Box Office Leaders

In a sheer stroke of Hollywood genius, Warner Brothers, as well as the other people behind the film franchise of Harry Potter, author JK Rowling included, have decided to split the last installment of the hugely successful film about a boy magician, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, into a two-part series that will be shown a year apart.

Filming will be done as if the films were one though, so as to preserve some semblance of continuity. The people behind Deathly Hollows have cited that they wanted to give more justice to the conclusion of the Harry Potter story. David Yates, who directed the two Harry Films that came before, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as well as Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - which is out in the summer - will remain at the helm of the project.

The movie is set to be released in March, and it comes down to a seemingly unrelated series of events that has a small girl writing down a page full of random numbers that is set to become the almanac of major disasters for fifty years till the present. Set in a school where as part of a dedication ceremony for a new elementary school building, children are told to come up with their own messages that would be contained in a time-capsule that was to be buried on the grounds. Fifty years later the time capsule is found and opened by a new generation of students form the same school who find a page filled with a random series of numbers. That piece of paper somehow gets into the hands of a professor who tries to decipher the code only to find it as an accurate list of some of humanity’s most deadly catastrophes along with exact figures of the death toll, the only problem, three are still to come true and he tries to prevent them from happening, one of which would be destruction on a global scale.
One of the most anticipated movies for this year, it hails with Nicolas Cage and as with all his films is expected to be a hit. The story comes in the line of Nostradamus who predicts the future and logs them down, but in this case, a little girl who knows not what she did, wrote the letter and placed it in a time capsule for somebody in the present to decipher. He tries to notify the authorities but fails to get attention and is set to make the ultimate sacrifice for the chain of events documented on the piece of paper from becoming reality.

Announcing the delay last year of the moving of the release date for the next installment of the Harry Potter film franchise was a disappointment to many. This installment is hailed to be the second to the last but plans saying that the last movie is to be split into two may give some insight at the power the Harry Potter series has over the movie world.
Hailed a phenomenon with its young actors taking over the record books as the youngest and biggest earning young stars in the whole world, having grown into their roles what fitting reward. The film franchise may not be the world’s top grossing but with a total of six or seven films under their belts, this may be one of the most successful franchises ever taking their place besides Star Wars and Batman Movie series as the highest grossing movies of all time.

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Titanic still reigns as the top box office hit of all time. Here’s a few detail about the epic film in 1997.

Worldwide Box Office No.1 - Titanic

• Grossed $1,835,300,000 worldwide
• James Cameron directed the film, he also wrote the script
• The film is all about the romantic story of a wealthy girl finding love with a poor boy aboard the Titanic, thought to be unsinkable, even God would not be able to sink it.
• It reaped a whopping 11 Oscar awards. And it garnered 76 other awards and 48 nominations.
• This the very first movie to have a budget of over $200,000,000.

The Cast

• Leonardo DiCaprio played Jack Dawson
• Kate Winslet played Rose DeWitt Bukater
• Billy Zane played Cal Hockley
• Kathy Bates played Molly Brown
• Frances Fisher played Ruth Dewitt Bukater
• Gloria Stuart played Old Rose
• Bill Paxton played Brock Lovett
• Bernard Hill played Captain Smith
• David Warner played Spicer Lovejoy
• Victor Garber played Thomas Andrews
• Jonathan Hyde played Bruce Ismay
• Suzy Amis played Lizzy Calvert

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Here’s a quick peek at the box office. An estimate weekend box office in the US. from October 17 to 19.

• Max Payne 20th Century Fox Distribution $18,000,000
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua Buena Vista Pictures Distribution $69,067,000
• The Secret Life of Bees Fox Searchlight Pictures $11,050,000
• W. Lionsgate $10,550,000
• Eagle Eye DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures $81,335,000
• Body of Lies Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $24,481,000
• Quarantine Sony Pictures Releasing $24,687,000
• Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist Sony Pictures Releasing $26,707,000
• Sex Drive Summit Entertainment, LLC $3,566,000
• Nights in Rodanthe Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $36,892,000

I admit, I am a major fan of Brendan Fraser, and I loved the previous two Mummy films. Being a very gullible person, moreover, I was fascinated by the reincarnation and soulmates plot the previous films sported. With all that, I admit I was initially apprehensive about this new installment, since Rachel Weisz was replaced by Maria Bello. And they were portraying middle-aged couples, with their son Alex (Luke Ford) old enough to have his own love interest.

Well, the story was slow and dragging at first, but the presence of Jet Li as always quickened the pace. I liked the new direction, West meets East, the way they blended Hollywood style shoot-em-ups with Kung-fu paced movies. I’m also a fan of Chinese kung-fu movies, and love Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh, so those were pluses. I also think this third film had a lot of funnier moments than the first two. All in all, i’d say this movie will make it to my collection of DVDs.

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Via Digital Inspiration, you just learned about MovieLink, a great new service and provision where you can download major Hollywood movies. The site is not well-matched with Firefox; which stinks, since according to Market Share Firefox is now in control of 10% of the browser market. You need to have the latest version of Internet Explorer to play with it - if you don’t have it, you can download Internet Explorer.

Anyway, back to MovieLink. What is it and how does it work? From the site:

“Movielink is changing the way America rents and purchases movies. No more trips to the video store. No DVDs to carry or return. Just fast, easy, legal movie downloads direct from the studios that you can watch at home or on the road.”

There’s two ways to watch these movies: you can rent them for up to 30 days or you can out and out buy them. And there’s nothing to pick up or mail or any of that mess; you’re downloading them to your computer. Prices start at 8.99 and go up from there.

Lets travel all over the world freely no passports, airplane tickets or any kind of transportation that you can possibly think of. Want to know how? A power of teleport is enough just like what David Rice (Hayden Christensen) did in the blockbuster hit movie Jumper. David Rice is a mutant who was gifted with the powers that most of us dream of that is to jump from one place to another anytime he wants. Since this is an extraordinary gift, an anonymous organization planned to hunt the rest of the jumpers. The said movie received positive and negative reviews from critics, but despite of this, the movie managed to do good in the box office.

Box Office Leaders: Platoon and Outrageous Fortune

For our first entry, let me share you this good news about Oliver Stones movie about the Vietnam War called Platoon. The said movie remained at the No. 1 spot at the film box office last week. It said news came out at the Academy Award nominations eve. It was reported that the movie already reached its $8.2 million, and its gross even raised up to $38.3 million in the span of eight weeks.

The second box office film of the week was the comedy film Outrageous Fortune� starring Shelley Long and Bette Midler. The said movie reached its $5.4 million in its second week.

People can be so zealous about movies sometimes and be in dire need of box office updates. If you are one of them, movie sites may help you know the latest movies leading in the box office and some of the movies that are about to make it on the list. In a way, it is helpful to know what movies are leading so you’ll know what movies are worth seeing. One of the sites I visit is movies.com and from there I get the latest scoop on the movies included on the top 12 list and some of the movies that are yet to make it on top.