Weeeee, more Box Office numbers. This time Harry Potter is the one setting records, it has broken the opening day record for Wednesday and is placed fifth overall for any day taking in an amazing haul of $44.2 million in 4,181 cinemas.
Transformers is still going strong with $155.2 million from 7 days being open. Transformers is definitely living up to the hype, Michael Bay has done a tremendous job on the effects and the numbers are really showing up for his work put in.
Phoenix was another big player at the box office this weekend. Pulling in $42.5 million on it’s opening day. Warner Bros. are pipping the number to be a little higher than $100 million for the opening weekend of Phoenix, which is said to beat out there previous holder of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Some other titles which are opening up this weekend are Captivity (a Saw wannabe just without the seven deadly sins involved) which is only going to open up to 1,000 cinemas this weekend. Talk to Me (a movie about a criminal who turns to be a famous talk show radio host in the 60’s) which really goes under the radar and only opens to 33 cinemas. And finally the Interview opens in 7 cinemas in Gotham and L.A. and My Best Friend which opens in 3 cinemas in those cities
Those films must be pretty fucking shit. I mean all up 1053 cinemas which is like a quarter of Harry Potter, shamful, enjoy the weekend while it lasts and get out and see some of those shamful movies!
Well our friend from Catch me if you Can (I mention that movie cause I just saw it :p) if about to star as the legendary Playboy founder, Hugh Hefner. Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to play Hefner in his biopic. Sounds like awesome fun, I wonder if they are gonna show if Hef really does have sex slaves or not?
Apparently DiCaprio is a friend of Hefner and visits the Playboy LA Mansion regularly. I wonder if he gets a quickie while he’s there? Guess there is really nothing else to do huh? An unnamed source had the following to say about the movie
Leo thinks it would make a great movie and Hugh would love Leo to do it - on the condition that Hugh is alive to see it.
At 81 and according to some sources getting a root every day, I dunno how long he can hold on to the precious life he leads. Currently Brian Glazer is attached to the film and really wants to portray everything that is Hugh Hefner. Here is a quote from him
Hef came from a puritanical upbringing and reinvented himself to be the godfather of the sexual revolution. He also used his magazine to advocate civil rights and free speech. He broke all kinds of taboos, especially in sexuality. I want to show it all, from the First Amendment struggles to his first orgy to the stroke in the 1980s that almost killed him.
This won’t be the first time Leonardo DiCaprio has played a controversial real life figure. He has previously acted out Howard Hughes and Frank Abagnale Junior in The Aviator and Catch me if you Can respectively. I am a big fan of biographies and really liked Catch me if you can, more on a personal level than a critic.
Congratulations are in order to the people over at Paramount Pictures for topping $1,000,000,000 in ticket sales sometime on Monday. Sometime over the weekend Paramount will also surpass the $1.046 billion mark which will break there record of 1998 for ticket sales, and they still got quite some time left in the year.
1998 was a record setting year partially because of Titantic, which managed to haul in a fucking huge amount. BoxOfficeMojo puts the figure at $600,788,188 which is just over half. Man, a lot of people must have been dying to see Leo or Kate, cause that is a shit load of cash to haul in.
The films which helped get Paramount across that $1 billion mark are: Blades of Glory, Freedom Writers, Zodiac, Reno 911!: Miami, Norbit, Disturbia, Next, Shrek the Third, A Mighty Heart and Transformers.
A breakdown of the movies ticket sales courtesy of BoxOfficeMojo are: Blades of Glory - $118,175,865, Freedom Writers - $36,605,602, Zodiac - $33,080,083, Reno 911!: Miami - $20,342,161, Norbit - $95,360,247, Disturbia - $79,341,927, Next - $18,049,868, Shrek the Third - $316,959,197, A Mighty Heart - $8,477,841 and Transformers - $165,333,052.
It seems that Blades of Glory, Shrek the Third and Transformers were there biggest earners pulling in roughly the equivalent of what Titantic pulled in all together in 1998. That is amazing, 3 blockbuster films equal Titantic. Enjoy those figures
The boys from Indiana Jones have released a few clips of the set. The first one is just a small crappy clip and the second looks to be a small clip of a scene they are shooting with Indie. My golly gosh does Harrison Ford look old, grey hairs unite! Man I am having so much fun with this new flash player, I am seriously contemplating updating all my previous trailers with the new version
10,000 BC has just released a new trailer. I don’t think it is too shabby, look quite cool actually. I am partial to quite a bit of action myself, so this looks like it might fulfill my void. Only time will tell. In true ShizzlePie fashion here is the plot of the movie, the release date is set for the 7th of March, 2008.
As a member of a primitive tribe during the dawn of man, 21-year-old mammoth hunter D’Leh (Steven Strait) travels through unknown lands on a quest to rescue his people from extinction. D’Leh, leading an army, uncovers a lost civilization in pursuit of a warlord who kidnapped his love, Evolet (Camilla Belle). D’Leh and his army encounters saber-toothed cats and other prehistoric predators in the journey to save his tribe.
