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3D Wars: Spielberg Blockbuster to Trail Cameron's and Lucas'?
49 minutes ago | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Will the 3D rerelease of Spielberg's '90s blockbuster trail Cameron's and Lucas' at the domestic box office? Directed by Steven Spielberg the 3D rerelease of the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park should end up with $17-18 million at the Us / Canada box office this weekend (April 6-8), after having brought in an estimated $7 million at 2,771 theaters this past Friday, according to studio figures found on the web site Box Office Mojo. Please scroll down for comparisions to the 3D box-office performances of George Lucas' The Phantom Menace and James Cameron's Titanic. Originally released two decades ago, the sci-fier / thriller starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Richard Attenborough earned $357.06 million back then, or approx. $694 million in current dollars. Worldwide, the film pulled in $557.62 million, or approximately $896 million in 2013 dollars, for an adjusted worldwide total of close to $1.6 billion. See also: "Colin Trevorrow Jurassic Park 4 director." Pictured above: Laura Dern, »
- Zac Gille
Evil Dead
1 hour ago | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Sam Raimi’s seminal cabin-in-the-woods cautionary tale The Evil Dead and its sequels are, paradoxically, somewhat hallowed ground in the horror realm; they are to demons as George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead is to zombies. It’s a testament to the reverence for the series that in an entertainment genre filled to bursting with copycats and remakes, no one dared to touch the franchise proper for 30 years. Even now, this reimagining is spearheaded by Raimi himself, co-producing with part of the original team as well as the films’ breakout cult star, Bruce Campbell. Raimi tapped the director of a »
Evil Dead Alive at Friday Box Office with $11.9 Million Opening Day
9 hours ago | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
Columbia TriStar's remake of Evil Dead was propelled by a wave of positive reviews and promises of excessive gore to a strong opening day at the North American box office. Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park 3D also opening strong in second place, while last weekend's champ G.I. Joe: Retaliation slipped to third.
Evil Dead bowed at 3,025 locations to the tune of $11.9 million during its first 24 hours of release. With a production budget estimated at only $17 million, the remake of Sam Raimi's classic with Raimi and Bruce Campbell serving as producers will easily top $20 million through Sunday, which also happens to be more than the previous three Evil Dead films made at the box office combined during their theatrical runs. Somewhere between $25 and $30 million seems a safe bet for Evil Dead's opening weekend.
Read our Evil Dead review.
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'Evil Dead' Leads Friday Pack, 'Jurassic Park 3D' Stomps in Second
12 hours ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
"The Evil Dead" opened well enough on Friday to make it a likely fifth horror-related film to make #1 in 2013. The twelve top-ranked horror flicks thus far have kept the year's to-date grosses from falling off more than they might have otherwise due to several underperforming costly would-be tentpoles. The Sony remake of Sam Raimi's classic cult 1980s gorefest should prove an easy #1 for the weekend. The combined Thursday night/Friday gross could be the high end of its performance, however. The total will be significantly above its production budget, and even if it falls fast the ultimate worldwide performance and post-theater appeal should make it a solid success. In second place for the day was the 3-D relaunch of another blast from the past, "Jurassic Park." Its Friday gross looks to be about the same as that of "Titanic 3D" last year. Two key differences -- that reissue opened two days earlier, »
- Tom Brueggemann
Evil Dead: 5 Ways the Horror Flick Is a Shock to the System
13 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
After watching the red band trailer over and over the big day is here. Evil Dead has hit theaters! Produced by writer-director Sam Raimi and star Bruce Campbell (Burn Notice) of 1981's The Evil Dead, the creative reins for this reimagining were handed off to new writer-director Fede Alvarez. Alvarez originally met with Raimi to produce a full-length feature based on his short Panic Attack (2009). When that film got put on hold, Raimi asked the young filmmaker if he'd be interested rebooting Evil Dead. He definitely was. Fans of the splatter genre should be too. The premise is nearly identical to the original: Two guys and three gals decide to spend a weekend in a old wooden shack and accidentally unleash the dead »
'Evil Dead' Spooks Up A Lead
14 hours ago | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead" remake spooked up an early lead at the weekend box office. The horror flick opened Friday to $11.9 million across 3,025 theaters. "Evil Dead," which stars Jane Levy and Shiloh Fernandez, among others, has received a CinemaScore of C+ from moviegoers. THR puts "Evil Dead" on pace for a $27 million weekend.
