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Weekend Box Office Wrap Up: March 4th, 2012

Niall Browne — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:24:18 +0000

The Universal Pictures release The Lorax topped the box office over the weekend, grossing an astounding $70.7 million during its first three days.

The animated film (read our review), which features the vocal stylings of Zac Efron, Taylor Swift and Danny DeVito is based on the Dr. Seuss book. It has already recouped its $70 million production budget and it should continue to bring in strong grosses in the coming weeks. That’s the best start for a Dr. Seuss feature, besting The Grinch’s $55 million opening in 2000. That film had the added star power of Jim Carrey, and it went on to gross over $260 million domestically. It looks like all in involved will be counting their green (eggs and ham) in a boat, with a goat, in the rain, on a ...

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Weekend Box Office Wrap Up: February 26th, 2012

Niall Browne — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:24:26 +0000

The much hyped low budget actioner Act of Valor won the weekend, grossing an impressive $24.7 million at the box office. The Navy SEALs film (read our review), which was directed by Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh, uses real SEALs as the stars with support coming from Roselyn Sanchez.

It’s difficult to compare this movie to other action films due to the unique marketing point, but it has beaten the total gross of Oscar winner The Hurt Locker, which topped out at just $17 million. Distributor Relatively paid $12 million for Act of Valor and pulled out all the stops, using more than the $30 million that they guaranteed in the purchase for prints and advertising commitment.

Tyler Perry’s latest effort Good Deeds should brought in an estimated $16 million from Friday ...

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SR Underground Ep. 26: ‘Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance’

Ben Kendrick — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:55:21 +0000

The Screen Rant editorial team is back with episode twenty six of the Screen Rant Underground.

Join host Ben Kendrick as well as fellow SR editors Rob Keyes, Anthony Ocasio, and Kofi Outlaw as we discuss Magneto in X-Men: First Class 2, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie reboot, and a Hannibal Lecter television series, as well as review Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s superhero sequel Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.

Screen Rant Underground is available in the iTunes Music Store (where you can subscribe as well as download individual episodes) but if you’re not near your home computer, check out our twenty-sixth episode in the player below.

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Weekend Box Office Wrap Up: February 19th, 2012

Niall Browne — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:44:11 +0000

Just like last weekend, another close battle was waged at the box office, and this time Denzel Washington has come out on top. The Oscar winner’s latest foray into the action genre, Safe House should gross an estimated $24 million over the three days – giving it $78 million total. That’s a great number for the film, which will cross the $100 million mark and make it one of Washington’s highest grossing efforts. It’s even better news for co-star Ryan Reynolds, who needed to anchor a hit following the one-two punch combo that was Green Lantern and The Change-Up.

Hit romantic drama The Vow is also continuing to do well, grossing another $23.6 million and upping its cume to $85.5 million, a great gross for the $30 million film.

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‘Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance’ Review

Kofi Outlaw — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:20:52 +0000

Screen Rant’s Kofi Outlaw Reviews Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

In Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance we catch up to Johnny Blaze (Nic Cage) many years after the events of the first film. “The Rider” has apparently grown into an all-consuming force of nature that Blaze desperately tries to hold in check; until the presence of evil inevitably sets The Rider loose again, to feed on the souls of the guilty.

The Rider is presented with a full buffet of evildoers when a group of ruthless mercenaries storm a church in pursuit of a young boy named Danny Ketch (Fergus Riordan), who The Devil (Ciarán Hinds) intends to use as his human vessel. Blaze claims that The Rider is no savior, but when warrior monk Moreau (Idris ...

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New ‘Spirit of Vengeance’ Featurette & ‘Ghost Rider 3′ Talk

Sandy Schaefer — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:44:41 +0000

The return of demonically-cursed Nicolas Cage is upon us, as Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance hits theaters later this week. Sony has gone all-out marketing the comic book movie sequel, having released TV spots and clips aplenty, in the hopes that fans will not only shell out cash to see this flick on the big screen – but also, turn out in large enough numbers for the studio to justify greenlighting Ghost Rider 3 in the near future.

We have yet another Spirit of Vengeance featurette (complete with not-yet-glimpsed footage) available for viewing today, along with confirmation from directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor that there’s already been serious discussion about them (and Cage) returning for GR 3.

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‘Ghost Rider 2′ Clips: Demonic Demolition Work & Monks on Wheels

Sandy Schaefer — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:56:04 +0000

Expectations have never been high, when it concerns Crank helmers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s ability to create an especially captivating take on the Ghost Rider mythology in this month’s sequel, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Early word is that the film doesn’t exactly offer much, as far as richly-realized character and plot development goes – but that it does deliver the goods where bombastic action set pieces and nonstop thrills are concerned.

