Weekend Box Office: October 4-6

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1.  Gravity - $55.6 million

2.  Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 - $21.5 million

3.  Runner Runner - $7.6 million

4.  Prisoners - $5.7 million

5.  Rush - $4.4 million

6.  Don Jon - $4.16 million

7.  Baggage Claim - $4.12 million

8.  Insidious Chapter 2 - $3.8 million

9.  Pulling Strings - $2.5 million

10.  Enough Said - $2.1 million

Let's dispense with the inevitable space puns and get right to the point:  Gravity is a big hit.  With an estimated $55.6 million for the weekend, it becomes October's highest opening weekend and career-best opening weekends for both stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.  That's right...this weekend saw the end of the hilarity that was Clooney's biggest opening weekend being Batman & Robin.  But when you combine the audience appeal of both Bullock and Clooney, along with visuals that need to be seen in IMAX/3D, this is the kind of weekend that should happen for a movie like this.

Meanwhile, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 remained popular with the family crowd, dropping just 37% to earn another $21.5 million.  The animated sequel has earned $60.6 million domestically so far, and is well on its way to pass $100 million at some point this month.

Speaking of audience appeal, Runner Runner had none.  The epic pairing of Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake (sarcasm heavily implied) didn't seem to interest audience at all this weekend, sputtering in theaters with just $7.6 million.

Prisoners continues to do well, taking fourth place with $5.7 million, and bringing its domestic total up to $46 million.  Rush, which had a so-so opening last week, dropped a not-so-good 56% in its second weekend, earning only $4.4 million.  Don Jon and Baggage Claim didn't gather too much interest this weekend either, as they virtually tied with about $4 million apiece.

Next weekend sees another Oscar hopeful, Captain Phillips (starring two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks), as well as Machete Kills, which won't be winning anything at awards time. 

New Trailer & Poster for 'Out of the Furnace' Starring Christian Bale

Relativity Media has released both a new trailer and poster for their December 6th release, Out of the Furnace.

The film, directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart), stars Christian Bale as an ex-con steel worker whose cleaned up his life only to find himself seeking vengeance when his younger brother (Casey Affleck) goes missing after getting involved with a local crime ring, led by what looks to be a menacing as hell Woody Harrelson.

I have to say the trailer looks absolutely phenominal compared to the first one that was released a month or so back (maybe having something to do with a much better choice in score).

The drama was also just announced to be having its world premiere at the AFI Fest beginning November 7th - 14th, starting what hopes to be a powerful awards run campaign that leads to the Oscars.

Along with Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, and Casey Affleck, the pic also stars Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, Zoe Saldana, and Sam Shepard.

Take a look at the new trailer and poster below:

Source:  Relativity Media

Dead Girls Unite in New Pic from FAST 7 -SPOILERS-

Well, since Fast and Furious 6 (Furious 6) made more money than you or I will ever see in a life-time; of course Fast 7 is roaring into theaters at the speed of sound. With horror maestro James Wan (The Conjuring, Death Sentence) behind the wheel this time, things are expected to get grim, as Wan promised the seventh installment to be more along the lines of a '70s revenge film.

Gadot captioned: What's up everyone? :)
Rodriguez added: #Fast7 

That's apparent in the latest picture, shared by Michelle Rodriguez's Official Facebook Page from co-star and fellow living dead girl, Gal Gadot, who played Gisele in Fast & Furious, Fast Five, and last summer's Furious 6, and was seemingly killed off at the film's climactic end. So is Gisele, Han's honey, still alive and out for revenge for Han's death? Is Gadot just popping in to say hi on set? You wouldn't think they'd release a picture that might be such a large spoiler.

Either way, Fast 7 hits theaters July 11, 2014 starring Jason Statham, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Lucas Black, and Kurt Russell .

You can own The Extended Edition of Furious 6 on Bluray on Dec. 10. 

FINALLY: First Trailer for Gareth Edward's GODZILLA

 

UPDATE: The trailer has yet again been taken down, sorry for those who didn't see it, we will post a working and permanent version of the trailer as soon as it becomes available. 

It's been only two years since this trailer was shown at Comic Con, and given Legendary's blunder of marketing their last big-monster movie, Pacific Rim, only to the "nerd crowd" at Comic Con, you'd think they'd be eager to get this baby out there ASAP. 

