With four new movies opening in wide-release this weekend, there was a pile-up at the multiplex. In a competitive weekend, "Elysium" came out on top -- or did it? "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters" debuted last among the four -- or did it? Unpacking this week's tight race, not all was as it seemed, and the true numbers earned by this week's new releases offer some guideposts for what has been an unpredictable summer at the box office.
Original sci-fi is underperforming. Sure, "Elysium" premiered in first place, with an estimated $30.4 million. Still, compare that to director Neil Blomkamp's previous original sci-fi allegory, "District 9," which debuted four Augusts ago with $37.4 million. And that was when the South African director was a nobody, working with a low budget and no stars. This time around, he's a brand name, with Matt Damon and Jodie Foster headlining his $115 million movie.
The simple...
Original sci-fi is underperforming. Sure, "Elysium" premiered in first place, with an estimated $30.4 million. Still, compare that to director Neil Blomkamp's previous original sci-fi allegory, "District 9," which debuted four Augusts ago with $37.4 million. And that was when the South African director was a nobody, working with a low budget and no stars. This time around, he's a brand name, with Matt Damon and Jodie Foster headlining his $115 million movie.
The simple...
- 8/12/2013
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
I first endured Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust as a lazy undergraduate. It was the sort of movie you watched in a state of half-dress, usually in a dressing gown and with your girlfriend reminding you to re-stow your Gentleman’s relish, lest you upset your visitors.
The man who’d brought it round on pirate VHS, was a fan of hardcore Italian pornography, specifically the work of Rocco Stiffredi, and banned video nasties. Collectively these two categories made up 95% of his film collection. The other 5% was Disney, naturally. Watching the new, that is to say, restored cut of the movie at this year’s Cine Excess ahead of its release on Blu-ray from Shameless Screen Entertainment, one can understand how the pornographic sensibility, the addiction to sensation, body horror, penetration and degradation, could inform the desire to see Deodato’s film. The line that separates...
I first endured Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust as a lazy undergraduate. It was the sort of movie you watched in a state of half-dress, usually in a dressing gown and with your girlfriend reminding you to re-stow your Gentleman’s relish, lest you upset your visitors.
The man who’d brought it round on pirate VHS, was a fan of hardcore Italian pornography, specifically the work of Rocco Stiffredi, and banned video nasties. Collectively these two categories made up 95% of his film collection. The other 5% was Disney, naturally. Watching the new, that is to say, restored cut of the movie at this year’s Cine Excess ahead of its release on Blu-ray from Shameless Screen Entertainment, one can understand how the pornographic sensibility, the addiction to sensation, body horror, penetration and degradation, could inform the desire to see Deodato’s film. The line that separates...
- 6/9/2011
- by Ed Whitfield
- Obsessed with Film
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