The Thing
Weekend Box-Office: Real Steel Keeps the Championship Belt!
It was almost a no-decision, but Real Steel remained the favorite for the second week in a row with an estimated $16.3 million. But even losing 40% of its previous week’s revenue, it still managed (though barely) to top the critically well-received remake of Footloose (which, budgeted at $24 million, opened well with an estimated $16.1 million), and scored well above the poorly received prequel/re...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Thing
As a long time fan of John Carpenter’s The Thing (at least, long enough to know I was way too young to see that movie for the first time), I approached the new version of The Thing with some trepidation. Sure, Carpenter’s The Thing was already a remake of the 1951 film (which is a decent film in its own right), and at the time of its release did poorly and was not well-received. However, it has si...[Read More]
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