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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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‘The Rum Diary’ Review

Ben Kendrick — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:15:53 +0000

Screen Rant’s Ben Kendrick reviews The Rum Diary

For anyone familiar with writer Hunter S. Thompson, it’s especially appropriate that actor Johnny Depp is headlining the author’s latest novel-turned-film adaptation, The Rum Diary – as both men are known for especially intense (and bizarre) work ethics. Depp portrays some of the most oddball and intricate characters in Hollywood and Thompson is credited as the founder of Gonzo Journalism – an approach to reporting where the writer actually tosses objectivity (and sometimes fact) out the window and directly engages with the various lifestyles and personalities at the center of a story (to get at a larger “truth”).

However, does the film version of Paul Kemp, the fictional main character in The Rum Diary who also becomes enveloped in ...

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‘Rum Diary’ TV Spots & Clips: Drunken Johnny Depp & Drenched Women

Sandy Schaefer — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:48:25 +0000

Those who are expecting Johnny Depp’s Hunter S. Thompson persona in The Rum Diary (a.k.a. Paul Kemp) to be as outrageous and mentally-unbounded as his Raoul Duke was in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas… well, you’re probably going to be a bit disappointed.

However, as the latest clips and TV spots released for writer/director Bruce Robinson’s Rum Diary adaptation demonstrate, there will still be plenty of Depp getting up to booze-fueled debauchery – and even some fully-realized character drama.

Rum Diary won’t be another financial blockbuster for Depp, but seems like an entertaining romp that sees the actor deliver a far more energized performance than he did this past summer in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. While most people ...

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‘Rum Diary’ TV Trailer: More Plot, Fewer Johnny Depp Antics

Sandy Schaefer — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:22:25 +0000

Hunter S. Thompson fans were very pleased to see Johnny Depp once again play one of the late writer’s alter egos in the recently-released Rum Diary trailer. The film won’t be the unhinged trip that Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was, but there will still be plenty of booze-fueled debauchery and anti-authoritative activity going on in writer/director Bruce Robinson’s adaptation.

A minute-long TV spot/trailer for The Rum Diary has popped up online – and while it basically boils down to a streamlined version of the official trailer, it’s still definitely worth a look.

The Rum Diary has taken a while to finally make its way into theaters, despite having a cast that includes Depp, Aron Eckhart (The Dark Knight), Amber Heard (Pineapple Express), Giovanni Ribisi (Avatar), Richard Jenkins (Burn After Reading), ...

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‘Rum Diary’ Trailer: Johnny Depp Drinking & Partying In Puerto Rico

Sandy Schaefer — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:47:20 +0000

The fact that Johnny Depp is a big fan of the late “father of Gonzo journalism” Hunter S. Thompson is no secret.

Depp played Thompson’s alter-ego, Raoul Duke, in Terry Gilliam’s Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, narrated Alex Gibney’s documentary Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, and was a good friend of the real Thompson – enough so to finance his private funeral, where the late writer’s remains were shot out of a canon, along with a collection of fireworks.

This fall’s The Rum Diary sees Depp tackle yet another of Thompson’s aliases: Paul Kemp, a New York journalist who travels to San Juan, Puerto Rico, in order to work for a local paper and instead raises hell, fueled by booze, lust, and a desire to upend the status ...

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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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Mid-Week Movie News Wrap Up – Feb. 12, 2009

Niall Browne — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:12:27 +0000

This Week:

Will The Blair Witch return? Sam Raimi travels abroad for horror and feels some Anguish at The Dorm; Two Face and Johnny Depp drink Rum; Cruise and Washington in The Matarese Circle.

1. Might we be seeing The Blair Witch a decade after it was first unleashed?

There appears to be a possibility. Creators of the franchise Dan Myrick and Ed Sanchez want to make another sequel to their little film that put the word profit in profitability.

Myrick told Digital Spy:

”Myself and the producer, Gregg Hale, have been talking and revisiting the idea behind a prequel that explores the original story and mythology of Blair Witch folklore’. Ultimately the decision is up to Lionsgate, which owns the rights to the project and whether or not they want to take the leap with us. But we’re developing some ideas and exploring some storylines that we like, and checking out some ...

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Is ‘The Rum Diary’ Next For Johnny Depp?

Ross Miller — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:53:17 +0000

As we all know Johnny Depp is one hell of a popular and in-demand actor. Upcoming he’s got the Michael Mann crime film Public Enemies, then he’s got his step-in appearance for the late Heath Ledger in Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus and following that he’s got yet another Tim Burton collaboration as he portrays The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland.

And now a casting call has come out that suggests that Depp’s next role will be in the adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel The Rum Diary, which is set to start production in March this year. If Depp is cast he will play Paul Kemp, described as “a divorced, alcoholic, and struggling novelist”.

Here’s the story of the novel:

A journalist named Paul Kemp, who moves from New York to work for a ...

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