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Weekend Box Office Wrap Up: November 13th, 2011

Niall Browne — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:27:24 +0000

This weekend the box office took an upward turn, but like many school reports – it could have been better.

Immortals topped the box office with a weekend take of $32 million. It’s not a bad number, but not great if compared to the debuts of similarly themed films like 300 ($70 million) and Clash of the Titans ($60 million). Next weekend’s hold will be the real test, and there is a chance that this will hit $100 million domestic, but profit will probably be earned through foreign grosses. Immortals (read our review), directed by Tarsem Singh, stars new Superman Henry Cavill and Mickey Rourke.

Adam Sandler’s latest comedy Jack and Jill opened at two. The $26 million gross is slightly lower than usual for a Sandler film, but his films routinely ...

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Weekend Box Office Wrap Up: November 6th, 2011

Niall Browne — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:00:45 +0000

This week:

Puss in Boots steals the top spot from Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller; Harold and Kumar have a flat 3D debut and Paranormal Activity 3 continues to scare audiences.

Word of the week: Disappointment.

Puss in Boots led the way at the box office – beating the combined star wattage of Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy. The animated film dropped just 10% from last week, grossing an impressive $33 million. The Shrek spin-off now has $76.6 million in the kitty, with more on the way as the holiday season approaches.

$24.6 million is quite a disappointment for director Brett Ratner’s Tower Heist, as the film was expected to steal the top spot. The Ben Stiller/Eddie Murphy film has had decent reviews (read ours), but it failed to connect with audiences. The heist caper ...

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Weekend Box Office Wrap Up: October 30th, 2011

Niall Browne — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:05:18 +0000

This week:

Puss In Boots animates the box office as the Spanish voiced kitty tops the chart, Paranormal Activity 3 continues to scare audiences and Justin Timberlake’s In Time is out of luck.

Shrek spin-off Puss In Boots (read our review) topped the box office over the weekend with an estimated $33 million take. The Antonio Banderas voiced ‘toon banked roughly 50% less than Shrek Forever After, which brought in $70 million worth of green on its debut last year. That film went on to gross over $258 million at the US box office and $752 million worldwide – pretty good considering that it was the second lowest grossing film in the series (the first film holds that honor). Now, Puss In Boots won’t scale the dizzy heights of the other ...

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Weekend Box Office Wrap Up: October 23, 2011

Niall Browne — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:57:23 +0000

This week:

Paranormal Activity 3 scares away the competition at the box office; it’s not all for one and one for all for The Three Musketeers - and Johnny English may be Reborn but he’s not topping the box office chart.

The Paranormal Activity franchise is the gift that keeps on giving to Paramount – the films are cheap to produce and they make back some serious coin. This latest installment is budgeted at $5 million, but it should gross over ten times that ($54 million) by Monday morning. The first Paranormal Activity cost just $15,000 (yeah – you read that right) and went on to score $107 million ($193 million globally) – while the sequel opened to $40 million on its way to $84 million ($177 million worldwide) from a $3 million budget.

Poised for a run ...

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Weekend Box Office Wrap Up: October 16th, 2011

Niall Browne — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:38:59 +0000

This week:

Real Steel knocks out the competition to retain the top spot; Footloose shows fancy footwork to come a close second; The Thing leaves audiences cold and The Big Year is a huge disaster.It was a close call, but according to early estimates Hugh Jackman’s Real Steel held on to the top spot during a very weedy weekend. The robot boxing movie dipped around 40% for a weekend take of almost $16.3 million. That figure ups the gross to $51.7 million – a decent number, but not spectacular given the films $100 million-plus budget. It’ll struggle to get near the century mark on its domestic release, so it’ll need strong foreign grosses to be profitable.

Paramount Picture’s Footloose remake (read our review) failed to kick-off its Sunday shoes; ...

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‘Footloose’ Video Interview with Kenny Wormald – The New Ren McCormack

Roth Cornet — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 04:26:09 +0000

Director Craig Brewer’s remake of the ’80s dance classic Footloose opens in theaters today (you can read our review of the film HERE as well our interview with Brewer HERE). Perhaps the most challenging role to cast for the remake was the one that catapulted Kevin Bacon into super-stardom – back when the original film was released.

The role of Ren Mccormack in Brewer’s re-imagining eventually went to Boston dancer Kenny Wormald. Wormald had been a back-up dancer for Justin Timberlake and when the casting directors for Footloose asked J.T. for a recommendation he immediately passed them on to Wormald.

