Movie Monday: The Dark Knight Keeps Rising
It’s been more than a week since the tragedy in Aurora, Colo., turned the movie industry upside-down. But while we’ll be likely discussing the horror and its aftermath for months or years to come, that didn’t keep folks away from the movies this weekend. The Dark Knight Rises triumphed again at the box office, flapping […]
Movie Tuesday: The Dark Knight Rises
As promised, here’s a quick wrap of the weekend’s top money-earners. No bad puns this time around, though. 1. The Dark Knight Rises, $160.9 million (third-highest opening weekend of all time, behind The Avengers and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2) 2. Ice Age: Continental Drift, $20.4 million 3. The Amazing Spider-Man, $10.9 […]
Living in Gotham
Out of respect for the people killed or injured during the theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., July 20, Warner Bros. (the company behind The Dark Knight Rises) and several other studios withheld box-office estimates this weekend. We’ll post figures when they’re released, perhaps later this afternoon—but for now, our “Movie Monday” post feels a little […]
A Dark Night
Early this morning, a shooter—allegedly 24-year-old James Holmes, according to police—opened fire in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises. News reports are still flying in, but officials estimate that 12 people were killed in the attack, another 38 or 39 wounded. The youngest victim was 3 months old. I […]
Emmy Nominees: Rated TV-MA
Nominees for this year’s Emmy awards were released this morning, and many of the nominees have been showered with Emmy love many times before. AMC’s Mad Men—winner of the Outstanding Drama Emmy for each of its first four seasons— was nominated 17 times. ABC’s Modern Family—winner of the last two Emmys for Outstanding Comedy—snagged 14 […]
Movie Monday: Ice Age Drifts to the Front
Wedged between two iconic superheroes, Manny made the most of it. The lumbering mammoth and his motley band of prehistoric pals pulled Ice Age: Continental Drift into the numero uno slot for the weekend with an estimated $46 million. OK, so the animated movie was the only film released this week, so it didn’t have […]
A Conversation With Mirror Mirror’s Lily Collins
Movies are, by definition, trendy. Filmmakers want to make movies that folks want to see—movies that’ll grab their attention and, hopefully, bring them back for more. They’ll tap into whatever they think we’re interested, be it good (yay, superheroes!), bad (let’s hope profane stuffed animals don’t become a trend) or even a little mystifying (who […]
Movie Monday: The Amazing Spider-Man
Fireworks? Barbecues? Baseball? Hey, they were all viable ways to celebrate Independence Day during this weirdly elongated holiday “weekend.” But it seems as though when folks weren’t shooing away flies from the potato salad or slapping mosquitos in the ballpark, they were getting bitten by another sort of bug. Or, more accurately, a spider. The […]
Not All Heroes Crawl Walls
I woke up in my own home this morning. Incredible. Last Wednesday, I wasn’t sure I had one. It’s been a week since the Waldo Canyon Fire blew up around our neighborhood, threatening my house and thousands more in the Colorado Springs area. I missed the worst of it: I was about 60 miles north […]
Movie Monday: Ted
Well, it was a good run. For 15 straight weeks, the No. 1 movies in North America had borne a PG-13 rating or lower—many of them which would even qualify as “family friendly.” Not since 21 Jump Street was bumped by The Hunger Games way back in March had an R-rated film stood atop the […]