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It was a box-office bloodbath for Conan the Barbarian and Fright Night among others over the weekend. On the bright side, The Help climbed to the top spot, due to a combination of a strong hold and those weak new releases, while Rise of the Planet of the Apes took second. It marked the first…

Descending 49 percent, Rise of the Planet of the Apes packed $27.8 million. Though steep, the sci-fi thriller’s second weekend slide was less severe than Planet of the Apes (2001), I, Robot, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and X-Men: First Class, among comparable titles. New Movies in Theaters Just premiered: The Help [Drama, 2…

Last Friday, Catwoman’s stunt double had an accident during the The Dark Knight Rises filming, she crushed a super-expensive IMAX camera as you can watch in the video. It’s unclear who messed up, the stunt-double or the cameraman. It was all shot outside some building at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. No one was hurt….

Rise of the Planet of the Apes climbed to the top with $54.8 million on approximately 5,400 screens at 3,648 locations, which ranked as the fourth highest-grossing August opening ever. Among comparable movies, the franchise reboot’s launch was superior to District 9‘s $37.4 million and Terminator Salvation‘s $42.6 million and close to G.I. Joe: The…

Photo: Jeremy Renner and Jennifer Lopez Twentieth Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios today announced the voice cast for ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT, the fourth entry in Blue Sky’s blockbuster franchise. Joining the ever-growing Ice Age family for Continental Drift is a stellar lineup, including JEREMY RENNER, an Academy Award nominee for The Hurt…

Cowboys & Aliens lassoed approximately 5,500 screens at 3,750 locations for its run, and claiming a first-place opening only slightly mitigated an otherwise disappointing gross for a movie that tried desperately to be a blockbuster. The sci-fi Western’s launch was on par with Super 8 ($35.5 million) and Battle: Los Angeles ($35.6 million) but behind…

Captain America made an estimated $65.8 million on approximately 7,100 screens at 3,715 locations, edging out fellow Avenger Thor’s $65.7 million as well as Green Lantern’s $53.2 million and X-Men: First Class’s $55.1 million to top the summer’s superhero launches. While the gross difference was a sliver, Captain had nine percent greater estimated attendance than…

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 has the highest-grossing opening weekend ever. The series finale drew $169.2 million on around 11,100 screens at 4,375 locations, dethroning The Dark Knight‘s $158.4 million. Deathly Hallows Part 2′s first weekend flew past the previous franchise high of $125 million, posted by Deathly Hallows Part 1 last…

There have been rumours about Evil Dead 4 (sequel or prequel) movie for a while now, with Sam Raimi himself suggesting he’d like to return to the franchise. Now, Sam Raimi’s editor Bob Murawski (Army of Darkness; Spider-man, Drag me to Hell) has packed up and headed out to Detroit to begin work on the…

This weekend, Transformers: Dark of the Moon dominated the box office with an estimated $97.5 million on approximately 9,300 screens at 4,013 locations (an estimated $116.4 million for the four-day weekend). It toped Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides for the top-grossing weekend crown of 2011 so far. The Friday-to-Sunday opening salvos of Transformers…

This is the first footage of a scene concerning Batman and Catwoman alter egos, Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle played by Christian Bale and Anne Hathaway. They are taking a yellow cab in the middle of the fake rain coming from a hose. They are holding hands

According to the critics of Rotten Tomatoes, Cars 2 is until now the only bad movie from Pixar with a low 33% … they said: Not that Cars 2 is an actively bad animated film. It’s just sort of an average animated film. Although it would be unfair to label Cars 2 as unwatchable, it…