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‘Footloose’ Review

Ben Kendrick — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:09:02 +0000

Screen Rant’s Ben Kendrick reviews Footloose

These days, there’s no shortage of ’80s remakes in Hollywood, but very few of these films succeed in recreating their respective campy premises while managing to keep a straight face. Plenty of remakes attempt to be “modern” or “gritty” but within the first five minutes of Craig Brewer’s Footloose, it’s apparent that the director isn’t simply aiming to cash in on Kevin Bacon’s iconic role as rebellious dancer hunk, Ren McCormack – he’s attempting to turn the campy premise inside out and present a film that offers more than just entertaining choreography and sexy scenery (though there is still an over-abundance of the the latter).

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Interview: ‘Footloose’ Director Craig Brewer on Kevin Bacon, Remakes & J.J. Abrams

Roth Cornet — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:05:22 +0000

This weekend the remake of the 1984 drama/dance-movie hybrid that propelled Kevin Bacon into super-stardom, Footloose, two-steps its way into theaters. Director Craig Brewer (Black Snake Moan, Hustle and Flow) helmed the 2011 version — which strikes an unusual balance between updating the film and maintaining major elements of the original (including both the music and much of the dialogue).

For those who are unfamiliar with the town of Beaumont: Footloose tells the tale of city-kid Ren MacCormack (Kenny Wormald) who is forced by circumstances to move to a tiny (in this version Southern) town that has responded to a shared tragedy by outlawing any activities they deem to be dangerous to their children, including (oh, yes) — dancing. Ren is compelled to challenge the status quo and face-off against the town’s ...

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DVD/Blu-ray Breakdown: September 27, 2011

Mike Eisenberg — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:18:54 +0000

There are not a lot of titles to pick from this week, but this year’s mega-blockbuster Transformers: Dark of the Moon goes up against history’s blockbuster Ben Hur on DVD and Blu-ray.

Of course, with every new remake we seem to get a Blu-ray release of the original film. As the new Footloose approaches theaters in a few weeks, Paramount is bringing their dance classic to the small screen first.

In previous monster-related features on Screen Rant, we’ve noticed a huge passion for Gamera among our readers. Those same readers will be happy today as the trilogy hits Blu-ray in one set. All three Blu-rays are already available in some capacity, but now they can all be purchased together.

The following titles can be found on DVD and Blu-ray.

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‘Footloose’ Trailer #2 Cuts Loose & Gets ‘Edgy’

Sandy Schaefer — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:08:56 +0000

Before we get to see what Dirty Dancing looks like in the 21st century, we’ll be treated to a modernized take on another dance-happy 1980s classic, Footloose – as filtered through the mind of co-writer and director Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan).

Brewer’s plan has been to rework the famous fish-out-of-water tale as more of a gritty and hip modern-day yarn about a city boy butting heads with the authorities in a small southern town. Based on the second trailer for his Footloose remake, has Brewer delivered just that?

Well, he’s certainly got the “grittier” part down, adding more contemporary and “racy” clothing, music, and dancing to the mix – not to mention, more down n’ dirty street brawls and an explosive race between two graffiti-plastered buses (as opposed to ...

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‘Footloose’ Remake Trailer Is Like The Original, Only ‘Hip’ & ‘Gritty’

Sandy Schaefer — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:45:04 +0000

Hollywood decided to begin plundering its vault of 1980s titles a couple years back, resulting in last year’s release of a successful Karate Kid remake and a moderately popular A-Team movie. Studios are hoping lightning will strike twice this year, with both this summer’s updated version of Fright Night – and this fall’s modernized take on Footloose.

A trailer has been released for the new Footloose, which was directed by Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow) and co-written by Dean Pitchford – the same fellow who scripted the original Kevin Bacon vehicle. But have the two successfully reworked the 1984 film for a new generation?

One thing Brewer and Pitchford have left unaltered is the basic premise of both the original Footloose movie and its 1998 stage musical adaptation: A big city boy has to handle some ...

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Movie Image Roundup: ‘Green Lantern’, ‘Three Musketeers’, ‘Cars 2′ and More [Updated]

Paul Young — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:51:47 +0000

[UPDATE: Check out some new hi-res Pirates of the Caribbean 4 images!]

