in tenth place this weekend for an estimated $3.5 million). However, th...[Read More]
Weekend Box Office: Big Take for Marvel, McFarlane, and Pixar
Talk about winning streaks…Marvel, already rolling in dough with its major success of The Avengers, opened The Amazing Spider-Man on an off-kilter Tuesday debut. Turns out they may not have needed it: even without that extra cash, it entered at number one on the list with an estimated $65 million. But besides breaking records for Tuesday openers, it actually managed to best its reported $230 milli...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man
There are those that will never be happy with reboots or changes to beloved franchises. Already, The Amazing Spider-Man has been attacked for starting Spider-Man’s story anew once again, despite only ten years having passed since Sam Raimi first helmed Spider-Man and five years since the final entry with Tobey Maguire in the lead role (never mind that no one complained about Christopher Nolan’s Ba...[Read More]