Heck, going by the previous Spirit of Vengeance TV spots and featurettes released – along with the handful of new clips we have for you to watch today – it’s easy to forget that this followup DOES actually have a plot; one that could set the stage for a welcome change-up in casting for future Ghost Rider installments, no less.

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New ‘Ghost Rider 2′ & ‘Project X’ TV Spots

Kofi Outlaw — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:08:45 +0000

One cursed superhero will try to stop hell from conquering the Earth, while a group of teens will try to raise hell in their own backyard. Such are the premises of the upcoming films Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and Project X - and today we have a slew of new TV spots for each film to share with you.

Ghost Rider 2 picks up years after the events of the first film; we now find Johnny Blaze (Nic Cage) hiding out in Eastern Europe, trying to keep his Ghost Rider curse under control. His self-imposed exile is interrupted when a warrior monk (Idris Elba) comes asking for a favor: The Devil (Ciarán Hinds) is seeking out a young boy named Danny Ketch (Hint) to ...

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‘Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance’ Image Gallery

Sandy Schaefer — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:22:54 +0000

Sony is in the midst of its marketing blitz for the comic book sequel, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance – with multiple TV spots and featurettes having been released, in the hope of heightening anticipation for Nicolas Cage’s second round as the super-powered motorcyclist clad in (often, melted) black leather, Johnny Blaze.

You can check out more than a dozen images from the film by scrolling through the gallery above – or, continue on for more information (and early analysis) of the movie, along with higher-defintion versions of the above pics.

Spirit of Vengeance revolves around an older, wiser, and more subdued Johnny (Cage), who has been living in self-imposed exile in Romania, while he attempts to rid himself of the Ghost Rider curse. A mysterious warrior monk named Moreau (Idris Elba) says that if Johnny agrees to protect a young boy named Danny Ketch (Fergus Riordan) and his ...

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‘Ghost Rider 2′ and ‘Wrath of the Titans’ TV Spots

Sandy Schaefer — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:13:27 +0000

“Bigger, badder, and more badass” is the mantra for two action-packed, post-converted 3D blockbuster sequels due to hit theaters in the first quarter of 2012 – namely, the superhero comic book movie, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, and the mythological fantasy adventure, Wrath of the Titans. Both of these flicks are also followups to films that did great business at the box office, despite being almost universally derided critically.

Today, we have a handful of new TV spots for both titles, available for you viewing pleasure – and to help you decide whether or not they look to pack enough genuine gritty bang for your hard-earned buck.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Crank filmmaking team Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor took over directorial duties from Ghost Rider helmer Mark Steven Johnson on the ...

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‘Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance’ Featurette: Crazy Filmmaking Stunts

Sandy Schaefer — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:04:57 +0000

Despite early reviews indicating that directing duo Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor haven’t made the most inspired of comic book movies with Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, no one denies the pair’s sheer gusto when it comes to using guerrilla filmmaking tactics, and their willingness to do severe bodily harm to themselves (and their crew), all in the name of creating some breathtakingly in-your-face camera angles and shots.

Footage of the pair’s “extreme” approach to the art of cinema was shown off last year, at the 2011 New York Comic-Con. Today, we have a featurette that includes much of that behind-the-scenes material, with Neveldine and Taylor hanging on wires, rollerblading while hanging onto motorcycles moving at full speed, and literally putting themselves in the line of fire as they shoot the Ghost Rider sequel.

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‘Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance’: Will Dan Ketch Replace Johnny Blaze?

Kofi Outlaw — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:51:39 +0000

One glance at the Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance trailer will tell you that this sequel/reboot to the (inexplicably) popular 2007 comic book adaptation isn’t going to be the most thought-provoking flick ever made. That said, a couple of details from the plot and casting of the film have in fact provoked a question from our wondering minds here at Screen Rant: will this new film follow in the steps of the Ghost Rider comic books by having a new character take up the Ghost Rider mantle?

If you’re not a Ghost Rider comic book aficionado, allow us to give you some background: The first Ghost Rider movie followed the comic book mythology in the sense that a stunt performer named Johnny Blaze (Nic ...

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‘Underworld 4′ & ‘Ghost Rider 2′ TV Spots & Clips

Kofi Outlaw — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:42:52 +0000

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‘Ghost Rider 2′ Trailer: Explosive Action & Supernatural Mayhem

Sandy Schaefer — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:29:56 +0000

A collection of movie bloggers and cinephiles have gotten the first look at the Marvel Knight comic book sequel, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance – and, judging by their responses, the preliminary consensus is not good.

Today, we have the full-length Spirit of Vengeance trailer available for viewing – and while it seems to confirm one of the recurring criticisms so far (namely, that the film’s story is kind of boring and predictable) there’s plenty of high-octane action, explosions, and sick CGI supernatural effects to at least make this theatrical promo an entertaining watch.

