Showing posts with label Box Office. Show all posts
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Friday, June 12, 2015

Well, For Real Accuracy There's "King Kong"

June 12, 2015 Box Office , CBS Washington D.C. 0 Comments
Paleontologists Slam ‘Jurassic World,’ Call Movie ‘Major Step Backward For Accuracy’

CBS Washington D.C., Jun. 11, 2015

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – “Jurassic World” is poised to make monster money at the box office this weekend. And while that’s certainly good for Universal Studios, it’s a pain in the neck for another group: paleontologists.

They say while it’s good the movie series has renewed interest in dinosaurs, audiences come away with skewed ideas about how dinosaurs really lived.

“You deal with these inaccuracies over and over every time you give a talk,” James Kirkland, who has been involved in the discovery of 20 dinosaurs, including the Utahraptor, told CBS News.

He would rather filmmakers focus on science, and not make people believe that a T-Rex can’t see you if you stay perfectly still or that velociraptors can open doors.

“It gets really old after a while,” Kirkland added. “If they wouldn’t do that, we wouldn’t have to deal with this. We could step to the more interesting issues like what we are discovering next.”

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Monday, June 1, 2015

Oscar Maybe? Maybe Not.

June 01, 2015 Box Office , Cameron Crowe 0 Comments
Box Office: 'San Andreas' Scores Seismic $53.2M Debut

By Pamela McClintock, May 29, 2015

The earthquake disaster is Dwayne Johnson's highest opening for a solo lead; Cameron Crowe's 'Aloha' is ravaged by critics.

Who doesn't love a good disaster movie — especially when it stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson?

New Line and Warner Bros.' San Andreas rocked the North American box office this weekend with a better-than-expected $53.2 million after earning an A- CinemaScore from audiences happy to be jolted again and again. (In real life, a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake hundreds of miles off the coast of Japan on Saturday evening was felt in much of the country.)

San Andreas also rocked the foreign box office, grossing an impressive $60 million from 60 markets for a global bow of $113.2 million. Earthquake-prone Mexico led overseas with $10 million, the top opening of all time in that country for a disaster movie and the second-biggest debut for a Warners title.

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Saturday, June 14, 2014

8 Stars Whose Box-Office Draw Is Nosediving --Hey, they had a nice long run in a tough biz--and they're not dead

June 14, 2014 Box Office , Hollywood 0 Comments
By Kyle Smith, Jun. 14, 2014, Nypost.com

 Russell Crowe

 With an opening weekend take of $28 million, Tom Cruise’s new sci-fi film “Edge of Tomorrow” — which debuted June 6 — did even worse than his last sci-fi movie, 2013’s “Oblivion.” In the last eight years, Cruise has had only one hit (2011’s “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol”). It looks like he’s nearing the end of his run as a major movie star, though we’ll see how “Mission: Impossible 5” does when it comes out next year.

 The 51-year-old is not alone in his midlife crisis: Here are seven more movie stars whose careers are in trouble.

 It’s been over for Crowe, 50, for some time; “Noah,” spun as a hit, did only okay — $100 million in the US, which may cover the movie’s marketing costs, but won’t make much of a dent in the gargantuan production cost. The last time he was the leading attraction in a movie that made a lot of money was 2001, for “A Beautiful Mind.” (In 2007, “American Gangster” also did well, but Denzel Washington deserves the lion’s share of the credit.)

 Audiences never really warmed to Crowe in the first place; “Gladiator” is the only other hit he’s ever had as a leading man. Compare that to his long string of flops: “Robin Hood,” “Body of Lies,” “State of Play,” “Cinderella Man,” “A Good Year,” “Proof of Life,” “The Insider,” etc.

 George Clooney

 Hollywood still loves the 53-year-old — he’s got the lead role in next year’s sci-fi extravaganza “Tomorrowland,” directed by “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol’s” Brad Bird. Entertainment journalists still love him. But do audiences, really? If you don’t count his small role in “Gravity,” Clooney’s never had a big moneymaker, apart from the three “Ocean’s” movies and 2000’s “The Perfect Storm” — in which he was the third banana behind Mark Wahlberg and a bigass wave.

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