‘Cowboys & Aliens’ Stunned By ‘Smurfs’ At The Box Office
FROM MTV MOVIES: Industry watchers predicted that "Cowboys & Aliens" would easily top the box office over the weekend. But not so fast, partners! It wasn't little green men who fought hardest against the cowboys played by Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford's, but rather little blue woodland creatures. "The Smurfs" finished neck-and-neck with the Jon Favreau directed sci-fi Western with an...
Read More‘Cowboys & Aliens’ Review: Daniel Craig Rules The West
FROM MTV SPLASH PAGE: "Cowboys & Aliens" gallops into theaters this weekend chased by an armada of gold seeking monsters from space. On the surface, all the ingredients are in place for an all-out wall-to-wall actioner for the books: the director of "Iron Man," the stars of "James Bond" and "Indiana Jones," and a seemingly impossible mash-up of genres. Nothing could possibly go wrong there,...
Read More‘Hunger Games’ vs. ‘Clash 2′ and Other Impending Box Office Battles
Filed under: Box Office, Cinematical Apparently the folks over at Warner Brothers have no fear, because they've opted to push back the big release of their 'Clash of the Titans' sequel, 'Wrath of the Titans,' from March 20th, 2012 to March 23rd, 2012, the same day the highly-anticipated adaption of 'The Hunger Games' is due out. Who'll come out the big winner? Forget that this big...
Read MoreHow Many Is Too Many Summer Blockbusters?
Filed under: Movie News, Hot Topic, Cinematical Ever since Stephen Spielberg's 'Jaws' burst into theaters back in 1975, Hollywood has viewed summer as blockbuster season. That sweltering stretch from June through September has become the place for big-budget flicks with broad appeal, and the legacy endured to this day. The only real change to the whole "summer blockbuster" paradigm has...
Read More‘Transformers’ Kurtzman to Direct Dysfunctional Family Drama
It seems like just yesterday when Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci, the screenwriters for summer smashes like Star Trek, Transformers (2007) and its 2009 sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, were in the trades every other day with new projects. A Star Trek sequel! Cowboys and Aliens! A view-master movie! Instead, Kurtzman's been given the go-ahead by DreamWorks and Steven Spielberg to direct...
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