There are over 150 movies releasing in theaters this year and you can get a detailed look at each month’s releases in our Massive 2011 Movie Preview. As the year progresses, we can expect PR departments from various studios to begin ramping up the marketing pushes on all of these films.

One way they build excitement for a film is by releasing still images, which usually consist of behind-the-scenes material, freeze frames from the movie (out of context of course) or occasionally a “cell phone reporter” will snap a picture or two while a film is shooting. Sometimes a studio will just take a Hi-Res still from the latest trailer and call it “new.”

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: October 31st, 2010

Niall Browne — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:18:58 +0000

This Week:

A lot of people see Saw; get ready to meet Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; prepare for The Demonologists, Paul Haggis goes to prison; Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill and Frances O’Connor go hunting; Pete Segal has a Grudge, Daniel Craig’s Dream House is a nightmare; Kilmer and Coppola are Twixt Now and Sunrise and lots more.

Box Office

Saw 3D (read our review and Saw in 6:66 feature) ousted Paranormal Activity 2 from the top spot and secured the lead over the Halloween weekend. The 3D horror sequel brought in an estimated $24.5 million to scare the beejeezus out of audiences- not bad for a film with a $20 million budget. While it’s not the best start for the franchise, it does beat the debut of last year’s installment. This might not be the last Saw after all.

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‘Footloose’ Remake Cast Announced

Sandy Schaefer — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:10:01 +0000

Paramount has officially revealed the identities of the main cast members that will star in their remake of the 1980s flick Footloose, which is being written and directed by Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow).

A 26-year old Kevin Bacon starred in the original Footloose as a hip teenager from Chicago who butts heads with the local heads of his new home – an old-fashioned town out West, where dancing and rock music are outlawed. With the help of some admittedly impressive dance moves and now classic ’80s tunes like “Let’s Hear it for the Boy” and the title track, the young man sets out to fix this most unfathomable of problems.

Dancer/sort-of actor Kenny Wormald (from the MTV series Dancelife) will step into Bacon’s iconic role for the remake, while Miles Teller (wait, who?) will play a ...

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Craig Brewer Confirmed for Footloose Remake

Rob Frappier — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:46:05 +0000

According to Variety, Hustle and Flow director Craig Brewer has been confirmed as the director of the Footloose remake. Brewer, who also rewrote the script for the film, replaces veteran musical director Kenny Ortega (High School Musical), who dropped out of the project due to creative differences.

Right off the bat, Brewer needs to get to work casting the all-important lead role originally played by Kevin Bacon. The part was set to go to Zac Efron, but the actor dropped out over fear that he would be typecast in teen musicals (probably a good call). The next actor to take up the role was Chace Crawford, but he too was forced to drop out of the film due to scheduling conflicts with the television show Gossip Girl.

According to the Variety article, Brewer and Paramount ...

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Screen Rant’s 2010 Movie Preview

Kofi Outlaw — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:46:40 +0000

As 2010 approaches, it’s time to bid farewell to the cinematic happenings of 2K9 – but what does the near-future hold for movie lovers? Luckily for you guys, we here at Screen Rant are dusting off our crystal ball and looking ahead… all the way to the year 2010.

Be sure to read through our entire 2010 movie preview (of over 70 movies!) to get the scoop on when you’ll be able to catch big flicks like Iron Man 2, Christopher Nolan’s Inception, Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Shutter Island, Freddy Krueger’s return to Elm Street, a comic book adaptation that’s sure to Kick-Ass, an animated showdown between Dreamworks’ Shrek Forever After and Pixar’s Toy Story 3 – and for the ladies, a second helping of Sex In The City and an obscure little film called ...

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Feet To Get Loose Next Year

Paul Young — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:02:48 +0000

There were three dance films in the 80’s worth remembering and no, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo is NOT one of them. Flashdance, Footloose and Dirty Dancing are the three I’m talking about. Flashdance and Dirty Dancing each won an Oscar and Footloose was nominated for 2. Not to be outdone, Footloose will try again next year.

Screen Rant’s Kofi Outlaw last reported that Paramount Pictures was pushing to finish a script on a Footloose remake before the SAG strike last year. At the time, Zac Efron was attached to the Kenny Ortega-directed remake but has since dropped out, leaving the lead role, made famous by Kevin Bacon, vacant.

This, however, has not damped the optimistic spirits over at Paramount since they have set a June 18, 2010 date for the remake’s release. The new version is set to have ...

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