Home Video Releases 7/9/13

The Host

 


 Spring Breakers

 


 Dead Man Down

 


 Tyler Perry's Temptation

 


 Admission

 


 Would You Rather




 The Jerk

 

Box Office Wrap-Up: 3/25/13

Box Office Wrap-Up.

The beginning of spring break and box office had one of the best weekends so far this year, but it couldn’t compete with the same weekend last year.  This year the top 10 made $129 million last year the Hunger Games made more money its opening weekend ($152.5) than the entire top 10 made this year. 

Families helped The Croods land in the top spot with $44.7 million.  The first animated family comedy in over a month and families flocked to it.

The big surprise this weekend was how well Olympus has Fallen did.  In a year when R rated action thrillers have been bombing Olympus opened with an impressive $30.5. It also reverses Gerard Butler’s bad luck. 

Oz: The Great and Powerful in its 3^rd week lost the family business to The Croods, but still managed to make $22 million.  And it is the first of two James Franco movies to land in the top ten this week.

Falling to 4^th place is the other R rated thriller that is doing better than expected Halle Berry’s The Call. It dropped 50% from last week and made $8.7 million.

Now that thrillers are starting to do better in the box office I guess comedies are the next ones to start opening with disappointing numbers.  Last week The Incredible Burt Wonderstone opened with a disappointing $10 million and this week the Tina Fey comedy Admission opened with $6.4 million. 

After having an incredible opening in three theatres last week Spring Breakers rolled out to 1,100 theatres this weekend and made $5 million for an average of $4,500 not anywhere close to last week’s average of $90,000. But it marks James Franco’s second appearance on the Top 10 this week.

Warner Brothers better hope that Man of Steel is as good as everyone is saying it is because they have two big flops this year.  The Incredible Burt Wonderstone dropped 58% to a dismal $4.2 million and the big budget Jack the Giant Slayer made $2.9 million for a total of $59 million for a movie that cost over $200 million.

In its 7^th week Identity Thief continues to hang around in the 10 top with $2.5 million for a total gross of $128 million. 

Finally in the 10^th spot is The Rock’s Snitch with $1.93 million which has been in the top 10 for 5 weeks.  While it will fall out of the top 10 next week The Rock will be making another appearance with G.I. Joe: Retaliation.  With The Rock having a new movie coming out almost every month for the first half of the year we will be seeing plenty of him in the Top 10. 

Here is the full Top 10.

1.      The Croods-$44.7 million

2.      Olympus has Fallen – $30.5 million

3.      Oz: The Great and Powerful- 22

4.      The Call – 8.7

5.      Admission – 6.4

6.      Spring Breakers- 5

7.      The Incredible Burt Wonderstone – 4.2

8.      Jack the Giant Slay – 2.9

9.      Identity Thief – 2.5

10.  Snitch – 1.9

 

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New Movies Opening 3/21/13

This week we have three new wide releases opening and few limited releases coming to Milwaukee.    

First up is the animated film The Croods.  With the voices of Nicholas Cage, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds The Croods is about a prehistoric family that is forced out of their cave and needs to search for someplace new to live.  I  have been unimpressed with the  trailers so far and it does not seem like anything special.  But the movie has been getting some decent reviews and it is the only animated family movie out there and challenge  Oz: The Great and Powerful for the number one spot this weekend. 

Trying to buck the trend of R rated action thrillers and the disappointing results for his last few movies Gerard Butler is back in Olympus has Fallen.  Aiming for the more adult crowd with Morgan Freeman and Aaron Eckhart and Angela Bassett the movie is about a takeover of the White House.  From the preview it looks like Die Hard in the White House with Gerard Butler instead of Bruce Willis.  Antoine Fuqua is known for making some good movies like Training Day but this one just isn’t getting me interested. 

The last wide release this week is the Tina Fey comedy Admission.  About a college admission officer who goes on a road trip to see a student at an alternative school and just might find love.  The movie is directed by Paul Weitz who made one of my favorite romantic comedies About a Boy and stars Tina Fey who is one of the best comedic actresses around, unfortunately it has not been getting great reviews and after The Incredible Burt Wonderstone flopped last week who knows how many people will go and see it. 

Expanding in limited release is the movie everyone was talking about at SXSW Film Festival Spring Breakers.  What happens when you take a bunch of ex Disney good girls (Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez) and send them to spring break?  Apparently they meet a weird James Franco and go wild.  When I first heard about this movie when it was playing at the Toronto Film Festival is seemed intriguing but I didn’t think it would be anything big. But apparently the buzz built up and last week it premiered in 3 theatres to a staggering $270,000 million so we will see what happens when it widens to 1,000 theatres. Playing in only a select theaters in Milwaukee.

 Also opening this weekend in Milwaukee is the horror movie Stoker.  The first English language film by Park Chan-wook the director of the Korean film Oldboy.  Staring Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, and Nicole Kidman the movie is about a family with secrets.