‘Ouija’ To Scare Up No. 1 At Box Office, ‘John Wick’ Another Test For Keanu –...
Ouija, another micro-budget pic from Blumhouse Prods., is likely to take the weekend, despite Universal keeping this one away from the critics (Danger, Will Robinson!). It opens tonight at 8 PM in over...
View Article‘Ouija’ Box Office Starts With $911K, ‘John Wick’ $870K – B.O. Late Nights
Ouija opened last night at 8 PM in 2,061 houses and scared in $911K to start its weekend off in what is expected to be a spirited opening for the micro-budgeted Blumhouse horror film. It is expected to...
View Article‘Ouija’ Says Yes To $19.8M, ‘John Wick’ Chases In $14.4M, ‘St. Vincent,’...
Final UPDATE, Monday, 2:25 PM: The finally tallies are in with Universal’s horror film Ouija and the Keanu Reeves’ actioner John Wick winning the No. 1 and No. 2 spots, respectively. St. Vincent, which...
View ArticleInt’l Box Office FINAL: ‘Happy New Year’ Uncorks Record Bollywood Bow;...
Final UPDATE, Monday, 4:23 PM, PT: Final grosses are in for the following films: Lucy in China, Disney/Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy, Disney Animation’s Big Hero 6 (which bows Nov. 7th in the...
View ArticleKatniss Hot With $154.3M, ‘Interstellar’ Logs $330.6M: Int’l B.O. – Update
5TH UPDATE, MONDAY 6:05 PM PT: Actuals have poured in from the studios with the weekend's big bird Mockingjay — Part I whistling a fine $154.3 million. Worldwide, the third installment of YA rebel...
View Article‘Fury,’‘Annie,’ 3 More Sony Pics Leak Online After Hack Attack
Sony’s hacking woes continue: Over the holiday weekend a number of the studio’s watermarked awards DVD screeners leaked online, including WWII actioner Fury and the upcoming Annie, Still Alice, and Mr....
View ArticleSmall Consolation: Sony Social Sites Skyrocket After Film Leaks
Days after five of its films leaked online, Sony has seen a huge spike in followers of its main Facebook page and in viewers of trailers to some of the leaked films, says social-media consultancy...
View ArticleOscar Season: Voting Deadlines Looming As 2014 Race Heats Up To Fever Pitch
Now it’s getting busy. Awards season, that is. Judging from the frantic calls trying to schedule interviews and other things as various voting deadlines loom, I would say we are in the thick of it....
View Article‘Fury’ Director David Ayer On Finding The Truth In His War Film
David Ayer lately has garnered a reputation as a filmmaker adept at capturing man at his brutal worst. His blood-soaked, L.A.-gang drama End of Watch, after all, had cops getting shot, beaten to a...
View ArticleLogan Lerman, David Ayer On The ‘Fury’ Of Battle – Video
Battle leaves “a fingerprint…on the soul,” says writer/director David Ayer, a military veteran from a family of military veterans, talking in this video above about what he was trying to capture in...
View ArticlePete Hammond’s Top 10 Films Of 2014 (Part One)
In the video above, I talk about the first part of my picks for the best films of 2014, with a war-minded bunch of movies coming in at Nos. 10 through 6. And it was a battle picking these, given the...
View ArticleMovies Are Stuff Of Dreams For Those As Big As Brad Pitt Or Humble As An...
Brad Pitt will go back to World War II with the major studio thriller Allied, set for release by Paramount Pictures on November 23; he last visited the war two years ago, as a battered tank commander...
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