Movies
Teh Hobbit Could Cost New Zealand 1.5 Billion
There is trouble in Middle Earth. New Zealand’s (where the previous Lord of the Rings movies were shot) film industry could lose an estimated 1.5 billion dollars from movie studios if they can’t come to terms with the producers of The Hobbit. Peter Jackson and Co. want to shoot The Hobbit in New Zealand, but the actors union there is boycotting the shoot. If Jackson decides to go elsewhere it could ultimately cost the country dearly not in just the loss of this movie, but many others that will follow suit and shoot elsewhere. Read the furry footed details here.
0Don LaFontaine had died
Movie trailer voiceover man Don LaFontaine who coined the catchphrase, “In a world…” died yesterday and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from complications during treatment for an ongoing illness. He was 68 years old and in his 33 year career voiced around 5,000 movie trailers.
This weeks top grossing movies
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 Here are the top grossing movies for the last week. I have to say I am a little surprised at some of the names on the list. Babylon AD got pretty bad reviews and still did well and Mamma Mia seems to have some real legs. Often musicals don’t last that long.1. Tropic Thunder 14.3m |
The Battle for Watchmen heats up.
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 The biggest superhero fight this year might not be on the screen. Warner Bros. is set to release its big budget superhero movie Watchmen soon. Now that they movie is done and ready for theatres Fox has filed a lawsuit claiming that Warner Bros. doesn’t have the rights to movie. Warner fired back saying that Fox knew they were making the movie and that they stood by and waited until they had shelled out over 100 million to make the movie before ever saying a word. The bottom line is really about whether producer Lawrence Gordon had been given the rights to the movie from Fox and was free to shop it elsewhere as Warner claims or if Fox still held the rights and really didn’t know Gordon was shopping it around as Fox Claims. I’m sure they will come to some kind of agreement. There is way too much money in superhero movies these days to shelve it for too long. |
Dark Knight breaks 500 million mark.
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 Over the weekend the Dark Knight made another 11 million at the box office to send it over the 500 million mark in domestic earnings. It now is 100 million shy of toppling the all time domestic box office champ Titanic which earned 601 million domestically. |
The Dark Night sets a record
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 The Dark Night set all kinds of records over the weekend. It took in the most for a single night with its midnight showings then it took in the most for a single day on Saturday and today it is reported that at 155.34 million it has had the largest opening weekend in movie history. The movie rocks and Ledger is flat genius as The Joker. To put this into perspective the movie sold almost 22 million tickets over the weekend which means about 1 out of ever 12 people in the US saw the movie. Pretty damn impressive. |
Milla Jovovich to star in fact based thriller.
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Milla Jovovich last seen fighting zombies and kicking ass in Resident Evil: Extinction has signed on to play an woman investing an unsolved mystery in a town in Alaska. The film, "The 4th Kind," is based on actual events in an Alaskan town that has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances over the last 40 years. Rumors have it sounding like X-files meets Insomnia. Sounds good to me. |
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