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Oct 29 2011 12:45 PM ET

Box office update: 'Puss in Boots' the cat's meow on Friday with $9.6 million

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Dreamworks Animation’s Shrek-spinoff Puss in Boots got off to a decent start at the box office on Friday, scratching up the competition and topping the chart with an estimated $9.6 million.

That opening number puts Puss well behind other Dreamworks pictures like Kung Fu Panda 2, which started with $13.1 million on its way to a $47.7 million weekend, and How To Train Your Dragon, which earned $12.1 million on Friday and scored $43.7 million in its opening frame. If Puss in Boots can score a similar 3.5 weekend multiplier (which may be difficult with a giant snowstorm hitting the Northeast), it could pull in $34 million this weekend, and while that is an impressive-sounding number, we must remember that Puss in Boots came with a hefty $130 million pricetag.

In second, last weekend’s chart topper, Paranormal Activity 3, dropped by a scary 75 percent to $6.5 million on Friday, but given how inflated its opening day was last week, that drop should level out to about 60 percent over the rest of the weekend — pretty standard for a horror sequel. Paranormal Activity 3 may have earned about $20 million by Sunday’s end, which would lift its total to $82 million.

Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried’s psychological thriller In Time started off in third place with $4.3 million, which is well below the $6.8 million that Timberlake’s last film, Friends With Benefits, earned on opening day. The $40 million film is looking at a lackluster $13 million frame.

Speaking of lackluster, Johnny Depp’s latest, The Rum Diary, earned only $1.9 million yesterday. Depp’s $50 million vehicle may begin with just $5.5 million. Someone get that guy a drink! Close behind in fifth, Footloose grossed another $1.8 million, and it could be headed to a $6 million weekend, which would bring its cume to just under $40 million.

The weekend’s other new opener, Anonymous, grossed $315,000 out of 265 theaters. The Shakespeare speculation piece is looking at a $1 million weekend. Maybe Sony shouldn’t have gone with a platform release strategy for this one….

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Oct 28 2011 06:40 PM ET

James Cameron presents clips from 'Titanic' in 3-D: Wait, is that water coming into the theater?!

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Are you ready to go back to Titanic – in three dimensions? A very trim-looking James Cameron and his producing partner Jon Landau presented eight scenes from the newly dimensionalized second-highest-grossing-movie-of-all-time to a gaggle of press and industry types this morning in Los Angeles. The sneak peak was in anticipation of the re-release of Titanic on April 6, 2012, roughly 15 years after its debut in theaters and almost exactly 100 years after the doomed ship launched on its maiden, and final, voyage. (The ship ultimately sank on April 15, 1912.) “There’s a whole generation who haven’t seen [Titanic] in theaters at all,” Cameron pointed out while extolling the virtues of the theatrical experience. Noting he would have shot the film in 3-D natively if he’d had the chance, Cameron admitted that he’s “kind of very much against [3-D] conversion for films that have a choice.” But after 60 weeks and $18 million, he says he feels confident that Titanic is as close to 3-D perfect as possible. “It’s 2.99-D,” he said with a wry grin. That said, Titanic will also be re-released in regular 2-D theaters, as well as in IMAX (in both 3-D and 2-D), which will enjoy some added picture since Cameron shot the film in “Super 35,” which allows for more image above and below a normal widescreen frame.

But what you really want to know is: How did the film look in 3-D?  READ FULL STORY »

Oct 27 2011 09:09 PM ET

'Thunder Run': Producer talks all-CG, 3-D Iraq war thriller with Gerard Butler, Matthew McConaughey, and Sam Worthington

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“In my day, we watched war movies in 2-D. We didn’t even have rocket-propelled grenades flying over our heads!”

This is what you’ll be telling the kids in the near future, once Thunder Run has taken the traditional war movie and turned it on its head. EW has confirmed that Gerard Butler, Matthew McConaughey, and Sam Worthington have all signed on to star in an entirely CG, 3-D adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner David Zucchino’s novel Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad. Robert Port and Black Hawk Down scribe Ken Nolan co-wrote the script, with Simon West attached to direct.

“The idea is that we’re trying to create an event movie,” producer Brian Presley of Freedom Films tells EW. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 27 2011 03:06 AM ET

Tim Burton re-animates boy-and-dog story 'Frankenweenie' -- FIRST LOOK!

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Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie is shaping up to be an interesting mix of “Ewwwww!’s” as well as “Awwwww’s.”

His latest stop-motion gothic-fest (rendered in 1950s-style black-and-white as well as 3-D) tells the story of a little boy named Victor, who loves his pet dog Sparky more than anything in the world. Naturally — or rather, unnaturally — Victor decides to use his science kit to bring the pup back from the grave after an accident claims the pooch’s life.

As with Mary Shelley’s original 1818 tale of men playing god and science run amok, pandemonium follows the creation of the “monster,” who in this case is just a stitched-up, resurrected undead buddy.