Well it's here now, the first teaser for Monsters-director, Gareth Edwards, dark retelling of the classic monster, GODZILLA. The trailer is ominous, showing mass casualties and a decimated city with a chilling narration by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the Atomic Bomb. 

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds

GODZILLA stars Ken Watanabe, Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen, and Aaron Taylor Johnson, and is due to hit theaters May 16, 2014. 

First Trailer for JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT

 

"Sometimes the ones that are closest to us are the ones we should trust the least," Kevin Costner says in the brooding and action-packed first trailer for Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, which serves as a prequel to the character made famous by Ben Affleck in The Sum of All Fears, Harrison Ford in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, as well as Alec Baldwin in The Hunt for Red October 

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit stars Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kenneth Branagh, and Kevin Costner, and comes out Dec. 25, 2013.

In a story taking place prior to the original Jack Ryan stories, Ryan is a young stock broker working for a billionaire in Moscow before joining the CIA. When the billionaire he is advising frames him for a terrorist plot and kidnaps his wife, Ryan must race against time to clear his name, stop the plot, and save his wife.

Character Posters for AMERICAN HUSTLE

Oh for Christ's sake just give this movie it's Oscars already, there's no use in even arguing the fact.

Thanks to Collider, who you can go to for the high resolution versions.

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper).  DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting.  Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving’s unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. Like David O. Russell’s previous films, American Hustle defies genre, hinging on raw emotion, and life and death stakes.

David O. Russell's American Hustle hits theaters December 13.

Edgar Wright Updates That He's Doing Something With ANTMAN

Edgar Wright, fresh off promoting his latest film, The World's End (not about Pirates), has apparently gone back to L.A. to start working (some more) on the upcoming Marvel Studios film, Antman, which he's been working on and talking about since shit, I don't know, forever ago.

Wright tweeted earlier: 

And here's a larger version, In case you want to pick apart the fine details of Antman's latex ass glowing in these sexy purple lights

 

Antman is expected to release in Summer 2015, and directed by Wright. Still no word on cast or plot details; but presumably deals with scientist Hank Pym and his invention of a helmet that allows him to shrink or grow.

JACK RYAN Has A Poster; Chris Pine Looks Fittingly Sad

The first poster for the new Jack Ryan film, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, found it's way online today, sadly on the tail of author and creator of the Jack Ryan character, Tom Clancy, passing away.

The first trailer for the film also premiers tomorrow, in which you can expect Chris Pine to look really dashing and sexy, shooting people, and probably Kevin Costner looking really stern.

In a story taking place prior to the original Jack Ryan stories, Ryan is a young stock broker working for a billionaire in Moscow before joining the CIA. When the billionaire he is advising frames him for a terrorist plot and kidnaps his wife, Ryan must race against time to clear his name, stop the plot, and save his wife.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit stars Chris Pine (Star Trek, This Means War) Keira Knightley (Anna Karenina, Pirates of the Caribbean), Kevin Costner (Man of Steel, The Guardian), and Kenneth Branagh (Wild Wild West, Hamlet) who is also directing the film, which comes out December 25 2013.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Trailer #2 Is More of the Same

The excitement for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug comes down to one's reaction to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Did Peter Jackson leave a Phantom Menace taste in your mouth? Did taking Tolkien's bedtime story and morphing it into a trilogy of bloated three-hour epics finally reveal itself as the bad idea it always was on paper?

The second trailer for the middle chapter of the Hobbit trilogy is here. While alright, promising to be an action-heavier installment, nothing here eases concerns left last Christmas.

"Charlie Countryman" Poster Proves Shia LaBeouf Still Exists

Directed by Fredrik Bond, Charlie Countryman begins when Charlie's late mother appears in a vision and tells him to go to Bucharest. Charlie immediately boards a plane across the Atlantic, but when he meets a fellow passenger, Charlie finds himself with another promise to fulfill. Charlie does so – and falls head over heels in love with Gabi, a beautiful musician. However, a vicious gangster has already laid claim to Gabi, and has no intention of letting her go. Determined to protect her, Charlie enters into the hallucinatory, Romanian underworld filled with violence and, strangely enough, love.

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