Home Video Releases 7/9/13

The Host

 


 Spring Breakers

 


 Dead Man Down

 


 Tyler Perry's Temptation

 


 Admission

 


 Would You Rather




 The Jerk

 

New Home Video Releases 6/25/13

Lots of new movies coming out this week on Blu-Ray.

Box Office Wrap Up: 4/1/13

Well this weekend saw G.I. Joe: Retaliation shoot its way to the top. While Tyler Perry proved that attaching his name to a movie still draws a crowd and The Host proves that no one cares about Stephanie Meyer unless she writes about vampires.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation made $41.2 million over the 3 day weekend and $51.7 million over the 5 days its been out. For a movie that cost approximately $130 million to make it is not stellar but could be worse.  In comparison the movie actually made less then G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra  did its opening weekend.  Cobra made $54.7 million in its opening weekend with lower ticket prices and without the inflated prices of 3D or IMAX.  While the long delay might have hurt it, the addition of 3D looks like it might pay off since the movie is doing great business overseas and worldwide gross should be greater then the worldwide gross of Rise of Cobra. Read Chris' review here G.I. Joe: Retaliation Review

The Croods continued to bring in the family business as none of the new movies targeted families.  Dropping a reasonable 39% to $26.5 million it fell one spot  to the number 2 spot.

Opening in the third spot was Tyler Perry's Temptation which surprised many in the industry with a strong debut of $22.3 million.  Tyler Perry knows his target audience and even though sexual thriller is a new direction for Perry people didn't care.  When will the Hollywood insiders stop underestimating the strength of  Tyler Perry's name?

Olympus Has Fallen tumbled 54% in its second week with G.I. Joe taking the action movie lovers.  Olympus still managed to make $14 million and land in the 4th spot.

The biggest movie of the year so far Oz the Great and Powerful stays in the top 5 with $11.6 million.  This even while being in its 4th week and The Croods taking much of the family business.  Oz has made almost $200 million so far.

Opening in the 6th spot was The Host with $11 million.  Based on the book by Stephanie Meyer the author of the Twilight Saga the movie did not live up to its predecessor.  It appears that the fans of the vampire series didn't want to see this an alien themed love triangle.  Which makes me wonder if Meyer will go back to writing more Twilight books and we will see more of Bella and Edward on the big screen in our near future.

The biggest drop in the top 10 came from The Incredible Burt Wonderstone which fell an amazing 70% in its third week to a puny $1.3 million.  Barely staying in the top 10 the movie has proved to be a huge failure for Warner Brothers.

The Top 10
1.  G.I. Joe: Retaliation $41.2 million
2.  The Croods $26.5 million
3.  Temptation $22.3 million
4.  Olympus Has Fallen $14 million
5.  Oz the Great and Powerful $11.6 million
6.  The Host $11 million
7.  The Call $4.8 milllion
8.  Admission $3.2 million
9.  Spring Breakers $2.7 million
10. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone $1.3 million

Movies Opening 3/29/13

It's Easter weekend and teens are the main target of two of the big releases this week.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation aims to make us forget about G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra and take the top spot this weekend.  The Rock and Bruce Willis join the cast as most of the cast of the first one does not return.  Directed by Jon Chu who is best known for Step Up 2: The Streets and Justin Bieber: Never Say Never brings his love of choreography to the action genre with some great fighting scenes.
Check out our review: G.I. Joe Retaliation Review.

The Host aims for the same demographic that made Twilight such a huge hit. Stephanie Meyer scored legions of followers with the Twilight Saga but will those same people go to see The Host?  Unfairly or not since Twilight was a huge hit every YA novel with a love triangle has been compared to it.  Beautiful Creatures was Twilight with witches, Warm Bodies was Twilight with zombies, The Mortal Instruments is Twilight with demons and this looks like Twilight with aliens. Saoirse Ronan has been in a string of critical hits but this looks to end that streak.

Tyler Perry's Temptation tries to capitalize on name recognition and a steamy trailer which seems to promise a lot more then it's PG-13 rating can deliver. The trailerlooks steamy and sensual but lost me a staring Kim Kardashian.  But like Donald Trump Tyler Perry attaches his name to everything and that seems to work.

In limited release and opening locally here in Milwaukee are a couple of movies.

Speaking of Twilight Kristen Stewart's her first big post Twilight movie On the Road opens this weekend  at the Landmark Downer. I honestly thought this movie had been released already and was surprised it is opening now.  Based on the book by Jack Kerouac with lots of sex, drugs, and jazz besides Stewart the movie has a pretty impressive cast including Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen .

The last movie opening this weekend is No a movie nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards. With Gael Garcia Bernal the movie tells the story of an ad campaign in Chile to defeat the dictator. It opens this weekend at  The Landmark Oriental.

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