Also opening this week was "Jurassic Park 3D." The modern showing of the 1993 film made $7 million on Friday across 2,771 theaters. This puts "Jurassic Park" on pace for a $18.5 million weekend, THR reports. Over the course of its original box office run, "Jurassic Park" reached a total domestic gross of $364.1 million.
Taking the number three spot on Friday was "G.I. Joe: Retaliation." Starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Channing Tatum, and Bruce Willis, among others, "G.I. Joe" made $6.4 million at 3,734 theaters. Earning a CinemaScore of A- from moviegoers, "G.I. Joe" has made $71.96 million since its release. »
- Madeline Boardman
'Evil Dead' scares up big Friday box office numbers
15 hours ago | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
The remake of "Evil Dead" brought horror fans out in force on Friday (April 5), snagging the top box-office spot in the process.
The movie, produced by original "Evil Dead" director and star Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell, earned $11.9 million on Friday (including $1.8 million from late-night shows on Thursday). It's now on pace to make $25 million or more for the weekend, ahead of initial projections of around $20 million.
The 3D rerelease of "Jurassic Park" took second place Friday with an estimated $7 million haul. That's in line with what forecasters were predicting and should put it on par with the $17.3 million "Titanic 3D" made on the same weekend last year.
Last weekend's top movies, "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" ($6.7 million) and "The Croods" ($5.8 million), dropped to third and fourth on Friday. "Tyler Perry's Temptation" rounds out the Top 5 with $3.4 million. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Box office: 'Evil Dead' remake scares up $11.9 million on Friday
15 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Moviegoers got a blast from the past this Friday as Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead" topped "Jurassic Park" at the box office. The remake of the 1981 cult horror film directed by Raimi (he produced this time around) scared up $11.9 million, and will earn somewhere around $27 million for the three-day period. The 3D re-release of Steven Spielberg's 1993 smash "Jurassic Park" met with bigger numbers than expected, finding its way to $7 million. It will likely earn around $22 million for the weekend. Twenty years ago, the fantasy film earned $364 million worldwide, and spawned two sequels, with "Jurassic Park 4" »
- Dave Lewis
The Evil Dead Remake Was Insanely Awesome!
15 hours ago | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
First of all, I'm a huge fan Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell's Evil Dead franchise. Evil Dead was the first real horror movie I saw when I was a kid, and from that moment on, I was hooked on the horror genre. Ever since Evil Dead I've enjoyed watching horror films both good, bad, and so bad they're good. I was a little pissed off when I heard that Evil Dead was going to get remade. I hate remakes; I'm not a big fan of the unoriginality of Hollywood these days. But the more I heard about the film, the more that Raimi talked about the reasons he wanted it remade, the more that shell of remake hatred started to break down. Raimi's original vision for The Evil Dead was a hardcore horror story. I think his original movie delivers that, but there's still a lot of unintentional cheesy campiness, »
- Joey Paur
Box Office Report: 'Evil Dead' Tops Friday, Eyeing Strong $27 Million Weekend
16 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
The remake of Sam Raimi's 1981 cult horror pic Evil Dead easily won the Friday box office race with $11.9 million for an expected weekend gross of $27 million. Nostalgia invaded the box office all the way around. The 3D rerelease of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park also did better than expected, landing at No. 2 with $7 million. That puts the redo on course for weekend earnings of $18.5 million. Story: Got $35,000? You Can Watch 'Jurassic Park 3D' at Home This Weekend The Croods and G.I. Joe: Retaliation are both expected to overtake Jurassic Park
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- Pamela McClintock
Box Office: ‘Evil Dead’ Looks Lively With $12 Million Friday Haul
17 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Sony’s “Evil Dead,” a remake that raises Sam Raimi’s 1981 original from its cult classic grave, is rising slightly higher than expectations this weekend. “Evil Dead” earned $11.9 million Friday, with a three-day haul of around $27 million projected.
