Jodie Foster will woop your motha f*ckng ass! The Brave One came in at #1 with $14 mil. Even though critics weren't too keen on the vigilante mayhem, I'm assuming women were amped for a little redemption with a feminine touch. If that wasn't enough of a surprise, Mr. Woodcock followed close behind at #3 with $9 mil after 3:10 to Yuma, which is still holding strong with $28 mil. Apparently, critics were not impressed by what they called "child abuse" humor. Go figure. And for some reason a crappy flick called Dragon Wars came in at #4 with $5 mil. It's been declared the movie to go to, kick your feet up with your friends, and make fun of until you've run out of jokes.
My pick for the weekend won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival. Eastern Promises was only released in 15 theaters, grossing $553,000, but critics thought it was an interesting look into the human nature through the eyes of a murderer. Richard Gere's The Hunting Party made $84,000 in the 4 theaters it opened in and barely impressed the critics, who said it was an unnatural mix of black comedy and Jason Bourne-ambience. Silk had a wide release, but I guess Keira Knightley wasn't much of an attraction, because it barely cleared a quarter million. And the critics diagnosed it with being terminally boring. Apparently, the kids prefer it when Daniel Radcliffe is playing with magic, because December Boys only grossed $18,000 in the 4 theaters it was released in. Across the Universe didn't fair much better. Half the critics were enchanted by the musical love story and the other half thought it was a trivial mashing of the Beatles' songs. Tommy Lee Jones' In the Valley of Elah did, however, win the critics over, making $150,000. They heralded Jones for his understated performance and believed he carried it on his shoulders. Ira & Abby was also praised for being a divorce comedy that had the perfect marriage of writers.
No comments:
Post a Comment