Box Office Leaders

Universal Pictures’ Romance Comedy movie, ‘definitely, maybe’ hits the blockbuster this love month with $31million gross landing as the top 6 blockbuster film for the weekend. The film which premiered on Valentine’s day is about a Manhattan political consultant who happens to be a dad of a ten year old girl who questions his past relationships in the midst of his divorce. Portrayed by Ryan Reynolds as Will, the movie revolves around his life before marriage and his relationships with three very different women. As he hides the real names of these women, her daughter Maya will guess who her father marries in the end.

It’s Trivia time! We are about to give you the Top 10 All-Time USA Box Office Leaders. The ranking is based on its earning during its release. Here are the the movies that made it on the list. Special thanks to imdb.com:

1. Titanic (1997) $600,779,824
2. Star Wars (1977) $460,935,665
3. Shrek 2 (2004) $436,471,036
4. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $434,949,459
5. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) $431,065,444
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) $423,032,628
7. Spider-Man (2002) $403,706,375
8. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) $380,262,555
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) $377,019,252
10. Spider-Man 2 (2004) $373,377,893

Have you seen all the movies mentioned above? If not, then I guess its about time to ask your family and friends for an overnight DVD movie marathon at home.

I am quite sure that Nicolas Cage fans are happy nowadays with the box office gross of National Treasure: Book of Secrets. The sophomore movie from the sequel earned around $10 million dollars. It is a bigger amount compared to the opening weekend of the first movie that was shown in 2004 and was in the number one spot on movie theaters for weeks. Definitely, we will be seeing the third installation National Treasure 3 on 2010.

Did you know that producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Nicolas Cage collaborated on the 2000 hit movie “Gone in 60 Seconds”? This only proved that their team-up really makes money.

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.

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以下は映画館の興行成績の統計です。10月17日から19日の週末における米国での映画館の予想興行収入です。

• マックス・ペイン、 20世紀フォックス配給　1800万ドル
• ビバリーヒルズ　チワワ、ブエナビスタ・ピクチャーズ配給、 6900万ドル
• ザ・シークレット・ライフ・オブ・ビーズ、フォックス・サーチライト・ピクチャーズ、1100万ドル
• W、ライオンズゲート　 1055万ドル
• イーグル・アイ、ドリームワークス　　8133万ドル
• ワールド・オブ・ライズ、ワーナーブラザースピクチャーズ配給　2448万ドル
• クアランティン、ソニーピクチャーズ　　2468万ドル
• ニック・アンド・ノラズ・インフィニテ・プレイリスト、ソニーピクチャーズ　2670ドル
• セックス・ドライブ、サミットエンターテイメントLLC　356万ドル
• ナイツ・イン・ロダンサ、ワーナーブラザース・ピクチャーズ配給、368万ドル

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

私はブレンダン・フレイザーの大ファンである事を認め、前二作の映画も好きである。 私はとても信じやすい人間で、そして前作の映画同様、転生とソウルメートの筋書きが今作も使われていた事に魅力を感じた。 それでも今回の続編に対しレイチェル・ワイズがマリア・ベロに替えられた事もあり、最初は不安を感じた。 また彼らは中年カップルの役を演じ、彼らの子供アレックス(ルーク・フォード）も自分の恋路を追っている。

物語の方は最初ゆっくりなペースで進むのだが、ジェット・リーの存在は常にペースを加速させる。 西洋と東洋のスタイルをブレンドし、ハリウッドの銃をぶっ放す映画とカンフーを組み合わせたのは良い方針だと思うし、好みでもある。 私は中国のカンフー映画ファンで、ジェット・リーとミシェル・ヨーの大ファンでもあるので、それもプラスだった。 またこの三作目は前回の二作より面白い場面が多くあったと思う。 全てをまとめると、この映画は私のDVDコレクションに入るだろう。

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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