The TriStar, FilmDistrict and Ghost House Productions release got off to a strong start against players with a little broader appeal this frame, including Universal’s “Jurassic Park” 3D rerelease and Fox-DreamWorks Animations “The Croods.” Friday will almost definitely be the scarer’s strongest day, with that early jump quite certainly enough positioning the film to win the weekend.
Behind it, “Jurassic Park” is falling tightly in line with expectations that were a little unsure heading into the weekend. The actioner took $7 million Friday for second, and will likely land in the high teens through Sunday as expected, but a pair of strong holdovers are expected to muscle it down to fourth place in that time. »
- Michael Sullivan
‘Evil Dead’ Reviews: Gory Remake Gets Love & Hate
17 hours ago | HollywoodLife | See recent HollywoodLife news »
With the ‘Evil Dead’ remake hitting theaters this weekend, critics seem to be in disagreement! Some love the gruesome horror flick, but others just think it’s a bloody mess. Read the reviews here!
The Evil Dead remake (out Apr. 5) promised to bring back the original’s terrifying premise and inject it with the all-out gore that we’re used to seeing these days. The reviews for the film are in, and while some critics totally loved the bloodbath, others thought that it didn’t come close to living up to the original. One thing’s for sure — it’s definitely gory!
The Reviews Of ‘Evil Dead’
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Truthfully, if it hadn’t been my paying job as a critic to watch Fede Alvarez’s remake of Evil Dead all the way to the end, I probably would have headed for the exit door long before the point »
- Andrew Gruttadaro
'Evil Dead' Gore Score May Hit $27M, 'Jurassic Park' Eyes $18M at Box Office
17 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
"Evil Dead," a graphic and gruesome R-rated remake of Sam Raimi's 1981 horror classic, is on its way to an easy weekend box office win, and could go as high as $27 million in its first three days. It took in $11.9 million Friday – including $1.8 million from Thursday midnight shows – from 3,025 theaters nationwide. The weekend looks like a big win for distributor TriStar, Film District and Ghost House Pictures, since the "Evil Dead" production budget is an estimated $17 million. Also read: 'Evil Dead' Review: Great Grey Gobs »
- Todd Cunningham
‘El Cojonudo’, directed and co-written by Fede Alvarez
17 hours ago | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Today’s film is the 2005 short El Cojonudo. The film is directed by Fede Alvarez, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Rodo Sayagues. Alvarez gained attention as a filmmaker with a series of short films, some of which caught the eye of Sam Raimi. Alvarez, however, really rose to prominence when he was tapped by Raimi to make his feature film debut with Evil Dead, a remake of Raimi’s 1981 horror classic. Evil Dead opened in North American theatres this weekend.
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- Deepayan Sengupta
Go Behind the Scenes of Evil Dead
17 hours ago | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Now that Evil Dead is finally in theatres, we're ready to share some behind-the-scenes videos with you cats that we've been sitting on for a while. Warning though... if you haven't seen the flick yet, come back and dig on them later as they're filled with spoilers.
Ghost House Pictures produced the much anticipated remake of The Evil Dead, the film that effectively launched the careers of Sam Raimi (Spider-Man franchise, Darkman, Drag Me to Hell), Rob Tapert (30 Days of Night), and Bruce Campbell, who played the Ash character and was co-producer of the original. They are now back to produce an Evil Dead for today's audience that's high on the horror, gore, plot twists, and more from a screenplay written by Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues with Diablo Cody. Executive producers are J.R. Young, Nathan Kahane, Joseph Drake, and Peter Schlessel.
Read our Evil Dead review here!
