Lately, it seems Hollywood is happier living in the past than in the future, what with remakes of films like ‘Footloose’ and squeezing every last drop of nostalgia out of comic book superheroes.
Now you can add another to the list — it’s been confirmed that ‘Dirty Dancing,’ the 1987 film that made household names of its stars Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, is getting a reboot, as well.
Two new films — ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ and ‘The Change-Up’ — premiered in the top five in this weekend’s best box-office earners, coming in at number one and number four, respectively.
Last weekend’s top films, ‘The Smurfs’ and ‘Cowboys & Aliens,’ moved to the second and third-place slots.
Here’s a recap of all five of this weekend’s best box-office earners.
Could ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ be the surprise blockbuster of the summer? Critics certainly seem to think so.
The James Franco vehicle, which serves as a reboot of the classic ‘Apes’ franchise, is receiving strong reviews thus far – or at least stronger than most had expected.
The Harrison Ford/Daniel Craig sci-fi vehicle ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ tied with ‘The Smurfs’ for first place at the box office, with each taking in $36.2 million in their debut weekend.
The blockbuster ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2′ dropped to fourth, earning a total of $318.4 million in the three weeks since its release, while ‘Friends with Benefits,’ ‘Horrible Bosses,’ and ‘Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon’ dropped out of the top five.
July 25, 2011 For the second time in less than a week, James Bond fans are mourning the loss of a "Bond Girl". This time it's first co-star Linda Christian.
Linda Christian, the curvy Mexican movie star who is best remembered as the original Bond girl in a 1954 small-screen adaptation of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale, died in Palm Desert, Calif
July 4, 2011 It seems like if you have a good story and marketing at a fast food place and you spend enough years making your toys cool for kids that includes a saturday morning cartoon, sooner or later you will have a string of big movies about them
April 13, 2011 I'm not a fan of movies. In fact, I can probably count all of the films I've ever watched on two hands.
After being pressed by co-workers, I looked up the American Film Institute's Top 100 Films Of All Time list to see how many of these "cultural touchstone" films I've seen
February 16, 2011
Having been involved in the film industry for years, I've invested heavily in several movie projects. Now, for a few paltry dollars, you too can become an investor of magnitudinal proportion like myself. If the public likes it, you'l
