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Box Office Roundup: Kneel before the saber-toothed squirrel

April 3, 2006 /

Based on Sunday’s estimates:

1) Ice Age: The Meltdown: $70.5 million (first week)
Scrat is the best actor in Hollywood, period.
2) Inside Man: $15.6 million ($52.7 million, second week)
I wonder if there really is a statute 36DD.
3) ATL: $12.5 million (first week)
Didn’t Fitty Cent just release this movie a couple months ago? And didn’t that one suck, too?
4) Failure to Launch: $6.6 million ($73.2 million, fourth week)
There are so many jokes you can write involving being naked with bongos.
5) V for Vendetta: $6.4 million ($56.8 million, third week)
Say hello, wave goodbye, Wachowski Brothers.

Proof that there is a god: “Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector” dropped to eleventh place, while “Basic Instinct 2” debuted in tenth place, with a take of $3.2 million. We expect its final number to be even lower.

Proof there isn’t a god: “Slither” got crushed, finishing eighth with a take of $3.6 million.

Movies, News

Sorry, Sam, but “Slither” beat you to the punch

March 31, 2006 /

Everybody here at Premium Hollywood has had their say about the upcoming release of Sam Jackson’s “Snakes on a Plane,” including me, but with this weekend’s release of the James Gunn horror-comedy “Slither,” it looks like “SoaP” can no longer be called the next great cult film. It isn’t just the audiences that are loving it either. The film currently has an 88% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes (out of 65 reviews). “Slither” is everything that fanboys could only hope “SoaP” is, but with five more months to wait until it’s theatrical release, you might as well check out “Slither” in the meantime.

Also out this week: two horrible sequels (“Ice Age 2” and “Basic Instinct 2“), as well as a yet another urban rap drama (“ATL”). Seriously, how many more of these shitty movies are they going to make?

Horror Movies, Movies, Reviews, Snakes on a Plane

Speed of lightning, roar of thunder…

March 31, 2006 /

…fighting those who rob or plunder.

Of whom do I speak…? Why, Underdog, of course.

It’s hard to get but so psyched at the idea of a live-action “Underdog” movie, just because the odds are that it’s only going to sully the reputation of a perfectly good cartoon, but now that “Station Agent” star Peter Dinklage has signed on to play evil bastard Simon Bar Sinister…

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…well, it does up its chances of being watchable by a considerable amount.

Actors, Movie Comedies, Movies

If you’re gonna get behind a good cause…

March 30, 2006 /

…well, I don’t know if this is necessarily one or not: getting the movie “Skidoo” released on DVD.

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If you’ve never heard of it, well, that’s not necessarily a surprise. It was a 1968 Otto Preminger film which was ol’ Otto’s attempt at mixing the older generations of movie and TV stars with a plot the “kids” could “dig.”

The preview…which can be found here, thanks to a kind soul on YouTube…includes testimonials from both Sammy Davis, Jr., and Dr. Timothy Leary. They’re not even in the film; they just think you’d really like it.

And, at least in theory, why wouldn’t you?

As Mark Evanier says on his blog, NewsFromMe.com, “there’s something to be said for a film in which the most restrained, believable performance is given by Carol Channing,” but, in addition, Groucho Marx plays God (which, if nothing else, proves that whoever God looks like, he’s definitely a cigar smoker), and some of his co-stars include Davis’s “Rat Pack” cohort Peter Lawford, Mickey Rooney, Jackie Gleason, three villains from the old “Batman” series (Riddler Frank Gorshin, Penguin Burgess Meredith, and Joker Cesar Romero), Frankie Avalon, Harry Nilsson (who also contributed to the soundtrack), Slim Pickens, Arnold Stang, and Richard Kiel, a.k.a. Jaws from the Bond movies.

Evanier is on a quest to get the movie released on DVD. Join him, won’t you…?

Movie Comedies, Movie DVDs, Movies

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