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- Uncle Creepy
Remake of Raimi's Early '80s Cult Classic to Top Domestic Box Office This Weekend
22 hours ago | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Remake of Raimi's early '80s cult classic (and minor box-office performer) to easily surpass Jurassic Park 3D rerelease to land at the top of the domestic chart This past weekend, the no. 1 release at the Us/Canada -- actually, around the world -- box office was the widely panned 3D-converted sequel of a widely panned flick based on a toy. This weekend (April 6-8), in addition to the 3D toy-movie sequel mentioned above, two of the other top four movies on the domestic b.o. chart will be the remake of a bloody cult classic and the 3D-converted relaunch of a 1993 horror blockbuster. As the old saying goes, moviegoers are eager, thirsty, yearning for fresh, original content. That surely helps to explain why the brought-back-to-life Evil Dead will be this early April weekend's top film, likely to be followed by (toy movie sequel) G.I. Joe: Retaliation, the animated The Croods, »
- Zac Gille
Evil Dead is a Bloody Spectacle: A Movie Review
5 April 2013 11:21 PM, PDT | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »
Director: Fede Alvarez. Writers: Fede Alvarez, Diablo Cody, Sam Raimi and Rodo Sayagues. Cast: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas and Elizabeth Blackmore. Fede Alvarez's version of the Evil Dead takes place thirty-two years after the original. Sam Raimi is still here to produce this version, along with former showrunner Bruce Campbell. But, the 2013 version is much bloodier than the original. Evil Dead fans might be disappointed by the lack of campy humour from the first film, but Alvarez's interpretation is quite spine-chilling. Most horror fans will be satisfied by this new vision. The story has changed somewhat from the original. Instead of a sex romp, five friends set off for an isolated cabin for a drug intervention; Mia (Jane Levy) is the addict. The others vow to stay at the location, until Mia gets clean. Mia encounters more challenges, however. A friend, Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci »
- noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
5 April 2013 10:00 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Scanners | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | The House In Nighmare Park | The Servant | Dead End Drive-in
From Sam Raimi to Peter Jackson, horror has always been a great way for directors to get a career start: as long as they provide marketable gore, they can pretty much make whatever they want. David Cronenberg used the tactic too, but his early films are perhaps closer to science fiction.
Scanners was his big breakthrough success. It fulfilled the basic horror requirements with little more than a single image – the exploding head – but it was such a strong image that it sparked a trend in the early 80s. Scanners are misfits with telekinetic powers who don't fit into society. A scanner underground network is waging war against multinational ConSec, whose reckless drug testing on pregnant women caused these aberrations (playing the rebels' leader is Michael Ironside, a never-unemployed actor with the ideal »
- Phelim O'Neill
The Weekend Rent: The 10 Best Ways to Catch Cabin Fever
5 April 2013 8:00 PM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
"The Weekend Rent offers quick-hit suggestions of what to watch at home to get psyched for new releases in theaters, on Friday. Everyone is calling the new Evil Dead in theaters a remake of Sam Raimi's 1981 The Evil Dead, but is it really? What seems like a remake or reboot might actually be a setup to merge the storyline of this new movie with that of the original series featuring star Bruce Campbell, who is likely to return in Army of Darkness 2 (the fourth film in the original Evil Dead series). If you check out Evil Dead in theaters this weekend, stick around after the credits and tell us if you think the bonus footage is a clue as to how the original series and the new movie might be all part of one bigger Deadite universe. Whether the new Evil Dead is a remake...
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- Robert B. DeSalvo
Evil Dead | Review
5 April 2013 6:22 PM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
Director: Fede Alvarez Writer: Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues Starring: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Jessica Lucas, Elizabeth Blackmore, Lou Taylor Pucci Last year, The Cabin in the Woods masterfully lampooned and commented on the traditional horror cliche originally contributed to by Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead. Now, Fede Alvarez’s reboot reminds us that the formula is a classic for a reason: it’s awesome. In the 2013 Evil Dead, Olivia (Jessica Lucas), Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci), and David (Shiloh Fernandez) and his girlfriend Natalie (Elizabeth Blackmore) are intent on aiding David’s sister Mia (Jane Levy) through detox in the isolation of a cabin full of childhood memories. When they discover a spooky book in the basement, they open the door to demonic intrusion, and all hell breaks loose–literally. While Alvarez’s Evil Dead is a reboot rather than remake and thus contains dozens of differences from the original film, »
- Jessica Delfanti
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