Many know that Burton lost his job as an artist at The Walt Disney Co. for making this dark comedy as a live-action short in 1984, but few know the true story from Burton’s past that inspired it. As Halloween approaches, EW reveals that long-ago tale, along with first-look stills from the movie. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 24 2011 03:08 PM ET

Martin Scorsese talks about his love of 3-D in new 'Hugo' trailer

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Fans of 3-D are crying out for a hero, someone who can rescue the extra-dimensional format from the dreary overwhelming fog of shoddy post-production conversion, darkened images, and brutally high ticket prices. There! Look! On the horizon! A white knight rides onto the battlefield, brandishing his encyclopedic knowledge of cinema! In a new trailer for his upcoming Hugo, director god Martin Scorsese proudly explains, “I’d always dreamed of doing a film in 3-D.” Mind you, he probably only dreamed of filming in 3-D because of a youthful obsession with Dial M for Murder or Bwana Devil or some other antediluvian 3-D movie that was definitively not Avatar. The point is, Hugo will probably look a lot better than Pirates of the Caribbean: The Prince of Stranger Tides or whatever. Watch the trailer: READ FULL STORY »

Oct 21 2011 11:05 AM ET

New 'Puss in Boots' trailer: More cowbell!

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DreamWorks has released another adorably hilarious trailer for Puss in Boots, this time scored to Lady Gaga’s flamenco-tinged “Americano.” The 90-second spot gives insight to how Puss became entangled with his nemesis/love interest Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek Pinault). More importantly… kitties dancing! Puss and Co. get their groove on to the strumming of guitars and thumping of beats, plus there’s even a little rhythmic cowbell batting for good measure. See the latest teaser after the jump! READ FULL STORY »

Oct 20 2011 10:29 PM ET

Box office preview: 'Paranormal Activity 3' should scare up some much-needed business

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The last two Octobers have each featured a remarkably profitable Paranormal Activity film, and tomorrow, a third installment is entering theaters, vying to become to the first $100 million hit since The Help, which was released way back in August. The Three Musketeers and Johnny English Reborn will also do their best to find some business, but most of the Activity at the box office this weekend will be Paranormal.

Check out my box office predictions below:  READ FULL STORY »

Oct 20 2011 03:45 PM ET

'The Lion King' roars mightily on Blu-ray, despite still playing in theaters

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Disney’s The Lion King may still be playing in almost 2,000 theaters across the country as part of a 3-D re-release that has pulled in $91.1 million so far, but that didn’t stop it from claiming the throne atop the Blu-ray sales chart.

According to The-Numbers, The Lion King sold a gigantic 1.57 million Blu-ray discs during its first week on the home market, earning over $46 million in the process. That puts the classic animation way ahead of Universal’s blockbuster Fast Five, which raced into second place with a terrific debut of 1.13 million Blu-ray copies and $23.1 million in revenue. (Fast Five also sold 851,488 traditional DVDs, good for an additional $13.9 million.)

And as if The Lion King hadn’t already earned enough money, The Lion King Trilogy box set moved 44,000 copies and grossed $3.3 million more. Seventeen years after its original release, this King is living up to his name.

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Read more:
‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ‘The Little Mermaid,’ ‘Finding Nemo,’ ‘Monsters, Inc.’ get 3-D re-releases
‘The Lion King 3D’: Is it the dawn of the 3-D reissue?
Box office: ‘Lion King’ now 10th highest-grossing film of all time

Oct 20 2011 11:30 AM ET

New, NSFW 'Harold and Kumar' red-band clip: Is this the most offensive trailer of all-time? -- VIDEO

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When I spoke to actor John Cho not long before he started shooting A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, the actor joked that he was worried the third entry in the stoner comedy franchise was going to “sully the good name” of the 3-D medium. At least, I assumed he was joking. Having now watched the movie’s new extremely NSFW red-band trailer, I’ve changed my opinion. Indeed, I would suggest the contents of the clip not only sullifies three-dimensional movies but Western civilization as a whole.

A bong-smoking Santa. A stoned infant. Blood shooting out of Santa’s skull. The line “F— a baby into me.” A massive claymation penis. All are featured in the trailer for the movie, which debuts Nov. 4.

Don’t get me wrong: As far as I’m concerned, the clip makes the film the must-see comedy of the season. Although I suspect there are people who will be extremely offended by the sight of, for example, Neil Patrick Harris being sexually serviced in what appears to be Heaven. (Oh yeah, we forgot to mention: in the trailer, Neil Patrick Harris gets sexually serviced in what appears to be Heaven).

Check out the clip below and tell us what you think. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 19 2011 07:25 PM ET

'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D' revs up with first poster, awesome tagline

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D isn’t due to be released for another year, but Lionsgate have gotten the movie’s publicity campaign off to an early, Halloween start by releasing the first poster from the franchise reboot-sequel, which you can check out to the left and, in a larger format, below. I’m hoping that the person who came up with the tagline “Buzz. Kill.” treated themselves by taking the rest of the day off.

TCM 3D is directed by John Leussenhop (Takers) and stars Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonde, Scott Eastwood, Trey Songz, and Dan Yeager, who is playing the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface. The film will also feature appearances by Chainsaw franchise alumni Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen, John Dugan, and Bill Moseley. “My character finds out that she isn’t really who she thought she was,” Daddario told EW earlier this year. “She’s discovering where she really came from and what she has to do with the family in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It’s more of a mystery than the original in a lot of ways. It keeps you guessing.” Check out the full poster below:  READ FULL STORY »

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