Spirit of Vengeance catches up with biker/demonic warrior Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) as he leads a loner’s life in the remote regions of Eastern Europe, unable to control his deadly curse as the devil’s bounty hunter. However, a chance at redemption presents ...

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New ‘Ghost Rider 2′ Poster & Early Reactions

Sandy Schaefer — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:39:35 +0000

Sony’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance has been earning some decent buzz of late, thanks to a fairly well-received official teaser trailer, a good showing at the 2011 New York Comic-Con, and a circulating collection of unofficial one-sheets that stylishly recreate some of the more memorable imagery on display in the film’s initial theatrical promo (ex. Johnny Blaze spewing a flaming wave of bullets).

Today, we have a new official poster for the Ghost Rider sequel, along with some reactions from those who got an early look at the flick recently – while attending Harry Knowles’ annual “Butt-Numb-A-Thon” screening event.

Here is an official synopsis for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance:

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‘Ghost Rider 2′ Posters: Screaming Skulls Spit Bullets & Catch Fire

Sandy Schaefer — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:06:32 +0000

Nicolas Cage may be reprising his role as Johnny Blaze in the upcoming Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, but otherwise the Marvel comic book superhero is getting a complete makeover in the sequel.

Early footage shown at the 2011 New York Comic-Con and in the Spirit of Vengeance trailer painted the flick as being a far cry from director Mark Steven Johnson’s generally-disliked 2007 Ghost Rider movie. The sequel not only looks to feature some hyper-stylized cinematography and action sequences (courtesy of Crank directing duo Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor); it also appears to have fully embraced the gritty and supernatural horror roots of the eponymous character.

It shouldn’t be too long until a full-length theatrical preview for Spirit of Vengeance is unleashed, given the film’s approaching release date. However, in the meantime, we have something else for your viewing pleasure: four new (unofficial) posters that do a nice ...

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Sony Panel NYCC ’11: ‘Ghost Rider 2′, ‘Underworld 4′ & ‘Total Recall’

Kofi Outlaw — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:23:06 +0000

Sony made a big splash at New York Comic-Con 2011, bringing presentations and footage for their upcoming slate of blockbuster movies. The biggest films fans are expecting to see at NYCC are Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, The Amazing Spider-Man and the Total Recall remake, so the only question is: will Sony fulfill their wishes or leave them feeling disappointed?

Read over our coverage of the Sony Panel at NYCC ’11 to find out just how big the studio went to promote its superhero films to the geek masses.

The Sony Panel began with IGN’s Eric Moro revealing that – surprise! – the studio was going to be debuting more than just Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.

Underworld: Awakening

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‘Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance’ Trailer: Darker, Grittier, Marvel Knight

Sandy Schaefer — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:43:08 +0000

Most everyone seems to agree that 2007′s Ghost Rider was an underwhelming addition to the comic book movie genre. While next year’s sequel, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, has been touted as something completely different (and, by association, better) than the original, there hasn’t been a whole lot announced about the project that inspires confidence.

However, the footage previewed at the 2011 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Comic-Con Panel went over well with those in the audience – and now a trailer has been released, offering everyone else an early look at Johnny Blaze’s new (cinematic) ride.

Perhaps the biggest potential asset – and, ironically, reason for concern – for Ghost Rider 2 is the involvement of directing duo Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (the Crank movies). Their particular breed of action ...

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New ‘Hunger Games’ & ‘Ghost Rider 2′ Official Images

Kofi Outlaw — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:56:55 +0000

Sony’s superhero sequel Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and Lionsgate’s adaptation of The Hunger Games both had a presence at Comic-Con 2011 – though, admittedly, the former made a much bigger impression than the latter.

Before the post-Comic-Con glow fades, both studios are putting out new promotional materials for their respective films, which will both reach theaters in the first quarter of 2012.

Today’s promos for these respective movies come in the form of some new official images. Empire has put out images from Ghost Rider 2 that will be featured in an upcoming issue of the magazine, while EW has the latest pics from The Hunger Games.

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Idris Elba Really Wants To Star In ‘Luke Cage’

Rob Keyes — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:06:45 +0000

Comic book movie regular and now Marvel frequent employee, Idris Elba, let the world know a year ago that he was interested in playing other Marvel characters, namely Blade and Luke Cage. After a scene-stealing performance as Heimdall in Thor earlier this summer and presenting footage for his role in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Elba reiterates that he wants the studio to take full advantage of their multi-picture deal with the Brit actor.

During the Sony Pictures Comic-Con 2011 presentation where four upcoming major features were showcased, Idris Elba participated in the panel for the Ghost Rider sequel and fielded a fan question about Marvel roles he’d be willing to tackle and responded by re-affirming his interest in Luke Cage.

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